IBM BladeCenter HS22 Product Manual - page 5
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Open Fabric Manager
• It’s collaborative, enabling you to harness the power of the industry to deliver innovation that
matters.
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Get flexibility from a myriad of solutions created by Blade.org members and industry leaders
that have downloaded our open specification
EASY to deploy, integrate and manage:
• It enables efficient integrated management, which allows you to minimize costs with the tools you
need for effective management.
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Automate OS installation and BIOS updates remotely with IBM Systems Director tools
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Administer your blades at the chassis or rack level with the Advanced Management Module
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Plug into your enterprise management software
• It enable deployment simplicity without tradeoffs by speeding the deployment of new hardware in
minutes rather than days, using BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager
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Get significantly faster deployment of servers and I/O than from rack solutions
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Reduce costly downtime with integrated failover capability
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Manage from a single point of control via the Advanced Management Module
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Use with virtually all IBM switches, blades and chassis
GREEN today for a better tomorrow:
• It offers control via powerful tools that help you optimize your data center infrastructure so you can
be responsive.
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Understand your power requirements with IBM Power Configurator
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Monitor, control and virtualize your power with IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager
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Reduce data center hot spots with the IBM Rear Door Heat eXchanger
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Optimize and future-proof your data center with IBM Data Center Energy Efficiency services
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Key Features
Multicore Intel Xeon Processors
The HS22 supports up to
two identical Xeon 5600 Series or 5500 Series processors (that is, the
same clock rate and cache size and the same number of cores). Each processor contains a
memory controller (meaning two in a two-processor system) for superior performance. (Some
processor models are available via CTO only.)The choice of processors includes:
• 95W six-core Xeon processor model X5670 running at 2.93GHz, with impressive performance/watt
(
15.84W per core; 6.4GTps QPI speed), 12MB of shared L3 cache, 1333MHz memory access, 2
threads per core, and Intel Turbo Boost technology; supported in all BladeCenter chassis, except
BladeCenter T.
• 95W four-core Xeon processor model X5667 running at 3.06GHz, with impressive performance/watt
(
15.84W per core; 6.4GTps QPI speed), 12MB of shared L3 cache, 1333MHz memory access, 2
threads per core, and Intel Turbo Boost technology; supported in all BladeCenter chassis, except
BladeCenter T.
• 80W four-core Xeon processor models E5640 at 2.66GHz, with reduced power draw and
impressive performance/watt (only
20W per core; 5.86GTps QPI speed), 12MB of shared L3
cache,
1066MHz memory access, 2 threads per core, and Intel Turbo Boost technology; supported
in all BladeCenter chassis, except BladeCenter T.
• 80W four-core Xeon processor models E5507 at 2.26GHz, with reduced power draw and
impressive performance/watt (only
20W per core; 4.8GTps QPI speed), 4MB of shared L3 cache,
and
800MHz memory access; supported in all BladeCenter chassis, except BladeCenter T.
• 60W four-core Xeon processor models L5640 at 2.40GHz, with reduced power draw and
impressive performance/watt (only
10W per core; 5.86GTps QPI speed), 12MB of shared L3
cache,
1333MHz memory access, 2 threads per core, and Intel Turbo Boost technology; supported
in all BladeCenter chassis, except BladeCenter T.
Note: Because of the integrated memory controllers the former front-side bus (FSB) no longer
exists.
With the Xeon 5500 series and 5600 series processors, Intel has diverged from its traditional
Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) architecture to a Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA)
architecture. The Xeon 5500 and Xeon 5600 processors are connected through a serial
coherency link called QuickPath Interconnect (QPI). QPI is capable of 6.4, 5.6 or 4.8 GTps
(gigatransfers per second), depending on the processor model. Put another way, the 5500
series processors offer
3.6 times the bandwidth of the previous 5400 series processors.