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• A standard three-year (parts and labor) limited onsite warranty
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affords you peace of mind and
greater potential investment protection.
IBM Systems Agenda
The philosophy behind the design of the HS21 and the various BladeCenter Chassis involves
four major aspects, Openness, Collaborative Innovation, Virtualization, and Technology
Innovation that Matters:
• Unlike competitive blade solutions, many parts of the BladeCenter specifications have been
made open. Hundreds of vendors have downloaded the specifications, and dozens so far have
released products designed specifically for BladeCenter, including Brocade, Topspin, Cisco,
Nortel, Emulex, and others. This provides a wider selection of options to better fit your needs than a
purely proprietary offering could.
• IBM has collaborated with industry leaders to offer innovative solution packages for specific
industry segments, including banking, retail, telco and others. In addition, IBM formed Blade.org,
a planned collaborative organization, to focus on accelerating the expansion of solutions for
BladeCenter. Founding members in the blade.org community include Brocade, Citrix Systems, Intel
Corporation, Network Appliances, Nortel, Novell and VMware.
• IBM offers virtualization capabilities in a number of ways: desktop virtualization via Hosted
Clients, InfiniBand virtualization and native blade virtualization.
• Technology for technology’s sake is pointless. Instead IBM BladeCenter focuses on technological
innovation that provides real customer benefits. Examples of this include a high degree of blade
and module compatibility across all chassis, the use of fewer and lower-power components to
enable significant power and cooling savings, and hot-swap and redundant components that
reduce single points of failure.
Key Features
Intel Xeon Processors
The HS21 supports up to two identical Xeon processors (that is, the same clock rate and cache
size and the same number of cores). The choice of processors includes:
• 80W quad-core Xeon processor models 5310, 5320, and 5345 at 1.6, 1.86, or 2.33GHz
(respectively), with 64-bit extensions, reduced power draw, a 1066MHz (1.6 or 1.86GHz) or
1333MHz (2.33GHz) FSB, and 8MB of shared L2 processor cache; supported in all BladeCenter
chassis.
• 80W dual-core Xeon processor model 5160 at 3.0GHz, with 64-bit extensions, low power draw, a
1333MHz FSB, and 4MB of shared L2 processor cache; supported in all BladeCenter chassis.
• 65W dual-core Xeon processor models 5110 or 5120 at 1.6 or 1.86GHz (respectively), with a
1066MHz FSB, or models 5130, 5140, or 5150 at 2.0, 2.33, or 2.66GHz, with a 1333MHz FSB.
These processors feature 64-bit extensions, impressive performance/watt and 4MB of shared L2
processor cache. Select models also feature an embedded processor with long life support as well
as NEBS 3/ETSI compliance. Supported in all BladeCenter chassis.
• 40W dual-core Xeon processor model 5148 at 2.33GHz, with 64-bit extensions, ultralow power
draw, a 1333MHz FSB, and 4MB of shared L2 processor cache; supported in all BladeCenter
chassis.
• 35W dual-core Xeon processor model 5138 at 2.13GHz, with 64-bit extensions, ultralow power
draw, a 1066MHz FSB, and 4MB of shared L2 processor cache; supported in all BladeCenter
chassis. This processor is a long-life, embedded offering, intended for a NEBS environment.
The dual-core Xeon processors contain two complete processor cores; quad-core
processors, similarly, contain four cores. The processors also contain one unified shared 4MB
(dual-core) or 8MB (quad-core) cache. The shared cache is dynamically allocated between the
cores as needed. The two cores appear to software as two physical processors. The dual-core
processors offer considerably higher performance than a same-speed Xeon processor with a
single core. Likewise, quad-core processors offer considerably higher performance than a
same-speed Xeon processor with dual cores.
Intelligent Power Capability powers individual processor elements on and off as needed, to
reduce power draw.
Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T) 64-bit extensions allow Xeon processors to
use large memory addressing when running with a 64-bit operating system. This can result in
higher performance. Additional registers and instructions (SSE3) can further boost performance
for applications written to use them. Contact your software providers to determine their software
support for EM64T.
DDR II ECC Fully Buffered Memory with Chipkill Protection
The
HS21
ships with
PC2
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5300
fully
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buffered
double data rate II (DDR II) memory (operating