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IBM Flex System™ The elements of an IBM PureFlex System

IBM Flex System™ The elements of an IBM PureFlex System. The world ’ s best blade offering… Starts with IBM PureFlex & Flex System. Flex System technology delivers now and enables multiple generations of future technologies

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IBM Flex System™ The elements of an IBM PureFlex System

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  1. IBM Flex System™ The elements of an IBM PureFlex System

  2. The world’s best blade offering… Starts with IBM PureFlex & Flex System • Flex System technology delivers now and enables multiple generations of future technologies • No compromise designs for demands of today’s heterogeneous data centers • Clean slate design enables new levels of integration • Designed to enable management integration with Flex System Manager • Flexible and open choice of architectures, hypervisors and environments • The entry point into a PureFlex System

  3. IBM Flex System Manager • New user interface and configuration automation brings new components online faster • Cross-resource integration and automation enables transformation from managing resources to managing applications, services and workloads • Works with the management you have - other IBM platform tools, Tivoli and third party enterprise management (e.g., CA, BMC, HP, etc.) • Easier monitoring, alerts and problem management through automated resolution processes with integrated expertise Setup Wizards Global Find Chassis Map Remote Presence Add Flex System Manager for Simplified Management Integration Increase control and productivity, while decreasing management costs Management Management Networking Storage System infrastructure Virtualization Compute

  4. New Dynamic View UI 4

  5. IBM Flex System - Update Manager • Manage updates for many IBM platforms using the same interface • Automatically check for new updates • Show and install updates needed by your systems • Monitor system compliance • Create compliance policies to automatically notify you when a system is out of date • Show and resolve compliance issues to install the missing updates

  6. Virtualization management • Virtualization Management • Manage Virtual Servers and Hosts • HMC and Systems • VS Life-cycle management • Topology Maps • Create empty virtual server • Monitoring, automation • Edit virtual resources • Edit Hosts • Edit Virtual Servers • GUI or command line • Launch to Platform Manager • Relocate • Live relocation • Plan for relocation

  7. meta-data SW OS Image management and deployment Tasks for Virtual Appliances • Deploy • Import • Capture • Versioning Virtual Appliance

  8. Remote Control Watch a reboot progress in background Flyover Details Resizable Powerful Toolbar – power on/off, mount local files, etc.

  9. IBM Flex System x240 - Enterprise Class Compute IBM Flex System x240 Uncompromised Compute, IO, and Storage performance, designed for mainstream virtualization, and a broad range of workloads 2x IO Mezzanine Cards 2x Intel E5 2600Processors Standard Width compute node ◊ 2-socket Sandy Bridge-EP ◊ 24 LP DDR3 DIMMs / 1333MHz / 1600MHz ◊ 10Gb Converged LOM ◊ 2 hot swap 2.5” SAS/SATA SSDs or HDDs ◊ Dual Enabled Hypervisor – ESXi on Flash Key Option System infrastructure 24 LP DIMMs Keyboard, Mouse, Video Dongle connector 2x Hot Swap, Small Form Factor HDDs Release latch

  10. Flex System x240 – No Compromise Virtualization Platform • Support fastest Intel CPUs – 2.9GHz 8c 135W • Support max memory DIMMs and Capacity – 24 DIMM slots at 768GB • IBM x240 is a no compromise platform that delivers maximum CPU and Memory capabilities for Virtualization For Virtualization IBM Flex System x240 delivers • 95% more VMs vs. Cisco B200 M3 • 37% more VMs vs. HP BL460 Gen 8 • 19% more VMs vs. Dell M620 (w/ 2.9Ghz CPU) 100% vs. Cisco B200 M3 (384GB) 50% vs. HP BL 460c Gen8 (512GB) 50% more DIMMS vs. HP BL 460c Gen8 *Dell compromised when using 135W proc. 32% faster than Dell M620 (2.2GHz) 7% faster than HP BL460 (2.7Ghz) IBM Flex System x240 delivers #1 VMmark 2.0 Benchmark across all Blades

  11. IBM Flex System- No Compromise Design 50% more memory IBM Flex System x240 (768GB) vs. HP BL 460c Gen8 (512GB) 200% more networking bandwidth IBM Flex System Fabric 10Gb switch 240Gb vs. HP 10Gb switch 80Gb 300% more dedicated storage IBM Flex System Flash adds up to 8 400GB SSDs (x240 with Flex System Flash 3.2TB vs. Dell M610 800GB) 50% networking latency improvement Node to node traffic is contained within the chassis to reduce TOR switch latency* Multi-generation chassis platform Built to support your datacenter today and tomorrow * Estimated Results. Results will vary depending on customer environment

  12. Virtual Fabric Solution Clients requiring a Virtual Fabric solution can now use the Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter in conjunction with BNT Virtual Fabric 10GbE Switch Modules. Phase 1 of this new solution allows clients to virtualize their Ethernet I/O – basically to slice & dice their 10Gb bandwidth any way they want. Hardware Components Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter • 2 port 10Gb adapter capable of multiple I/O functions • Up to 8 virtual Ethernet NICs/adapter, appear as individual adapters to the OS BNT Virtual Fabric 10G Ethernet Switch Module • Switch recognizes the vNIC and assigns bandwidth in increments of 100MB • Ability to group virtual NICs helping simplify and reduce management time Slide & Dice your 10Gb bandwidth any way you want Flexibility to fine-tune the speed required • Each Connection or VM Channel can Get the Bandwidth it Requires • Minimum of 100Mb • Maximum of 10Gb • Ability to tailor each 10G pipe vNIC 1 = 1Gb vNIC 1 = 1Gb vNIC 2 = 3.5Gb vNIC 2 = 3.5Gb vNIC 3 = 5Gb vNIC 3 = 5Gb vNIC 4 = 500Mb vNIC 4 = 500Mb Up to 8 Virtual Ports per adapter Future upgrade – FCoE & iSCSI

  13. Virtual Fabric offers the Benefits of both Virtual NIC and IO Convergence on a Single end-to-end Solution. FCoE Feature Entitlement Upgrade* Create Virtual groups and Assign one uplink per group 2.5Gb Virtual NICs Virtual Groups HR 5Gb • FCoE Ready • Simplifies Deployment • Reduces Management • Assigns Bandwidth in 100Mb Increments Accounting CNA 2.5Gb Supply Chain 10Gb Up to 8 Virtual Ports per adapter Database CNA Configure few ports as Virtual CNA* No separate HBA needed! Management Choice: Switch Interface, CLI or • Open Fabric Manager* Map each Virtual adapter to port groups 13 * Planned Future Support *Future Upgrade Option

  14. Virtual Pipe and Virtual Grouping! Flexibility to fine-tune the speed required Assign the bandwidth required Virtual NIC – carve up the 10G pipes Presented as individual NIC to OS/Hypervisor Minimum of 100Mb - Maximum of 10Gb Ability allocate uplink bandwidth 100G of uplink bandwidth Assign virtual groups bandwidths in increments of 10G High Availability and Security Ability to provide isolation between various vNICs A failure in one vNIC or virtual Group are isolated by others VMready can migrate networking characteristics with VM Migration vNIC 1 = 1Gb vNIC 1 = 1Gb vNIC 2 = 3.5Gb vNIC 2 = 3.5Gb Virtual Pipes 10G Link vNIC 3 = 5Gb vNIC 3 = 5Gb vNIC 4 = 500Mb vNIC 4 = 500Mb vNIC Group

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