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Highlights:
- Delivers high performance to run the most demanding applications and simulations at blazing-fast speeds
- Provides easy integration to promote innovation and help manage growth, complexity and risk
- Protects an organization's IT investment through IBM BladeCenter® family longevity, compatibility and innovation leadership in blades
- Easy to deploy, use and manage-allows you to focus on your business, not your IT
- Helps build greener IT infrastructures-IBM Cool Blue™ technology delivers a portfolio of tools that helps plan, manage and control power and cooling
Benefits:
- Reduce the physical server sprawl associated with typical businesses
- Minimize the IT staff needed to manage the applications essential to operating day-to-day business functions
- Lower costs through the ability to add more servers, storage and networking simply on an as-needed basis
- Save energy through reduced power consumption compared to rack servers
In today's high-demand enterprise environment, organizations need a reliable infrastructure to run compute-intensive applications with minimal maintenance and downtime. IBM BladeCenter H is a powerful platform built with the enterprise customer in mind, providing industry-leading performance, innovative architecture and a solid foundation for virtualization.
Lower power usage
Innovative tools such as IBM Systems Director Active Energy ManagerTM track power usage so organizations can better manage energy and help prevent outages. And not only does BladeCenter H help organizations go green and save, it also makes it easy to deploy, integrate and manage applications-so customers can focus on their business and not on their IT.
Energy-efficient features and tools:
- IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ helps track power use, temperatures and heat for more granular data center management
- A broad portfolio of low-voltage processor blade options helps reduce power consumption
- Efficient power supplies waste less power as heat, making more energy available for chassis and server.
- Blower and fan modules in the chassis adjust to compensate for changing thermal conditions.
Powerful performance
This next-generation chassis is a workhorse-it runs applications quickly and efficiently, enabling organizations to maximize their investment and succeed in a highly competitive market. The powerful BladeCenter H delivers the performance customers need to make informed decisions.
With IBM Open Fabric Manager, BladeCenter H can help organizations run applications even more efficiently by delivering a flexible, open and connected infrastructure.
Driving innovation
IBM continues to build on its reputation for helping customers find innovative IT solutions with BladeCenter H, which delivers even more capabilities to the BladeCenter family. The 9U chassis provides the standard BladeCenter functionalities with the added performance of high-speed I/O and the fastest blades.
Other highlights include:
- High-speed fabric with eight data channels to every blade, four of which can be 10 Gb
- Flexible, scalable design so the system can grow as your business grows
- Sustainable platform life for enhanced investment protection
- Multi-Switch Interconnect Module for additional connectivity to blade servers
- Light path diagnostics for fast, simple, accurate troubleshooting to help guard against system downtime
BladeCenter H also drives innovation through its open architecture, supporting industry-standard I/O switches from Cisco, Brocade and others, so organizations have more choice and flexibility when it comes to their IT environment. Likewise, IBM's affiliation with blade.org helps open the architecture even more by supporting an online, collaborative environment to promote advances in technology solutions.
Managing growth, minimizing risk
With its unsurpassed architecture, BladeCenter H efficiently integrates servers, storage, networking, I/O and applications, enabling organizations to build flexible IT infrastructures using common building blocks. This helps customers control costs by protecting their investments-and with a powerful set of tools that are open and equally integrated, organizations can quickly deploy and easily manage their systems.
As a rack-dense, space-saving chassis, BladeCenter H provides a superior foundation for virtualization. And in a virtualized environment, organizations can run a more flexible, better utilized and potentially more cost-effective IT infrastructure with a common management construct.
IBM BladeCenter H at a Glance
- Form factor: Rackmount Chassis / 9U
- Blade bays: Up to 14 blade servers
- Standard media: CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo accessible from each blade server and two USB connections
- Switch modules: Up to 4 traditional, up to 4 high-speed and up to 4 bridge modules
- Power supply module: Up to 4 (hot-swap and redundant with load-balancing, auto-sensing and failover capabilities). Operating at 200-240V
- Cooling modules: 2 hot-swap and redundant blowers standard, additional fan-packs on power supplies
- Systems management hardware: 1 Advanced management module standard, additional one optional for redundancy
- I/O ports: Keyboard, video, mouse, Ethernet, USB
- Systems management software: Systems management and trial deployment tools
- Predictive Failure Analysis: Internal storage, processors, blowers, memory
- Light path diagnostics: Blade server, processor, memory, power supplies, blowers, switch module, management module, hard disk drives and expansion card
- Limited warranty: 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty
- External storage: Support for IBM System Storage™ solutions (including DS and NAS family of products) and many widely adopted non-IBM storage offerings
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IBM Bladecenter H Chassis
The IBM eServer BladeCenter is a key component in building your IBM eServer blades configuration. Its innovative 9U modular design delivers the performance density and reliability for adding scale and capacity in rack-optimized server infrastructures. And its flexible design can help dramatically lower the deployment costs of adding business-critical application capacity in centralized IT environments. The rack-optimized BladeCenter holds up to 14 hot-swap HS20 blades with up to six enclosures in a 42U rack. Its breakthrough chassis design provides redundant and hot-swap components, helping ensure maximum uptime by eliminating single points of failure.
 IBM Bladecenter H Chassis 2X2900W CD-RW/DVD
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