IBM BladeCenter H Chassis

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Highlights

Delivers high performance, energy efficiency and versatility to run the most demanding applications in larger data centres
Reduces energy bill with leadership high-efficiency power supplies that are 94 percent efficient and 80 PLUS Platinum Certified¹
Provides more than 12 percent greater performance per watt compared to the competition²
Protects your investment by being compatible with the entire IBM BladeCenter family.

In today’s high-demand enterprise environment, organisations need a reliable infrastructure to run compute-intensive applications with minimal maintenance and downtime. IBM BladeCenter H is a powerful platform built with the enterprise customer in mind, providing extreme performance, innovative architecture and a solid foundation for virtualisation.

Powerful performance

This next-generation chassis is a workhorse, it runs applications quickly and efficiently, enabling organisations to maximise their investment and succeed in a highly competitive market. The powerful BladeCenter H delivers the performance customers need to make informed decisions.

Product features

New ultra-efficient power supplies (94 percent efficient and 80 PLUS Platinum Certified¹) and cooling enhancements to support most demanding high-performance blade servers
Leadership energy efficiency and enterprise high performance
Open and easy management tools deliver advanced, proactive management, providing rich and broad systems management capabilities
Predictive Failure Analysis helps save you time and money by decreasing unplanned downtime
Calibrated Vectored Cooling helps maintain the health of your system by keeping internal components cool

Hardware summary

9U rack-optimised chassis
Up to 14 blade server bays
Up to four standard, four high-speed and four bridge module bays supporting Virtual Fabric, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE),10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 8 Gb Fibre Channel (FC), InfiniBand and more
Up to four 2980 W hot-swap and redundant load-balancing power supply modules
High-availability midplane helps enable maximum uptime and investment protection for future technologies

¹80 PLUS Organisation, 2010, visit www.80plus.org (link resides outside of ibm.com) for more information.
²Edison Group, Inc., 2010, visit www.TheEdison.com (link resides outside of ibm.com) for more information.