Member Products
 

The Arastra 7100 Series features numerous industry firsts that include the highest 10 Gigabit port density of 2016 10 Gigabit ports per 42U rack; wirespeed Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching with throughput up to 960 Gbps and 714 MPPS with sub-microsecond latency; multi-chassis fabric scalability up to 4096 10G ports; advanced congestion management, including multi-lane flow control and backward congestion notification; support for 10 Gigabit SFP+ optics and copper cabling, including 10GBASE-SR, 10GBASE-LR, 10GBASE-LRM, 10GBASE-CR, as well as Gigabit Ethernet 1000BASE-SX, 1000BASE-LX, and 1000BASE-T; and server-rack compatible front-to-back or back-to-front airflow, hot-swappable redundant power supplies, hot-swappable redundant cooling, and dual redundant management ports The Arastra 7100 Series switches run the Arastra Extensible Operating System, Arastra EOS, the first switch operating system designed specifically to meet the needs of data center networks. Arastra EOS is based on a fine-grain modular protected memory architecture that ensures the highest level of network reliability and supports in-service software upgrades. Using the control and management APIs of EOS, customers and partners can extend the functionality of the software to meet their particular needs.

 

Product Features:

• Enterprise class performance and reliability in a small footprint with lower power consumption
  • Typically consumes less than 20 watts of power and can be implemented using less than 10 square inches of card space
• Designed to deliver full redundancy and data protection ensuring no single point of failure
• Can perform RAID operations such as drive rebuild, RAID initialization and RAID migrations faster than any general purpose CPU driven software solutions on the market today.
• Support of 3Gb/s SAS/SATA and 4Gb/s Fibre Channel host and disk protocols and a PCI-X on a single chip
• Double the number of host and disk ports from previous generation products proving greater connectivity with twice the throughput
• Field proven enterprise class RAID Software further enhancing robustness and performance of a blade server
• The software is designed to communicate directly with the OEMs software that manages the other components within the blade server chassis.

Currently supported on the following products:

• Nortel Layer 2-3 GbESM for IBM BladeCenter
• Nortel Layer 2-7 GbESM for IBM BladeCenter
• Nortel 10 Gb Uplink ESM for IBM BladeCenter
• Nortel 10 Gb ESM for IBM BladeCenter H/HT
• HP ProLiant BL p-Class GbE2 Interconnect Switch for HP BladeSystem p-Class
• HP GbE2c Ethernet Blade Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class
• HP GbE2c L2/L3 Ethernet Blade Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class
• HP 1:10Gb Ethernet BL-c Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class
• HP 10Gb Ethernet BL-c Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class
• NEC 1Gb Intelligent L2 Switch for NEC SigmaBlade
• NEC 1Gb Intelligent L3 Switch for NEC SigmaBlade
• RackSwitch G8000 and G8100

Highlights

• Client-server architecture - Centralization of critical network asset information integrates with Enterprise security structure while enabling access with minimal risk from mobile clients
• Web-based GUI for simplified device configuration, monitoring, and fault management - Easy and cost-effective method to monitor, configure, and maintain switches utilizing COTS technologies
• Integration with industry-leading Enterprise Management Systems (e.g.: HP SIM, IBM Director) - Minimal effort insertion into existing management schemas, eliminating fork-lift upgrade or wholesale swap-out of installed managers
• Customizable reporting of detailed asset, operational and performance information - Global view of all BLADE Network Technologies Top of Rack or embedded switches on your network with simplified asset and fault management
• Automated and scheduled software downloads, configuration updates/backups, switch reboots, etc - Simplifies deployment and ongoing configuration management. Detects success or failure of the operation on each switch

For more information, contact services@bladenetwork.net

 

It also includes a mini-USB management port, fourteen 1000Base-CX links to servers while providing 104Gbps of full line rate performance with mission-critical availability and resiliency. Availability features include: Link Trunk Fallover, NIC teaming, IEEE 802.1 s, d, w, q and ad support, UplinkFast and Cisco Port Fast compatibility, VRRP (RFC2338 + Nortel active-active extension, Cisco EtherChannel compatibility, Broadcast storm control, and user configurable hashing options for LACP including SMAC, DMAC, SIP and DIP.   Nortel switches also include enterprise class layer 3 functions standard like OSPF and BGP. Other feature rich capabilities include planned support for IPV6 compatibility, virtual switching, server provisioning and BLADE VMReady™.

The Nortel 1/10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module provides:

• Standards-based integration into Cisco and other networks that helps reduce downtime and learning curves
• Common look among switches (Layer 2/3, Layer 2-7) helps administrators minimize the learning curve for new Nortel platforms
• Easy software upgrades through Web user interface, TFTP, telnet or serial download allow for easy adaptation to existing maintenance procedures
• Support for future updates and software upgrades (new features) planned over the life of the warranty.

The BNT Nortel 10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module provides 4 uplink ports: 3 10G (2 CX4, 1XFP) and 1 1G RJ-45 SFP, used for management or data. It includes 2 100Base-T management ports and 14 1000Base-CX links to servers. It provides 45 Gbps of full line rate performance with mission-critical availability and resiliency. Availability features include: Link Trunk Fallover, NIC teaming, IEEE 802.1 s, d, w, q and ad support, UplinkFast and Cisco Port Fast compatibility, VRRP (RFC2338 + Nortel active-active extension, Cisco EtherChannel compatibility, Broadcast storm control, and user configurable hashing options for LACP including SMAC, DMAC, SIP and DIP.

 

• Nortel 10Gb Ethernet Switch Module
• 10Gb Network Interface Cards
• Nortel 10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module
• Nortel Layer 2/7 Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module
• Nortel Layer 2/3 Copper Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module
• Nortel Layer 2/3 Fiber Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module

All dramatically reduce the number of Ethernet cables attached to the rear of a blade enclosure by consolidating network intelligence into the blade chassis. The Nortel Layer 2-7 Gigabit Ethernet switch module provides extended functionality, supporting layer 4-7 functionality.

For more information on the IBM BladeCenter, please visit IBM’s Web site: www.ibm.com/BladeCenter.

 

With six 10Gb internal ports that can be linked together—and 14 non-blocking 10Gb external ports—the Nortel Layer 2/3 10Gb Ethernet Switch Module offers great BladeCenter H or HT performance, with bandwidth to spare for growing application needs.

The Nortel Layer 2/3 10Gb Ethernet Switch Module provides:

• Standards-based integration into Cisco and other networks that helps reduce downtime and learning curves
• Common look among switches (Layer 2/3, Layer 2-7) helps administrators minimize the learning curve for new Nortel platforms
• Easy software upgrades through Web user interface, TFTP, telnet or serial download allow for easy adaptation to existing maintenance procedures

Two versions are available, for copper and fiber uplinks. For copper interconnects, the module is available with RJ-uplinks, for fiber interconnects, the module is available with SFP optical module connections.

 

The L2-7 Switch Module allows CIOs to consolidate more of their data center infrastructures into the BladeCenter chassis, continually simplifying the infrastructure. The L2-7 Switch Module leverages award-winning switching technology in an innovative, integrated package. BNT, an industry-leading developer of communications products and an IBM strategic partner, developed the L2-7 Switch Module specifically for BladeCenter. BladeCenter leads the industry by offering integrated Layer 2-7 switch intelligence.

 

• HP 10Gb Ethernet BL-c Switch for the HP BladeSystem c-Class
• HP 1:10Gb Ethernet BL-c Switch for the HP BladeSystem c-Class
• GbE2c Layer 2/3 Ethernet Blade Switch for the HP BladeSystem c-Class
• GbE2c Ethernet Blade Switch for the HP BladeSystem c-Class
• GbE2 Interconnect Switch Module for the HP BladeSystem p-Class

Integrated switch modules dramatically reduce the number of Ethernet cables attached to the rear of the blade enclosure while adding sophisticated network intelligence to the HP BladeSystem. Higher bandwidth 10Gb Ethernet connectivity is now available with the HP 10Gb and HP 1:10Gb Ethernet BL-c Switches. For more information on the HP BladeSystem, please visit HP’s web site: www.hp.com/go/BladeSystem.

 

Broadcom's NetXtreme II® controller chips are the first controllers in the industry to deliver storage networking, accelerated data networking and remote system management pass-through functions in a single, all-in-one solution at price points enabling the broad adoption of this technology. By deploying these functions over standard Ethernet networks, IT professionals can significantly reduce the costs associated with deploying and maintaining today's complex fabric infrastructure and dramatically improve server efficiency.

 

The dual processor configuration uses the HT-2000 as a tunnel to the processors. By combining the HT-1000 with the HT-2000, servers can support four PCI-Express™ masters, an additional PCI-X® 64/133 bus, and native dual GbE Broadcom controllers.

HT-1000 can also be used to connect directly to the processors. This provides all the features needed for cost-effective volume servers, blades, and desktop systems. These features include 8x HT bus, PCI-X 64/133, SATA II, USB 2.0, 32-bit PCI, LPC, IDE, and SMBus.

 

Key Features and Benefits

• Combines up to 20 ports of high-performance 4 Gbit/sec technology with high availability and Ports on Demand (PoD) scaling from 10 to 20 ports
• Utilizes Brocade Advanced Web Tools (Web Tools EZ) to simplify fabric setup and ongoing maintenance for new SAN administrators
• Protects existing investments by providing 4 Gbit/sec technology with auto-sensing capabilities to recognize 1 and 2 Gbit/sec devices
• Supports full 4 Gbit/sec operations at distances up to 10 kilometers
• Increases network performance with enhanced Brocade Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking, which enables a high-speed data path up to 16 Gbit/sec (4-port trunking is supported at 2 and 4 Gbit/sec)
• Leverages intelligent Brocade SAN management and monitoring tools to increase operational efficiency and maximize SAN investments

Brocade® 10 and 20 port SAN Switch Modules for IBM BladeCenter enable high-performance end-to-end 1, 2 and 4 Gigbits per second SAN solutions for the data center. They include affordable 10-port and 20-port offerings available for small, medium and large Enterprise business needs. An easy-to-use, non-disruptive upgrade doubles the 10-port switch connectivity to 20-ports when your business needs change. They integrate NPIV and the Brocade SAN fabric to simplify deployment/management and reduce infrastructure complexity and total cost of ownership, and they utilize Brocade's proven Silkworm™ technology and are fully backward-compatible and interoperable with Silkworm and IBM TotalStorage® b-type SAN switches.

 

With on-board hardware that offloads TCP/IP, iSCSI, and iWARP RDMA processing from its host system, the S320EM-BCH frees up host CPU cycles for useful applications. The system achieves increased bandwidth, lower latency, and lower power.

This combination makes it practical to converge other networks that traditionally used niche technologies onto 10GbE. High bandwidth and extremely low latency make 10GbE with protocol offload the best technology for high-performance cluster computing (HPCC) fabrics.

 

Citrix Presentation Server runs on Microsoft® Windows Server™ and UNIX® operating systems, and extends the base Windows Terminal Services platform by enhancing the end-user experience as well as increasing manageability, compatibility, security and scalability to address business-critical environments. Presentation Server expands the range of supported applications to include legacy software and Web-based, UNIX® and Java™ solutions. It also enables any device or operating system – including Macintosh® and Linux® – to access virtualized applications. Other important capabilities are powerful management and configuration tools and faster, more flexible printing.

 

ATCA-PP50 provides superior performance via one or two discrete multi-core MIPS64 packet processors. Each processor provides 8 multi-threaded cores and contains a built-in security co-processor capable of handling up to 10Gbps of bulk encryption / decryption (20Gbps per blade). ATCA-PP50 supports each processor with up to 8GB (16GB per blade) of memory as well as access to a TCAM and content-based processors via mezzanines. TCAM is especially important for very high performance IPv6 routing platforms.

ATCA-PP50 interconnects the processors, I/O, and backplane fabrics using a non-blocking 10GbE switch. Each XLR processor is provided with two 10GbE ports to the switch providing full duplex 10GbE capabilities. External I/O is supported over a dual redundant 10GbE backplane fabric (PICMG 3.1.9) as well as through direct connection to 10GbE and 1GbE ports on the front or rear depending on a customer's specific cabling requirements.

Coupled with Continuous Computing's ATCA systems and Trillium® protocol software, FlexPacket ATCA-PP50 provides the fastest path from application development to deployment revenue. From IPTV to Wireless Core Networks, ATCA-PP50 is the blade of choice for deploying a wide range of high performance, scalable telecom applications.

 

Trillium protocol software from Continuous Computing is synonymous with high quality and superior performance. Trillium Diameter software leverages this strong heritage to simplify the Next Generation Network (NGN) and propel telecommunications toward innovative revenue-generating services. Trillium Diameter source code helps telecom equipment manufacturers successfully address common concerns such as interoperability, security, quality of service, and legacy interworking through Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) services.

Trillium Diameter features:

Trillium protocol software from Continuous Computing is synonymous with high quality, superior performance, and technology leadership. The company's legacy in the 3G Wireless, Voice over IP (VoIP), SS7, and SIGTRAN markets is naturally extending as Trillium solutions evolve into the budding IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) market.

Continuous Computing specializes in the very core of IMS:

• Standards-based Trillium IMS Protocol Software
• Field-proven AdvancedTCA and CompactPCI hardware
• Professional Services and Complete System Integration

Diameter, COPS, SIP, H.248/MEGACO, RTP/RTCP, SCTP, and more – there is a Trillium protocol stack for everything required in the IMS network. Beyond mere building blocks, Continuous Computing offers unrivaled expertise in understanding the intricacies of converged signaling, policy management, and Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) critical to the core of IMS. As such, the Trillium team is well versed in the functions of the Call Session Control Function (CSCF), Home Subscriber Server (HSS), Media Resource Function (MRF), Policy Decision Function (PDF), and other IMS network elements.

Continuous Computing's breadth of experience in the key constituents that make up IMS – Wireless, VoIP and AdvancedTCA – positioning the company as the preferred choice for IMS solutions. Leveraging over nine years of innovation in these market forerunners, Continuous Computing is the ideal partner for enabling telecom equipment manufacturers to successfully deploy IMS infrastructure.

 

Widely regarded by industry experts as a “gold standard” for protocol stack solutions, Trillium® software from Continuous Computing® empowers telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) to develop reliable, high-performance network elements for wireless, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) applications.

Trillium software enables telecom equipment manufacturers of Softswitches, Signaling Gateways, Signal Transfer Points, Media Gateway Controllers and other products to accelerate time to market, reduce development costs and decrease project risk and complexity.

The foundation of all Trillium products is the Trillium Advanced Portability Architecture (TAPA®), an elite set of proprietary architectural and coding standards. TAPA ensures complete independence from the target system’s compiler, processor, operating system or architecture, delivering field-proven customer benefits that include reliability, consistency and compressed learning curves. TAPA defines a set of interfaces that control all interactions between the Trillium software and the target system.

Trillium software solutions include an innovative, patented model for software scalability and reliability, the Distributed Fault-Tolerance / High Availability (DFT/HA) architecture. Designed to distribute the processing load across multiple processors, DFT/HA is a software advantage that magnifies performance and extensibility while enabling "rolling upgrades."

 

Trillium protocol software from Continuous Computing is synonymous with high quality and superior performance. Trillium SIP software leverages this strong heritage to simplify the network and propel telecommunications toward innovative revenue-generating services. Trillium SIP helps telecom equipment manufacturers address common concerns such as interoperability, security, quality of service, and legacy interworking.

The broad variety of products enabled by Trillium SIP include soft phones, ADSL modems, back-to-back (B2B) SIP User Agents (UAs), Call Session Control Functions (CSCFs), Softswitches, Multiservice Switching Platforms, SIP Application Servers, and Service Delivery Platforms. SIP is a common standard for voice and video services enabling applications such as Push-To-Talk (PTT), Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol (IMPP), and Voice-over-WiFi (VoWiFi or ViFi).

Designed to meet carrier-grade, standards-based, interoperable features, Trillium SIP is an enhanced protocol software package that supports over 40 standardized extensions and is optimized for usability and performance. These extensions range from Instant Messaging (IM) and Presence to Quality of Service (QoS) and Security – all of which propel the evolution to SIP signaling.

Trillium SIP software, coupled with Continuous Computing’s full set of bladed hardware systems and professional services, reinforces the company’s position as a thought leader to help accelerate the development and deployment of popular NGN applications and wireless infrastructure. Leveraging almost twenty years of innovation in protocol software, Trillium SIP is the ideal protocol for building NGN and IMS applications.

 

Simple: Appliances from Devon IT install in minutes and are extremely simple to manage. Applications run on servers (Terminal Server, Linux, etc.) for remote access by PCs and thin client terminals.

Secure: Appliances from Devon IT replace needs for complex hardware or software VPN solutions, and deliver a much higher level of security. Data never leaves your data center. Screen updates are securely transmitted to authorized remote users, which further protect data center servers from direct connections to the Internet.

Powerful: Appliances from Devon IT complement Windows Terminal Services by adding applications publishing, a seamless Windows interface, unidriver printing, and resource-based load balancing. Authorized users can access applications from PCs that could not run them locally, extending PC life. Browser-based access eliminates client-side configuration and support.

 

Delivering all benefits of Server-Based Computing, Devon IT's Thin Client Terminals are used by many of the world's largest financial, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail companies as well as schools and universities because they make today's most powerful applications more affordable, easier to manage, and secure.

 

Centralized Control: Remotely shutdown and reboot terminals (Wake On LAN). Add, delete, or change software and configuration without visiting desktop or device.

IP Range Searches: Identify and inventory thin clients on your network. (ThinManage 2.0 maintains a permanent inventory database.)

Maintenance Scheduling: Schedule repetitive maintenance tasks on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly basis. Install new versions of thin client operating systems from a central location. Avoid disruptions to work productivity by scheduling software and configuration updates at convenient times.

Device Grouping: Dynamically group network devices according to current organizational structure.

Scalability: Manage up to thousands of devices across multiple geographically disparate networks.

Intuitive GUI: Administrators learn quickly and use daily.

Error Reporting: Save time and resources when troubleshooting software updates.

Asset Reporting: Easily gather information on deployed hardware and software.

 

And we make it easier to manage.

Double-Take Application Manager (DTAM) is a unified console where you can manage all of your application protection options. Double-Take Application Manager currently supports Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server.

 

Once installed, Double-Take continuously replicates changes to data, applications, and the source server's operating system, protecting the entire server. When it’s time to recover, the Recovery Manager allows the user to configure and perform full-server recovery quickly with added validation steps to make sure recovery will go as planned. Double-Take Server Recovery Option can also be used to migrate a server to different hardware, allowing you to repurpose licenses for disaster recovery.

Double-Take Server Recovery Option is the first of its kind to combine continuous data replication with continuous system state protection and allows recovery from either the real-time image of the system or a snapshot image of the system from a previous point-in-time. This additional flexibility makes the solution ideal for recovering from unwanted changes such as viruses, corruption and accidental deletions.

 

Double-Take ShadowCaster continuously captures changes to data, applications, and the protected server's operating system. If the production server fails or is unavailable, Double-Take ShadowCaster can quickly fail over applications to the secondary server, either automatically or with manual intervention, allowing businesses to resume operation right away, with minimal data loss.

 

Your data center, and the network that supports it, form the backbone of your enterprise. If there's a problem with the power to your data center, every part of your enterprise can be affected.

When the stakes are this high, you need exceptional power management capabilities throughout your power system—from the substation to the DC load. Every link in the system that supplies power to your data center must be strong and reliable.

Eaton can help you build a power system that delivers the reliable, high-quality power your data center needs. Eaton's PowerChain Management helps enterprises find competitive advantages by seeing every power system as a strategic asset to be measured and managed as an integrated system throughout its life cycle. Taking a broader view of a power system as an integrated system can produce powerful results: greater reliability, operating cost efficiencies, effective use of capital, enhanced safety and risk mitigation.

For more information, visit Power Management from Eaton.

Download the PowerChain Management Solutions for Data Centers brochure.

Or, download the Eaton Powerware Product Catalog.

 

The standard internal batteries provide needed ride-through power until an auxiliary power source takes over or systems are gracefully shut down. Extend runtime up to 34 minutes at full load (or 76 minutes at half load) with Extended Battery Modules (EBMs).

 

Eaton offers a diverse range of enclosures and accessories for your network closets, computer rooms and data centers. Our new Powerware Enclosure Solutions represent the first critical step in planning an ideal data center and complement our comprehensive power management offering.

For more information, download, Eaton Powerware Product Catalog

 

• Shortening the time to market, thereby maximizing the revenue generation opportunity
• Cutting costs for initial project development as well as for the on-going development necessary for technology and platform changes
• Reducing project risk by building on an Application Ready Platform™ that provides pre-tested and pre-integrated hardware, middleware and third party components.

SelfReliant services, such as high availability services, messaging services and systems management services are delivered as modular components, enabling development teams to chose the level of availability management services that are most important for their project. Some project teams start with SelfReliant Basic Availability Management (SR-BAM) to quickly and easily include high availability in a first release. They can use SR-BAM’s simple APIs to checkpoint applications to preserve state. Building upon these high availability features, project teams then gracefully upgrade to Advanced Suite for more sophisticated requirements. Other teams, knowing from the beginning that they need to achieve the highest levels of availability, will begin with Advanced Suite. Either way, SelfReliant can meet all of your high availability needs, from the most basic to the most complex.

 

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

 

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

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.

 

One of the most unique aspects of the BladeCenter S is its onboard SAS/SATA storage capability. The chassis can accommodate up to six 3.5” hard drives in its standard storage module, and six more with an additional storage module. The disks can easily and quickly be assigned directly to blades using built-in predefined configurations or through user definable custom configurations.

Both storage modules are accessible to all blades via a single SAS connectivity module, however with the addition of a second SAS connectivity module, higher levels of availability can be achieved. When two SAS modules are present, the modules provide redundant functionality, with each module being able to access all hard drives in both storage modules. This enterprise-class redundant architecture allows for transparent data protection of all storage contained within the storage modules, and provides the ability to conduct online replacement of either module.

Another new feature introduced with the BladeCenter S is the ability to use 110V electrical power, which is of particular interest to US-based customers. Previously, all BladeCenters required 220V connections, which is readily available in most datacenters. Most small to medium size offices in the US operate on standard 110V power only, and although 220V power is available, it is typically available only at circuit breakers. To accommodate the growing diversity of office locations and facility amenities, the BladeCenter S was designed with the ability to operate on either 110V or 220V power using its autosensing power supplies.

Although the BladeCenter S has many unique features, its ultimate strength lies in its ability to use almost all of the existing BladeCenter blade servers and I/O modules. Due to this unprecedented interoperability, BladeCenter S can be configured to provide enterprise level functionality and availability in virtually any environment.

The BladeCenter S chassis allows for either six single-slot blade servers, or three double-slot blade servers. However, several different blade server models and widths can be intermixed in one chassis simultaneously to support virtually any requirement (subject to power and cooling requirements).

>> Learn more about the BladeCenter S Type 8886

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.

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

 

The IBM BladeCenter® HC10 ushers in revolutionary server-based computing technology for workstation applications by offering high security and manageability, while delivering outstanding graphics performance and full USB capability. Built-in features are ideal for engineering design applications (CAD), trading floor and other financial applications, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications, distance collaboration and more.

Features
• Revolutionary blade form factor delivers flexibility and simplicity for workstation application
• Workstation-class processor and graphics
• Innovative I/O and Graphics Transmission Adapter delivers compressed and encrypted graphics and USB over TCP/IP network in real time without special device driver
• Designed for Microsoft Windows
• Extends and leverages the capability of the BladeCenter family

Hardware summary
• Intel® Core™ 2 Duo up to 2.66 GHz and up to 1066 MHz front-side bus
• 8 GB DDR II memory maximum
• NVIDIA® Quadro® NVS 120M professional 2D graphics or NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M advanced 3D graphics
• Support for Microsoft Windows Vista™ Business Blade PC Edition, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
• Gigabit Ethernet (TOE-capable)
• BladeCenter I/O and Graphics Transmission Adapter to transmit Video/USB over Ethernet

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

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.

 

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.

 

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.

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

BladeVault enables deployment of blade servers and their related network hardware directly in the office workspace, doing away with the need for a dedicated computer room. It combines extreme noise reduction and very high thermal capacity with exceptional reliability and a truly all-inclusive, plug-and-play specification. A host of unique, installer-friendly features ensure quick and easy systems deployment and the PSE's office-quality appearance blends seamlessly into any office environment.

Standard specification includes dual integrated power distribution, castor-type wheels, 600 Kg weight load capacity, washable dust filters on all air intake paths, and BladeVault is delivered fully assembled and ready to go.

IBM's Office Enablement Pack for the BladeCenter S is not needed in conjunction with BladeVault. Both systems provide dust filtering, but whilst IBM's Office Enablement Pack reduces noise by 4 dB (source: IBM), Kell Systems' BladeVault provides a much more extreme noise reduction of 18.5 dB.
 

Physical capacity:	24 rack spaces
Noise reduction:	18.5 dB
Max. recommended thermal load:	4.3 kW (14,700 BTU / hr)
Integrated power distribution:	14 x surge-protected outlets in 2 separate arrays of 7
Power consumption:	84 Watts

 

Clustered applications running on multi-socket servers using multi-core processors will benefits from the reliable transport connections and advanced multicast support offered by ConnectX IB. Servers supporting PCI Express 2.0 with 5GT/s will be able to utilize the full potential of 20Gb/s InfiniBand, balancing the I/O requirements of these high-end servers. End-to-end Quality of Server (QoS) enables partitioning and guaranteed service levels while hardware-based congestion control prevents hot spots from degrading the effective throughput. ConnectX is capable of scaling to tens-of-thousands of server and storage nodes.

Available for Purchase from IBM for BladeCenter H.

 

Express Module Benefits

• Closed chassis removal/insertion
• Integrated hot-plug
• Adapter protection from ESD and handling damage
• Standardized management interfaces
• Optimal cooling architecture
• Single bulk power supply

Key Features

• 10Gb/s 4X InfiniBand Port
• Integrated Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes)
• InfiniRISC™ embedded RISC processors
• PCI Express revision 1.0a compatible card
• PCI Express x8 (20+20Gb/s Full Duplex) Interface
• IBTA version 1.2 Compatible
• Copper InfiniBand connectors (MicroGigaCN) with media detect
• circuit for optional fiber media adapter
• Linux and Windows drivers
• InfiniBand Compatible Verbs API
• Linux management and applications package available
• Various upper layer protocols
• ROHS-R5 Compliant

This series is ideally suited for large, distributed enterprises with remote office and branch office storage requirements. The FAS250 provides an affordable, entry-level solution for small and medium-size businesses requiring NAS, IP SAN (iSCSI), or unified storage networks. The FAS270 is a midrange system that offers an entry-level Fibre Channel SAN solution while providing strong price/performance for NAS and iSCSI infrastructures.

 

Unmatched Management Simplicity

The FAS3000 is powered by the easy-to-use Data ONTAP® 7G storage operating system, which enables an increase of up to 2X in "managed TB per administrator."

Exceptional Value

FAS3000 systems deliver proven lower TCO and higher storage utilization. With dual-parity RAID-DP, low-cost SATA disks can be used for production applications.

Outstanding Scalability And Performance

FAS3000 systems scale to over 250TB, and studies reflect that FAS3000 systems deliver exceptional FC SAN performance.

Easy Upgrade Path

NetApp customers can easily upgrade through the FAS3000 family and then to the high-end FAS6000, as all FAS systems are fully compatible.

Unique Versatility

FAS3000 systems can be used for SAN and/or NAS-based applications, and for primary or secondary storage.

Superior Application-Level Availability

Unique low-overhead snapshots, integrated with key business applications via NetApp SnapManager products, enable application-level recovery in minutes, not hours or days.

Highly Responsive to Business Needs

With the ability to rapidly provision, clone, backup, recover, and scale, FAS3000 systems provide a storage infrastructure that effectively responds to constantly changing business needs.

 

Key Points:

• Enjoy compelling file- and transaction-based performance with high-bandwidth 64-bit architecture and the latest I/O technologies.
• Consolidate diverse data sets onto a unified storage platform that offers simultaneous block and file services for business and technical applications.
• Instantly expand or contract LUNs or volumes with thin provisioning.
• Dramatically reduce your consumption of raw storage, power, cooling, and space with our highly efficient storage utilization.

Do more for your business than you thought possible with a storage system. Choose the NetApp FAS3100 for its flexibility, performance, availability, and responsiveness to growth. Eliminate stranded storage with thin provisioning.

Unlock the full potential of your virtualized servers by enabling VM® mobility and offloading the work of data protection. Connect to Windows®, UNIX®, and Linux® servers and clients via standard storage protocols and interfaces.

Our high-availability and disaster recovery solutions help you sleep better at night:

• Low overhead Double Parity RAID-DP® offers better data protection and capacity utilization than RAID 5 and RAID 1+0.
• Snapshot™ helps reduce backup times to minutes.
• SnapRestore® recovers point-in-time data, also in minutes.
• SnapManager® quickly returns applications to the same point in time as recovered data.

NetApp’s innovative thin provisioning eliminates stranded storage. And you can make data-in-place upgrades to more powerful FAS systems, running the same Data ONTAP® operating system and using the same management tools.

 

Highly Scalable

The FAS6000 series offers the scalability of frame array systems in flexible, modular storage architecture. The FAS6030 can be configured with 840 disk drives totaling 420TB of capacity. The FAS6070, which scales to 504TB spread across 1,008 disk drives and has 64GB/sec of internal data bandwidth, can handle the largest enterprise applications.

Effective Consolidation

The FAS6000 systems are ideally suited for storage consolidation supporting hundreds of applications because they are not only highly scalable but also very flexible. Tiered storage can be implemented in one system using cost-saving SATA di