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Dense 12U space- saving design |
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- With 12 server bays, this enclosure allows you to pack up to 36 2-socket servers into an industry-standard, 42U telecom rack.
- Support for four blade families, including Intel servers, AMD servers, POWER servers and workstation blades. Allows you to select the blades based on what best fits the application workloads.
- 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 |
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- 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 |
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- 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 |
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- Delivers a flexible, open, connected infrastructure to help optimize application performance.
- BladeCenter HT supports many different fabrics including: Ethernet, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand and iSCSI.
- New Brocade and QLogic NPIV Fibre Channel switches help simplify SAN deployment and management.
- A wide variety of connectivity choices including the industry’s only integrated 10 Gb Ethernet solution for blade servers plus new 10 Gb iSCSI support for Linux®.
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Powerful solutions management |
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- 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 one Advanced Management Module, while the second one is available as an option for redundancy.
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High-performance, high availability backplane |
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- Supports more than 1.2 Tbps data throughput on the 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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New high-speed switch module support |
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- BladeCenter HT contains all the fabrics that BladeCenter customers are used to seeing; in addition, the chassis supports up to four new 10 Gigabit Ethernet-connected fabrics.
- 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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New high-speed bridge module bays |
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- 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 |
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- One ships standard with BladeCenter HT (redundant tray optional)
- Chassis allows new blades to share simultaneous access to the media tray for hassle-free local access (cKVM)
- Optional compact flash (1 GB/4 GB)
- 2 USB ports
- No DVD/CD tray
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Advanced server management |
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- 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 |
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- 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 |
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- 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® |
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- 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 |
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- Reliability for operability in telecom central office
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3-year planned production life |
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- Demonstrated history of compatibility so operators can standardize on a particular configuration for extended period of time.
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3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty2 |
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- 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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