1. Flex System Enterprise Chassis
Patrick Moakley – Director of Product Marketing, Flex System
June, 2015
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2. Flex System Portfolio overview
No compromise portfolio across servers, networking, storage
Mission critical 8S
x880 X6
Enterprise Chassis w/ AC and DC power
Mission critical 4S
Dense
x440
x480 X6, x880 X6
Ethernet – iSCSI – Fibre Channel FCoE – InfiniBand 2S
Enterprise
Mission-critical
x240
x280 X6, x480 X6, x880 X6
Open Interoperability with SANs including EMC VNX, IBM Storwize® V7000, V3700
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3. Flex System Target Markets
Enterprise Chassis
Chassis
Flex Nodes
Family
Flex System x240 M5
Flex System x440
Flex System X6
Where Flex
Excels
Banking/Finance Research Education Government Telecom Manufacturing
Virtualization
Cloud
Database
Analytics
Primary
Workloads
Flex System x240 Compute Node requires 40% less energy than earlier-generation Intel x86 processor technology
Comparison of Flex System chassis with 2xSI4093 to HP blade chassis with 2xFlex10 switching. Nov, 2014
Tolly whitepaper on VM migration and aggregate network performance vs. Cisco UCS. Apr, 2014
From virtualization sizing guide leveraging Xeon E5v2 comparing Flex System x240 to HP BL460G8. Nov, 2014
Comparison of Flex System chassis with G8264CS top of rack networking to competitive systems. Nov, 2014
Reduce Cost
Uncompromised design for the next 10+ year generations of IT
Innovative design delivers up to 40% less energy cost vs. pervious generation1
Networking architecture enables 30% less cost than competitive offerings2
Increase Agility
First-in-industry: Highest scalability blade platform featuring Intel Xeon E7 enables 3X higher performance than previous generations
Support for broad range of systems: Choice of 2, 4 or 8 processor systems using latest Intel Xeon processors in the same chassis.
Network design that offers consistent SLAs for cloud workloads and up to 2.5X faster VM migration compared to competitive blade offerings3
Improve Efficiency
Do more with less systems: 32% more virtual machines than competition4
Network management for up to 9 Flex System chassis compared to 38 for competition5
Faster performance to allow more transactions for businesses critical applications with up to 4.8X more backplane through-put6
Business Value
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4. Flex System Enterprise Chassis
Flex System Chassis have been designed and built specifically to provide the efficiency you need now, along with the growth path necessary to protect your investment into the future
Agile
Simplified deployment and system management
Lenovo XClarity delivers systems management on your terms by enabling you to view and manage physical infrastructure from a variety of tools and interfaces
Resilient
No single point of failure to maintain high availability
The system monitors and manages power usage on all major chassis components so you have total control over power consumption
Designed to scale to meet the needs of your future workloads
Key Attributes
Long life platform
Open ecosystem
Simplified deployment
Flexible
Add any combination of compute, storage, networking, and management nodes
Power supplies are 80 PLUS Platinum certified indicating high energy efficiency, and the chassis design optimizes cooling with cooling zones within the chassis
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5. Flex System Enterprise Chassis - Product Overview
Front View
Rear View
10U chassis
14 bays
Standard and full
Storage
4 switch modules
Redundant CMMs
Redundant power
Redundant cooling
High physical density
Positional awareness
Virtual FC and NIC address
Mixed processor support
Hot add, hot swap
Ease of cabling
Ease of insertion and removal
High bandwidth, low latency networking
Integrated management Ethernet
Designed to support the future
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6. Flex System Chassis
Details
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7. Power supply flexibility
Key functions:
Power management monitors and controls power usage on all major chassis components
N+N or N+1 redundant power supplies
Single three-phase power domain
Hot-swappable
80 PLUS® Platinum certified
Available 2500W Power Supplies
V AC power supply
380 V HVDC power supply
-48 V DC power supply
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8. Cooling optimization
Zoned Cooling with industry leading fan efficiency
Cooling zones are separated by compute nodes (right / left) and switches
Fans are added according to chassis configuration
More fans can be added as more compute nodes are added
Easy path fan upgrade – standardized fan interface to code (no code change if fan is changed)
Enhanced acoustic optimization with multi select states
State 1 – 5  Customer selectable acoustic states to balance acoustic and performance needs
Ambient health awareness counsel  detects hot air recirculation to the chassis
100% heat removal rear door heat exchanger (RDHX) - up to 30 kW
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9. Chassis Management Module
Key functions:
Power control
Fan management
Chassis and compute node initialization
Switch management
Diagnostics: chassis, I/O options, and compute nodes
Resource discovery and inventory management
Resource alerts and monitoring management
Chassis and compute node power management
Security policy management
Role-based access control
Support for up to 84 local CMM user accounts
Support for up to 32 simultaneous sessions
The Chassis Management Module (CMM) provides single-chassis management. The CMM is used to
communicate with the management controller in each compute node (IMMv2 in Intel processor-based
compute nodes and FSP in POWER7® processor-based compute nodes) to provide system monitoring,
event recording and alerts, and to manage the chassis, its devices, and the compute nodes.
The chassis has one CMM installed standard but supports two CMMs for redundancy. If one CMM fails,
the second CMM can detect its inactivity and activate itself to take control of the system without any
disruption. The CMM is central to the management of the chassis and is required in the Enterprise
Chassis.
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