1. © 2008 IBM Corporation IBM Systems & Technology Group System x™ and BladeCenter® OUT WITH COMPLEXITY. OUT WITH INEFFICIENCY. OUT WITH CABLES. IBM Modular Systems Jüri Joonsaar 30.10.2008 Tartu

2. IBM BladeCenter © 2006 IBM Corporation 2 Realize innovation with X-Architecture technology The IBM X-Architecture blueprint delivers customer value through innovative design and the application of technology X-Architecture provides a comprehensive approach to solving your IT challenges today and a forward-looking approach to designing for tomorrow’s challenges RIGH T

3. IBM BladeCenter © 2008 IBM Corporation 3 tended Design Architecture  Scale up / SMP computing Scale out / distributed computing x3400 x3500 x3200 M2 Cluster 1350 x3105 x3455 System x – Quad Core, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) & SATA

4. IBM BladeCenter © 2008 IBM Corporation 4  RIGHT choice, tailored to fit your diverse needs  OPEN and innovative for a flexible business foundation  EASY to deploy, integrate and manage  GREEN today for a better tomorrow IBM BladeCenter is the RIGHT choice. OPEN. EASY. GREEN.

5. IBM BladeCenter © 2008 IBM Corporation 5 Optimize and Simplify your infrastructure to gain control Public Internet/ Intranet Clients Routers Firewalls SAN  Multiple server management tools reduced to one  SAN cables removed  LAN cables removed  Multiple external switches integrated inside the chassis  KVM costs eliminated  PDU costs drastically reduced  Power, heat and floor space conserved RIGH T

6. IBM BladeCenter © 2008 IBM Corporation 6 IBM BladeCenter HT Ruggedized, high performance IBM BladeCenter E Enterprise, best efficiency, best density IBM BladeCenter H High performance IBM BladeCenter T Ruggedized A common set of blades A common set of industry-standard switches and I/O fabrics Common management infrastructure IBM BladeCenter S Distributed, small office, easy to configure IBM BladeCenter The RIGHT answer for your business needs… not JUST ONE answer

7. IBM BladeCenter © 2006 IBM Corporation 7 Introducing IBM BladeCenter E  31% more dense than blade competitors, 2X the density of rack servers  11-19% more energy efficient than blade competitors, 35% more efficient than rack servers  Easy deployment and flexible fabric choice with IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric  New low-cost, high-performance SAS technology  New highly available, low power solid-state hard disk drives  Latest generation, Intel quad-core 80W processor with HS21 XM Most dense, energy-efficient blade in the market RIGH T  Up to 8Gb networking throughput (SAS and Fibre Channel) when available  AMD quad core when available

8. IBM BladeCenter © 2006 IBM Corporation 8 Your data, storage, power and management Resiliency is critical with applications all in one chassis  A blade chassis must be far more robust than any single server  100s or 1000s of users could be affected if an entire chassis goes down 14 enterprise servers 140 power, KVM, CAT5, and SAN cables  All of this is dependent on the availability of a single item — the chassis EASY

9. IBM BladeCenter © 2006 IBM Corporation 9  Engineered for reliability  Dual power connections  Thermal/cooling redundancy  Dual blade connections for all I/O  Dual switch modules  Dual paths through backplane  Dual Management Modules  Dual N+N power topologies  True N+N thermal solutions  Engineered for availability  Automated failover capability via Management Module  Management Module monitors health of chassis components  Comprehensive Predictive Failure Analysis ® proactively identifies many potential issues before they cause failures  First Failure Data Capture helps provide integrity of error reporting  Light Path Diagnostics for easy trouble shooting No single point of failure BladeCenter protects your critical business operations EASY

10. IBM BladeCenter © 2006 IBM Corporation 10 Enterprise-class reliability with redundant I/O  IBM provides dual I/O and dual power connections to the chassis on all blades  Many other vendors fail to provide this protection IBM BladeCenter — Complete redundancy Dual I/O, dual power Would you connect your enterprise rack server to a single PDU or a single switch? Competitors — Lack redundancy Single I/O, single power EASY

11. IBM BladeCenter © 2006 IBM Corporation 11 Introducing next-generation local storage today  Superior uptime  3X the availability of mechanical drives with RAID-1  No moving parts to fail  Enterprise read/write leveling to extend life even further  Less power and heat than conventional disk drives — up to 87%  Flexible deployment with full OS support  Operates as a standard hard disk drive  Supports Linux ®, Windows and VMware  Works in standard drive bay IBM 16GB Dual Solid State Drive Increase availability and efficiency with solid state drives EASY

12. IBM BladeCenter © 2006 IBM Corporation 12  Low cost Lowest cost BladeCenter storage option  Simplicity Easy to setup and deploy  Flexibility Supports up to 2 (4) BladeCenter chassis  Performance High performance with 3Gbps throughput Introducing BladeCenter Boot Disk System Convenient, flexible boot and storage solution B1B1 B2B2 B3B3 B4B4 B5B5 B6B6 B7B7 B8B8 B9B9 B10B10 B11B11 B12B12 B13B13 B14B14 SAS Switch A SAS Switch B EASY

13. IBM BladeCenter © 2006 IBM Corporation 13 Extend blade benefits to all your applications RIGH T HS21 General-purpose enterprise HS21 XM Extended-memory Blades tailored to your specific needs  A common set of blades  A common set of industry-standard switches and I/O fabrics  A common management infrastructure LS41/42 Scalable, enterprise performance LS21/22 High-performance JS22 High-performance with native virtualization QS22 High-performance HC10 Workstation HS12 General-purpose SME/enterprise JS12 High-performance with native virtualization POWER6™

14. IBM BladeCenter © 2006 IBM Corporation 14 Ethernet Fibre Channel InfiniBand InfiniBand™ Fibre Channel InfiniBand 1Gb Ethernet iSCSI SAS Fibre Channel Extend blade benefits to connect your entire business I/O tailored to your specific needs  A common set of blades  A common set of industry-standard switches and I/O fabrics  A common management infrastructure 1Gb, 10Gb Ethernet OPEN

15. IBM BladeCenter © 2006 IBM Corporation 15 Significantly more flexibility and choice in I/O OPEN  Simple pass-thru designs  Super low-cost, simple switches  Powerful, standard layer 2/3 offerings  Highly advanced layer 2/7  High-performance 4Gb Fibre Channel  Industry’s only integrated full 10Gb Ethernet solution for blade servers Ethernet Cisco Catalyst 3012 Cisco Catalyst 3110x Cisco Catalyst 3110g Cisco Gb Copper Cisco Gb Fibre Server Connectivity Module Nortel 10Gb Nortel 1/10Gb Nortel Layer 2/3 Copper Nortel Layer 2/3 Fibre Nortel Layer 2-7 Gb Nortel Layer 2/3 10 Gb Uplk Fibre Channel Cisco 4Gb 10 port Cisco 4Gb 20 port Brocade 4Gb 10 Port Brocade 4Gb 20 port QLogic 4Gb 10 port QLogic 4Gb 20 port Infiniband Cisco 4X Infiniband QLogic Infiniband FC Bridge QLogic Infiniband Eth Bridge Pass Thrus Intelligent Copper PT QLogic 4Gb Intelligent PT 4X infiniband PT

16. IBM BladeCenter © 2006 IBM Corporation 16 Increase number of connections per blade  Unleash blade capacity Virtualization and multi-core environments require more connections – MSIM and BladeCenter H double the number of blade connections  Double your connectivity Increase your Ethernet and Fibre Channel connections – New expansion cards allow up to 8 simultaneous connections per blade  Help protect your investment No need to qualify new switch modules – Supports standard BladeCenter switches in new high-speed switch slots of BladeCenter H Dual 4G Fibre Channel HCA Dual Fibre Channel/Ethernet Expansion Card Multi Switch Interconnect Module (MSIM) More ports, more flexibility for more applications OPEN

17. © 2007 IBM Corporation 17 BladeCenter S Product Summary Ideal for business-in-a-box configurations, legacy & future servers supported Ideal for tiered workloads; SAS and SATA disks can be mixed in BladeCenter S using RAID 0, 1, and 10 Easy access to shared USB ports and CD-RW / DVD- ROM Combo 7U Service label cards slot enable quick and easy reference to BladeCenter S Battery Backup units for SAS RAID Controller

18. © 2007 IBM Corporation 18 BladeCenter S Product Summary Four Blower modules standard Top: AMM standard Bottom: Serial Module optional Top left: Ethernet Top & Bottom right: Other I/O 7U Hot-swap Power Supplies 3 & 4 are optional, Auto-sensing b/w 950W / 1450W Hot-swap Power Supplies 1 & 2 are standard, Auto-sensing b/w 950W / 1450W

19. © 2007 IBM Corporation 19 BladeCenter S unique options IBM BladeCenter 6-Disk Storage Module IBM BladeCenter 950W/1450W Auto-sensing Power Supply IBM BladeCenter SAS Connectivity Module

20. © 2007 IBM Corporation 20 NAS made easy with BladeCenter S Example 1: Two NAS serversExample 2: One NAS servers Share storage using RAID 1 or 10 using following easy steps 1.During setup, choose Pre-defined config. 8 or 9 from the AMM menu 2.Blade 1 now has access to all disk 12 disks 3.Use OS or application GUI to map blade 2 thru 6 to blade 1 4.Shared storage is ready!

21. © 2007 IBM Corporation 21 IBM BladeCenter Office Enablement Kit Ideal way to deploy BladeCenter S into office environments  Includes Acoustical Module built into the back  Optional Air Filter on the front  Locking door for security  Mobile with rollers  33% (4U) extra room to grow  Available now!

22. © 2007 IBM Corporation 22 IBM BladeCenter S run quiet

23. IBM BladeCenter © 2006 IBM Corporation 23 Most of your server budget is going toward management and energy costs  Management costs are rising seven times as fast as hardware costs  Energy and cooling costs are expected to increase 54 percent over the next four years IDC, Worldwide Server Power and Cooling Expense 2006-2010 Forecast, Doc #203598, September 2006 EASY

24. IBM BladeCenter © 2008 IBM Corporation 24 Blade Innovation Made Easy  Save time — Pre-configure LAN and SAN connections once for each blade Automatically makes all I/O connections whenever you plug in a blade Simplified login — Single login Checks for any conflicts automatically  Maintain large datacenter — Manage up to 1400 blades Manage LAN and SAN connections across 100 chassis  Think open — Avoid change to your network standards Works with BladeCenter chassis, blades and switches  Connect with ease — Simple GUI for easy configuration Same interface for server and switch management IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager

25. IBM BladeCenter © 2008 IBM Corporation 25 IBM leadership in virtualization helps:  Increase utilization rates  Reduce number of server, storage, network devices  Create shared, easily scalable infrastructure IBM BladeCenter power tools help: Plan, monitor and control power usage Provide “cruise control” for power consumption of servers IBM BladeCenter power efficiency: Leadership performance/watt Right-sized for any business IBM BladeCenter Helps Control Power Today GREE N

26. IBM BladeCenter © 2008 IBM Corporation 26  Hardware vendors  Access to BladeCenter specs  Basic technical help for companies  Over 500 companies downloaded The IBM BladeCenter community Open Specification Blade.org IBM OEMs BladeCenter Alliance Program IBM Collaborators Accelerating blade platform-based solutions to market Increasing the number of blade platform solutions Increasing end-user confidence in blade platform solutions Over 90 members Working together to bring offerings to market BNT Brocade Cisco Emulex McData QLogic Voltaire Devon IT  Hardware and software  Making product info available  Over 300 members OPEN  Network equipment providers  Appliances  Server vendors

27. © 2008 IBM Corporation 27 Offerings 4Q 2008  Blade ► BladeCenter S – 40% soodustus ► FIE BladeCenter – min 2 bleidi, korpus tasuta  VMware – 20% soodustus ► x3400, x3500, x3455, x3550, x3650, x3655, x3755, x3850, x3950 ► Extra CPU (not required on x3850/3950), at least 2GB extra memory, extra raid controller, min 2 disks and redundant power

28. © 2008 IBM Corporation IBM Systems & Technology Group System x™ and BladeCenter® OUT WITH COMPLEXITY. OUT WITH INEFFICIENCY. OUT WITH CABLES.