IBM BladeCenter Workshop

Delivering Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet Ardianshah

System X & Blade
Specialist
p
aardians@id.ibm.com

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Agenda
Dinner

IBM BladeCenter Technology Overview

Visit IBM Demo Room Facility

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 What is a Server?

¾a computer program running as a service, to serve the

needs or requests of other programs (referred to in this
context as "clients") which may or may not be running on
the same computer.
¾a physical computer dedicated to running one or more such
services, to serve the needs of programs running on other
computers on the same network.
¾a software/hardware system (i.e. a software service
running on a dedicated computer) such as a database
server, file server, mail server, or print server.

¾ Source: http://en.wikipedia.org

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 Why Server better than PC?

¾ Servers often run for long periods without interruption and availability must often be very
high, making hardware reliability and durability extremely important. Although servers can
b b
be built
ilt ffrom commodity
dit computer
t parts,
t mission-critical
i i iti l enterprise
t i servers are idideally
ll very
fault tolerant and use specialized hardware with low failure rates in order to
maximize uptime, for even a short-term failure can cost more than purchasing and installing
the system
¾ Server
S Key points:
1. RAS (Reliability Availability Serviceability)
– High quality component for better MTBF
– Hot
H swap C Component
2. Higher Performance
– More processor, more memory, more disks
3 Scalability
3.
– Upgradeable to a significant level
• Up to 4 or 8 way processor
• Up to 1TB to 3TB Memory
4. Manageability

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 The PC architecture has already been pushed to its limits

¾Are easy to acquire

¾Support a broad application base
x86 ¾T k advantage
¾Take d t W L
We
off readilyLove Them!
Th !
dil available
il bl administration
d i i t ti
SERVERS
skills

¾In distributed computing environments, 85 percent

of computing capacity sits idle1
BUT ¾Power and cooling costs are now eight times greater
We Hate Them!
than they were 12 years ago2
¾Management costs now represent 70 percent
of IT budget³
budget

1 Based on IBM estimates.

2,3 Clabby Analytics, The Data Center ‘Implosion Explosion’ … and the Need to Move to a New Enterprise Data Center Model, February
2008

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Traditional server paradigms need to change
ƒ The x86-based PC architecture is now 28 years old.
ƒ It has evolved through PCs, towers, racks and blades.
ƒ Holds 53 percent of the server market and that number is growing.
growing

Personal Tower Rack Blade

Î Î Î Î
Computers PC Servers optimized Servers

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 Something g meaningful
g is happening…
pp g
The world is about to get a whole lot smarter.

“Every human being, company, organization, city,

nation, natural system and man-made system is becoming
interconnected, instrumented and intelligent.
This is leading to new savings and efficiency—but perhaps
as important, new possibilities for progress.”

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 Building a Smarter Planet

Dynamic Infrastructure
Four major
IBM’s smarter IBM themes
planet vision
Dynamic
Infrastructure

New
Intelligence

The world has become Green &

flatter and smaller. Now it Beyond
must become smarter.
smarter

Smart How do I create an infrastructure

that drives down cost,
Work
is intelligent and secure,
secure and is
just as dynamic as today’s
business climate ?
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A smarter p
planet demands smarter systems
y

Clients need systems that:

Workloads DATA
Î Scale quickly and efficiently.
Î

Î
Î y bottlenecks.
Remove memory
Î

Î
Î

Î Maximize utilization.
Innovation
Î Are optimized for workloads.

Î Provide rapid access to data.

The next generation x86 architectures must be able to

p up
keep p with the proliferation
p of workloads and explosion
p
of data of a smarter, more interconnected planet.
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IBM Systems………….
y
In today’s economy, we need dynamic infrastructures
that drive down costs, and are intelligent and secure.

Reduce Cost
Not just containing operational cost
andd complexity,
l it but
b t achieving
hi i
breakthrough productivity gains
through virtualization, optimization,
energy stewardship, and flexible
g
sourcing.
Improve Service
Increasingly customer demand for
quality service & continuous
accessibility

Manage Risks and Threats

Security, resiliency & compliance challenges
are created
t d by
b theth accelerating
l ti pace off
change.

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 Smarter systems from IBM
enable you to add memory to x86-based systems independently of the
processor

Add up 6x per
more memory
processor
to

Reduce
storage costs
97%
by up to
and
licensing
50%
costs by

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IBMCorporation
Corporation
IBM System X & BladeCenter Portfolio
Large symmetrical multiprocessing Clusters, HPC,
(SMP) Virtualization,
Web 2.0
& Cl
Cloudd

dx360 M3
2S | 16 DIMM
x3850 X5
p / SMP

8S | 128 DIMM x3850 X5 + MAX5 BladeCenter

4S | 96 DIMM
uting

Cluster 1350 iDataPlex S, E, H, T, HT

High
y
density
compu
Scale up

x3690 X5 + MAX5 x3650 M3

2S | 64 DIMM 2S | 18 DIM
HS22/HS22V/HX5
PS700/701/702
x3755 M3 QS22
4S | 32 DIMM x3550 M3
x3630 M3 2S | 18 DIMM
x3500 M3 2S | 12 DIMM
2S | 16 DIMM HX5 + MAX5
x3400 M3 2S | 40 DIMM
2S | 16 DIMM x3620 M3 HS22 HX5
x3100 M3 x3200 M3 x3250 M3
2S | 12 DIMM 2S | 12 DIMM 4S | 32 DIMM
1S | 4 DIMM 1S | 6 DIMM 1S | 6 DIMM

Scale out / distributed

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 Why
y Don’t You Move to
IBM BladeCenter Ardianshah
The Smart Choice To Simplify IT Infrastructure System X & Blade
Specialist
p
aardians@id.ibm.com

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What is a Blade?
● A Blade contains the core components of a server
– Each blade has:
• Processors
• Memory
• Internal storage (optional) Blade-server with cover off

• Network Interface Cards ((NIC))

• Optional plug-in components
● The Blade server plugs into the midplane of a
chassis that provides common functions as:
– Management console Access (KVM)
– Power supplies Blade server with its cover on ready for
insertion into the BladeCenter Chassis
– Cooling Fans
– Network Connectivity ( LAN, SAN, NAS, HPC)
– Shared media devices (CD/DVD-ROM and
diskette or USB drives)
– Optional Modules to support additional
functions
Blade servers and Chassis
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 Public
Legacy Environment Internet/
Intranet
Clients
Firewalls Routers
(Layer 3
Switches)

Layer 4-7
SSL Appliances
A li Switches SSL Appliances
A li

Layer 2
Switches
Caching Appliances Caching Appliances

Network Application
pp Security
y Application
pp Web Security
y File WebSphere
p
Application
Servers Servers Servers Servers Servers Gateway Servers
Servers
Storage
Fibre
Switches

Storage
Fibre
Switches

SAN

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Step 1 Internet/
Intranet
Clients
Firewalls Routers
Consolidate Servers (Layer 3
Switches)

Layer 4-7
SSL Appliances
A li Switches SSL Appliances
A li

Layer 2
Switches
Caching Appliances Caching Appliances

Network Application
pp Security
y Application
pp Web Security
y File WebSphere
p
Application
Servers Servers Servers Servers Servers Gateway Servers
Servers
Storage
Fibre
Switches

Storage
Fibre
Switches

SAN

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Step 2 Internet/
Intranet
Clients
Firewalls Routers
Integrate First Layer (Layer 3
Switches)

of the Network (L2) Layer 4-7

Switches
SSL Appliances
A li SSL Appliances
A li

Layer 2
Switches
Caching Appliances Caching Appliances

Storage
Fibre
Switches

Storage
Fibre
Switches

SAN

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Step 3 Internet/
Intranet
Clients
Firewalls Routers
Integrate (Layer 3
Switches)

Storage Fabric Layer 4-7

Switches
SSL Appliances
A li SSL Appliances
A li

Caching Appliances Caching Appliances

Storage
Fibre
Switches

Storage
Fibre
Switches

SAN

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 Public
Step 4 Internet/
Intranet
Clients
Firewalls Routers
Integrate Second Layer (Layer 3
Switches)

of the Network (L4-7) Layer 4-7

Switches
SSL Appliances
A li SSL Appliances
A li

Caching Appliances Caching Appliances

SAN

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 Step 5
Consolidate Applications Public
Internet/
Intranet
Clients
Firewalls R t
Routers
(Layer 3
Switches)

SSL Appliances SSL Appliances

Caching Appliances Caching Appliances

SAN

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 Result
BladeCenter Public
Internet/

Collapses Complexity Intranet

Clients
Firewalls R t
Routers
(Layer 3
Switches)

SAN

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Conventional Servers vs. IBM BladeCenter
BladeCenter E
Chassis
¾ 1U Servers ¾ BladeCenter

¾ 14U in a Rack ¾ 7U in a Rack

¾ 28 Ethernet ¾ Up to 8 Ethernet
Cables + 14 for Cables
Remote
Management ¾ 4 Power Cables
Blade
¾ 28 Power Cables Server
¾ 2 Blowers for
Cooling
¾ Up to 112 Fans
¾ 1 Point to Manage
¾ 14 Individual
Points to Manage ¾ Integrated 14 port
VGA switch Box
¾ At least two 8 Port functionality (1
VGA switch boxes Monitor, Keyboard,
and 14 KVM & Mouse)
Cables

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RIGHT
 Fit-for-purpose choice of chassis…

IBM BladeCenter E
Enterprise, best IBM BladeCenter T
efficiency, best density Ruggedized, short-
depth
IBM BladeCenter S
Distributed, small office, IBM BladeCenter H IBM BladeCenter HT
easy to configure Enterprise high Ruggedized, high
performance performance

9 A common set of blades

9 A common set of industry-standard switches and I/O fabrics
9 Common management infrastructure
9 Over a decade of a stable platform
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BladeCenter S and the NEW O.E.K.
Ideal way to deploy BladeCenter S into office environments

ƒ Includes Acoustical Module built into the back

ƒ Optional Air Filter on the front

ƒ Locking door for security

ƒ Mobile with rollers

ƒ 33% (4U) extra room to grow

110V Power
Incredibly Quiet
Dust Filter
Up to 12TB
Shippable WW

Perfect workgroup solution BladeCenter S installed in the

IBM Office Enablement Kit
foundation
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IBM
Fit-for-purpose choice of blades…

PS702 Express
HX5 Scalable for
Scalable high end demanding
HS22V blade for high
Virtualization commercial
density compute
and memory workloads and
capacity consolidation

HS22 PS701 Express

“No Compromise” Application & Database
Servingg and virtualization
JS12 Express
HS12 Entry and SMB PS700 Express
Entry & SMB Value for AIX,
IBM I and Linux

9 Best of breed x86 and POWER blade portfolio

9 Workload Optimized
p Offerings
g
9 Broad support of chassis with blades and I/O
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 Optional RAID 5
HS22 Hardware Overview w/ battery-backed
write back cache
write-back

“No Compromises”
L 1.29 in/32.8 mm Internal USB Dual and redundant power & I/O
W 0.65 in/16.6 mm (Embedded Hypervisor) connectors
Th 0.18 in/4.5 mm

2x Intel Xeon 5500 Processors

(Nehalem EP)
Additional Features
IMM & UEFI
Light Path
Diagnostics
Expansion blades
BCE BCH
BCE, BCH, BCS
BCS,
BCHT

2 I/O E
Expansion
i Sl
Slots
t
(1x CIOv + 1x CFFh)

2x hot-swap drive bays 12x VLP DDR3 Memory

(SAS or Solid State) (96GB Max / 1333MHz Max)
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 HS22V Max memory DP blade for virtualization and HPC

Internal USB
((Embedded Hypervisor)
yp )
Dual GbE LOM
2x Intel Xeon 5500/5600 Processors (10GbE Option)

Up to 50%+ more average VMs..

Same I/O as HS22
(1x CIOv + 1x CFFh)

Additional Features
IMM & UEFI
Advanced Power Mgmt
TPM 1.2
2x 1.8” SSD Light Path Diagnostics
(HW RAID 0/1) 18x VLP DDR3 Memory E
Expansion
i blblades
d
(144GB Max / 1333MHxz Max)
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 Optimize
p memory
y for 2 socket blade workloads
50% more memory than HS22 means 50% more average virtual machines

Ideal for... Ideal for...

• General
G l purpose
• Infrastructure workloads
• File/print and email
• E-commerice applications
• Highly virtualized
BladeCenter HS22 BladeCenter HS22V
2-socket 12 DIMMs 2-socket 18 DIMMs mainstream applications,
• Memory intense high
compute workloads
• Dense power constrained
environments

Cost/VM
Î

Î
$/VM - HS22

$/VM - HS22V

HS22 Cost Effective for: HS22V Cost Effective for:

15 VMs per server or less 15 – 30 VMs per server

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Virtual Machines
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 HX5 – 2
2- & 4-Socket
4 Socket Blade2x(1xIOCIOv
Expansion
p Slots
+ 1x CFFh)
Top view of 4-socket system shown

2x SSD drives (1.8”)

16x VLP DDR3 Memory

2x Intel Xeon EX CPUs

8x memory buffers

2x 30mm nodes

Additional Features
Scale
9 Internal USB for embedded hypervisor
Connector
9 Dual & redundant I/O and Power
9 Optional RAID 5 with battery backed HX5 Configurations
Config rations
cache ƒ 2S, 16D, 8 I/O ports, 30m

9 IMM & UEFI ƒ 4S, 32D, 16 I/O ports, 60mm

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 MAX5 for HX5
MAX5

HX5

6x memory buffers
FireHawk
¾6 SMI lanes
¾4 QPI ports
HX5+MAX5 Configurations
24x VLP DDR3 memory ¾3 scalability ports
ƒ 2S, 40D, 8 I/O ports, 60m
ƒ 4S, 80D, 16 I/O ports, 120mm
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 Solid State - Reliable and Green Local Storage

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 Take advantage of unprecedented flexibility
FlexNode enables you to dynamically transform a single into two distinct systems—
and then back again

O 4S System
One S t T 2S Systems
Two S t
¾ Optimize workloads: Run
interactive applications by day
on a 2S system and batch jobs
by night on 4S system
¾ Help reduce software
licensing costs: Execute
partitions to optimize software
licensing costs when priced per
system core.
¾ Boost security: Isolate
workloads to help improve
security and assure quality of
service.
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Flexible and open IO from an ecosystem of partners

Standard Speed Switches High Speed Switches

Standard Speed High Speed

IO Expansion Card IO Expansion Card
Ethernet – Fibre Channel – InfiniBand – FCoE – SAS – iSCSI – Virtual Fabric

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 Ready
y for Critical Business Application
pp

BladeCenter is designed
g for extreme availability—a
y major
j advantage
g over competitors’
p blades that
may not be designed for extreme uptime

Two complete
N+N redundant
Redundant power domains
cooling

Redundant Redundant I/O

power connectors
connections
Competitors — Lack redundancy
IBM BladeCenter Single I/O, single power

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RIGHT
 Active Energy Manager

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Open
p Fabric Manager
g failover across your
y data
center
2) Failover pool event
action plan executes

1) Blade x fails in chassis 6 3) Blade y in chassis 40

receives blade x I/O parameters

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C l t S
Complete t
System x & Bl d C t M
BladeCenter Managementt
Enterprise Management Upward
Integration
Platform Management
Systems Director 6.1
Resource Management
ToolsCenter
Hardware/Firmware
UEFI,IMM

Reducing complexity with Deploying and managing Managing energy usage

integrated platform and virtual servers to control helps meet “green”
enterprise
t i service
i d t center
data t space i iti ti
initiatives and
d costt
management objectives
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 You’re in good company with the IBM
BladeCenter community
Alliance Program
g Open
p Specification
p
ƒ Hardware and software ƒ Hardware vendors
ƒ Making product info available ƒ Access to BladeCenter specs
ƒ More than 300 members ƒ Basic technical help
ƒ 500 companies have downloaded
IBM OEMs
ƒ Network equipment providers
ƒ Appliances
ƒ Server vendors IBM Collaborators
ƒ Working together to bring
Blade.org offerings to market
ƒ BNT
ƒ Accelerating blade platform-based ƒ Brocade
solutions to market ƒ Cisco
ƒ Increasing the number ƒ Emulex
of blade platform solutions ƒ McData
ƒ Increasing end-user confidence ƒ QLogic
in blade platform solutions ƒ Voltaire
ƒ More than 90 members ƒ Devon IT

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Future – History m
• IBM introduced BladeCenter in November 2002, since then IBM has maintained compatibility, grown the
portfolio and opened the specification to the industry. Key to BladeCenter is true reliability, with no single
points of failure and massively improved density, simplification, power & cooling, management and
choice.
• HP re-invents,
i anddh
have a hi
history off d
deserted
d customers andd partners. EEvery time
i HP change
h d
designs,
i allll
that investment is gone. Customers pay for HP’s bad decisions.

2002 2004 2006 1H 2007 2H 2007

BladeCenter E BladeCenter T BladeCenter H BladeCenter HT BladeCenter S

HP BH7800 HP BLe HP p-Class HP c-Class

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