The New Generation of x86 Server Innovation

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 Clients are under more pressure than ever to maximize the
return on their investments. They must deliver improved
service to their customers with lower risk and while
paying less.
 IBM System x and BladeCenter announce the launch of the
new generation servers, four new offerings equipped with
the new Intel Xeon 5500 Series Processors:
– The IBM System x3550 M2 2-socket rack server
– The IBM System x3650 M2 2-socket rack server
– The IBM BladeCenter HS22 2-socket blade server
– The IBM iDataPlex dx360 M2 2-socket iDataPlex server
 The new generation servers are a completely redesigned set
of offerings including a greater feature set than previous
offerings and improvements in performance, energy
efficiency, virtualization, and management.
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Lower Risk,
Improve Service,
Lower Cost
HS22
dx360 M2x3650 M2
x3550 M2
IBM System x & BladeCenter
System x and BladeCenter

The New Generation of System x and BladeCenter
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Customers’ technology budgets are being consumed by
administration and power costs. IBM can help!
 Expenses for server management and
administration are nearly twice the
capital expense for server purchases
 Energy costs have grown to half of
hardware costs
 And both admin and energy costs
continue to grow rapidly
Source: IDC, Virtualization 2.0: The Next Phase in Customer Adoption, Doc #204904, Dec 2006
 The innovative hardware, tools and systems management of the new
generation servers can help your customers achieve breakthrough
productivity gains through automation, optimization and energy management
 IBM Systems Director 6.1 can help customers save 34% to 42% in
administrative costs when compared with unmanaged environments¹
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Compelling performance gains of the Intel Xeon 5500 Series Processors enables
unprecedented opportunities for business
Compelling performance gains of the Intel Xeon 5500 Series Processors enables
unprecedented opportunities for business
Improved productivity is available for our clients with
unprecedented application performance
 All of the new generation servers boast processor performance improvements of:
– Up to 3.5x the bandwidth for technical computing†
– Up to 2.25x performance for enterprise computing†
– 2x software threads and performance boost on demand
Intel Single-Core
Intel Multi-CoreIntel Multi-Core
Relative Performance
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Performance gains represent a blend (GEO mean)
of five common 2-socket workload types across a
range of typical usages (see details)
†
Source: Intel internal measurements, January 2009.
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Why our customers will care….
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Dynamic Infrastructure
Addressing today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities
Not only ensuring high availability
and quality of existing services, but
also meeting customer expectations
for real-time, dynamic access to
innovative new services.
Not just containing operational cost
and complexity, but achieving
breakthrough productivity gains
through virtualization, optimization,
energy stewardship, and flexible
sourcing.
REDUCE COST
IMPROVE SERVICE
MANAGE RISK
Not only addressing today’s

security, resiliency, and
compliance challenges, but
also preparing for the new
risks posed by an even
more connected and
collaborative world.
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The Launch of the New Generation of IBM Servers
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The New Generation of IBM System x and BladeCenter servers deliver business value
and reduce costs for clients through industry leading scalability, virtualization and
management capabilities.
Significantly reduce operating costs without compromising reliability and
performance
• New energy smart design and efficiency to reduce operational costs
• Unified systems management tools that reduce the cost to deploy and manage
physical and virtualized systems
• Dramatic performance gains with the Intel Xeon 5500 processors
Manage risk in challenging economic conditions
• IBM innovation for reliability and leadership energy efficient design
• Reduce operational and service costs with significantly improved application
performance
Improve the service of IT in both the enterprise and mid-market
• IBM’s trusted leadership, global reach, service and support
• Higher performance to drive new or expanding application workloads

• Ability to respond quickly to changing needs with dynamic management tools
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Reduce Costs through Increased Utilisation
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 All of the new generation products support an
embedded USB hypervisor
 End-to-end virtualization in the BladeCenter
HS22 includes I/O, storage, memory,
management, and services
 Manage a large numbers of physical and virtual
BladeCenter servers with IBM Systems Director 6.1
and save in administration costs
 Up to to 35% when running Windows
and up to 44% when running Linux
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Virtualisation changes everything!
9 A higher degree of server utilisation
9 Simpler, more comprehensive server
management
9 Reliability and availability to minimize downtime
Virtualisation changes everything!
9 A higher degree of server utilisation
9 Simpler, more comprehensive server
management
9 Reliability and availability to minimize downtime

A storage solutions company that
specializes in “heavy” virtualization
needed a solution that will showcase
their own products to the best
advantage. How well their servers
perform in this crucial area directly
impacts their ability to win clients. They
need an offering that “performs on the
bleeding edge.” They chose the HS22
because it delivered.
* "Challenges of Operational Management for Enterprise Server
Installations," International Technology Group, 2008
Virtualistion is the Game Changer
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Reduce Costs Through Energy Efficiency
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 Energy efficiency innovation in the x3550 M2 and
x3650 M2 include:
 New, greater than 92 percent efficiency power
supplies exceed the CSCI 7/09-6/10, 80 Plus Gold
efficiency standard
 Up to 60 percent reduction in power when idle
and up to 25 percent reduction when fully
utilized vs. the previous generation
Significantly reduce TCO with leadership

energy efficiency.
9 All new thermal designs
9 New voltage regulators and higher integration
on the board simplifies power distribution and
reduces distribution loss
9 Active Energy Manager
Significantly reduce TCO with leadership
energy efficiency.
9 All new thermal designs
9 New voltage regulators and higher integration
on the board simplifies power distribution and
reduces distribution loss
9 Active Energy Manager
 Pressure-sensitive altimeter comes
standard in the x3550 M2, x3650 M2, dx360
M2, and select BladeCenter Chassis
 Combined with the IMM, and counter-
rotating fans, the x3550 M2 and x3650 M2
get better cooling efficiency with less
fans
Reduce TCO and Leadership Efficiency
 BladeCenter E still the most power efficient and
rack dense blade chassis available
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Reduce Cost with Increased Performance

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Customers can lower energy costs US$100 per server per year and maintain workload levels
with significantly fewer of the new IBM x3650M2 servers
(1) IBM Engineering Research Study, Feb’09
(2) Based on Intel performance data, 2009
9 x346 Servers
Single-Core proc.
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Quad-Core proc.
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Up to $900 saving
Up to $900 saving
Smart Energy Design and 9:1 Consolidation Ratio
9 50% lower annual energy costs
(1)
9 8.8x more performance per server
(2)
9 89% Floor Space Reduction
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Reduce Cost with Improved Performance
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Save over 93% on energy costs alone; complete ROI as fast as 6 months
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9 Get the same or better performance
9 Reduce your IT footprint by over 95%
9 Get greater than 11:1 consolidation ratio
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BladeCenter blades
(Xeon 5500)
1 BladeCenter E
Chassis
0.17 of a rack
166 2P Rack
1U servers
(Xeon)
3.95 racks
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Manage Risk with Reliability, Availability, Security
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 IBM BladeCenter HS22 and the System x3550
M2 and x3650 M2 have no single point of failure
 Reduce downtime with options such as hot-swap
solid state HDDs
*
Get the peace of mind to run mission-critical
applications.
9 IBM X-Architecture blueprint equips our x86
servers with the IT innovation that makes data
centers more reliable and secure
Get the peace of mind to run mission-critical
applications.
9 IBM X-Architecture blueprint equips our x86
servers with the IT innovation that makes data
centers more reliable and secure
*Available as 32GB and 50GB drives
 Not all blade chassis ‘equal’. IBM BladeCenter design has no
single point of failure
 The ServeRAID-MR10is Vault controller offers full hardware-based
encryption to protect against security threats and costly data breaches
 Predictive Failure Analysis and Light Path Diagnostics for
advance warning on power supplies, fans, VRMs, disks, processors, and
memory and redundant, hot-swap components
A major on-line auctioneer
described the BladeCenter
chassis infrastructure as rock-
solid—the best RAS they have

in their infrastructure. It’s just
one part of their business they
don’t need to worry about.
This is the investment
protection that BladeCenter
offers our customers.
Mission Critical Applications Requires Mission Critical Design
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Improve service with comprehensive systems
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 IBM Systems Director 6.1 makes your data center easy to
configure and deploy
 IBM ToolsCenter reduces complexity of choosing, finding, and
learning platform management tools
Systems Management for the new generation
servers is a complete end-to-end stack
designed to deliver future-proof systems
management today
Systems Management for the new generation
servers is a complete end-to-end stack
designed to deliver future-proof systems
management today
 The standards-based Integrated Management Module (IMM) gives
you better error diagnostics, a virtual presence, and remote

control to more easily manage servers from a central
location
 The new Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) provides a
intuitive interface allowing you to add features and functions
across the all new generation servers quickly
A leading IT analyst said that the
new System x portfolio integrates
advances such as UEFI firmware,
embedded hypervisor support,
integrated storage controllers,
hot-swap hard drives, and a built-
in altimeter that enable
coordinated, system-level
improvements. “These are not
just a few more incremental
server SKUs; this new generation
represents a good opportunity for
systematic server refreshes.”
ToolsCenter
IBM Systems Director
Tivoli Server Management
IMM and UEFI
Management = TCO Benefits and Better ROI
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The New Generation of IBM System x & BladeCenter
IBM System x iDataPlex dx360 M2
• Flexibility of configurations within the solution with compute, I/O, storage
configurations, and wide array of options for networking
• High performance with memory capacity up to 128GB, 1333MHz DDR3 memory
and support for 2 top-bin processors
• Next generation systems management tools
IBM System x iDataPlex dx360 M2
• Flexibility of configurations within the solution with compute, I/O, storage
configurations, and wide array of options for networking
• High performance with memory capacity up to 128GB, 1333MHz DDR3 memory
and support for 2 top-bin processors
• Next generation systems management tools
IBM BladeCenter HS22
• Performance-tuned with memory capacity up to 96GB, speeds up to 1333MHz,
and support for 2 top-bin processors
• Choice of hot-swap drives including SAS, SATA, boot SSD, & performance SSD
• Backwards compatible with all BladeCenter chassis
• Best-in-class server RAS and next generation systems management tools
IBM BladeCenter HS22
• Performance-tuned with memory capacity up to 96GB, speeds up to 1333MHz,
and support for 2 top-bin processors
• Choice of hot-swap drives including SAS, SATA, boot SSD, & performance SSD
• Backwards compatible with all BladeCenter chassis
• Best-in-class server RAS and next generation systems management tools
IBM System x3550 M2 and x3650 M2
• New, energy smart design features low wattage efficient power supplies, counter
rotating fans, altimeter, & advanced power management
• Maximum storage capacity with support for 12 x 2.5” hot swap HDD’s in x3650
M2 and 6 in x3550 M2

• Best-in-class features for reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS)
• Next generation systems management tools
IBM System x3550 M2 and x3650 M2
• New, energy smart design features low wattage efficient power supplies, counter
rotating fans, altimeter, & advanced power management
• Maximum storage capacity with support for 12 x 2.5” hot swap HDD’s in x3650
M2 and 6 in x3550 M2
• Best-in-class features for reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS)
• Next generation systems management tools
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The new generation of IBM servers deliver benefits
across the portfolio
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Same management stack
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Integrated Management Module (IMM)
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Unified Extensive Firmware Interface (UEFI)
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IBM Systems Director 6.1 with Active Energy Manager
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ToolsCenter
Common hardware components
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Embedded hypervisor (internal USB)

9
Hot-swap hard drives (common trays)
9
Integrated storage controller (common LSI chip)
9
Integrated Gigabit Ethernet (5709S)
9
Trusted Platform Module
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Systems Management: the Glue that Ties the
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Hardware Enablement: Firmware and Building Blocks
IMM and UEFI
Resource Management
Platform Management
Enterprise Management

Hardware / Firmware
Management
Integrated Management
Module
Microprocessor based systems
management, control and
monitoring
IMM
Management
uEFI
Unified Extensible Framework
Interface
Replace the 1980’s BIOS with new
Firmware Stack
Management
Systems
Director
IBM Systems Director 6.1
Install, Manage, Optimise,
Troubleshoot
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Resource Management: IBM ToolsCenter
ToolsCenter
Resource Management

Platform Management
Enterprise Management
Hardware / Firmware
Management
Trouble?
Diagnostics & Help
Dynamic System Analysis
Tools Info Center
Management
Manage
Configuration & Update
Advanced Setting Utility
Storage Configuration Manager
Update Express System Packs
Management
Deployment
ServerGuide
Start Now Advisor
Bootable Media Creator
Scripting Toolkit
Deploy
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Systems Director 6.1

Resource Management
Platform Management
Enterprise Management
Hardware / Firmware
Management
Extend
Expand Functionality
Active Energy Manager
Server & Support Manager
Tivoli Provisioning Manager
Open Fabric Manager
Management
Manage
Configuration & Update
Virtualisation Manager
Health and Status
Monitors of critical resources and
thresholds
Management
Deployment
Discovery and Configuration
Powerful resource grouping
Intuitive health-summary
Event filters and automation plans
Deploy
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Enterprise Management: Upward Integration
Upward Integration
Resource Management
Platform Management
Enterprise Management
Hardware / Firmware
Management
Integrate
HP OpenView
Management
Tivoli &
Systems
Director
The Combination
Virtualisation Management
Energy Management
Availability Management
Management
Tivoli
Enterprise Wide
Centralized Visibility & Control
Data Center Infrastructure Assets
Facility Infrastructure Assets
IT Assets
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Online Help
System x
IBM Systems Director
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Diagnostics
System x
Updates
System x
Configuration
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Deployment
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