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BladeCenter E
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Chassis TypeBladeCenter E
Blade ModelHS22
Blade bays14 servers bays
RAID ControllerN/A
Part Number (P/N)86774SA
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Highlights

  • Maximises productivity and minimises power usage through energy-efficient design and innovative features
  • Delivers extreme density and integration to ease data centre space constraints
  • Protects an organisation’s IT investment through IBM BladeCenter family longevity, compatibility and innovation leadership in blades
  • Supports latest generation of IBM BladeCenter blades, providing investment protection
  • Provides 2320 W power supply to meet your IT infrastructure needs

With today's data centres growing and becoming more complex than ever before, enterprise organisations look for innovative answers that combine extreme density with energy efficiency for productive, low-cost solutions. IBM BladeCenter E delivers a powerful platform to meet these requirements; it integrates servers, storage, networking and applications so organisations can build robust IT infrastructures. The result is a data centre packed with more operating horsepower that leaves a small carbon footprint.

Lower power usage

With its best-in-class energy-efficient design, BladeCenter E enables organisations to reduce power consumption without compromising processing performance. In fact, the system is up to 11 percent or more efficient in power and cooling compared to the HP c-Class chassis to run the same configuration in the data centre1. With these power savings, an organisation can operate at full potential with lower energy costs - and can go green and save.

FeatureBenefits
Robust space-saving 7U chassis
  • With 14 server bays, this enclosure allows you to pack up to 84 2-processor servers into an industry-standard rack
  • Highly integrated IT infrastructure simplifies the deployment, provisioning and management of servers as well as network and storage switch fabrics
  • Support for four blade families including Intel® servers, AMD servers, POWER servers and Cell BE blades.1 Allows you to select the blades based on what best fits your application workloads
  • Virtualisation capability allows you to 'virtualise everything' for a more flexible, better-utilised and potentially lower-cost IT infrastructure with a common management construct
  • Innovative design reduces cables by up to 80 percent compared to rack servers, helping save you installation time and on cable costs
  • Extensive compatibility with the entire family of BladeCenter blades, switches and ecosystem products
IBM Cool Blue technology
  • Helps you plan, manage and control power and cooling in the data centre
  • Cool Blue’s Web-based Power Configurator accurately predicts the power and cooling required for specific configurations, thereby enabling realistic planning of the proper power and cooling infrastructure
  • IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager tool tracks actual power usage, temperatures and heat emitted and trends these items over time so you can actively manage power and cooling with real information
  • Active Energy Manager also will manage through power incidents (e.g., brownouts, supply failures) to help users avoid outages due to power and cooling issues
  • Cool Blue’s Active Energy Manager also provides the capability to cap and virtually allocate power, as required. This capability helps maximise server usage within a restricted power envelope
  • IBM’s Rear Door Heat Exchanger can help address hot spots in the data centre
Energy-efficient design
  • BladeCenter E supports a very broad portfolio of low-voltage processor options, helping enable customers to lower their power usage without sacrificing performance2.
  • Because BladeCenter E uses power supplies that are as much as 91 percent efficient, much less power is wasted as heat and more power is available for the chassis and servers to use
  • Blower/fan modules in the chassis adjust to compensate for changing thermal characteristics. At the lower speeds they draw less power and produce less ambient noise
  • A high degree of blade and module compatibility across the BladeCenter family of chassis permits the use of fewer and lower-power components to enable significant power and cooling savings
IBM Open Fabric
  • Delivers a flexible, open, connected infrastructure to help optimise application performance
  • BladeCenter supports a wide array of fabrics including: Ethernet, FC, SAS and SCSI over IP (iSCSI)
  • Helps centralise storage, including boot capability, which can dramatically reduce the effect of a disk outage on an application
  • Brocade and QLogic NPIV FC switches help simplify Storage Area Network (SAN) deployment and management
Powerful solutions management
  • Provides intelligent systems management for rock-solid reliability
  • Exploits hardware capabilities by surfacing pertinent information about your blade server
  • Easy-to-use Deployment Wizard provides step-by-step installation instructions with automated deployment capabilities
  • Advanced Management Module provides more robust hardware running Linux® and supporting many industry-standard, open protocols
High-availability midplane
  • Provides a fault-tolerant connection from the blade server to all modular components
  • Innovative midplane design provides support for you to upgrade to new technologies and helps preserve your original investment
  • Front-access Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0
Hot-swap, redundant management, switch, power supply and blower modules
  • Provides a single point of control for managing the entire solution, helping to maximise system reliability and availability
  • BladeCenter E comes standard with one Advanced Management Module, while the second one is available as an option for redundancy
  • IBM smart management capabilities can help boost administrator productivity.
  • Uniquely designed Calibrated Vectored Cooling technology helps protect critical system components for maximum reliability
  • Supports a wide selection of integrated switching components from industry-leading ecosystem partner companies such as Cisco, Nortel, Brocade, QLogic and McDATA
  • Optional GbE switch modules provide GbE communication between blade servers, management modules and external hardware
  • Optional FC switch modules deliver a highly available cost-effective storage network, including support for an IBM System Storage SAN
  • Supports up to four 2320 W power supplies with load-balancing and failover capabilities, providing additional reliability and protection
  • Each power supply includes a customer-replaceable fan pack to keep the power supplies running at peak performance
Advanced server management
  • Supports IBM Director System Availability to accurately measure planned vs. unplanned outages
  • Supports IBM Director Capacity Manager to monitor critical server resources, identify and predict bottlenecks and recommend upgrades to prevent diminished network performance
  • Supports IBM Director Rack Manager to conveniently configure and monitor rack components and provide health information
IBM Remote Deployment Manager
  • Simplifies and automates deployment and redeployment for efficient installation and setup of your blade servers
  • Perform deployment tasks via the network that previously required a visit to each system, saving your administrator valuable time
  • Supports Wake on LAN and Pre-boot eXecution (PXE)-enabled products
Light path diagnostics self-diagnosis panel
  • Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), located on the front and rear of the system, provide a quick and easy guide to troubleshoot your server to help provide more availability and faster system uptime
Predictive Failure Analysis
  • Helps save you time and money by decreasing unplanned downtime
  • Helps increase uptime by allowing you to receive proactive alerts and take corrective action, in advance of actual hardware failure
Airborne Contaminant Filter
  • The IBM Airborne Contaminant Filter helps protect the blade server’s vital components in non-data centre environments
Three year customer replaceable unit and on-site limited warranty3
  • IBM Global Services organisation provides reliable, dedicated and skilled assistance when you need it
  • Provides peace of mind for an extended period of time

Specifications

Form factor/heightRack-mount chassis/7U
Blade baysUp to 14
Switch modulesFour switch module bays
Power supply moduleUp to four 2320 W (hot-swap and redundant with load-balancing and failover capabilities)
Cooling modulesTwo hot-swap and redundant blowers standard
Standard mediaDVD multi-burner (also available as a Configure to Order (CTO) option)
Systems management hardwareOne Advanced Management Module standard; add an optional second module for redundancy
Input/output (I/O) portsKeyboard, video, mouse, ethernet, universal serial bus (USB)
Systems management softwareOpen and easy systems management and trial deployment tools
Light path diagnosticsBlade server, processor, memory, power supplies, blowers, switch module, management module, hard disk drives (HDDs) and expansion card
Limited warranty1Three year customer replaceable unit and on-site limited warranty
External storageSupport for IBM System Storage solutions (including DS and Network Attached Storage (NAS) family of products) and many widely adopted non-IBM storage offerings
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