Product guide

High-performance blade server optimized for virtualization
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• A choice of memory speeds from 800MHz to 1066MHz or 1333MHz.
• Up to 144GB of system memory in 18 DIMM slots.
• Up to two internal hot-swap 1.8-inch solid state drives, and access to terabytes of external storage
via the BladeCenter S chassis or IBM System Storage
™
SAN and NAS storage devices. SSDs
consume only 10-20% of the energy required by 2.5-inch HDDs.
• Two Gigabit Ethernet ports standard, plus optional 2-port or 4-port expansion cards or a
BladeCenter PCI Express I/O Expansion Unit 3. In addition, the various BladeCenter chassis
offer a high degree of flexibility:
• A 30mm HS22V blade server can be upgraded, via the PCI Express I/O Expansion Unit 3. This
expandability allows configurations that are 30mm or 60mm wide, with a variety of I/O options,
depending on need.
• When installed in a BladeCenter H high-speed switch bay, the optional Multi-Switch Interconnect
Module doubles the number of Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel connections to every blade in
the chassis (up to 8 or 12 ports, depending on the blade server).
• Xeon processor-based HS22V blades can be used in the same chassis as Intel processor-based
HC10, HS12, HS20, HS21, HS21 XM, HS22, HS40, and HX5 blades; AMD Opteron processor-
based LS20, LS21, LS22, LS41 and LS42 blades; IBM PowerPC
®
processor-based JS12, JS20,
JS21, JS22, and JS23 blades; Cell Broadband Engine™ processor-based QS21 and IBM
PowerXCell™ processor-based QS22 blades. Depending on the blade servers used, the various
BladeCenter chassis support Microsoft
®
Windows
®
, Linux
®
, Novell Netware, IBM AIX
®
and Sun
Solaris 10 operating systems in the same chassis.
• Most HS/LS/JS/QS blade servers ever released by IBM are supported in every BladeCenter
chassis ever released, going back to 2002
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. Every switch module released by IBM is equally
compatible. (Ask HP and Dell how far back their compatibility goes.)
• A blade server has access to as many as 10 communication switches/bridges in a BladeCenter
H or 8 in a BladeCenter HT chassis. (Up to 4 switches in a BladeCenter E, S, or T chassis.) And
the switches can be Ethernet, iSCSI, SAS, InfiniBand, Fibre Channel, or anything else designed and
ServerProven
®
for BladeCenter use. Switches, bridges and interface cards are currently available
from such vendors as Brocade, Cisco, Intel, McData, Nortel, QLogic, Cisco Topspin and others, in
addition to IBM.
Manageability
• The HS22V blade server includes an Integrated Management Module (IMM) to monitor server
availability, perform Predictive Failure Analysis, etc., and trigger IBM Systems Director alerts. The
IMM performs the functions of both the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) of earlier
systems, and the Remote Supervisor Adapter II, as well as remote presence/cKVM.
• Each BladeCenter chassis includes an Advanced Management Module to provide additional
systems management capabilities, including Web-based out-of-band control; virtual floppy and CD-
ROM support; latest OS failure screen capture; LDAP and SSL support; and remote redirection of
video, text, keyboard and mouse.
• Integrated industry-standard Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) next-generation BIOS.
New capabilities include:
 Human readable event logs; no more beep codes
 Complete setup solution by allowing adapter configuration function to be moved into UEFI
 Complete out-of-band coverage by the Advance Settings Utility to simplify remote setup
• Integrated industry-standard IPMI 2.0 support works with the IMM to alert IBM Systems Director to
anomalous environmental factors, such as voltage and thermal conditions. It also supports highly
secure remote power control.
• Integrated Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 support.
• IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager, an IBM-exclusive, is designed to take
advantage of new system power management features, by monitoring actual power usage and
providing power consumption capping features. More accurate power usage data helps with data
center construction planning and the sizing of power and cooling needs, as well as allowing you to
use available power more efficiently.
• The HS22V supports remote presence/concurrent KVM (cKVM) and concurrent media
(cMedia) access by multiple administrators at once, via the IMM.
• IBM Systems Director is included for proactive systems management and works with both the
blade’s internal IMM and the chassis’ management module. It comes with a portfolio of tools,
including IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager, Service and Support Manager, and
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Some older chassis may require power module and management module upgrades. But the chassis itself, as well as fan/blower modules
and other components, are fully compatible.