BladeCenter H is the right choice for running the most demanding applications and simulations at blazing speeds.
With an innovative architecture, BladeCenter H tightly integrates servers, storage, networking, input/output (I/O) and applications, allowing clients to build robust and flexible IT infrastructures using common building blocks.
Flexible modular technology integrates Intel® Xeon®, AMD Opteron and IBM POWER processor-based blade servers supporting a wide range of operating systems.
Take command of your data centre with powerful IBM Cool Blue technology, a portfolio of products and tools to help customers plan, manage and control power and cooling in the data centre ¨C helping to build greener infrastructures.
BladeCenter Open Fabric is a highly adaptable portfolio of products and tools that delivers a flexible, open, connected infrastructure to help optimise application performance.
A powerful set of management tools helps simplify the management environment. BladeCenter provides tools that are open, easy and seamlessly integrated, allowing you to focus on your business not your IT.
BladeCenter H offers added performance capabilities of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 4X InfiniBand-capable fabrics and larger power supplies ¨C making BladeCenter H the ideal platform to run the next-generation, high-performance business-critical applications.
Product features
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9U chassis features all the functionality of BladeCenter with the added performance capabilities of 10 GbE, 4X InfiniBand-capable fabrics and larger power supplies.
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Advanced proactive management, providing rich and broad systems management capabilities.
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Light path diagnostics provides a quick and easy guide to troubleshoot your blade servers to help provide for higher availability and system uptime while Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) helps save you time and money by helping decrease unplanned downtime.
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Calibrated Vectored Cooling (CVC) helps maintain the health of your system by keeping internal components cool and allowing for superior compute density.
Hardware summary
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9U rack-optimised chassis
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Up to 14 blade server bays for extreme performance density
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Up to four traditional hot-swap and redundant switch modules supporting GbE, Fibre Channel, 1X InfiniBand or Myrinet fabrics
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Up to four new high-speed capable switch module bays based on high-performance, high speed, low-latency 10 GbE and 4X InfiniBand
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Up to four hot-swap and redundant load-balancing power supply modules
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Two hot-swap, redundant blower modules
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Built-in customer removable media tray with DVD, two external USB and full light path diagnostics panel
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High-availability midplane helps enable maximum uptime and investment protection for future technologies
