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IBM BladeCenter HS22

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Highlights

  • Improve service with superb Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) features and innovative management
  • Reduce cost through increased performance, utilisation and efficiency
  • Manage growth and reduce risk on a BladeCenter platform with proven stability

Designed for versatility

The IBM BladeCenter HS22 offers flexible options to support a broad range of workloads, including virtualisation and enterprise applications. Along with intuitive Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) based tools, the HS22 can be customised and deployed quickly while best-in-class reliability features help keep you up and running. Mix and match the HS22 with the industry's most diverse set of chassis and blades and that go beyond x86.

Built for performance

The HS22 provides outstanding performance with support for the latest Intel® Xeon® processors, high-speed input/output (I/O) and support for high memory capacity and fast memory throughput. The HS22 can run applications up to twice as fast compared to previous generation blades. In fact, you can run many applications faster than even some competitor four-socket blades.

Product features

  • More performance, more energy efficiency and lower cost to run the most demanding applications
  • Exceptional power management with integrated tools such as IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager and Blue Path Cooling blade design
  • Optional embedded hypervisor enables instant virtualisation
  • IBM Integrated Management Module (IMM) for complete control and remote presence with concurrent Keyboard, Video, Mouse (cKVM) standard
  • Next-generation BIOS – UEFI
  • Equipped with light path diagnostics and Predictive Failure Analysis to detect component failure before the failure occurs – helping to maximise availability

Hardware summary

  • Two Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors, up to 3.60 GHz
  • Up to 192 GB of memory with 12 VLP DDR-3 memory Dual Inline Memory Modules (DIMMs)
  • One CIOv slot (standard PCIe daughter card) and one CFFh slot (high-speed PCIe daughter card)
  • Virtual Fabric Adapter (10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)) ships integrated in some models
  • Broadcom 5709S onboard Network Interface Card (NIC) with dual GbE ports with TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE)
  • Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2
  • Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID) -0, -1 and -1E (optional RAID-5 with battery-backed cache)
  • Support for hot-swap SAS hard disk drives (HDDs) or SSDs
  • Support for all BladeCenter enterprise and office chassis

Feature Benefits
High-performance, energy-smart Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors
  • Improve productivity through higher processing performance
  • Provide significant gains over prior generation quad- and dual-core processors
  • Maximise multi-threaded applications for faster concurrent execution
  • Larger cache size yields more transaction processing
  • Lower overall system power requirements
Ultra-fast 1333 MHz, 12 fully buffered 16 GB DDR-3 DIMM memory with up to 192 GB of memory
  • Scalable memory for computing-intensive enterprise applications and virtualised environments
  • Ability to run two DIMMs per memory channel at 1333 MHz
  • Choose between 1.5 V memory or energy- efficient 1.35 V memory
  • 1.5 V memory operates at 17 percent lower energy than the previous generation memory's thermal design. Save up to an additional 10 percent on your memory power budget with 1.35 V memory
  • Ability to transfer I/O data at eight times the speed of the memory cell it contains, enabling faster bus speeds and higher peak throughput than previous generation memory
  • Interleaved memory to improve application performance
Integrated memory controller
  • Increases bandwidth directly available to the processor at reduced latencies
Optional embedded hypervisor
  • Embedded hypervisor technology helps simplify adoption and deployment of industry-leading third-party virtualisation solutions
  • New, thin hypervisor architecture is operating system-friendly and can help optimise virtualisation performance
  • Integrated into server hardware to help provide compatible, pretested and optimised hardware configurations
  • Optimised for remote management tools and industry-standard protocols such as CIM
One standard CIOv and one high-speed CFFh expansion slot
  • Provides expandability choices and the opportunity to increase I/O bandwidth for performance and productivity
RAID-0, -1 and -1E (optional RAID-5 with battery-backed cache)
  • Enhances system availability and data protection by supporting SAS HDDs and SSDs with advanced RAID capabilities
Support for two 2.5" hot-swap SAS or SSDs
  • Hot-swap storage bays enable quick replacement of internal drives
  • Hot-swap SAS HDDs are the most robust drive choice to power your enterprise servers and storage solutions
  • Hot-swap SSDs offer improved reliability and lower power consumption because they have no moving parts
High-speed I/O
  • Supports up to four 10 GbE to each blade and up to eight ports of total I/O per blade
Blue Path Cooling design
  • Smart component design and layout creates virtual wind tunnels through the entire blade to keep all vital parts cool even under strenuous conditions
Support for all BladeCenter enterprise and office chassis
  • Supports all BladeCenter chassis, including the BladeCenter E, one of the industry's most dense and energy-efficient chassis
IMM
  • Provides around-the-clock remote management capabilities
  • Increases server availability by continuously monitoring your system and notifying you of potential system failures or changes
  • cKVM standard, for flexible blade access without taking up an expansion slot
Light path diagnostics
  • Provides information on failing components without interrupting system operations
  • Provides a lighted path to failing components inside the system
  • Speeds hardware repairs to reduce service time
Predictive Failure Analysis
  • Detects when components or hard drives are operating outside of set thresholds or are approaching historical failure thresholds
  • Helps you increase uptime by enabling you to receive proactive alerts in advance of failure
UEFI
  • Next-generation BIOS with improved interface for more efficient boot of operating systems
  • Uses 64-bit architecture and can address 16 TB of memory
  • Enables improved setup, configuration, updates and simplifies error handling
Open Fabric Manager
  • Works with chassis to preassign network and storage addresses in the chassis before installation
  • Automatically moves network addresses from failed blades to available capacity
  • Supported by all daughter cards
TPM 1.2
  • Enables advanced cryptographic functionality such as digital signatures and remote attestation
  • Provides keys for signing and data decryption
  • Private keys are not exposed outside of the TPM
IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager
  • Helps provide advanced power notification and control, monitor power consumption, achieve lower heat output and decrease cooling costs
IBM Systems Director
  • Comprehensive systems management tools
  • Helps increase uptime, reduce costs and improve productivity through advanced server management capabilities
IBM ServerGuide
  • Simplifies installation and configuration of your HS22 blade
Three-year customer replacement unit (CRU) and on-site limited warranty
  • Provides peace of mind for an extended period of time

Form factor Single-wide (30 mm)
Processor (max) Choice of two Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors, up to 3.60 GHz
Number of processors (std/max) One/two
Memory (max) Twelve Double Data Rate 3 (DDR-3) Very Low Profile (VLP) Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) slots (up to 192 GB of total memory capacity and memory speeds up to 1333 MHz) with memory sparing
Expansion slots One CIOv slot (standard PCIe daughter card) and one CFFh slot (high-speed PCIe daughter card) for a total of eight ports of I/O to each blade, including four ports of high-speed I/O
Disk bays (total/hot-swap) Two hot-swap bays supporting Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid-state drives (SSDs)
Maximum internal storage Up to 1.2 TeraByte (TB) total internal storage
Network interface Virtual Fabric Adapter (10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)) ships integrated in some models Broadcom 5709S onboard Network Interface Card (NIC) with dual GbE ports with TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE)
Hot-swap components Internal storage bays
Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID) support RAID-0, -1 and -1E (optional RAID-5 with battery-backed cache)
Systems management UEFI, IBM Integrated Management Module (IMM), Predictive Failure Analysis, optional embedded hypervisor for virtualisation, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager, light path diagnostics, IBM Systems Director and IBM ServerGuide
Operating systems supported Microsoft® Windows®, Red Hat Enterprise Linux® (RHEL), SUSE Linux Enterprise, VMware, Oracle Solaris
Limited warranty Three-year customer replaceable unit (CRU) and on-site and off-site limited warranty

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