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IBM Flex System™ The elements of an IBM PureFlex System

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• 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

The world’s best blade offering… Starts with IBM PureFlex & Flex System

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Add Flex System Manager for Simplified Management IntegrationIncrease control and productivity, while decreasing management costs

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• 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

Management

Networking

Virtualization

Storage

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Compute

Chassis MapGlobal FindSetup Wizards Remote Presence

IBM Flex System Manager

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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automatically notify you when a system is out of date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

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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

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Image management and deploymentTasks for Virtual Appliances Deploy Import Capture Versioning

meta-data

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Remote Control

Resizable

Flyover Details

Powerful Toolbar – power on/off, mount local files, etc.

Watch a reboot progress in background

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Compute IBM Flex System x240

IBM Flex System x240 - Enterprise Class

2x Hot Swap, Small Form Factor HDDs

24 LP

DIMMs

2x Intel E5 2600Processors

2x IO Mezzanine Cards

Keyboard, Mouse, Video Dongle connector

Release latch

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

Uncompromised Compute, IO, and Storage performance, designed for mainstream virtualization,

and a broad range of workloads

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100% vs. Cisco B200 M3 (384GB) 50% vs. HP BL 460c Gen8 (512GB)

For Virtualization IBM Flex System x240 delivers

95% more VMs vs. Cisco B200 M337% more VMs vs. HP BL460 Gen 819% more VMs vs. Dell M620 (w/ 2.9Ghz CPU)

Flex System x240 – No Compromise Virtualization Platform

32% faster than Dell M620 (2.2GHz)7% faster than HP BL460 (2.7Ghz)

50% more DIMMS vs. HP BL 460c Gen8*Dell compromised when using 135W proc.

IBM X240

HP BL460

Cisco B200 M3

Dell M620

Max # of VMs 82 60 4282 (69 w/ 2.9Ghz)

Max Memory Capacity

768 GB 512 GB 384 GB 768 GB

DIMM Slots 24 16 2424* (20 w/

135W proc.)

CPU supported at Max Memory Config

2.90GHz 135W

2.70GHz 130W

2.90GHz135W

2.20GHz 95W

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

IBM Flex System x240 delivers #1 VMmark 2.0

Benchmark across all Blades

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Multi-generation

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IBM Flex System- No Compromise Design

50%more

memory

200%more

networking bandwidth

300%more

dedicated storage

50%networking

latencyimprovement

IBM Flex System x240 (768GB) vs. HP BL 460c Gen8 (512GB)

IBM Flex System Fabric 10Gb switch 240Gb vs. HP 10Gb switch 80Gb

IBM Flex System Flash adds up to 8 400GB SSDs (x240 with Flex System Flash 3.2TB vs. Dell M610 800GB)

Node to node traffic is contained within the chassis to reduce TOR switch latency*

Built to support your datacenter today and tomorrow

* Estimated Results. Results will vary depending on customer environment

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Virtual Fabric SolutionClients 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

Up to 8 Virtual Ports

per adapter

Future upgrade – FCoE & iSCSI

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Management Choice: Switch Interface, CLI or-Open Fabric Manager*

*Future Upgrade Option

Up to 8 Virtual Portsper adapter

Map each Virtual adapter to port groups

Configure few ports asVirtual CNA*

No separate HBA needed!

FCoE Feature Entitlement Upgrade*

CNA

CNA

Create Virtual groups and Assign one uplink per group

Virtual Fabric offers the Benefits of both Virtual NIC and IO Convergence on a Single end-to-end Solution.

2.5Gb

5Gb

2.5Gb

10Gb

* Planned Future Support

• FCoE Ready

• Simplifies Deployment

•Reduces Management

•Assigns Bandwidth in 100Mb Increments

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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/HypervisorMinimum of 100Mb - Maximum of 10Gb

• Ability allocate uplink bandwidth100G of uplink bandwidthAssign 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

10G Link

Virtual Pipes

vNIC Group