Agenda

I. Blade Servers

II. Benefits of Blade Servers

III. What’s Inside?

IV. Types: Dell & HP

V. Functionality

VI. Conclusion

Why A Blade Server?

• More agile & scalable

• Less setup & installation time

• Less expensive in long-term deployments

• Efficient cooling and power consumption

Blade vs. Rack-mount Server

What’s Incside

• Power Supplies & 220V Power

• 9-10 Hot Plug Fans

• Redundant Mezzanines

What’s Inside?

• Blade Servers (Full or Half Height)

• CPU, Memory, Hard Drives

• Chassis

Types of Blade Chassis & Servers

• Dell M1000e Blade System (10U)

• HP C7000 Blade System (10U)

Types of Blade Chassis & Servers

Dell Blade Systems M1000e Enclosure HP C7000 Blade System Enclosure

Device Bays Up to sixteen half-height and 8 full height blade servers

Up to 16 half-height Up to 8 full-height Mixed configurations supported

Interconnect Bays Up to six total I/O modules for three fully redundant fabrics, featuring Ethernet FlexIO technology providing on-demand stacking and uplink scalability.

Up to 8 Interconnect Bays with support for any I/O fabric

Power Up to six 2700W hot-plug power supplies

Integrated in Enclosure, 3-Phase or Single Phase

Cooling M1000e Chassis comes standard with 9 hot pluggable, redundant fan modules

Centralized redundant fans Up to 10 Active Cool fans

Management System Management and Remote Management Redundant Onboard Administrator - LAN and serial access

Height 10U enclosure Rack (10U)

HP Blade System Servers

HP ProLiant BL280c G6 HP ProLiant BL2x220c G7

Processor Family Intel® Xeon® 5600 series Intel® Xeon® 5500 series

Intel® Xeon® 5600 series

Number of Processors 2 2

Processor core Availability 6 or 4 or 2 6 or 4

Maximum Memory 192 GB 96 GB

Memory Slots 12 DDR3 DIMM slots 6 DDR3 DIMM slots

Expansion Slots 2 1

Network Controller (2) 1GbE NC362i 2 Ports (1) 10GbE NC543i Flex-10/QDR IB 1 Port

Maximum Drive Bays (2) SFF SAS/SATA/SSD (1) SFF SATA/SSD

Supported Drives Non-hot plug SAS Non-hot plug Serial ATA Non-hot plug SATA SSD

Non-hot plug SFF SATA Non-hot plug SATA SSD

Storage Controller (1) Integrated SATA RAID (1) Integrated SATA

Infrastructure Management

iLO 2 iLO 3 and HP Insight Foundation

HP Blade System Servers HP ProLiant BL460c G7 HP ProLiant BL465c G7 HP Proliant BL490c G7 Server

Series

Processor Family Intel® Xeon® 5600 series Intel® Xeon® 5500 series

AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series Intel® Xeon® 5600 series

Number of Processors 2 2 2

Processor core Availability 6 or 4 or 2 8 or 12 6 or 4

Maximum Memory 384 GB 512 GB 384 GB

Memory Slots 12 DDR3 DIMM slots 16 DDR3 DIMM slots 18 DDR3 DIMM slots

Expansion Slots 1 2 2 I/O expansion mezzanine slots

Network Controller (1) 10GbE NC553i FlexFabric 2 Ports (1) 10GbE NC551i FlexFabric 2 Ports

(1) 10GbE NC553i FlexFabric 2 Ports

Maximum Drive Bays (2) SFF SAS/SATA/SSD (2) SFF SAS/SATA/SSD (2) SFF SSD non-hot plug

Supported Drives Hot plug SFF SAS Hot plug SFF SATA Hot plug SFF SDD

Hot plug SFF SAS Hot plug SFF SATA Hot plug SFF SDD

Non-hot plug SATA SSD

Storage Controller (1) Smart Array P410i Controller (RAID 0/1)

(1) Smart Array P410i/1GB FBWC

Integrated SATA

Infrastructure Management iLO 3 iLO 3 and HP Insight Foundation

iLO 3

Form Factor (fully configured) 8 (c3000) 16 (c7000)

16 (c7000) 8 (c3000)

8 (c3000) 16 (c7000)

HP Blade System Servers HP ProLiant BL620c G7 HP ProLiant BL680c G5 HP ProLiant BL680c G7 HP ProLiant BL685c G7

Ideal for: Higher density virtualization and scale-up applications

Ideal for: Large Enterprise data centers

Ideal for: The ultimate balance of performance, memory, I/O

bandwidth for data-intensive applications

Ideal for: I/O and memory intensive virtualization and compute-intensive

database applications

Processor Family Intel® Xeon® E7-2800 series Intel® Xeon® E7-8800 series

Intel® Xeon® 6500 series Intel® Xeon® 7500 series

Intel® Xeon® 7400 series Intel® Xeon® E7-4800 series Intel® Xeon® 7500 series

AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series

Number of Processors 1 or 2 2 or 4 2 or 3 or 4 4

Processor core Availability 4 or 6 or 8 or 10 6 or 4 4 or 6 or 8 or 10 8 or 12

Maximum Memory 1TB 128GB 2TB 512 GB

Memory Slots 32 DDR3 DIMM slots 16 DDR2 DIMM slots 64 DDR3 DIMM slots 32 DDR3 DIMM slots

Expansion Slots 3 3 7 3

Network Controller (4) 10GbE NC553i FlexFabric 2 Ports

(2) 1GbE NC373i Multifunction 2 Ports

(1) 1GbE NC326i 2 Ports

(6) 10GbE NC553i FlexFabric 6 Ports (2) 10GbE NC551i FlexFabric 2 Ports per controller

Maximum Drive Bays (2) SFF SAS/SATA/SSD (2) SFF SAS/SATA/SSD (4) SFF SAS/SATA/SSD (2) SFF SAS/SATA/SSD

Supported Drives Hot plug SFF SAS Hot plug SFF SATA Hot plug SFF SDD

Hot plug SFF SAS Hot plug SFF SATA

Hot plug SFF SAS Hot plug SFF SATA Hot plug SFF SDD

Hot plug SFF SAS Hot plug SFF SATA Hot plug SFF SDD

Storage Controller (1) Smart Array P410i Controller (RAID 0/1)

(1) Smart Array P400i/256MB (1) Smart Array P410i Integrated (1) Smart Array P410i/1GB FBWC

Infrastructure Management iLO 3 iLO 2 iLO 3

Form Factor (fully configured) 8 (c7000) 4 (c3000)

4 (c3000) 8 (c7000)

4 (c7000) 2 (c3000)

8 (c7000) 4 (c3000)

Dell Blade System Servers PowerEdge M610 Blade Server

PowerEdge M710 Blade Server

PowerEdge M805 Blade Server

Processor Family

Intel Xeon 550 and 5600 series Intel Xeon 5500 and 5600 Series Processors

AMD Opteron 2000 series processors

Number of Processors

2 2 2

Processor core Availability

Latest quad-core or six-Core Latest quad-core or six-Core Up to Six-Core

Maximum Memory

Support up to 192GB using 12 x 16GB DIMMs

Support for up to 192GB using 12 x 16GB DIMM

Support for up to 128GB using 16x8GB DIMMs

Memory Slots

12 DIMM slots 1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB ECC DDR3

18 DIMM slots 1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB ECC DDR3

16 DIMM slots 1GB/2GB/4GB ECC DDR2 667/800MHz Options

I/O Mezzanine Card Options

1Gb &10Gb Ethernet, Fiber Channel, Infiniband, 10Gb enhanced Ethernet & and Converged Network Adapters

1Gb &10Gb Ethernet, Fiber Channel, Infiniband, 10Gb enhanced Ethernet & and Converged Network Adapters

1Gb &10Gb Ethernet, Fiber Channel, Infiniband, 10Gb enhanced Ethernet & and Converged Network Adapters

Network Controller

PERC H200 Modular PERC H700 Modular (6Gb/s) with 512MB SAS 6/iR Modular CERC 6/i Modular PERC 6/i Modular with 256MB battery-backed cache

PERC H200 Modular PERC H700 Modular (6Gb/s) with 512MB SAS 6/iR Modular CERC 6/i Modular PERC 6/i Modular with 256MB battery-backed cache

SAS6/IR (Raid 0/1) hardware based CERC6/IR (Raid 0/1 w/ Cache) PERC 6i Modular (RAID 0/1 w/ battery-backed cache) PERC 6.2 Firmwar

Maximum Drive Bays

Two 2.5" SAS/Solid State hot-swappable drives

Four 2.5" SAS/Solid State hot-swappable drive

Two 2.5” Hot-Swappable SAS/Solid State Drives

Supported Drives

2.5" SAS (10K/15K): 36GB, 73GB, 146GB, 300GB Solid State Drives (SSD): 25GB, 50GB, 100GB, 150GB Maximum Internal Storage: Up to 1.2TB via 4 x 300GB SAS Hard Drive

2.5" SAS (10K/15K): 36GB, 73GB, 146GB, 300GB Solid State Drives (SSD): 25GB, 50GB, 100GB, 150GB Maximum Internal Storage: Up to 1.2TB via 4 x 300GB SAS Hard Drive

Up to two Hot-Swappable Internal Drives: 2.5" SAS (10K rpm): 73GB1, 146GB1 or 300GB1 2.5" SAS (15K rpm): 36GB1, 73GB1 or 146GB1 25GB2, 50GB2 Solid State Drive (SSD) Up to two Hot-Swappable Internal Drives: Up to 600GB2 per blade via two 2.5" 300GB1 hotswappable SAS (10k rpm) hard drives

Other Blade Systems

• Workstation Blades

• Storage Blades

Questions?