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• Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series, pushing the limits on scalable performance.
• Greater memory capacity, with MAX5, enabling more or larger VMs per server
• Enhanced computing capacity for more transactions per minute in a blade server
• FlexNode partitioning and pay-as-you-grow expansion offer great investment protection and maximum system uptime

Highlights

• With a design that delivers investment protection, IBM BladeCenter HT integrates the server blades, switches, networking, storage, I/O, and management platforms that are supported across the BladeCenter family.
• Helps reduce network infrastructure costs with an open, standards-based, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platform supporting a large portfolio of world-class, next-generation network (NGN) solutions and applications
• Increase network infrastructure performance with dual-core and quad-core Intel®, AMD and IBM POWER™ processor blades
• Dramatically increase high-speed connectivity and throughput with multi-terabit networking (more than 1.2 Tbps throughput on backplane) and 40 Gbps per blade server
• Improve network flexibility and interoperability bridging new services to control gateways supporting SS7, VoIP, legacy PSTN, WAN devices and network interfaces with special purpose telecommunications blades
• Efficiently consolidate network resources while delivering high scalability for NGN applications such as IPTV, VoD and IMS, with higher port concentrations and 10 Gbps Ethernet network bandwidth
• BladeCenter supports numerous operating systems and applications, including Linux®, Windows®, AIX® and Sun Solaris 10—allowing you to choose the ones that best suits your needs in a single platform
• Certified testing by Underwriters Laboratories® (UL) of the BladeCenter HT chassis is in progress, and when complete the BladeCenter HT chassis will be covered under a UL-certified NEBS Level 3/ETSI test report, which will be available for review with customers
• Management tools integrated into BladeCenter help simplify administration and maximize the efficiency of network management staffs to help lower costs and improve control of the central office and/or data center (IBM Director)
• Increase flexibility and choice with a single family of compatible systems, designed for deployment in a telecom central office and/or data center environment

Feature and Hardware Summary

• Chassis features the functionality of BladeCenter with the added performance capabilities of multi-terabit networking (more than 1.2 Tbps throughput on backplane), a 10 Gbps-capable fabric and a very robust thermal solution.
• Delivers increased network infrastructure performance ideal for telecommunications Service, Control and Transport plane applications
• Improves network flexibility and interoperability via support for many blade processor types and operating systems
• 12U rack-optimized chassis
• Up to 12 blade server bays for extreme performance density
• Supports high-performance dual-core and quad-core Intel, AMD Opteron and POWER processor blades and a wide variety of operating systems, including Linux, Windows, AIX and Sun Solaris 10
• Up to four traditional hot-swap and redundant switch modules supporting Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel
• Up to four new high-speed capable switch module bays supported by 10 Gbps fabric
• Up to four hot-swap and redundant load-balancing power supply modules, DC or AC power
• Four hot-swap, redundant fan modules
• Redundant removable media trays with optional Compact Flash, two external USB ports and full alarm management panel
• High-availability midplane enables maximum uptime and provides investment protection for future technologies
• Hot-swappable midplane active components provide maximum reliability for deployment into a telecommunications central office
• Investment protection so operators can standardize on a particular configuration for extended period of time

Features one or two Dual-Core Intel Xeon at up to 3.0 GHz speed with 1333 MHz front-side bus or one or two Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5320 at up to 1.86 GHz with 1066 MHz front-side bus. Supports from 1 to 32 GB memory and up to 367 GB of disk storage.
 

• High-density modular blade server designed to support the entire family of BladeCenter chassis
• Higher internal memory combined with multi-core processors at 64-bit delivers leadership performance for multi-threaded applications
• Featuring new low-voltage Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors for true performance efficiency
• Supports new IBM solid state drives for optimized durability, reliability and power efficiency
• Helps reduce power and cooling costs while delivering substantial performance gains over earlier technology

Designed for versatility

Built for performance

Highlights

• Improve service with unparalleled RAS features and innovative management
• Reduce cost through increased performance, utilization and efficiency
• Manage growth and reduce risk on a BladeCenter platform with proven stability

The IBM BladeCenter® LS22 is a 2-socket, quad-core blade server delivering high performance for memory-intensive applications and virtualization.

The LS22 blade server supports two sockets and up to 32GB of RAM. Supporting two onboard hard drives, the LS22 blade server offers you the flexibility to support database and consolidation tasks or to serve as a building block for extreme high performance computing applications.
 

The LS42 features quad-core AMD Opteron processors for increased processing power, enabling IT managers to run demanding applications or consolidate workloads through virtualization.
 

The BladeCenter JS21 represents a convergence of leadership and value, combining support of AIX 5L™, IBM's industrial-strength Linux, Advanced POWER Virtualization and AltiVec™ SIMD acceleration into a single, highly reliable, high-performance blade server.

Since today's datacenter environment is tougher than ever, clients are looking to reduce IT costs, complexity, space requirements, power consumption and heat output, while increasing flexibility, utilization and manageability. The new 2.3 GHz JS21 blade option delivers what cost-conscious clients demand. With the flexibility to grow and the choice of three BladeCenter chassis to match diverse environments and performance requirements, the JS21 blade is the perfect choice to succeed in today's demanding business environments.
 

Its single-wide blade form factor provides extraordinary computing density, up to 6.4 TFLOPS in a single BladeCenter H Chassis. It features two high-performance Cell/B.E. processors with 2 GB standard processor memory, dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, optional dual-port 4x InfiniBand HCA connected through PCI-Express, optional Serial Attached SCSI daughter cards connected through PCI-X and optional I/O buffer memory DIMMs (up to 2 GB, 4x512MB).
 

Highlights

• Third generation blade system based on an enhanced version of the Cell Broadband Engine™ Architecture
• IBM PowerXCell™ 8i processor, offering five times the double precision performance of the previous Cell/B.E. processor
• High-performance blade solution for selected workloads
• Potential 10x or greater performance acceleration of target workloads such as rendering and medical imaging
• Up to 32 GB of processor memory

Features

• Provides 14 ports of 10-Gbps (4X) server connectivity to blades with less than 200 nanoseconds (ns) port to port latency and 8 equivalent 4X external ports from the BladeCenter H chassis
• Supports Message Passing Interface (MPI), IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB), and Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP), which use InfiniBand Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) to support the most demanding high-performance computing applications and high-performance database clusters.
• Integrated with Cisco's latest release of Vframe - server fabric virtualization software - which offers rapid provisioning and real time re-hosting of server and network interfaces with policy based utilization and high availability rules.

Features

• Used in conjunction with the Cisco 4X InfiniBand Switch module and provides up to six 1 Gb Ethernet connections to the external network.
• Bridges enable consolidation of LAN and SAN connectivity for an entire data cluster to a single fabric.
• Leverages powerful I/O capability of BladeCenter H without any reduction in switching capacity.

Did you know?

The UPS5000 HV packs 4500W of power into a space-efficient 3U form. This provides maximum power density, thereby leaving more space for other computer hardware in rack and BladeCenter server environments.

Double Conversion UPS technology provides maximum protection from potential power input problems. This leads to higher availability and fewer problems that threaten data and equipment.
 

Optimized for virtualization

Built for performance

Highlights

IBM BladeCenter remains an innovative solution to running business solutions. IBM BladeCenter builds on the IBM commitment to integrating server, storage and networking functionality with technology exchange and heterogeneous management. IBM BladeCenter offers the ease, density, availability, affordability, and scalability that are central to the blade technology promise.

Blade servers have captured industry focus because of their modular design, which can reduce cost with a more efficient use of valuable floor space, and its simplified management, which can help to speed up such tasks as deploying, reprovisioning, updating, and troubleshooting hundreds of blade servers. In addition, blade servers provide improved performance by doubling current rack density. By integrating resources and sharing key components, not only will costs be reduced but also availability will be increased.
 

IBM Director is provided at no additional charge for use on IBM Systems.
 

This application software enables customers to trend actual power consumption and corresponding thermal loading of BladeCenter Servers running in their environment with their applications.
 

Features

• Full Layer 7 processing and control
• Service management and security applications available from Cloudshield and third parties
• Complete network traffic visibility by application and user
• Rapid application development with Eclipse-based integrated development environment
• Open development language - RAVE

Hardware specifications

• Contains Intel® IX2805 network processor for handling packets
• TCAM, QDR and RDRAM memory for packet processing
• REGEX engine for faster searches
• XFP connection to 10Gb Ethernet (optional)
• Front SFP connector used for data capture and debugging
• Quad 1 Gb Ethernet controllers, quad 10 Gb Ethernet controllers, local service processor, baseboard management controller (BMC) with Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) firmware, RS-485 interface for communications with management module, automatic server restart