© 2006 IBM Corporation xSeries and BladeCenter xSeries Technical Support CRISTIAN GIACCI IBM eServer xSeries Sales & Technical Specialist Computer Gross Italia S.p.A.

© 2006 IBM Corporation IBM Systems Group Scale up / SMP computing Scale out / distributed computing BladeCenter x336 tended Design Architecture  x346 x226 x236 x306m x366 Clusters and virtualization High density Large symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) e326 x206m x460 Cluster 1350 xSeries portfolio leads in the industry x260 x100 eServer 326m

© 2006 IBM Corporation IBM Systems Group Linux Suse Appl2 Win 2000 Appl3 Linux RH Appl4 Win NT 4 Appl1 Win 2003 Appl5 Linux Debian Appl6 Linux Suse Appl7 Win 2000 Appl8 Linux RH Appl9 We don’t see this 1_Appl–1_OS limitation changing any soon but we can change the system infrasctructure to support it..and so on... Common Intel landscape Common Intel landscape

© 2006 IBM Corporation IBM Systems Group Linux Suse Appl2 Win 2000 Appl3 Linux RH Appl4 Win NT 4 Appl1 Win 2003 Appl5 Linux Debian Appl6 Linux Suse Appl7 Win 2000 Appl8 Linux RH Appl9 ethernet SAN bladecenter..and so on... Evoluzione

© 2006 IBM Corporation Blades offering

© 2006 IBM Corporation IBM Systems Group Layer 2 Switches SSL Appliances Caching Appliances Storage Fibre Switches SSL Appliances Caching Appliances Layer 4-7 Switches Public Internet/ Intranet Clients Routers (Layer 3 Switches) Firewall s Storage Area Network Step 1 Consolidate Servers Step 2 Integrate First Layer of the Network (L2) Storage Fibre Switches Storage Area Network Layer 2 Switches SSL Appliances Caching Appliances SSL Appliances Caching Appliances Layer 4-7 Switches Public Internet/ Intranet Clients Routers (Layer 3 Switches) Firewall s Step 3 Integrate Storage Fabric Storage Fibre Switches Storage Area Network SSL Appliances Caching Appliances SSL Appliances Caching Appliances Layer 4-7 Switches Public Internet/ Intranet Clients Routers (Layer 3 Switches) Firewall s Step 4 Integrate Second Layer of the Network (L4-7) Storage Area Network SSL Appliances Caching Appliances SSL Appliances Caching Appliances Layer 4-7 Switches Public Internet/ Intranet Clients Routers (Layer 3 Switches) Firewall s Step 5 Consolidate Applications Storage Area Network Public Internet/ Intranet Clients Routers (Layer 3 Switches) Firewall s SSL Appliances Caching Appliances SSL Appliances Caching Appliances Storage Area Network Public Internet/ Intranet Clients Routers (Layer 3 Switches) Firewall Result BladeCenter Collapses Complexity

© 2006 IBM Corporation IBM Systems Group BladeCenter Chassis - Front ► Up to 4 Processors / 4 Cores each Blade ► Up to 14 Blades each BladeCenter ► Up to 6 BC’s each Enterprise 42U Rack ► Hot-swap of PS’s, Blowers, Switches and Blades ► Hot-swap switchable Media tray (DVD-ROM, Floppy, USB 1.1) ► Dual midplane and double connections to Blades

© 2006 IBM Corporation IBM Systems Group What is a “Blade”  A “server on a card” – each “Blade” has its own: ► processor ► networking ► memory ► optional storage ► etc.  The chassis provides shared: ► Console Access (KVM) ► Power Supplies ► Cooling ► Network Connectivity (SAN/LAN/Myrinet Switches) ► CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive ► diskette drive IBM Blade - in its own rugged-ized chassis IBM Blade - with its cover on - ready for insertion into the BladeCenter IBM BladeCenter chassis - 7U rackable

© 2006 IBM Corporation IBM Systems Group BladeCenter Chassis - Rear Ethernet Switch Redundant Blower KVM Switch / Management Module Redundant Power  Gigabit Ethernet Switches (Layer 2-3) ► D-Link, Cisco, Nortel ► Commodity level networking ► Link aggregation ► VLAN creation and management  Nortel Layer 2-7 Switch ► Advanced networking ► Content-based routing  Fibre Channel Switches (2/4Gb FC Fabric) ► Brocade, McData, Qlogic ► Potentially lower cost via integration ► Full support of FC-SW-2 standards  Power (4 x 2000W load-balancing) ► Upgradeable as required ► Redundant and load balancing for high availability  Calibrated, vectored cooling™ ► Highly fault tolerant ► Status Monitoring/PFA ► Allow maximum processor speeds  KVM Switches / Management Modules ► Full remote video redirection ► In many cases out-of-band / lights out systems management Nortel Layer 2-7 Switch QLogic, MCData orBrocade 2/4Gb Fibre Channel Switch Module

© 2006 IBM Corporation IBM Systems Group ethernet 1. Director Console 3. Telnet Interface 4. Command Line Interface (MPCLI) 2. Web Interface

© 2006 IBM Corporation IBM Systems Group Integrated System Management Blade Center

© 2006 IBM Corporation IBM Systems Group What is about ? BladeCenter BladeCenter T Management Module 2-way Xeon 2-way low voltage Xeon 2-socket Opteron 2-way PowerPC Nortel Cisco QLogic Brocade McData Topspin Cisco 4X InfiniBand Switch Module (preannounce) 2-socket PowerPC Refresh (dual core) 2-way low voltage Xeon speedbumps 2-way Xeon RoHS 2-socket Opteron speed bump and RoHS 2-socket Sossaman (preannounce) Blades Chassis Switches Adapters Dual 4X InfiniBand HCA Dual Gigabit Ethernet Dual iSCSI/TOE Ethernet Dual QLogic Fibre HBA Dual Emulex Fibre HBA Dual Topspin 1X Infiniband Dual Myrinet Fabric Ecosystem Base Additions BladeCenter H IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module The strength of the entire BladeCenter ecosystem – Includes 700 Alliance and OpenSpec Partners Blade.Org CURRENT THE FOUNDATION CONTINUES NEW

© 2006 IBM Corporation IBM Systems Group  Two socket AMD  Single- and dual- core  Similar feature set to HS20  32- or 64-bit HPC  High memory bandwidth applications LS20 2-core AMD Target Apps Features HS20 2-core Xeon HS40 4-core Xeon Common Chassis and Infrastructure  Intel Xeon MP processors  4-way SMP capability  Supports Windows®, Linux® and NetWare  Back-end workloads  Large mid-tier apps  Intel® Xeon™ DP  EM64T  Intel® Xeon™ dualcore 32bit  Mainstream rack dense blade  High availability apps  Optional HS HDD  Edge and mid-tier workloads  Collaboration  Web serving JS21 4-core PPC  Dual-core PowerPC® 970MP Processor  Built-in virtualization 1  Scalable UNIX® Blade  Integrated vector co-processor for high-performance parallel computing  HPC: life/earth sciences, AltiVec™ 2 acceleration  UNIX workloads (WebSphere®)  AIX 5L™ SCON Portfolio breadth for customizing solutions 1. Must acquire optional VIOS license to utilize Micro-Partitioning™ 2. AltiVec is a trademark of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

© 2006 IBM Corporation IBM Systems Group IBM eServer BladeCenter HS20 Full Performance and Manageability you expect from 1U/2U/3U platforms... at TWICE the density! Up to two Xeon DP Processors with EAM64T 2.4GHz, 2.80 GHz, 3.06GHz EM64T, 3.6GHz, 800MHz FSB Dual Gigabit Ethernet Channels Up to 8GB Chipkill ECC DDR Memory Integrated Systems Management Processor High Availability Midplane Connections Server Processors... for Server Workloads!

© 2006 IBM Corporation IBM Systems Group HS20 and BSE2 Architecture New access door Existing form factor daughter cards BSE2 SFF SCSI HDDs Memory (4x) CPU 1 CPU 2 HS20 New SFF daughter card OR New SFF daughter cards New HS20  Two SFF SCSI drive bays standard and One I/O Expansion Card slot standard  Two SFF SCSI drives can coexist with One SFF Expansion Card  One SFF SCSI drive can coexist with One legacy Expansion Card New BladeCenter SCSI Expansion2  Two 3.5” hot-swappable HDD bays  Two I/O Expansion Card connections ► 1st must be Gb Ethernet daughter card ► 2nd connection is flexible ► Supports legacy Exp Cards and SFF DC Note: current BSE (48P7058 or 26K4847) will not function with this blade. New BSE is not backward compatible with Laurel, McCarran or Arbuckle

© 2006 IBM Corporation IBM Systems Group Optical Pass-thru Module  Provide direct connectivity between server blade and external devices ► Ethernet network devices ► Fibre Channel network devices ► Myrinet cluster switches

© 2006 IBM Corporation IBM Systems Group Copper Pass-thru Module  Provide direct connectivity between server blade integrated ethernet adapter and external devices ► Only 1Gb connection allowed ► Requires cat-5e or above inteface cable