Lenovo HS22V- User Manual

High-performance blade server optimized for virtualization

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Product Guide

February 2011

IBM BladeCenter HS22V

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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HS22V Images

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HS22V Specifications

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The Bottom Line

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Server Comparison

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High density, high performance 2-socket blade server optimized for
virtualization

Suggested uses:

Mainstream virtualization and memory-intensive HPC applications requiring

high memory density, outstanding performance, and enhanced 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 through virtualization. Incorporating IBM

X-Architecture

™

features,

the

IBM

®

BladeCenter

®

HS22V

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 features and capabilities for smaller size. Each HS22V blade server offers
features comparable to many 1U rack-optimized full-featured servers: The HS22V supports up to

two

of the latest high-performance

6-core/4-core/2-core

Intel

®

Xeon

®

5600 series and 5500

series processors. The Xeon processors are designed with up to

12MB

of shared cache and

leading-edge memory performance (up to

1333MHz

, depending on processor model) to help

provide the computing power you require to match your business needs and growth

.

The HS22V

supports up to

288GB

of

registered

double data rate III (

DDR3

)

ECC

(Error Checking and

Correcting) memory in

18

DIMM

slots, with optional

Chipkill

™

protection

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, for high performance

and reliability. Selected models are planned for

NEBS-3/ETSI-compliance

.

The HS22V supports

VMware vSphere Hypervisor

(formerly ESXi)

preloaded

on a standard

USB flash drive. It operates in a diskless configuration, offers a smaller memory footprint,
extremely high performance, and stronger security, making getting a system up and running in a
virtualized environment faster and easier than ever before. The HS22V supports approximately

50 % more

average virtual machines (VMs) than the HS22. W ith up to 288GB of memory, the

HS22V is an outstanding choice for virtualization, in-memory databases, and memory-intensive
enterprise applications.

An integrated

dual-port

Gigabit Ethernet

2

controller is standard, providing high-speed data

transfers and offering

TOE

(TCP Offload Engine) support,

load-balancing

and

failover

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

10Gb Ethernet

, Converged Network Adapter (

CNA

),

SAS

,

Fibre Channel

,

iSCSI, InfiniBand

™,

and other high-speed communication switches housed in the chassis. 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
HS22V automatically reduces the processor frequency to maintain acceptable thermal and power
levels.

All HS22V models offer impressive features at an equally impressive price, including up to

two

1.8-inch fixed solid-state drives (SSDs)

with

RAID-0/1

support,

and one

internal USB flash

drive

(for embedded hypervisor]. Additional direct-attach storage is available via the BladeCenter

S chassis. Moreover, the HS22V is

optimized

for diskless operation, offering 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-

wid e HS22V 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/SAT A

HDDs (with optional SAS card) and up to

6 blade servers

and

4 switches

. Not

only can this save significant data center space (and therefore the cost of floor space and rack
hardware) compared to 1U servers, it also consolidates switches/bridges and cables for reduced

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Chipkill protection on the HS22V 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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