Lenovo HS22- User Manual

Versatile, easy-to-use blade optimized for performance, energy and cooling

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Product Guide

February 2011

IBM BladeCenter HS22

Product Overview

CONTENTS

Product Overview

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Selling Features

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Key Features

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Key Options

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HS22 Images

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HS22 Specifications

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The Bottom Line

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Server Comparison

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For More Information

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Legal Information

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No-compromise, truly balanced, 2-socket blade server for
infrastructure, virtualization and enterprise business applications

Suggested uses:

Front-end and mid-tier applications requiring high performance, enterprise-

class availability and extreme flexibility and power efficiency.

Today’s data center environment is tougher than ever. You’re looking to reduce IT cost,
complexity, space requirements, energy consumption and heat output, while increasing
flexibility, utilization and manageability. Incorporating IBM

X-Architecture

™

f eatures, the

IBM

®

BladeCenter

®

HS22

blade server, combined with the various BladeCenter chassis, can help

you accomplish all of these goals.

Reducing an entire server into as little as

.5U

of rack space (i.e., up to 14 servers in 7U) does

not

mean trading away f eatures and capabilities f or smaller size. Each HS22 blade server off ers

features comparable to many 1U rack-optimized full-f eatured servers: The HS22 supports up to

two

of the latest high-perf ormance or low-voltage

6-core

,

4-core

, and

2-core

Intel

®

Xeon

®

5500

series and 5600 series processors.. The Xeon processors are designed with up to

12MB

of

shared cache and leading-edge memory perf ormance (up to

1333MHz

, depending on

processor model) to help provide the computing power you require to match your business
needs and growth

.

The HS22 supports up to

192GB

of

registered

double data rate III (

DDR3

)

ECC

(Error Checking and Correcting) memory in

12

DIMM

slots, with optional

Chipkill

™

protection

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, f or high perf ormance and reliability. Selected models are planned f or

NEBS-3/ETSI-

compliance

.

The HS22 off ers an option f or

VMware vSphere Hypervisor

(f ormerly ESXi)

preloaded

on a

standard USB flash drive. It operates in a diskless configuration, off ers a smaller memory
footprint, extremely high perf ormance, and stronger security, making getting a system up and
running in a virtualized environment f aster and easier than ever bef ore.

An integrated

dual-port

Gigabit Ethernet

2

controller is standard, providing high-speed data

transf ers and offering

TOE

(TCP Offload Engine) support,

load-balancing

and

failover

capabilities. Via optional expansion cards, each blade can also connect to additional Ethernet,

SAS

,

Fibre Channel

,

iSCSI, InfiniBand

™,

and other high-speed communication switches

housed in the chassis. Optional

2-port

and

4-port Expansion Cards

add additional f abrics to

the HS22 server as needed. This blade is designed with

power management capability

to

provide the maximum uptime possible for your systems. In extended thermal conditions or
power brownouts, rather than shut down completely, or fail, the HS22 automatically reduces the
processor frequency to maintain acceptable thermal and power level s.

All HS22 models offer impressive f eatures at an equally impressive price, including up to

two

hot-swap

SAS or SAT A hard disk drives

or

two hot-swap solid-state drives

with

RAID-

0/1/1E

support, and one USB-based internal flash drive (for embedded hypervisor]. Additional

storage is available via the BladeCenter S chassis. Moreover, the HS22 is

optimized

f or

diskless operation, off ering each blade server access to essentially unlimited external storage
capacity via Fibre Channel, SAS, or iSCSI.

A single

BladeCenter E

or

BladeCenter H

chassis supports up to

14

hot-swappable

30mm-

wide HS22 blades in only

7U

(BladeCenter E) or

9U

(BladeCenter H) of rack space or up to

12

in the

12U BladeCenter HT

high-speed telecommunications chassis. In addition to the blade

servers, these chassis also hold up to

4

switches

(BladeCenter E) or up to

10

(BladeCenter H)

or

8

switches/bridges

(BladeCenter HT) internally. The

BladeCenter S

, designed for SMB and

mid-market customers, takes integration and affordability to a new level, combining up to

12

hot-swap

SAS/SATA

HDDs (with optional SAS card) and up to

6 blade servers

and

4

switches

. Not only can this save significant data center space (and theref ore the cost of floor

space and rack hardware) compared to 1U servers, it also consolidates switches/bridges and
cables for reduced complexity and lower cabling costs, and it allows clients to manage

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Chipkill protection on the HS22 requires x4 DIMMs; Chipkill protection is

not

available with x8 DIMMs.

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Actual data transfer speed will vary and is often less than the maximum possible. Gigabit Ethernet transfer speed requires support on both

system and server, and appropriate network infrastructure.

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