Why A Blade Server? More agile & scalable Less setup & installation time Less expensive in long-term deployments Efficient cooling and power consumption

2. Agenda
I. Blade Servers
II. Benefits of Blade Servers
III. What’s Inside?
IV. Types: Dell & HP
V. Functionality
VI. Conclusion

3. Why A Blade Server?
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More agile & scalable
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Less setup & installation time
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Less expensive in long-term deployments
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Efficient cooling and power consumption

4. Blade vs. Rack-mount Server

5. What’s Incside
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Power Supplies & 220V Power
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9-10 Hot Plug Fans
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Redundant Mezzanines

6. What’s Inside?
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Blade Servers (Full or Half Height)
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CPU, Memory, Hard Drives
Chassis

7. Types of Blade Chassis & Servers
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Dell M1000e Blade System (10U)
HP C7000 Blade System (10U)

8. 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)

9. HP Blade System Servers
HP ProLiant BL280c G6
Processor Family
Number of Processors
Processor core Availability
Maximum Memory
Memory Slots
Expansion Slots
Network Controller
Intel® Xeon® 5600 series
Intel® Xeon® 5500 series
HP ProLiant BL2x220c G7
Intel® Xeon® 5600 series
2
2
6 or 4 or 2
6 or 4
192 GB
96 GB
12 DDR3 DIMM slots
6 DDR3 DIMM slots
2
1
(2) 1GbE NC362i 2 Ports
(1) 10GbE NC543i
Flex-10/QDR IB 1 Port
Maximum Drive Bays
(2) SFF SAS/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
(1) SFF SATA/SSD
iLO 3 and HP Insight
Foundation

10. HP Blade System Servers
HP ProLiant BL460c G7
Processor Family
HP ProLiant BL465c G7
HP Proliant BL490c G7 Server
Series
Intel® Xeon® 5600 series
Intel® Xeon® 5500 series
AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series
Intel® Xeon® 5600 series
2
2
2
6 or 4 or 2
8 or 12
6 or 4
384 GB
512 GB
384 GB
12 DDR3 DIMM slots
16 DDR3 DIMM slots
18 DDR3 DIMM slots
1
2
2 I/O expansion mezzanine slots
(1) 10GbE NC553i FlexFabric 2 Ports
(1) 10GbE NC551i
FlexFabric 2 Ports
(1) 10GbE NC553i FlexFabric 2
Ports
(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
iLO 3
iLO 3 and HP Insight
Foundation
iLO 3
8 (c3000)
16 (c7000)
16 (c7000)
8 (c3000)
8 (c3000)
16 (c7000)
Number of Processors
Processor core Availability
Maximum Memory
Memory Slots
Expansion Slots
Network Controller
Maximum Drive Bays
Infrastructure Management
Form Factor (fully configured)

11. HP Blade System Servers
HP ProLiant BL620c G7
HP ProLiant BL680c G5
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
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
1 or 2
2 or 4
2 or 3 or 4
4
4 or 6 or 8 or 10
6 or 4
4 or 6 or 8 or 10
8 or 12
1TB
128GB
2TB
512 GB
32 DDR3 DIMM slots
16 DDR2 DIMM slots
64 DDR3 DIMM slots
32 DDR3 DIMM slots
3
3
7
3
(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
(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
iLO 3
iLO 2
8 (c7000)
4 (c3000)
4 (c3000)
8 (c7000)
Processor Family
Number of Processors
Processor core Availability
Maximum Memory
Memory Slots
Expansion Slots
Network Controller
Maximum Drive Bays
Infrastructure Management
Form Factor (fully configured)
HP ProLiant BL680c G7
HP ProLiant BL685c G7
iLO 3
4 (c7000)
2 (c3000)
8 (c7000)
4 (c3000)

12. 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 batterybacked 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 batterybacked 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 hotswappable 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

13. Other Blade Systems
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Workstation Blades
Storage Blades

14. Questions?