The New Generation of x86 Server Innovation

ƒ Expenses for server management and administration are nearly twice the capital expense for server purchases ƒ Energy costs have grown to half of hardware costs ƒ And both admin and

IBM System x Asia / Pacific

The New Generation of x86 Server Innovation

Dynamic Infrastructure Without Compromise

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return on their investments They must deliver improved

service to their customers with lower risk and while

paying less.

new generation servers, four new offerings equipped with the new Intel Xeon 5500 Series Processors:

– The IBM System x3550 M2 2-socket rack server

– The IBM System x3650 M2 2-socket rack server

– The IBM BladeCenter HS22 2-socket blade server

– The IBM iDataPlex dx360 M2 2-socket iDataPlex server

of offerings including a greater feature set than previous offerings and improvements in performance, energy

efficiency, virtualization, and management.

Lower Risk, Improve Service, Lower Cost

HS22

dx360 M2 x3650 M2

x3550 M2

IBM System x & BladeCenter

Customers’ technology budgets are being consumed by

administration and power costs IBM can help!

ƒ Expenses for server management and

administration are nearly twice the

capital expense for server purchases

ƒ Energy costs have grown to half of

hardware costs

ƒ And both admin and energy costs continue to grow rapidly

Source: IDC, Virtualization 2.0: The Next Phase in Customer Adoption, Doc #204904, Dec 2006

ƒ The innovative hardware, tools and systems management of the new

generation servers can help your customers achieve breakthrough

productivity gains through automation, optimization and energy management

ƒ IBM Systems Director 6.1 can help customers save 34% to 42% in

administrative costs when compared with unmanaged environments¹

Spending

(US$B)

New server spending Server mgmt and admin costs Power and cooling costs

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1 Challenges of Operational Management for Enterprise Server Installations,” International Technology Group, © 2008

Compelling performance gains of the Intel Xeon 5500 Series Processors enables

unprecedented opportunities for business

Compelling performance gains of the Intel Xeon 5500 Series Processors enables

unprecedented opportunities for business

Improved productivity is available for our clients with

unprecedented application performance

ƒ All of the new generation servers boast processor performance improvements of:

– Up to 3.5x the bandwidth for technical computing†

– Up to 2.25x performance for enterprise computing†

Performance gains represent a blend (GEO mean)

of five common 2-socket workload types across a range of typical usages (see details)

Why our customers will care….

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IBM System x Asia / Pacific

It starts with the Dynamic Infrastructure

System x GMU

Dynamic Infrastructure

Addressing today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities

Not only ensuring high availability and quality of existing services, but also meeting customer expectations for real-time, dynamic access to

innovative new services

Not just containing operational cost

and complexity, but achieving

breakthrough productivity gains

through virtualization, optimization,

energy stewardship, and flexible

more connected and collaborative world

The Launch of the New Generation of IBM Servers

The New Generation of IBM System x and BladeCenter servers deliver business value and reduce costs for clients through industry leading scalability, virtualization and

management capabilities.

Significantly reduce operating costs without compromising reliability and

performance

• New energy smart design and efficiency to reduce operational costs

• Unified systems management tools that reduce the cost to deploy and manage

physical and virtualized systems

• Dramatic performance gains with the Intel Xeon 5500 processors

Manage risk in challenging economic conditions

• IBM innovation for reliability and leadership energy efficient design

• Reduce operational and service costs with significantly improved application

performance

Improve the service of IT in both the enterprise and mid-market

• IBM’s trusted leadership, global reach, service and support

• Higher performance to drive new or expanding application workloads

• Ability to respond quickly to changing needs with dynamic management tools

Reduce Costs through Increased Utilisation

ƒ All of the new generation products support an

embedded USB hypervisor

ƒ End-to-end virtualization in the BladeCenter

HS22 includes I/O, storage, memory,

management, and services

ƒ Manage a large numbers of physical and virtual

BladeCenter servers with IBM Systems Director 6.1

and save in administration costs

ƒ Up to to 35% when running Windows

and up to 44% when running Linux*

Virtualisation changes everything!

9 A higher degree of server utilisation

9 Simpler, more comprehensive server

management

9 Reliability and availability to minimize downtime

Virtualisation changes everything!

management

A storage solutions company that specializes in “heavy” virtualization needed a solution that will showcase their own products to the best

advantage How well their servers perform in this crucial area directly impacts their ability to win clients They need an offering that “performs on the bleeding edge.” They chose the HS22 because it delivered.

* "Challenges of Operational Management for Enterprise Server

Installations," International Technology Group, 2008

Virtualistion is the Game Changer

Reduce Costs Through Energy Efficiency

ƒ Energy efficiency innovation in the x3550 M2 and

x3650 M2 include:

ƒ New, greater than 92 percent efficiency power

supplies exceed the CSCI 7/09-6/10, 80 Plus Gold

efficiency standard

ƒ Up to 60 percent reduction in power when idle

and up to 25 percent reduction when fully

utilized vs the previous generation

Significantly reduce TCO with leadership

energy efficiency

9 All new thermal designs

9 New voltage regulators and higher integration

on the board simplifies power distribution and

reduces distribution loss

9 Active Energy Manager

Significantly reduce TCO with leadership

energy efficiency.

on the board simplifies power distribution and

reduces distribution loss

ƒ Pressure-sensitive altimeter comes

standard in the x3550 M2, x3650 M2, dx360 M2, and select BladeCenter Chassis

ƒ Combined with the IMM, and rotating fans, the x3550 M2 and x3650 M2

counter-get better cooling efficiency with less fans

Reduce TCO and Leadership Efficiency

ƒ BladeCenter E still the most power efficient and

rack dense blade chassis available

Reduce Cost with Increased Performance

Customers can lower energy costs US$100 per server per year and maintain workload levels with significantly fewer of the new IBM x3650M2 servers

(1) IBM Engineering Research Study, Feb’09

(2) Based on Intel performance data, 2009

9 x346 Servers Single-Core proc.

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Up to $900 saving

Smart Energy Design and 9:1 Consolidation Ratio

Reduce Cost with Improved Performance

Save over 93% on energy costs alone; complete ROI as fast as 6 months

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14 HS22 BladeCenter blades (Xeon 5500)

1 BladeCenter E Chassis

0.17 of a rack

166 2P Rack 1U servers (Xeon) 3.95 racks

Manage Risk with Reliability, Availability, Security

ƒ IBM BladeCenter HS22 and the System x3550

M2 and x3650 M2 have no single point of failure

ƒ Reduce downtime with options such as hot-swap

solid state HDDs*

Get the peace of mind to run mission-critical

applications

9 IBM X-Architecture blueprint equips our x86

servers with the IT innovation that makes data

centers more reliable and secure

Get the peace of mind to run mission-critical

applications.

servers with the IT innovation that makes data

centers more reliable and secure

*Available as 32GB and 50GB drives

ƒ Not all blade chassis ‘equal’ IBM BladeCenter design has no

single point of failure

ƒ The ServeRAID-MR10is Vault controller offers full hardware-based

encryption to protect against security threats and costly data breaches

ƒ Predictive Failure Analysis and Light Path Diagnostics for

advance warning on power supplies, fans, VRMs, disks, processors, and

memory and redundant, hot-swap components

A major on-line auctioneer described the BladeCenter chassis infrastructure as rock- solid—the best RAS they have

in their infrastructure It’s just one part of their business they don’t need to worry about This is the investment protection that BladeCenter offers our customers.

Mission Critical Applications Requires Mission Critical Design

Improve service with comprehensive systems

management

ƒ IBM Systems Director 6.1 makes your data center easy to

configure and deploy

ƒ IBM ToolsCenter reduces complexity of choosing, finding, and

learning platform management tools

Systems Management for the new generation

servers is a complete end-to-end stack

designed to deliver future-proof systems

management today

Systems Management for the new generation

servers is a complete end-to-end stack

designed to deliver future-proof systems

management today

ƒ The standards-based Integrated Management Module (IMM) gives

you better error diagnostics, a virtual presence, and remote

control to more easily manage servers from a central

location

ƒ The new Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) provides a

intuitive interface allowing you to add features and functions

across the all new generation servers quickly

A leading IT analyst said that the new System x portfolio integrates advances such as UEFI firmware, embedded hypervisor support, integrated storage controllers, hot-swap hard drives, and a built-

in altimeter that enable coordinated, system-level improvements “These are not just a few more incremental server SKUs; this new generation represents a good opportunity for systematic server refreshes.”

ToolsCenter IBM Systems Director Tivoli Server Management

IMM and UEFI

Management = TCO Benefits and Better ROI

The New Generation of IBM System x & BladeCenter

IBM System x iDataPlex dx360 M2

• Flexibility of configurations within the solution with compute, I/O, storage configurations, and wide array of options for networking

• High performance with memory capacity up to 128GB, 1333MHz DDR3 memory and support for 2 top-bin processors

• Next generation systems management tools

IBM System x iDataPlex dx360 M2

• Flexibility of configurations within the solution with compute, I/O, storage configurations, and wide array of options for networking

• High performance with memory capacity up to 128GB, 1333MHz DDR3 memory and support for 2 top-bin processors

• Next generation systems management tools

IBM BladeCenter HS22

• Performance-tuned with memory capacity up to 96GB, speeds up to 1333MHz, and support for 2 top-bin processors

• Choice of hot-swap drives including SAS, SATA, boot SSD, & performance SSD

• Backwards compatible with all BladeCenter chassis

• Best-in-class server RAS and next generation systems management tools

IBM BladeCenter HS22

• Performance-tuned with memory capacity up to 96GB, speeds up to 1333MHz, and support for 2 top-bin processors

• Choice of hot-swap drives including SAS, SATA, boot SSD, & performance SSD

• Backwards compatible with all BladeCenter chassis

• Best-in-class server RAS and next generation systems management tools

IBM System x3550 M2 and x3650 M2

• New, energy smart design features low wattage efficient power supplies, counter rotating fans, altimeter, & advanced power management

• Maximum storage capacity with support for 12 x 2.5” hot swap HDD’s in x3650 M2 and 6 in x3550 M2

• Best-in-class features for reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS)

• Next generation systems management tools

IBM System x3550 M2 and x3650 M2

• New, energy smart design features low wattage efficient power supplies, counter rotating fans, altimeter, & advanced power management

• Maximum storage capacity with support for 12 x 2.5” hot swap HDD’s in x3650 M2 and 6 in x3550 M2

• Best-in-class features for reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS)

• Next generation systems management tools

The new generation of IBM servers deliver benefits

across the portfolio

Same management stack

9 Integrated Management Module (IMM)

9 Unified Extensive Firmware Interface (UEFI)

9 IBM Systems Director 6.1 with Active Energy Manager

9 ToolsCenter

Common hardware components

9 Embedded hypervisor (internal USB)

9 Hot-swap hard drives (common trays)

9 Integrated storage controller (common LSI chip)

9 Integrated Gigabit Ethernet (5709S)

9 Trusted Platform Module

IBM System x Asia / Pacific

Systems Management: the Glue that Ties the

Systems to the Business

System x GMU

Hardware Enablement: Firmware and Building Blocks

IMM and UEFI

Resource Management Platform Management Enterprise Management

Hardware / Firmware

Management

Integrated Management

Module Microprocessor based systems

management, control and

Firmware Stack

Management

Systems Director

IBM Systems Director 6.1 Install, Manage, Optimise,

Troubleshoot

Resource Management: IBM ToolsCenter

ToolsCenter

Resource Management Platform Management Enterprise Management

Management

Manage

Configuration & Update Advanced Setting Utility Storage Configuration Manager Update Express System Packs

Management

Deployment

ServerGuide Start Now Advisor

Bootable Media Creator

Scripting Toolkit

Deploy

Platform Management: IBM Systems Director 6.1

Systems Director 6.1

Resource Management Platform Management Enterprise Management

Hardware / Firmware

Management

Extend

Expand Functionality Active Energy Manager Server & Support Manager Tivoli Provisioning Manager Open Fabric Manager

Management

Manage

Configuration & Update Virtualisation Manager Health and Status Monitors of critical resources and

thresholds

Management

Deployment

Discovery and Configuration

Powerful resource grouping

Intuitive health-summary

Event filters and automation plans

Deploy

Enterprise Management: Upward Integration

Upward Integration

Resource Management Platform Management Enterprise Management

The Combination Virtualisation Management Energy Management Availability Management

Management

Tivoli

Enterprise Wide Centralized Visibility & Control Data Center Infrastructure Assets Facility Infrastructure Assets

IT Assets

System x

How does Systems Director Help Customers be more Efficient?

ƒ Increases automation

– Simplified discovery and automated

configuration

– Powerful resource grouping

– Intuitive health-summary scoreboards

– Event filters and automation plans

ƒ Focuses on health and status

– Favorite systems views

– Group thumbnails

– Monitors of critical resources and thresholds

ƒ Fully integrates virtualization management

ƒ Leverages industry standards

ƒ Provides broad multiplatform support of IBM

Power Systems, System z and storage

Potential cost savings through use of IBM Systems Director 6.1 to manage large numbers of physical and

virtual servers can reach 34.5 percent for Windows servers and 43.8 percent for Linux x86 servers¹

¹“Challenges of Operational Management for Enterprise Server Installations,” International Technology Group, © 2008

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