1. © 2012 IBM Corporation IBM Flex System™ The elements of an IBM PureFlex System

2. © 2012 IBM Corporation 2 Flex System technology delivers now and enables multiple generations of future technologies No compromise designs for demands of today’s heterogeneous data centers Clean slate design enables new levels of integration Designed to enable management integration with Flex System Manager Flexible and open choice of architectures, hypervisors and environments The entry point into a PureFlex System The world’s best blade offering… Starts with IBM PureFlex & Flex System

3. © 2012 IBM Corporation 3 Add Flex System Manager for Simplified Management Integration Increase control and productivity, while decreasing management costs System infrastructure New user interface and configuration automation brings new components online faster Cross-resource integration and automation enables transformation from managing resources to managing applications, services and workloads Works with the management you have - other IBM platform tools, Tivoli and third party enterprise management (e.g., CA, BMC, HP, etc.) Easier monitoring, alerts and problem management through automated resolution processes with integrated expertise Management Networking Virtualization Storage Management Compute Chassis MapGlobal FindSetup WizardsRemote Presence IBM Flex System Manager

4. © 2012 IBM Corporation 4 New Dynamic View UI 4

5. © 2012 IBM Corporation 5 IBM Flex System - Update Manager  Manage updates for many IBM platforms using the same interface –Automatically check for new updates –Show and install updates needed by your systems  Monitor system compliance –Create compliance policies to automatically notify you when a system is out of date –Show and resolve compliance issues to install the missing updates

6. © 2012 IBM Corporation 6 Virtualization management  Virtualization Management –Manage Virtual Servers and Hosts –HMC and Systems –VS Life-cycle management –Topology Maps –Create empty virtual server –Monitoring, automation  Edit virtual resources –Edit Hosts –Edit Virtual Servers –GUI or command line –Launch to Platform Manager  Relocate –Live relocation –Plan for relocation

7. © 2012 IBM Corporation 7 Image management and deployment Tasks for Virtual Appliances  Deploy  Import  Capture  Versioning meta-data SW OS Virtual Appliance

8. © 2012 IBM Corporation 8 Remote Control Resizable Flyover Details Powerful Toolbar – power on/off, mount local files, etc. Watch a reboot progress in background

9. © 2012 IBM Corporation 9 System infrastructure Compute IBM Flex System x240 IBM Flex System x240 - Enterprise Class 2x Hot Swap, Small Form Factor HDDs 24 LP DIMMs 2x Intel E5 2600 Processors 2x IO Mezzanine Cards Keyboard, Mouse, Video Dongle connector Release latch Standard Width compute node ◊ 2-socket Sandy Bridge-EP ◊ 24 LP DDR3 DIMMs / 1333MHz / 1600MHz ◊ 10Gb Converged LOM ◊ 2 hot swap 2.5” SAS/SATA SSDs or HDDs ◊ Dual Enabled Hypervisor – ESXi on Flash Key Option Uncompromised Compute, IO, and Storage performance, designed for mainstream virtualization, and a broad range of workloads

10. © 2012 IBM Corporation 10 100% vs. Cisco B200 M3 (384GB) 50% vs. HP BL 460c Gen8 (512GB) For Virtualization IBM Flex System x240 delivers 95% more VMs vs. Cisco B200 M3 37% more VMs vs. HP BL460 Gen 8 19% more VMs vs. Dell M620 (w/ 2.9Ghz CPU) Flex System x240 – No Compromise Virtualization Platform 32% faster than Dell M620 (2.2GHz) 7% faster than HP BL460 (2.7Ghz) 50% more DIMMS vs. HP BL 460c Gen8 *Dell compromised when using 135W proc. IBM X240 HP BL460 Cisco B200 M3 Dell M620 Max # of VMs 826042 82 (69 w/ 2.9Ghz) Max Memory Capacity 768 GB512 GB384 GB768 GB DIMM Slots 241624 24* (20 w/ 135W proc.) CPU supported at Max Memory Config 2.90GHz 135W 2.70GHz 130W 2.90GHz 135W 2.20GHz 95W Support fastest Intel CPUs – 2.9GHz 8c 135W Support max memory DIMMs and Capacity – 24 DIMM slots at 768GB IBM x240 is a no compromise platform that delivers maximum CPU and Memory capabilities for Virtualization IBM Flex System x240 delivers #1 VMmark 2.0 Benchmark across all Blades

11. © 2012 IBM Corporation 11 Multi- generation chassis platform IBM Flex System- No Compromise Design 50% more memory 200% more networking bandwidth 300% more dedicated storage 50% networking latency improvement IBM Flex System x240 (768GB) vs. HP BL 460c Gen8 (512GB) IBM Flex System Fabric 10Gb switch 240Gb vs. HP 10Gb switch 80Gb IBM Flex System Flash adds up to 8 400GB SSDs (x240 with Flex System Flash 3.2TB vs. Dell M610 800GB) Node to node traffic is contained within the chassis to reduce TOR switch latency* Built to support your datacenter today and tomorrow * Estimated Results. Results will vary depending on customer environment

12. © 2012 IBM Corporation 12 Virtual Fabric Solution Clients requiring a Virtual Fabric solution can now use the Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter in conjunction with BNT Virtual Fabric 10GbE Switch Modules. Phase 1 of this new solution allows clients to virtualize their Ethernet I/O – basically to slice & dice their 10Gb bandwidth any way they want. Hardware Components Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter – 2 port 10Gb adapter capable of multiple I/O functions – Up to 8 virtual Ethernet NICs/adapter, appear as individual adapters to the OS BNT Virtual Fabric 10G Ethernet Switch Module – Switch recognizes the vNIC and assigns bandwidth in increments of 100MB – Ability to group virtual NICs helping simplify and reduce management time vNIC 1 = 1Gb vNIC 2 = 3.5Gb vNIC 3 = 5Gb vNIC 4 = 500Mb vNIC 1 = 1Gb vNIC 2 = 3.5Gb vNIC 3 = 5Gb vNIC 4 = 500Mb Slide & Dice your 10Gb bandwidth any way you want Flexibility to fine-tune the speed required – Each Connection or VM Channel can Get the Bandwidth it Requires – Minimum of 100Mb – Maximum of 10Gb – Ability to tailor each 10G pipe Up to 8 Virtual Ports per adapter Future upgrade – FCoE & iSCSI

13. © 2012 IBM Corporation 13 HR Accounting Supply Chain Database Virtual NICs Virtual Groups Management Choice: Switch Interface, CLI or -Open Fabric Manager* *Future Upgrade Option Up to 8 Virtual Ports per adapter Map each Virtual adapter to port groups Configure few ports as Virtual CNA* No separate HBA needed! FCoE Feature Entitlement Upgrade* CNA Create Virtual groups and Assign one uplink per group Virtual Fabric offers the Benefits of both Virtual NIC and IO Convergence on a Single end-to-end Solution. 2.5Gb 5Gb 2.5Gb 10Gb * Planned Future Support FCoE Ready Simplifies Deployment Reduces Management Assigns Bandwidth in 100Mb Increments

14. © 2012 IBM Corporation 14 Virtual Pipe and Virtual Grouping! Flexibility to fine-tune the speed required Assign the bandwidth required Virtual NIC – carve up the 10G pipes Presented as individual NIC to OS/Hypervisor Minimum of 100Mb - Maximum of 10Gb Ability allocate uplink bandwidth 100G of uplink bandwidth Assign virtual groups bandwidths in increments of 10G High Availability and Security Ability to provide isolation between various vNICs A failure in one vNIC or virtual Group are isolated by others VMready can migrate networking characteristics with VM Migration vNIC 1 = 1Gb vNIC 2 = 3.5Gb vNIC 3 = 5Gb vNIC 4 = 500Mb vNIC 1 = 1Gb vNIC 2 = 3.5Gb vNIC 3 = 5Gb vNIC 4 = 500Mb 10G Link Virtual Pipes vNIC Group