IBM BladeCenter H Chassis

Highlights

• Delivers high performance, energy efficiency and versatility to run the most demanding applications in larger data centres
• Reduces energy bill with leadership high-efficiency power supplies that are 94 percent efficient and 80 PLUS Platinum Certified¹
• Provides more than 12 percent greater performance per watt compared to the competition²
• Protects your investment by being compatible with the entire IBM BladeCenter family.

In todays high-demand enterprise environment, organisations need a reliable infrastructure to run compute-intensive applications with minimal maintenance and downtime. IBM BladeCenter H is a powerful platform built with the enterprise customer in mind, providing extreme performance, innovative architecture and a solid foundation for virtualisation.

Powerful performance

This next-generation chassis is a workhorse, it runs applications quickly and efficiently, enabling organisations to maximise their investment and succeed in a highly competitive market. The powerful BladeCenter H delivers the performance customers need to make informed decisions.

Product features

• New ultra-efficient power supplies (94 percent efficient and 80 PLUS Platinum Certified) and cooling enhancements to support most demanding high-performance blade servers
• Leadership energy efficiency and enterprise high performance
• Open and easy management tools deliver advanced, proactive management, providing rich and broad systems management capabilities
• Predictive Failure Analysis helps save you time and money by decreasing unplanned downtime
• Calibrated Vectored Cooling helps maintain the health of your system by keeping internal components cool

Hardware summary

• 9U rack-optimised chassis
• Up to 14 blade server bays
• Up to four standard, four high-speed and four bridge module bays supporting Virtual Fabric, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE),10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 8 Gb Fibre Channel (FC), InfiniBand and more
• Up to four 2980 W hot-swap and redundant load-balancing power supply modules
• High-availability midplane helps enable maximum uptime and investment protection for future technologies

¹ 80 PLUS Organisation, 2010, visit www.80plus.org (link resides outside of ibm.com) for more information.

² Edison Group, Inc., 2010, visit www.TheEdison.com (link resides outside of ibm.com) for more information.