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?