Analysis BladeCenter H Blade Server Chassis

Spec.: 19 "standard rack, height 9U, with 14 blade slots;





Standard Media: ultra-thin DVD-ROM that can be switched between 14 blades;





backplane: Dual redundant high available backplane;





power supply: Supports up to 4 2900W hot-swappable power modules with hot-swappable and redundant http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13996.html "> load balancing functions;





Cooling: Standard 2 hot-swappable redundant fans;





KVM Management module: Hot-swappable redundancy, standard 1, and another 1 optional;





IO Interface: keyboard, mouse, video and USB interface;





Network Module Interface: Provides up to 8 switch module bays, up to 8 hot-swappable Gigabit Ethernet Switch modules, or 2 Gigabit Ethernet, 2 Fibre Channel switch modules (support for SAN fibre storage networks or 1X InfiniBand fiber-optic high-speed switching networks), and 4 new 4X InfiniBand High speed switch module bracket;





management software: Equipped with IBM Director management software and IBM Remote Deployment Manager.

Summary：

First, the power module has been moved from the rear of the chassis to the upper and lower parts of the chassis, and the Power module is installed from the front of the chassis (but the power input interface is on the back of the chassis) and the power is increased to 2900W to provide a stronger power supply. Due to the change of the Power module position, the volume of the heat dissipation module has also increased a lot, and the heat dissipation effect has been improved greatly.

In addition to the above two improvements, BladeCenter H also offers four low latency, high-performance 4X Infiniband high-speed switching networks. Stronger power and thermal solutions, higher-performance high-speed switching networks, coupled with a variety of switch component support from heavyweight partners such as Cisco, Nortel, Brocade, QLogic, and McDATA, BladeCenter h for oil seismic processing, automotive aircraft design, High performance computing in areas such as weather forecasts provides a comprehensive system solution for high-speed networks, optical fiber storage, and powerful processing capabilities.

BladeCenter h in the appropriate reduction of computational density on the basis of the basic solution to the previous IBM Blade chassis problems, but also for the future system upgrades to provide more technical preparation, more valuable is compatible with the older blade products. Only a little regret, is that four power modules still take the group power supply strategy, of which two power modules for the number 1-7 Blade power supply, the other two power modules for the number 8-14 Blade power supply, the power of redundancy is not high.