| Dense 12U space- saving design |
- With 12 server bays, this enclosure allows you to pack up to 36 2-socket servers into an industry-standard, 42U telecom rack.
- Supports high-performance blade servers with Intel® Xeon®, AMD Opteron and IBM POWER® and a wide variety of operating systems, including Linux®, Windows®, IBM AIX® and Oracle Solaris
- Virtualization capability allows you to “virtualize everything” for a more flexible, better-utilized and potentially lower-cost IT infrastructure with a common management construct.
- Extensive compatibility with the family of BladeCenter® blades, switches, storage, I/O and ecosystem partnership offerings.
- Features a 90 mm thick bezel (option), housing a customer-replaceable filter for added reliability and cable management trays to simplify cable routing, which attaches to the front of the BladeCenter HT chassis and supports the deployment of I/O cabling inside the chassis “envelope” to maintain operational integrity of the system.
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| IBM Cool Blue™ technology |
- Helps you plan, manage and control power and cooling in the central office—assisting in the greening of IT and networking.
- Cool Blue’s web-based Power Configurator accurately predicts the power and cooling required for specific configurations thereby enabling realistic planning of the proper power and cooling infrastructure.
- IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ tracks actual power usage, temperatures and heat emitted, and trends these items over time so you can actively manage power and cooling with real information.
- Also, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager will manage through power incidents (e.g., brownouts, supply failures) to help users avoid outages due to power and cooling issues.
- IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager also provides the capability to cap and virtually allocate power, as required. This capability helps maximize server usage within a restricted power envelope often found in a telecommunications environment.
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| Green, energy-efficient design |
- BladeCenter HT supports a very broad portfolio of low-voltage processor options, helping enable customers to lower their power usage without sacrificing performance.1
- BladeCenter HT uses power supplies that are as much as 90% efficient so that much less power is wasted as heat. Not only is more power available for chassis use, but also there is less power wasted as excess heat output.
- Blower/fan modules in the chassis adjust to compensate for changing thermal characteristics. At lower speeds they draw less power and suffer less wear.
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| IBM Open Fabric |
- Delivers a flexible, open, connected infrastructure to help optimize application performance.
- BladeCenter HT supports many different fabrics including: Virtual Fabric, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel, InfiniBand and iSCSI.
- 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel switches help simplify high-performance SAN deployment and management.
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| Powerful solutions management |
- Provides intelligent systems management for rock-solid reliability.
- Exploits hardware capabilities by surfacing pertinent information about your blade server.
- Easy-to-use Deployment Wizard provides step-by-step installation instructions with automated deployment capabilities.
- Advanced Management Module provides more robust hardware running Linux and supporting many industry-standard, open protocols.
- BladeCenter HT comes standard with redundant (2) Advanced Management Modules for high availability.
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| High-performance, high availability backplane |
- Provides a fault-tolerant, dual-star connection from the blade servers through the backplane to modular components in the chassis.
- Flexibly designed backplane provides support for you to upgrade to new technologies as your needs change.
- Hot-swappable active components help reduce service time.
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| High-speed switch module support |
- BladeCenter HT supports high-speed switching including 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel
- 10 Gigabit Ethernet delivers low-latency, high-speed, high-performance access all the way to each blade (40 Gbps per blade).
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| High-speed bridge module bays |
- Up to two bridge modules allow customers to create a high-speed fabric between BladeCenter HT chassis and virtualize that single fabric into their traditional Ethernet and fabric interconnects.
- Allows for I/O consolidation and virtualization across multiple chassis making it even easier to scale as solution needs change.
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| Media Tray |
- Two media tray modules ship standard with BladeCenter HT for high availability
- Chassis allows new blades to share simultaneous access to the media tray for hassle-free local access (cKVM)
- 2 USB ports per media tray module
- No DVD/CD tray
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| Advanced server management |
- Supports system availability to accurately measure planned vs. unplanned outages.
- Supports capacity manager to monitor critical server resources, identify and predict bottlenecks and recommend upgrades to prevent diminished network performance.
- Supports rack manager to conveniently configure/monitor rack components and provide health information.
- Supports software rejuvenation (PFA for software) to monitor performance trends of software over time, predict software aging issues and schedule servicing when required.
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| IBM Remote Deployment Manager |
- Simplifies and automates deployment and redeployment for efficient installation and setup of your blade servers.
- Perform deployment tasks via the network tasks that previously required a visit to each system saving your administrator valuable time.
- Supports all IBM Wake on LAN and Pre-boot eXecution (PXE) enabled products.
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| Light path diagnostics self-diagnosis panel |
- LEDs located on the front and rear of the system provide quick and easy guide to troubleshoot your server to help provide more availability and system uptime.
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| IBM Predictive Failure Analysis |
- Helps save you time and money by decreasing unplanned downtime.
- Helps increase uptime by allowing you to receive proactive alerts in some cases and take corrective action as much as 24 - 48 hours in advance.
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| Certified testing by UL of the BladeCenter HT chassis has been completed. The BladeCenter HT chassis is covered under a UL-certified NEBS Level 3/ETSI test report, which is available for review upon request |
- Reliability for operability in telecom central office
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| 3-year customer replaceable unit and on-site limited warranty |
- IBM Global Services organization provides reliable, dedicated and skilled assistance when you need it.
- Provides peace of mind for an extended period of time.
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