{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays an image of a group of IBM System x eX5 servers. {TRANSCRIPT} Welcome to Introduction to System x Architectures and Servers. This is Topic 1 of the System x Technical Principles Course – XTW01.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays content on the topic objectives. {TRANSCRIPT} Upon the conclusion of this topic, you should be able to: Explain IBM’s goals for delivering Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet Describe how System x plays a key role in IBM Dynamic Infrastructure Explain the X-Architecture design philosophy and why it offers outstanding innovative solutions Identify the value proposition in the eX4 versus the eX5 technology solutions Identify the servers that are part of the System x™ and BladeCenter ® portfolio Articulate the features of the eX5 enterprise systems Discuss how IBM continues to deliver innovations using the Total Systems Management Experience
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays content on the topic agenda, and contains an image of the eX5 servers. {TRANSCRIPT} In this topic, we will discuss IBM’s vision for a smarter planet, explains the X-Architecture design philosophy, introduce the System x and BladeCenter portfolio, and product line, identify IBM’s rack and power options and its cooling infrastructure, identify IBM’s Total Systems Management Experience, to include tools, support and service resources for troubleshooting and servicing System x and BladeCenter products. We will begin with IBM’s vision of a Smarter Planet.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays an image of a whole global. {TRANSCRIPT} Our world is changing, and it’s doing so at a pace few of us can comprehend. In this environment, collaboration is crucial. Innovation is essential. Reach is required. Strength and endurance are necessary to invest in, build and sustain leadership. We vision the world – round and full – when in actualities it’s getting smaller and flatter – and it’s getting smarter as more human beings, man-made systems and natural systems become more interconnected, instrumented and intelligent. We are all familiar with these changes: unprecedented global integration, increasingly smart, networked technologies and the explosion of bandwidth, connecting the workplace and the marketplace, and enabling collaboration at new levels. But today's IT infrastructure has felt the impact of current economic conditions. It's already under stress. It's fragmented, costly, and difficult to manage. Change is needed. We know that clients are facing tremendous challenges in their current environments and their troubles will only get worse as immense amounts of data and new applications flood their systems. So you see, t he vision to see – and create – a smarter future and more intelligent solutions are equally important.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen contains four arrows in a circle surrounding a world global. Each arrow represent of the following: New Intelligence, Smart Work, Dynamic Infrastructure, and Green & Beyond. {TRANSCRIPT} Becoming smarter is an evolutionary process. Where to begin and how to proceed should be determined by strategic needs and objectives, whether they revolve around rising cost pressures, higher service expectations or global integration. IBM leverage the Smarter Planet vision as a transformational journey. The Smarter Planet vision is ultimately the underpinning for a new way of thinking about IT and the data center, giving IBM an opportunity to think and act in new ways to make systems more efficient, productive and responsive —economically, socially and technically. IBM market around four major initiatives: New Intelligence: A smarter planet gives organizations the vision to see without being there, to include gaining control of the information explosion, being able to successfully manage and derive optimal value from the wealth of data and information available to us. Smart work: A smarter planet puts organizations in position to be first and be right. Smart Work is aimed at improving the agility of enterprise business processes and the organization’s ability to benefit from and enhance the expertise and creativity of its people. Dynamic Infrastructure: With a smarter planet, organizations can solve the problems before they become problems. A dynamic infrastructure enables the enterprise to act with greater speed and agility to address market opportunities and business challenges as they happen, as well as provides the operational efficiency to drive down costs and the flexibility to assimilate change and drive competitive advantage. Green & Beyond: A smarter planet empowers organizations to do more, using less. Green & Beyond supports initiatives that are developed in response to escalating energy, environment and sustainability concerns, and stakeholder requirements for social responsibility .
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays an image of a purple 3-D circle, a green leaf branch and gold trophy, IBM Systems Director logo, and x3850 X5 LED control panel. {TRANSCRIPT} Organizations are driven to change and become more dynamic by these identified evolving forces: rising cost pressures, higher service expectations, new risks and threats, and emerging technologies. A dynamic infrastructure can help the enterprise to address current cost and complexity challenges, and can deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed while preparing it for future business opportunities. In describing how System x fits into the Smarter Planet there are three pillars of value for our customers: Reducing cost , not just by containing it, but by achieving breakthrough productivity gains via automation, virtualization, optimization, energy stewardship and flexible sourcing. Improving service , not just high availability and quality of existing services, but expectations for new services: real-time, innovative and automated. Also managing the risk that companies face today, not just addressing security, resiliency and compliance challenges, but staying a step ahead of new threats posed by an increasingly connected and collaborative world. And recognizing those risks for what they really are—business opportunities.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays three round rectangle images in the color teal blue, orange, and red. {TRANSCRIPT} So you might ask . . .what makes IBM’s approach smarter . . . . and what's our competitive advantage? - IBM’s workload optimized approach, which is client centric . . . optimizes the infrastructure to deliver workloads that drive better performance, scalability and efficiency. Workloads have unique characteristics that run more efficiently when matched with the right computing resources. These efficiencies are becoming critical to achieving the service quality and business outcomes required by the business. Next, we are grounded in service management principles . . . only IBM offers integrated service management across the business and IT architecture , development, and operations. The growing complexity of IT systems demand that sprawling processes become standardized services that are efficient, secure and easy to access. It’s important for businesses to have the visibility, control and automation needed to adapt quickly to changing business requirements and to accelerate the delivery of high quality services. Finally, with multiple delivery options, like cloud and Smart Business Systems. IBM also know that to meet the changing needs of businesses, we need to offer our clients choice – the choice and flexibility found with our delivery options .
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays images of the IBM System x racked servers, IBM System p racked servers, IBM System z racked servers, and IBM System x Storage units. It also contains a global image in the background. {TRANSCRIPT} Becoming a smarter planet does not just happen overnight - a smarter planet demands smarter systems. IBM recognizes that no one server will meet all our clients’ business needs. In the real world, most companies have a heterogeneous environment supporting different critical applications. 90% of all enterprises have more than one platform and 65% have three or more. Since there is no "one size fits all" solution for business, our server portfolio covers all major IT architectures. IBM is a single family of servers built around advanced and innovative technology, open industry standards and application flexibility, and a comprehensive set of tools for managing business. It encompasses four product lines, from powerful mainframes and integrated business systems, to high-performing UNIX and Intel processor-based servers, as well as IBM Systems clusters, a collection of interconnected computers, and the blade form factor, BladeCenter - offering a flexible solution approach for the “right fit” and a commitment to open standards. It also features systems software embedded with leadership virtualization, management and security. IBM is not just a brand, we’re a complete portfolio of servers, storage, software and financing.
DESCRIPTION} This screen displays images of the IBM System x racked servers, IBM System p racked servers, IBM System z racked servers, and IBM System x Storage units. It also contains two rows of four blue arrows (one at top and one located under the servers) pointed at each rack. {TRANSCRIPT} Making industry-standard servers perform like enterprise class servers is where System x servers excel. X-Architecture is the blueprint for building proven IBM innovation around industry-standard x86 components. IBM is the only vendor that can offer such a rich track record of development and pool of technology. System x leverages the know-how and innovation from POWER, System z and System Storage to build high-quality x86 systems inspired by mainframe availability and scalability and, in return, System x development helps to drive down costs and improve management on our high end Systems.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays images of IBM’s end-to-end datacenter solution of products: Intelligent Cluster and iDataPlex 100U rack, eX5 Enterprise servers, IBM BladeCenter HT chassis, IBM 3200 M3 tower, and IBM x3650 M3 and x3550 M3 rack-mount servers. It also contains three teal blue circles conjoined in the center of the screen. {TRANSCRIPT} IBM provides the ability to bring together a comprehensive range of hardware, software and services, along with proven methodologies, enables us to deliver trusted, integrated and secure solutions helps the enterprise—and the world—do things smarter. IBM systems are fit for purpose with leading technology and expertise to drive business advantage, while leading the way in management, energy, security, resiliency and virtualization and consolidation capabilities – bottom line, provides end-to-end business solutions.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays content on the topic agenda, and contains an image of the eX5 servers. {TRANSCRIPT} In this section we will discuss IBM System x Architectures.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays a blue arrow expanding from the lower left side of the screen to the top right corner. It also displays images of the 1 st , 2 nd , 3 rd , and 4 th generation x86 scalable servers. {TRANSCRIPT} IBM X-Architecture marries powerful innovation from IBM Research with 40 years of mainframe experience. Over the years, IBM has invested 17 consecutive years of US patent leadership, and 10 years of enterprise x86 server innovations. IBM has pioneered the high end scalable technology, partnering with Intel to continue to drive innovation into our flagship high end x86 platform. IBM has a history of leading innovations beginning in 2001 with the introduction of the IBM eServer xSeries 440 server, IBM’s 1 st Generation scalable 16 processor design. Its features included memory mirroring, a 32 MB XceL4 cache, and remote I/O support. In 2003, IBM introduced the XA-32 2 nd Generation chipset with introduction of the IBM eServer xSeries 445 server, the first x86 server with 100 #1 benchmarks. Its features included hot-swap memory, 40% more aggregate I/O, 12% lower latency, and a 64 MB XceL4 cache. IBM continued its legacy in 2005 with the XA-64e 3rd Generation chipset with the introduction of the IBM xSeries x366, the first x86 server with hot-swap memory. Its features included a dual-bus architecture, support for x86 64-bit extensions, a 96 MB XceL4v virtual cache, and PCI-X 2.0 support with all slots running at 266 MHz. In 2007, the 4th Generation XA-64e chipset was introduced with the introduction of the IBM System x3850 M2, IBM’s first x86 server to break 1 million TPC-C benchmark of transactions per minutes (tmpC). Its features include a quad-bus architecture running at 1066 MHz, 4X memory capacity improvement over 3rd generation, and almost a 2X improvement in scalability port bandwidth for improved scaling. IBM technology advancements have brought x86-based servers to the forefront of enterprise computing, helping our clients to streamline business operations and do more with the same IT dollars. IBM yet again leads the way taking Enterprise X-Architecture to a whole new level of performance, scalability, and manageability with the 5th Generation of IBM eX5 enterprise systems, which we will introduce in our the next section.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays an image of the IBM System x3850 X5, IBM BladeCenter H, IBM System x3650 M3, system rack of servers enclosed in an ice cube, and a IBM Systems Director logo. {TRANSCRIPT} IBM x86 servers are designed with the IBM X-Architecture blueprint that encompasses IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter servers, IBM System x iDataPlex solutions, energy-efficiency and cooling via IBM Cool Blue technology, and proactive management. The design philosophy incorporated x86 industry firsts such as Chipkill™ memory protection, light path diagnostics and Predictive Failure Analysis, and helped elevate x86 servers from their previously limited roles to their present status as mission critical, mainstream enterprise servers. The X-Architecture design philosophy targets five key areas: Adaptive Performance - The line between scale-up and scale-out servers is blurring. Performance becomes about utilization through virtualization, which is crucial to unlocking the value of multi-core processors. With all these workloads running on the same server, reliability remains important but availability becomes more critical than ever. IBM high-performance scalable x86 servers are designed to deliver the highest levels of utilization, flexibility, and availability to the data center, which allows you to adjust your system’s performance as your needs change. An example of this is the IBM System x3850 X5 scalable server. Integrated Infrastructure - IBM BladeCenter integrates servers, storage and networking to help you reduce complexity, simplify IT management and reduce costs, through a flexible and highly scalable design. Through X-Architecture technology, IBM BladeCenter has been able to deliver advantages in power and cooling, I/O throughput, virtualization and flexibility.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays an image of the IBM System x3850 X5, IBM BladeCenter H, IBM System x3650 M3, system rack of servers enclosed in an ice cube, and a IBM Systems Director logo. {TRANSCRIPT} Modular Optimization - Simply put, the IBM philosophy regarding rack-based servers is “innovation comes standard.” IBM is delivering next-generation technology today that the competition can’t match. Some server vendors view 1 and 2-socket servers as commodities, using off-the-shelf components to produce cookie-cutter servers with no added value. Instead, IBM X-Architecture system design begins with standard parts and adds practical innovation to create something better: outstanding dual- and quad-core performance, high availability, scalability, power efficiency and proactive manageability. An example of this is the IBM System x3650 M3. Efficient Power and Cooling - X-Architecture technology helps unleash energy efficiency in IBM’s arsenal of x86 rack, tower and blade servers. Part of the Cool Blue™ portfolio, innovative tools like IBM Active Energy Manager™ and the IBM Power Configurator can provide you accurate and precise power information about your systems for effective energy management. Finally, Proactive Management - Hardware and software tools with proactive, predictive capabilities that simplify deployment, monitor system health, limit power usage and report pending problems, are crucial to keeping costs under control. With X-Architecture technology, IBM offers a number of tools to help you tame the complexity of systems management and administration, while managing costs.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays the possible scalable configuration options supported across the IBM System x and BladeCenter products: x3850 X5, x3755 M3, x3650 M3, x3550 M3,x3620 M3, x3630 M3, x3250 M3, x3500 M3, x3200 M3, x3100 M3, x3400 M3, HX5, BCS, dx360 M3, iDataPlex 100U rack, and Intelligent Cluster. {TRANSCRIPT} IBM X-Architecture is not just about performance – X-Architecture is about innovation, scalability and reliability. IBM offers a robust portfolio built from client requirements. The IBM X-Architecture blueprint delivers client value through innovative design and the application of technology. It provides a comprehensive approach to solving IT challenges today and a forward-looking approach to designing for tomorrow's challenges. We offer a full range of servers from tower or rack servers designed to run single applications that can be implemented by itself or in extremely large installations to high-performance, enterprise servers and clusters and iDataPlex for high performance computing (HPC) and cloud computing. IBM System x portfolio has evolved to keep up with the proliferation of workloads and explosion of data of a smarter, more interconnected planet. We know clients need systems that: scale quickly and efficiently, remove memory bottlenecks, maximize utilization , are optimized for workloads and provide rapid access to data. Our next generation x86 architecture is more that just the processor… it’s a system of solutions.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays images of eX5 servers, IBM JS12, JS23, JS24, HS12, HS22, HS22V, LS22, LS42, and QS22 blade servers, IBM Intelligent Cluster, and iDataPlex. {TRANSCRIPT} Over the years, scale-up architecture has become the standard for gaining more power in data centers. It works rather simply: when you need more power, you get a bigger, more powerful server. Faster and faster processors are coming to market - sometimes in blatant defiance of Moore's Law - and the ability to scale to larger and larger numbers of processors inside a single server also continues to grow. This allows systems engineers to create immensely powerful servers, containing the improved data systems all within a new, more powerful box. However, disaster recovery becomes somewhat of a challenge with these systems. As they grow larger, these single-box data systems are running more applications on the same machine - putting a lot of critical eggs in one basket. After a while, having proper high-availability mechanisms that are local to the data system becomes a mandatory requirement because a single hardware failure could conceivably take out a large chunk of your enterprise's data center architecture. The good news is that these systems are easier to protect between multiple data centers because there are fewer servers overall for which to build redundant systems.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays images of eX5 servers, IBM JS12, JS23, JS24, HS12, HS22, HS22V, LS22, LS42, and QS22 blade servers, IBM Intelligent Cluster, and iDataPlex. {TRANSCRIPT} Scale-out architecture enables a data center to grow over time, providing more processing power, but in a different direction. This high availability architecture uses multiple machines and infrastructure working in tandem. Typically, Ethernet provides connectivity between machines in the scale-out architecture. It's the process of clustering or otherwise splitting up the workload over many different servers, so each individual server need only be powerful enough to handle the load of a smaller percentage of the overall systems. Solaris and UNIX have been clustering for scale-out architectures for years and since the release of the Windows 2003 clustering systems, the Windows world has joined the mix. This architecture offers the benefit of running multiple systems on multiple servers, with one or two failover (or standby) nodes available to take over in the event that one server dies. So the very architecture you're using takes care of your local high-availability concerns. Key benefits of scale-out architecture include redundancy and high availability of applications. However, remote failover becomes somewhat of a puzzle. You must figure out which systems should fail over, when, and to which hardware. Since you could fail over multiple applications to the same remote server (taking a performance hit, of course), your organization must determine what can take the hit in order to keep the budget for server hardware under control.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays images of a group of servers. The servers are placed on top of each other beginning with System x3850 X5, x3690 X5 and HX5 blade server. {TRANSCRIPT} Listed are some current X-Architecture features that cover areas like: Server availability such as Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) and Calibrated Vectored Cooling Server performance and scalability include features such as eX5 technology And serviceability and support include features like the Light path diagnostics.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays content on the topic agenda, and contains an image of the eX5 servers. {TRANSCRIPT} This section provides an introduction of the IBM System x portfolio beginning with IBM’s eX5 Enterprise servers, designed to deliver extraordinary value and investment protection for enterprise-level virtualization, database, and transaction processing.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays a blue arrow expanding from the lower left side of the screen to the top right corner. It also displays images of the 1 st , 2 nd , 3 rd , 4 th and 5 th generation x86 scalable servers. {TRANSCRIPT} In March 2010, IBM redefined x86 servers, changed the x86 server game, and set a new standard across the x86 server landscape with the introduction of the ― 5th Generation of IBM eX5 family of enterprise servers! IBM eX5 enterprise systems is part of a long history of innovation. Building on 4 generations of industry leading x86 technology, the eX5 portfolio is designed to maximize memory, minimize cost, and simplify deployment. The evolution of the eX5 portfolio has pioneered the high end scalable technology, partnering with Intel to continue to drive innovation into our flagship high end x86 platform.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen provides a. It shows two different logical diagrams, the first one (on the left) of the eX4 architecture vs. the Boxboro EX architecture (located on the right), both features a 4-socket processor configuration. {TRANSCRIPT} When you compare the number of processor sockets, cores, and memory capacity of the eX4 to that of the eX5 architecture (shown here) you will definitely see a significant improve between the two generations. IBM’s eX5 servers are is designed to take full advantage of Intel’s next generation Nehalem-EX 45nm chip, which includes up to 8 cores and 16 threads, and its accompanying Boxboro chipset platform. Intel’s Boxboro EX chipset is designed to run Nehalem EX processors, and provides the QPI interconnection and the inclusion of PCIe Gen 2 to the platform. As you can see, there are two Boxboro chips in the 4-socket configuration. This allows for a large amount of bandwidth approximately 17 Gigabyte per second (Gbps)) per Boxboro chip. This dual controller design also helps to reduce I/O interrupt traffic to remote CPUs across the QPI links. There are also four QPI links on each processor which allows for all CPU sockets to have a direct connection to every other CPU socket. This is relevant because it serves to reduce memory latency over the architecture employed by AMD. The inclusion of PCIe Gen 2 means that a slot can run at up to 500 Megabytes per second (Mbps) per PCIe lane. PCIe lanes are designated as “x4” or “x8”. These indicate the number of PCIe lanes associated with an expansion slot. A x4 slot can run at approximately 1.96 GB/s peak theoretical bandwidth, while a x8 can run at approximately 3.9 GB/s peak theoretical bandwidth. And, going from 2 sockets to 4 sockets increases the overall PCIe bandwidth available and improves system availability in a 4-socket solution. Additionally the Intel Southbridge architecture has been superseded by the IOH. IBM's innovative ‘pay-as-you-grow' capability enables all eX5 servers to scale from a 2-socket configuration to a 4-socket or in the case of the x3850 X5 server to an 8-socket configuration. The memory and processor can scale independently, or together, allowing additional memory slots to be added without having to add sockets.
{DESCRIPTION} This slide shows how enterprise X-architecture has evolved from a single server to an entire portfolio of systems in eX5. On the left of the screen is a x3850M2. On the right of the system are the three members of the portfolio (top to bottom): x3850 X5, HX5, x3690 X5 {TRANSCRIPT} The three members of the eX5 portfolio are designed for different workloads and datacenter footprints, but all leverage the Nehalem EX chipset and can be attached to IBM’s MAX5 Expansion drawer or MAX5 blade for even greater scalability then is available in the base nodes. The previous generation of eX4 enterprise systems consisted of just one system – the System x3850 M2. This 4-socket, scalable system had broad coverage for most enterprise applications, server consolidation, virtualized workload enablement. With the introduction of the 5th generation of enterprise systems, IBM moves Enterprise X-Architecture into the 2-socket server market, with the System x3690 X5, and the blade arena, with the BladeCenter HX5. Along with the new System x3850 X5 in the “traditional” 4-socket Enterprise system market, customers now have a choice of eX5 offerings that span many types of solutions.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays an image of the IBM System x3850 X5 server and the eX5 logo located in the top right hand corner of the screen. {TRANSCRIPT} The System x3850 X5 has the capability to scale from 4 to 8 sockets with memory, storage and processing capacity to meet the demands of your business now and into the future. The new System x3850 X5 offers improved performance and enhanced features including MAX5 memory expansion and workload optimized models to maximize memory, minimize costs, and simplify deployment. Compared to previous generation servers, the x3850 X5 offers: Twice the memory capacity – up to 64 DIMMs standard and 96 DIMMs with the MAX5 memory expansion per 4-socket server Four times the SAS capacity with 8 HDDs and 300GB 2.5" SAS drives or 1.6TB of hot-swappable, RAID 5, with eXFlash technology Standard dual port Emulex 10GB Virtual Fabric adapter
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays an image of the IBM System x3650 X5 server and the eX5 logo located in the top right hand corner of the screen. {TRANSCRIPT} The IBM System x3690 X5 is a 2U system designed to offer many of the performance, memory capacity, and reliability features previously found only in four-socket offerings. With eX5 scalability, the two-socket x3690 X5 offers up to 4X the memory capacity with MAX5 Memory Expansion and double the processing cores of previous generation two-socket systems. Some of the key features of the System x3690 X5 are: Up to 33% greater SAS capacity with 16 HDDs or 2.4 TB of hot-swappable, RAID 5 with eXFlash technology Available dual port Emulex 10GB Virtual Fabric adapter Scalable memory expanded configurations Preconfigured workload-optimized models
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays an image of the IBM BladeCenter HX5 server and the eX5 logo located in the top right hand corner of the screen. {TRANSCRIPT} Finally, we have the IBM BladeCenter HX5 that offers unparalleled value for your business critical applications. HX5 delivers unprecedented compute performance, memory footprint and I/O bandwidth to enable maximum utilization in a blade form factor for compute- and memory-intensive enterprise workloads. The IBM BladeCenter HX5 is a scalable, 30mm high-performance blade server ideal for compute and memory-intensive enterprise workloads. The HX5 features: Greater memory capacity, with MAX5, enabling more or larger virtual machines (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
{DESCRIPTION} This slide displays technologies exclusive to the eX5 portfolio. Across the top of the screen are images of the MAX5, eXFlash, and FlexNode. {TRANSCRIPT} IBM eX5 delivers an entirely new way of thinking about x86 systems….exemplifies competitive advantage….and completely changes the game in x86 computing. The eX5 portfolio unleashes true enterprise-class capability to deliver unprecedented x86 energy efficiency, utilization and systems management. IBM accomplishes this through a number of exclusive eX5 technologies designed to maximize memory, minimize cost and simplify deployment. MAX5 provides unparalleled x86 memory capacity….eXFlash delivers extreme internal storage performance….and FlexNode allows a single system to dynamically become two distinct systems or back again.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays an image of the IBM Memory Access for eX5 (MAX5) attachable to eX5 rack and blade servers located in the top right hand corner of the screen. {TRANSCRIPT} The external MAX5 memory expansion drawer or MAX5 blade attaches to the eX5 enterprise system, and decouples server memory from system processors to allow you to optimize your server performance. This memory expansion is independent of the processor to increase the productivity of a single system. This allows systems to scale beyond Intel Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) constraints. The IBM MAX5 memory expansion drawer or blade provides more memory slots than the competition, so you can have more total memory, or the same amount of memory at a significantly lower cost (using lower-capacity DIMMs). MAX5 can help you meet your growing memory demands and fully harness the memory capacity to get the greatest value from your technology investment.
{DESCRIPTION} This slide displays images of a Flex Node configuration featuring two set of blades. {TRANSCRIPT} IBM eXFlash, a unique, next-generation flash-storage technology, replaces an older, less reliable generation of storage and can slash storage costs up to 97% by replacing hundreds of hard-disk drives (HDDs) and thousands of wires and cables. eXFlash uses a combination of solid-state disk (SSD) technology and high-speed controller architecture to deliver extreme performance to replace limited IOPs (Input/Output Operations Per Second) of traditional HDDs. By implementing high-IOPS SSDs with RAID adapters tuned for optimal performance, IBM is able to help customers consolidate large numbers of spinning disks in the footprint taken up by four 2.5” SAS HDDs today. Some of its benefits are: Maximize performance 30x performance increase for local databases 90% better performance per watt for database-type workloads Maximize cost savings 100 to 1 replacement ratio of traditional drives, replacing thousands of drives and cables $350,000 savings/eXFlash over equal IOPs HDDs 10x reduction in energy for enterprise configurations Up to 30x greater solution density over traditional HDD solution Maximize reliability RAID 5/6 controller for redundant data storage reliability at 37.5% greater capacity 64x greater reliable customer solution over traditional HDD’s
{DESCRIPTION} This slide displays images of a Flex Node configuration featuring two set of blades. {TRANSCRIPT} IBM FlexNode provides physical partitioning capability to change from one system to two distinct systems and back again, allowing you to run infrastructure applications by day and larger batch jobs by night on the same system for superior asset utilization. FlexNode is a technology designed to work with MAX5 scalability on the x3850 X5 and the four-socket HX5. It allows two-node system to be logically partitioned into two independent nodes. With the inclusion of IBMs System’s Director, this technology is slated to allow for automated shutdown and system reconfiguration. Each node must have access to a boot drive for this functionality to work. Some FlexNode benefits include: Scheduled Provisioning Run interactive apps by day on a 2-processor system and batch jobs by night on 4-processor system Faster Qualification Qualify a single platform for 2- and 4- socket, or 4- and 8- socket server needs Optimize software (SW) licensing costs Execute partitions to optimize software licensing costs when priced per system cores Built-in virtualization Run multiple operating systems on the same box without hypervisor overhead Greater security Workload isolation to assure quality of service FlexNode is currently available on the IBM Blade servers only.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays the possible scalable configuration options supported across the eX5 server portfolio. {TRANSCRIPT} IBM eX5 portfolio is designed around each “base system” being a modular building block designed for scalability. The base nodes are designed to let you customize your system for current needs while providing the ability to react to changing workloads through a choice of extremely flexible configurations. IBM X-Architecture pioneered XpandOnDemand™ (“pay as you grow”) scalability, which allows chassis to be simply cabled together to form larger scale-up systems. IBM’s innovative XpandOnDemand capability enables the eX5 portfolio to expand to increase either the number of processors, the number of memory DIMMs or both (depending on system). The x3850 X5 architecture currently scales using Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) Scalability from a 1-node 4-socket, 64-DIMMs to a 4-socket, plus MAX5, 96 DIMMs regular system operation. For more performance enhancement, you can scale “natively” by simply cabling the two chassis together again using QPI Scalability to form a 2-node single image eight-socket, 128 DIMMs system. Unlike its predecessor, no scalability key is required; it is always capable of an 8-socket operation. You can go even further to achieve unprecedented memory expansion with the addition of the MAX5, the 2-node 8-socket system can scale up to a 192 DIMMs system all interconnected using QPI scalability within the bundle and EXA Scalability exclusively for MAX5 to MAX5. The x3690 X5 architecture currently scales using Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) Scalability to connect to a MAX5, giving the user 64 DIMMs. This allows the user to scale memory independent of CPUs, for those workloads such as virtualization and database workloads which are more memory bound then processor bound. The HX5 currently scales using Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) Scalability to connect to another HX5, giving the user 4 CPUs and 32 DIMMs, or to connect to a MAX5, giving the user 40 DIMMs. This allows the user to scale either processor cores or memory in a highly flexible blade configuration. HX5 CPU scaling is perfect for those applications which require more CPU cores, but not necessarily additional memory footprint. The HX5 MAX5 scaling allows the user to scale memory independent of CPUs, for those workloads such as virtualization and database workloads which are more memory bound then processor bound. This also allows the user to save on expensive software licensing costs for those applications which don’t require the extra CPU horsepower in a 4-socket HX5.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays the possible scalable configuration options supported across the IBM high-volume servers: x3755 M3, x3650 M3, x3550 M3,x3620 M3, x3630 M3, x3250 M3, x3500 M3, x3200 M3, x3100 M3 and x3400 M3. {TRANSCRIPT} In today’s environment, you have to do more with less. That is where IBM comes in with server technology that actually uses fewer resources in less space to deliver more performance than traditional servers. IBM offers high-volume fit-for-purpose System x M3 servers in a choice of racks and towers that can fit into datacenter, IT closet, or right besides a desk. The business productivity suite of IBM x86 servers continues to grow to address client’s specific needs featuring 1, 2 and 4-sockets x86 systems that encompasses everything from our entry models through our flagship business models. Our rack and tower servers are designed for affordability, flexibility and use. As you can see from this chart, we offer a logical path for clients who wants to scale up or scale out. IBM System x M3 servers are flexible to accommodate growth, they are secure and reliable, they are easy to service and manage, and they offer outstanding power efficiency to reduce cost with compromising performance.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen highlights images of the System x high-volume servers x3755 M3, x3650 M3, x3550 M3, x3620 M3, x3630 M3, and x3250 M3. {TRANSCRIPT} Our rack-mount servers are used by both small and medium businesses (SMB) and large enterprise (LE) clients, ranging from small server closet environments to large datacenter deployments. IBM’s 4-socket x3755 M3 features the latest AMD Opteron 6000 Series processors and provides the performance and capacity needed to keep up with growing workloads such as Business Intelligence, Virtualization, and multi-user databases. IBM’s flagship 2-socket x3650 M3 and x3550 M3 servers are built on the latest Intel® Xeon® Series 5600 processors and are the best choices for exceptional performance and value for rack server environments, delivering uncompromised quality. These servers can sufficiently lower operating cost and reduce investment risks. IBM’s 2-socket x3630 M3 and x3620 M3 high-capacity consolidated storage and servers are built on the latest Intel® Xeon® Series 5600 and 5500 processors offers growing businesses a reliable platform and efficient design for a cost-optimized alternative to traditional enterprise offerings. Finally in our rack-mount server offering we have the x3250 M3 single socket server that features Intel® Xeon® 3400 Series (quad-core) or Intel Celeron®, Pentium® or Core i3 (dual-core) processors designed to meet critical IT demand and optimizing performance and manageability while delivering reliability and flexibility for price-sensitive clients.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen highlights images of the System x high-volume servers x3500 M3, x3400 M3, x3200 M3, and x3100 M3. {TRANSCRIPT} For smaller or distributed office environments, IBM offers servers to take on the dynamic challenges of running IT from beside the desk with greater emphasis on simplicity, reliability, security and efficiency in a tower platform. IBM 2-socket, x3500 M3 and x3400 M3 are built on the latest Intel Xeon 5600 series processors packed with business-critical features, these systems offer the performance speeds that are so critical to businesses with remote offices and a high number of transactions IBM x3200 M3, a single socket server features the latest Intel® Xeon® 3400 Series (quad-core) or Intel Celeron®, Pentium® or Core i3 (dual-core) processors designed to meet critical IT demand and optimizing performance and manageability while delivering reliability and flexibility for price-sensitive clients. Finally, for small and growing businesses looking to run business applications on a reliable platform, the IBM System x3100 M3 delivers cost-optimized performance. IBM x3100 M3 supports the latest Intel processors in a choice of quad-core Intel Xeon® x3400 series or dual-core i3-540 and select Intel Pentium® or Intel Celeron® Quad-core. This server is only available in the Asia Pacific (AP) area.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen display images of the BladeCenter chassis: IBM BCE, IBM BCS, IBM BCHT, IBM BCH and IBM BCT. {TRANSCRIPT} Since 2002, IBM has provided numerous improvements and enhancements to the original BladeCenter, but the core concepts and terminology have remained the same. The IBM BladeCenter family is built on the IBM X-Architecture strategy offering five versatile optimized chassis to choose from, including chassis for data centers, stores or remote sites and non-traditional environments, delivering a solution that can easily be tailored to meet your needs: IBM BladeCenter E provides the greatest density and common fabric support and is the lowest entry cost option. IBM BladeCenter T models are designed specifically for telecommunications network infrastructures and other rugged environments. IBM BladeCenter H delivers high performance, extreme reliability, and ultimate flexibility for the most demanding IT environments. IBM BladeCenter HT models are designed for high-performance flexible telecommunications environments by supporting high-speed internet working technologies such as 10G Ethernet, and provide a robust platform for next-generation networks (NGNs). IBM BladeCenter S combines the power of blade servers with integrated storage, all in an easy-to-use package designed specifically for the office and distributed enterprise environment.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen display images of the BladeCenter chassis: IBM BCE, IBM BCS, IBM BCHT, IBM BCH and IBM BCT, blade servers HS22, LS42, JS23, and QS22. {TRANSCRIPT} Along with IBM’s choice of BladeCenter chassis, IBM offers an open design infrastructure to deliver an integration of blade servers, storage, switches and fabrics to include power and cooling—all managed from a common infrastructure. IBM BladeCenter offers a rock-solid availability with multiple layers of redundancy. The BladeCenter technology helps reduce management complexity, increase performance and energy-efficiency while significantly reducing costs with a highly end-to-end reliable and flexible design that deters the need for “rip and replace” as capacity needs change. IBM BladeCenter offers a true alternative to sprawling racks and cables and to overheated server rooms— by reducing infrastructure complexity, and delivering less power and heat using excellent power efficiencies with pioneering cooling technologies.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen display images of the IBM BladeCenter blade servers: HS12, HS22, HS22V, LS22/LS42, HX5, JS12, JS23/JS43, and the QS22 blade. {TRANSCRIPT} When it comes to IBM BladeCenter blade servers: One size does not fit all. IBM is the only vendor with a strategy that ensures the customer’s requirements are fulfilled by selecting the exact platform to fit their needs. IBM offers a diverse set of blade servers that allow clients to run all of their diverse workloads inside a single architecture. While there are numerous blade servers, most can be categorized based upon their processor type as indicated in this slide. Starting from the lower left corner of the screen, IBM offers Intel based-blade servers from IBM BladeCenter HS12 single-socket blade, to HS22 and HS22V dual-socket blades, to high performance memory capacity scalable HX5 dual to quad-socket blade servers. IBM’s Intel base-blade servers includes a wealth of features that deliver scalable performance, deployment flexibility, and easy serviceability. The Intel blade server platform is also highly reliable thanks to built-in redundancy for every component. IBM BladeCenter LS42 and LS22 blade servers are capable of providing six-core performance in a quad-core footprint, delivering high performance computing and virtualization solutions with easy scalability and solid reliability. The AMD blade servers feature the latest six-core AMD Opteron processors for industry-leading performance, and supports high memory capacity and memory speeds up to 800MHz.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen display images of the IBM BladeCenter blade servers: HS12, HS22, HS22V, LS22/LS42, HX5, JS12, JS23/JS43, and the QS22 blade. {TRANSCRIPT} In addition to the x86 processor-based blades, IBM offers POWER blade servers delivering on the promise of a truly Dynamic Infrastructure, helping to deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed with IBM POWER7™ BladeCenter PS700, PS701 and PS702 Express blade servers and POWER6 BladeCenter JS12, JS23 and JS43 Express blade servers. These blades supports 64-bit applications with AltiVec™ SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration, and designed to manage the most demanding emerging applications, ranging from smart electrical grids to real-time analytics for financial markets. Last but not least, IBM concludes its blade server offerings with the IBM BladeCenter QS22, a third generation 2-socket multi-core PowerXCell™ 8i high performance computing blade based an enhanced version of the Cell Broadband Engine™ Architecture. IBM QS22 is ideal for accelerating key algorithms such as 3D rendering, compression and encryption - offering extraordinary double precision floating point processing power. IBM’s blade servers offer a wide variety of processor technologies, operating systems and virtualization across systems, and offering full performance and manageability of rack-optimized platforms at twice the density of most 1U servers, allowing clients to create the best solution for their environment to run all of their diverse work loads inside a single architecture.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen display images of the IBM BladeCenter I/O fabric from standard switch modules and adapters to high speed modules and adapters. {TRANSCRIPT} IBM BladeCenter also gives customers a choice of the most flexible I/O solution. Each BladeCenter chassis can support different types and quantities of I/O modules, and each blade server in the chassis can be connected to the I/O modules in a number of ways. The term standard switch module refers to the traditional switch module that has a form-factor compatible with I/O bays 1, 2, 3 and 4 of each BladeCenter chassis and the term high-speed switch module refers to a high-speed switch module that has a form-factor compatible with I/O bays 7, 8, 9, and 10 of IBM BladeCenter H and HT chassis only. There are five types of I/O fabrics: Ethernet – which includes both standard and high-speed Ethernet switch modules: Cisco and BNT Fibre Channel – this includes standard FC switch modules: Brocade, QLogic, Cisco, and Emulex InfiniBand – which include high-speed InfiniBand switch modules: Voltaire, and Mellanox SAS – This include LSI: SAS Connectivity Module and SAS RAID Controller Module Finally, iSCSI and Pass-thru and interconnect modules (which include copper and optical pass-thru modules, 4X InfiniBand Pass-thru Module, 10 Gb Ethernet Pass-thru Module, and multi-switch interconnect modules).
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays images of the IBM iDataPlex dx360 M2, dx360 M3, dx360 M3 Refresh and dx360 M3 3U Storage server. {TRANSCRIPT} The iDataPlex portfolio provides an innovative, half-depth solution optimized for maximum density and incredible efficiency to meet the computing requirements in the data center. IBM introduced in March 2009, the dx360 M2 based on Intel Nehalem 5500 series processors which provide maximum performance while maintaining outstanding performance per watt with the highly efficient iDataPlex design. In March 2010, IBM introduced the dx360 M3, increasing performance and efficiency with the new Intel Westmere 5600 series processors and new server capabilities. Later that year, IBM introduced the dx360 M3 Refreshed with new options that provided a significantly increase in the flexibility of iDataPlex. Starting with its new I/O capabilities that support up to two PCIe 16-slot performance for two NVIDIA M1060, M2050, M2070 or M2070-Q GPUs per server, with high-speed networking without compromising density. IBM also offers a 3U dx360 M3 chassis for additional storage density, which provides up to 12 3.5” SAS or SATA hard disk drives, up to 24TB per server for large capacity local storage. The iDataPlex dx360 servers are designed to provide ultimate power and cooling efficiencies and maximum density for data centers. Within the iDataPlex rack we can mix these offerings to provide the specific rack-level solution that the client is looking for.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays images of the IBM Entry-Level DS3000 and Mid-Ranger Storage DS5000 positioning that are identified in 4 tiers from left to right as tier 1: DS3200, DS3300, and DS3400, tier 2: DS3500, tier 3: DS5020 and DS3950, tier 4: DS5100 and DS5300. {TRANSCRIPT} IBM offers innovative solutions that enable smart movement and management of information, and capacity growth without complexity with its well established performance-leading storage solutions designed to meet client’s needs at whatever size their organization might be. Starting from the left, DS3000 series which is cost-effectively priced to fit the limited budgets of entry and small to medium organizations offering a wide range of host interface options include DS3200 SAS option , DS3300 iSCSI option and DS3400 fibre channel option. IBM introduced the DS3500 as part of the entry-level storage solution that offers midrange performance and enhanced replication capabilities, as well as scalability. The DS3500 supports concurrent SAS and iSCSI or SAS and FC connectivity, and delivers performance that is ideally-suited for mixed workload, virtualization and consolidation environments. As we scale up to larger organizations, the DS5000 series systems midrange product portfolio includes the DS5020 Express and the DS3950 Express which are follow-on products for the successful DS4700. The DS5020 and DS3950 are both FC-based storage system that offers exceptional IOPs performance that is great for transactional applications such as database and Exchange. The DS3950 is only offered in the European and some Asian Pacific geographies. It has most of the same capabilities as the DS5020 with the major difference being the number of available host fiber channels attachments it can have, and supported drive types. Pushing midrange storage further into the data center is the flagship DS5300 and the DS5100 offering FC and iSCSI host connectivity for mixed SAN support. The DS5300 and DS5100 are not only a good fit for the data center, but also high performance computing, with its high performance and the ability to scale to an impressive 448 drives with EXP5000 and EXP5060 using FC and SATA drives and 480 drives only with the EXP5060 using SATA drives .
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays content on the topic agenda, and contains an image of the eX5 servers. {TRANSCRIPT} This section introduces IBM Datacenter Networking switch and router products.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays the course title, course number and author’s name and title. It also contains images of Data Center Networking products (left to right): Cisco Nexus 5010/5020 switch modules, IBM b-type r-Series 4-slot, 8-slot, and 16-slot Ethernet switches, and IBM j-type m-series 2-slot, 6-slot and 11-slot Ethernet IP routers. It also contains a 3-D image a global in the center of a networking circle of people. {TRANSCRIPT} As data centers have grown in size and number over the last several years, many challenges have been realized. At the same time, server virtualization, while having reduced the numbers of servers, have increased the volume of traffic for each physical server, thus placing addition requirements on the performance of the Ethernet switches. Network speeds have increase from 100 Mps to 1 Gbps and even 10 Gbps with standards for 40Gb and 100 Gb Ethernet being developed. Networks in the data center must be highly available, easily adaptable and scalable to meet the requirements that new applications may impose on the network. Many factors in today’s environment are pushing the consolidation of data centers, servers and infrastructure, but they can be summarized as simply: Occupy less space Consume less power Produce less heat Simplify management Reduce Total Cost of Ownership Server consolidation and server virtualization has been addressing these challenges in the server area of the data center. IBM offer solutions to the these challenges in the networking portion of data center with our Data Center Networking products: b-type (Brocade) switches and routers products, j-type (Juniper) e-series switches and m-series routers, and Cisco Nexus 5000 switches.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays IBM DCN Data Center and Campus b-type (Brocade) switches that are presented in two columns (top to bottom): IBM r-series 4, 8, and 16-slot Ethernet switches, IBM Converged 24x 10Gb FCoE 8x 8 Gbps FC ports Switch B32, IBM x-series 10GbE/1GbE switch module, IBM c-series 24, 48 and 50 port copper/fiber4-slot Ethernet switches, IBM m-series 4, 8, 16 and 32-slot Ethernet IP routes, IBM g-series 48-port fixed and stackable Ethernet POE edge switches, and IBM s-series 8 and 16-slot Ethernet edge/distribution switches. {TRANSCRIPT} IBM’s Data Center Networking b-type (Brocade) switches and routers products offers: IBM m-series IP routers with high performance, multi-service and Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) capabilities for the data center core and border layers IBM r-series switches with high GbE & 10 GbE port density, scalability and performance for the data center End-of-Row and aggregation layer. IBM Converged Switch B32 with FCoE and FC performance and port-density for the data center Top-of-Rack CNA server access IBM x-series switches with high 10 GbE/ 1 GbE dual speed port density and high performance for data center Top-of-Rack server access and aggregation layers IBM c-series switches with high performance multi-service capabilities (m-series firmware) for data center Top-of-Rack GbE server access layer. 48- and 50-port. IBM DCN complementary enterprise campus Power-over-Ethernet converged edge models include: - g-series switches with high density POE stackable models for converged POE edge (wiring closets) and - s-series switches with high density POE chassis for converged edge and distribution layers.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen display images of the IBM e-series Ethernet switches (top down) J48E, J08E and J16E, and IBM m-series Ethernet IP routers (top down) J02M, J06M, and J11M. {TRANSCRIPT} IBM Data Center Networking Juniper j-type e-series switches and m-series routers products offers: The J48E switch (pictured to the left) is a single rack-unit device designed for high-performance server access deployments, offers 48 10/100/1000BASE-T ports. The J08E switch and the J16E switch are designed to deliver the performance, scalability and high availability required for today’s high-density data center and cloud computing environments. Both switches offers up to eight or sixteen 48-port GbE or eight-port 10 GbE line cards The j-type routers provide high performance IP routing in a variety of chassis sizes. The J02M (pictured to the left in second column), the J06M and the J11M routers deliver high-port density as well as performance of up to 960 Gbps throughput, scalability and reliability in a space-efficient package. All J-type switches and routers run Networks’ JUNOS operating system.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays an image of the Cisco Nexus 5010 and 5020 switch module. {TRANSCRIPT} Finally, we have the Cisco Nexus 5000 switches, models 5010 and 5020 (as shown) ideal for enterprise-class data center server access layer and smaller-scale, midmarket data center aggregation deployments. They provide ports supporting Converged Enhanced Ethernet and 4 Gb Fibre Channel.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays an image of Intelligent Cluster of servers: IBM iDataPlex 100U and 42U racks, IBM BladeCenter E, System x3690 X5, BNT network switch, and HX5 blade server. {TRANSCRIPT} IBM Intelligent Cluster is a “fully-integrated” turn-key cluster solution offering from IBM that offers leading-edge technology with flexibility of choice. The Intelligent Cluster combines various IBM as well as OEM hardware components, IBM and third-party software components, implementation and management services, and provides a single-point of support for all hardware and software. IBM Intelligent Cluster integrated solutions are built on the highly innovative IBM System x rack, BladeCenter and iDataPlex servers, with storage and networking to run scientific, technical and commercial workloads with high-performance, highly scalable Linux or Microsoft Windows network operating systems. It offers energy and space efficient that can reduce power and cooling costs by up to 50%, while maximizing performance density, which is critical for HPC workloads. HPC workloads will benefit by up to twice the performance. IBM’s integrated cluster solutions offer significant price and performance advantages for many high-performance workloads by harnessing the advantages of IBM’s highly innovative servers. By design, a broad range of application environments will benefit, including applications optimized for industrial design and manufacturing, financial services, life sciences, government and education. It is also an excellent choice for applications that require horizontal scaling capabilities, such as Web serving and collaboration. Whether you are building a small departmental cluster or a super computer, IBM’s broad portfolio of server solutions can be optimized to meet client-specific requirements. IBM Intelligent Cluster will integrate all these core components into a single cluster-optimized solution and deliver it to the customers as a fully-bundled, ready-for-deployment solution.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays content on the topic agenda, and contains an image of the eX5 servers. {TRANSCRIPT} This section introduces IBM System x and BladeCenter Racks, Power and Cooling infrastructure.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays images of IBM 42U and 47U racks, rack and tower UPSs, PDUs, and KVM/consoles. {TRANSCRIPT} IBM offers a family of rack solutions that are designed to optimize your space saving rack layout design with features of: Static and dynamic rack-mount options to support high availability IBM System x and BladeCenter environments Rack dense power protection and rackable power distribution unit options infrastructure that are designed to help meet the demanding power requirements of IBM eServer xSeries and high-end servers IBM also offers rack-based local console switches designed to provide exceptional scalability and flexibility in managing data center environments.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays images of IBM Cool Blue and a 42U embedded in ice. {TRANSCRIPT} When it comes to green environments, for over forty years IBM leads the way in the technology industry in energy-smart innovation, from radical breakthroughs in mainframe cooling efficiency to the development of the world’s most powerful computer in Blue Gene that delivers the most performance per kilowatt of power consumed. IBM will continue to drive leadership in power efficiency with its “Cool Blue” portfolio of innovation. IBM Cool Blue portfolio of technologies and solutions addresses the challenges of power and cooling in the IBM System x and BladeCenter server line. These solutions are designed to improve power efficiency and management in the datacenter without compromising throughput or compute performance. IBM offers a range of products and services it has identified for a successful corporate power management strategy. These stages include: IBM Power Configurator: A tool to deliver better sizing information IBM Active Energy Manager: A powerful software suite designed to give users better information over their power consumption IBM Rear Door Heat eXchanger: An effective solution to the Datacenters looking to limit server cooling consumption requirements IBM Data Center Energy Efficiency services to help optimize and future-proof your infrastructure.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays images of Solar panels and a filed of electric units. {TRANSCRIPT} IBM Power Configurator is a tool that will provide better data center sizing information for specific configurations of BladeCenter and System x servers for the following information: Power input (per watts) PDU sizing information in Amps (amperage ) Heat Output in BTUs (British Thermal Unit ) Airflow requirements through chassis in cubic feet per minute (CFM) VA Rating (VA) Leakage current in mAmps (Milliampere) Peak inrush current in Amps (amperage)
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays images of electric meters, fan units, and a power. {TRANSCRIPT} IBM Active Energy Manager offers three fundamentals of power management that provide a view of power consumption across your IT equipment over hours, weeks, even months. Reducing your power and thermal requirements and consuming available power and cooling before investing in additional infrastructure costs such as HVAC, UPS, and generators. It also helps reduce power consumption during periods of low utilization resulting in saving power costs.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays a right-align rear view image of the IBM 100U rack, and contains two images that displays thermal cooling – top image with the Rear Door Heat eXchanger attached and bottom image is without the Rear Door Heat eXchanger. {TRANSCRIPT} For data centers that have limited cooling capacity and looking to increase server density without increasing cooling requirements, the Rear Door Heat Exchanger option is a more cost-effective solution than adding another air conditioning unit. This uniquely design innovation can remove 100% of the heat generated within the rack drawing it from the data center before it exits the rack. The Rear Door Heat eXchanger's sealed coil design when filled with above dew-point, chills the water. That means the air exiting the rear of the rack can actually be cooler than the air going into the rack. In fact, it can even go beyond that, to the point of helping to cool the data center itself and reducing the need for Computer Room Air Conditioning units (CRACs). This allows racks to be positioned much closer together, actually eliminating the need for “hot aisles” between rows of fully populated racks. The Rear Door Heat eXchanger is not a requirement for IBM System x and BladeCenter cooling. It is an alternative solution for clients who cannot upgrade a data center room’s air conditioning units due to space, budget, or other constraints.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays content on the topic agenda, and contains an image of the eX5 servers. {TRANSCRIPT} In our final section, we will identify the IBM system management features, tools, support and service resources to helps save costs and simply your IBM system’s operations.
5. {DESCRIPTION} This screen displays images of the systems management stack: Tivoli software, IBM systems Director, ToolsCenter, IMM, and UEFI. {TRANSCRIPT} Thanks to the heritage of the IBM ecosystem of servers, IBM offers systems management through an entire layering of technology and innovation to control complexity and heterogeneous environment. It begins with hardware, both System x and BladeCenter as well as Power and System z, and firmware, featuring the Integration Management Module (IMM) and the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) introduced in March 2009. These features are standard on our Intel-equipped servers, System x and BladeCenter that offers a holistic approach to managing your new generation data center. It then builds upon that with IBM’s ToolsCenter, a consolidation tools for easy access using one platform and it features some additional important capabilities. The next layer is IBM Systems Director, an advanced management software that allows the servers to be managed either locally or remotely, and manages both physical and virtual systems. Systems Director comes standard, is simple to start, allows for an automated, fast deployment, provides a single interface for the entire infrastructure, and seamlessly plugs into many existing enterprise management solutions. Finally, at the very top you have IBM Tivoli software enterprise level server management with IBM Tivoli or others. Tivoli is part of IBM Integrated Service Management to provides smarter solutions and the expertise you need to design, build and manage a dynamic infrastructure that enables you to improve service, reduce cost and manage risk such as IBM CloudBurst a family of built-for-purpose, workload-specific cloud computing packages that provide IT executives with the capabilities required for a Dynamitic Infrastructure.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays an image of the Integrated Management Module (IMM) logo. {TRANSCRIPT} The Integrated Management Module, or IMM is a new hardware “chip” for systems management. The named Integrated Management Module is consistent with the BladeCenter “Advanced Management Module” since the IMM interacts with the AMM in a BladeCenter environment. The IMM becomes our service processor standard for all newly designed System x and BladeCenter servers which integrates the function of the previous mini BMC, BMC and RSA II plus more into a single chip on the server. Again, this feature is present on every System x and BladeCenter Intel based server released since March 2009, and in all cases uses the same IMM firmware. The IMM manages the interface between system management software such as IBM Systems Director and the server hardware components. The IMM monitors the various sensors built into the new generation servers such as temperatures, fan speeds, and voltages, and can issues alerts if a reading indicates a problem or error. The IMM can also be used to take some corrective actions such as power cycling the server. The IMM service processor provides competitive, standards based systems management enabling upward integration into wide variety of enterprise management environments "out of the box“. The open standards use are CIM for alerts and WS-Man for control. The IMM requires no special drivers, using drivers already present in Windows and Linux. There is a single firmware image for IMM across all the new servers and it provides a choice dedicated or shared Ethernet connections for communication. As mentioned, the IMM combines the previous baseboard management controller and the RSA-II card. RSA-II provided remote presence for servers, allowing the ability to manage a server “out-of-band”—i.e., not through the operating system. IMM provides this remote presence by the purchase of an optional hardware key that plugs into the system planar to enable the hardware/firmware already present in the IMM. This integration of remote presence provides several benefits: no need to use a card slot for the RSA-II, uses of the same IP address for both IPMI and service processor application interfaces, consistency of capabilities across all the service processor application interfaces, remote configuration via ASU is now possible, and the same applications can access IMM either in-band (through the operating system) or out-of-band through remote presence. An added feature is that the diagnostics application, DSA, is embedded in the IMM firmware.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays an icon of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) {TRANSCRIPT} The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface or UEFI replaces legacy BIOS in the new generation servers. UEFI is System x’s new interface between operating systems and platform firmware and provides a modern, well defined environment for booting an operating system and running pre-boot applications. UEFI provides numerous improvements over legacy BIOS such as: Elimination of Beep Codes—All errors covered by light path diagnostics Advanced Settings Utility (ASU) now have more complete coverage of system settings On rack mount servers, UEFI Settings can be accessed out-of-band via ASU and the IMM Adapter configuration moved into F1 Setup, for example iSCSI Configuration is now in F1 Setup and consolidated in to ASU IBM is the first vendor to provide the new capabilities of UEFI to our customers. UEFI provides FULL support for all legacy operating systems and capabilities while introducing these new functionalities that provide our customers with a better management experience. There is a detailed white paper titled “ Transitioning to UEFI and IMM” found on the IBM Support and downloads site.
5. {DESCRIPTION} This screen displays an image of the IBM ToolsCenter interface. {TRANSCRIPT} IBM ToolsCenter is designed to reduce the complexity for clients of choosing, finding and learning platform management tools by consolidating all the tools that IBM offers for our System x servers into four areas: deployment, updates, diagnostics and configuration. The second benefit for customers is making it easier to learn and use. A single webpage to find all these tools with a common look and feel. As we discussed with the IMM, the Learning ToolsCenter is a natural if you understand how the other tools work making all the documentation available through a single Info Center site and the ability still of being able to script the tools using common command line interfaces for those customers that do scripting. The packaging of the tools is designed from the customer and service level so that we have the same tools being used by customers, being used by GTS and being used in various formats. There are different ways of using these tools, using either online, pre-boot, embedding, and scripting. The tools are released together several times a year as a set. ToolsCenter also provides full support in Windows, Linux and VMware reboot environments and common boot environments, Windows PE for windows and MCP for the others.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays an image of the IBM Systems Director logo surrounded by four oblong circles. Each circle contains an image of rotating gear, gear with a human head, IBM logo, and school of fish. {TRANSCRIPT} IBM Systems Director is the platform management foundation for achieving Smarter Systems. An integral component of IBM’s Smarter Systems portfolio, IBM Systems Director enables integration with Tivoli, and third party management platforms, providing the building block for virtualization and integrated services management. IBM Systems Director is a three-tiered architecture consisting of: Management Console(s) web Interface IBM System Director Server which includes the Application Logic and database IBM Systems Director Agent which is code that runs on a managed system (Servers, Desktops, Laptops, SNMP devices, CIM devices) and communicates with the IBM Systems Director application The IBM Systems Director three-tier design supports thousands of managed nodes and systems. An upward integration module supports integration with higher level management applications from Tivoli, Computer Associates, Hewlett Packard, and Microsoft. IBM Systems Director provides consistent views for visualizing managed systems, determining how these systems relate to one another and identifying their statuses, thus helping to correlate technical resources with business needs. A set of common tasks included with Systems Director provides many of the core capabilities required for basic management, which means instant out-of-the-box business value. These common tasks include discovery, inventory, configuration, system health, monitoring, updates, event notification and automation across managed systems. Systems Director simplify deployments, installations and update processes; single point of control from a consistent Web-based user interface; easy-to-learn new tasks with intuitive wizards, tutorials and integrated help; topology views to simplify troubleshooting across server, storage and network resources; integration of virtualization management into the base for a single interface to manage physical and virtual resources; streamlined lifecycle management of a virtual environment across multiple platforms; increased platform support through leveraged industry standards; support for embedded agents included with a platform or deployed by other systems management tools; a consistent access point to integrate and extend platform management throughout the infrastructure; comprehensive system navigation through groups, search, status and relationships.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays an image of IBM Systems Director and list the plug-in options. {TRANSCRIPT} And with IBM systems management, you have more available to you than just Systems Director. IBM offers a complete end-to-end management stack, this chart provides a listing of what those items are. The Systems Director family shown in the middle with all the capabilities it provides to include its optional plug-ins such as: IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager offering consist of “no charge” monitor functions (Power Trending, Thermal Trending, PDU Support, Support for Facility Providers) and “priced” management functions. IBM Tivoli Provisioning Mgr for OS Deployment Systems Director Edition manages the remote deployment of operating systems from IBM Systems Director, and provides cloning and unattended setup for Windows, and Linux servers for remote installation of operating systems and software on many computers simultaneously. IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager advanced upgrade allows for the assignment and reassignment of Ethernet MAC and Fibre Channel WWN addresses used by the I/O ports on server blades in the IBM BladeCenter. IBM Systems Director Network Control which provides integration of server, storage, and network management for virtualization across multiple platforms. It extends the capabilities of the Network Management component of IBM Systems Director by adding logical views of subnets and VLANs, topology views of virtual to physical network connectivity, integrated Converged Ethernet configuration, and launch of vendor-based device management tools. Includes 60-day trial. IBM Systems Director VMControl offer includes Express, Standard, and Enterprise Editions. The VMControl Express Edition is for virtual server lifecycle management. VMControl Standard Edition is use to capture, import, deploy, and manage virtual appliances, and the VMControl Enterprise Edition is use to manage workloads and consolidate your resources into system pools. Includes 60-day trial of the Standard and Enterprise Editions. IBM Systems Director Service and Support Manager allows you to automatically monitors and detects serviceable hardware problems and uses Electronic Service Agent to report serviceable problems, inventory, and performance management data to IBM Support. IBM Systems Director Transition Manager for HP Systems Insight Manager allows you to discover systems that are managed by HP Systems Insight Manager and manage them in IBM Systems Director. Includes a tutorial that helps HP Administrators to quickly become proficient at managing their systems using IBM Systems Director. And, IBM Systems Director platform also provides room for additional plug-ins to be added.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays an image of the IBM 42 rack unit illustrating CloudBurst 1.2. {TRANSCRIPT} Finally, we have IBM CloudBurst is an important component of IBM's Smarter Planet initiative. Built on the IBM System x BladeCenter platform, IBM CloudBurst expands core service management capabilities across hardware, middleware and applications. Cloudburst can be summed up in a simple mathematical equation. IBM CloudBurst is a highly profitable solution that is the combination of System x hardware (with its respective management software, e.g. IBM Director), VMware 4.1 Infrastructure, and Tivoli software packages. All of these components together make up the self service provisioning appliance that is considered ‘Cloudburst.’ Features and benefits of CloudBurst include: Provides the tools to extend cloud offerings into production Self-service portal for rapid access to cloud services Track system usage with built-in metering and accounting Active management of server power consumption for increased efficiency Manage workloads and systems through a single interface Redundancy layers in the hardware platform eliminate points of failure Optional security to protect your production cloud
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays images of IBM’s end-to-end datacenter solution of products: Intelligent Cluster and iDataPlex 100U rack, eX5 Enterprise servers, IBM BladeCenter HT chassis, IBM 3200 M3 tower, and IBM x3650 M3 and x3550 M3 rack-mount servers. It also contains a global image with people on top in the center of the screen. {TRANSCRIPT} The real benefit of IT is to use technology to meet the changing business demands that companies will face in the future - and to ensure that it delivers on its promise to help drive business results today. The IBM Systems value proposition is: Technology and expertise for your business advantage. IBM Systems – provides s ervers, storage and middleware that incorporate innovative technologies enabling an optimized IT platform for business applications. IBM Systems – helps you maximize the return on your IT investments – and how to “go green and save”. IBM Systems – improves the responsiveness of your systems and people to e nsure that your IT systems can respond and manage the growth on the business while also trying to better manage complexity and risk. IBM Systems – helps you realize innovation in your day to day business. Not just in using technology to make things “run faster” but in truly changing how you run your business. IBM delivers solutions—smarter systems built for a smarter planet—to help you reduce costs and improve service while still managing risk.
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays content on the topic summary. {TRANSCRIPT} Having completed Topic 1, you should be able to: Explain IBM’s goals for delivering Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet Describe how System x plays a key role in IBM Dynamic Infrastructure Explain the X-Architecture design philosophy and why it offers outstanding innovative solutions Identify the value proposition in the eX4 versus the eX5 technology solutions Identify the servers that are part of the System x™ and BladeCenter ® portfolio Articulate the features of the eX5 enterprise systems Discuss how IBM continues to deliver innovations using the Total Systems Management Experience
{DESCRIPTION} This screen list IBM System x and BladeCenter key words and acronyms. {TRANSCRIPT} This slide presents a glossary of key words and acronyms used in this topic .
{DESCRIPTION} This screen displays html links. {TRANSCRIPT} For more information about the IBM System x and BladeCenter products, please visit the resources listed.
{DESCRIPTION} Displays the statement of “End of Presentation” in the center of the slide. {TRANSCRIPT} Thank you. This concludes Topic 1 of IBM System x Technical Principles - Introduction to System x Architectures and Servers .
