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20 Deploying Samba on IBM Eserver BladeCenter
CPUs. It also shows the heat output in BTUs, which can affect the cooling of your computer
room and other equipment within the computer room.
Table 1-1 Power and BTU usage
Deploying an IBM Eserver BladeCenter is far simpler than deploying 14 1U servers and the
associated cables. A single IBM Eserver BladeCenter only requires a KVM cable, one
power cable, one Ethernet cable and a single system management cable. Even with a
redundancy of these components, cabling can be reduced by eighty-three percent (see
Table 1-2 for a typical example).
Table 1-2 Cable utilization
The IBM Eserver BladeCenter is not intended to replace any of the xSeries suite of
products, but rather to provide additional configuration options.
1.3.3 Redundancy
We all know failures occur occasionally; we also know that redundancy of key components
increases system availability. Although previously, it was expensive to purchase redundant
options for individual servers, the high availability features found in conventional xSeries rack
servers have also been included within IBM Eserver BladeCenter. These features include:
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Number of
Servers
Processor Maximum
load watts
BTU
IBM x330 4MX 14 Pentium® III 1.4GHz 3080 10502
IBM x335 14 Xeon 2.4GHz 4760 16231
IBM x342 - Dual Power 14 Pentium III 1.4GHz 5250 19821
IBM x345 - Dual Power 14 Xeon 2.4GHz 7000 23870
IBM Eserver
BladeCenter
14 Xeon 2.4GHz 2500 8530
Note: The IBM Eserver BladeCenter in Table 1-1 is utilizing the onboard IDE controller.
1U Solution
(2 - 42U Racks)
IBM Eserver BladeCenter
Solution
(2 - 42U Racks)
Power 84 12
Ethernet 168 48
KVM 84 6 (ACT)
Switch 6 (boxes) 1 (ACT)
KVM interconnect 50
Management connect 84 6
Total 431 73