Today’s forward-thinking organizations are deploying new technologies to help their businesses

innovate and thrive. Many companies are leveraging the resiliency, flexibility, and energy efficiency

that IBM® BladeCenter® technology delivers, with redundant I/O connections on every blade in

every chassis, abundant processor cores, and sizeable memory capacity. To save on hardware and

energy costs, they’re implementing VMware® server virtualization to optimize their IT infrastructure.

Virtualization benefits your data center and your company’s business. You amplify the value of your

server and storage hardware, maximizing the return on your data center investment while

speeding responsiveness to the computing needs of your business units.

IBM and VMware make the transition to virtualization easy to achieve and manage with a powerful, end-to-end

virtualization solution: IBM BladeCenter HS22 blade server with VMware plus IBM System Storage™

DS5020 Express.

IBM BladeCenter and VMware:

End-to-end virtualization solutions

IBM® BladeCenter®

SIMPLIFY AND INTEGrATE WITH IBM BLADECENTEr

As organizations rethink their x86 server strategies, many turn

to the innovative, flexible BladeCenter in order to address the

complexity of sprawling racks and overheated server rooms.

Maybe you’re already simplifying your Linux®, or Microsoft®

Windows® rack and tower systems with BladeCenter, or

you’re carefully considering the benefits, such as using less

floor space and reducing your power consumption without

sacrificing performance.

Virtualization with VMware vSphere™ on BladeCenter utilizes

servers more fully while speeding the deployment of new

services. When virtualizing and consolidating multiple

applications to a single server, you need a platform that’s

reliable, available, and serviceable. You need a platform for

your applications that delivers the required performance and

business continuity within a virtualized environment to run your

business successfully. IBM BladeCenter with the BladeCenter

HS22 is a platform you can rely on to meet these needs.

The IBM BladeCenter HS22 server provides:

Outstanding performance with support for the latest •

Intel® Xeon® processors

Support for High-speed I/O•

High memory capacity and fast memory throughput•

Exceptional I/O bandwidth•

No single point of failure for high reliability and availability•

Outstanding power efficiency so that energy costs do •

not get out of control

The HS22 can run applications up to twice as fast as previous

generation blades. It is supported in all five BladeCenter

chassis, including the BladeCenter E for improved energy

management, and the BladeCenter S for office and distributed

enterprise environments.

The HS22 was designed with virtualization in mind. It offers

flexible I/O options, including Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel,

FCoE, SAS, iSCSI and InfiniBand®. With expanded memory and

support for the embedded VMware ESXi hypervisor, the HS22

blade is ideal for virtualization. In fact, BladeCenter is the only

blade platform with two I/O connections from every blade

in every chassis. reliable I/O and maximum I/O bandwidth

is critical for an effective virtualization solution. This resilient

design provides an added level of protection when running

numerous virtual machines on a single blade server.

ADD VMWArE VSPHErE FOr VIrTUALIzATION

VMware vSphere is the industry’s first cloud operating

system, transforming IT infrastructures into a private cloud

delivering IT infrastructure as a service. With vSphere on IBM

BladeCenter, you can enable the next generation of flexible,

reliable IT services with the efficiency and low cost of cloud

computing—featuring control over service levels.

VMware ESX or ESXi hypervisor software virtualizes your

physical servers so that multiple applications—each with its

“IBM BladeCenter is the only blade platform

that is designed for virtualization with two

I/O connections from every blade in every

chassis. This resilient design provides an

added level of protection when running

numerous virtual machines on a single

blade server.”

VIrTUALIzATION-OPTIMIzED IBM SErVEr AND STOrAGE PLATFOrMS GIVE YOU THE POWEr TO:

Build a highly responsive IT infrastructure•

Reduce power consumption in your data center•

Simplify system management•

Streamline and enhance disaster recovery•

Expand application and operating system options•

operating system—run independently in virtual machines

while sharing physical resources. VMware vSphere software

works in conjunction with ESX or ESXi to provide a complete

virtual infrastructure environment that supports even your most

critical workloads.

VMware vCenter™ delivers centralized management and

automation, and provides a built-in, guided consolidation tool

to easily convert existing physical systems into virtual machines.

VMware VMotion™ enables live migration of virtual machines

without application interruption and can be configured to

dynamically migrate VMs based on performance requirements.

VMware High Availability feature provides automatic restarting

of VM’s in the case of server failure. Fault Tolerance runs mission-

critical workloads on VM’s on two physical servers in lock-step,

eliminating down-time in the event of a server failure. Other

vSphere features include Distributed Power Management for

automatic powering down and up of servers to save energy,

and Thin Provisioning to reduce the amount of storage needed

for virtual machines.

The BladeCenter HS22 supports an optional USB key with

VMware ESXi preloaded for customers wanting a thin hypervisor

embedded on the server. This option provides simplicity and

allows you to virtualize in minutes. It operates in a diskless

configuration and uses a smaller memory footprint. You

immediately simplify your IT infrastructure and drive down

the total cost of ownership with a highly efficient and

available platform.

With VMware and IBM BladeCenter, you can consolidate servers

to save costs, while improving IT efficiency and service delivery.

This enables you to multiply the benefits you already get with

BladeCenter: energy savings for power and cooling, floor-space

savings, and outstanding manageability.

BrING IBM SYSTEM STOrAGE DS5020 EXPrESS INTO THE VIrTUALIzATION MIX

Combining IBM BladeCenter with VMware vSphere helps you

to achieve high application performance and improved server

hardware utilization with lower energy consumption. But for

even greater cost savings and workload management benefits

and to enable key availability and performance capabilities

WHAT COLOr IS YOUr DATA CENTEr?

Today, with increasing interest in energy consumption and

environmental impact, IT discussions are turning toward energy

efficiency, and businesses are looking for ways to optimize their

computing environments to benefit both the bottom line and the

planet. IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ software

can help you to understand the true energy usage of your

BladeCenter server and System Storage solution in real time. IBM

Systems Director Active Energy Manager is one more contributor to

the energy efficiency of the BladeCenter platform with built-in

VMware and IBM DS5020 Express storage.

of VMware, you need the right storage solution. The IBM

System Storage DS5020 Express provides a shared storage

foundation that delivers balanced performance for your

virtualized BladeCenter and VMware solution.

The DS5020 with mixed Fibre Channel and iSCSI host

connectivity will help you to consolidate and simplify

storage for lower overall costs. Features such as Dynamic

Capacity Expansion, Dynamic Volume Expansion, Dynamic

rAID Level Migration and rAID 6 will ensure your data

storage solution grows to meet expanding needs. The IBM

DS Storage Manager software included with the DS5020,

supportive of both SATA and Fibre Channel HDDs in the

same chassis, lets you quickly fit, configure, and monitor

storage according to data demands. Leverage VMware

Site recovery Manager with the IBM DS5020 Enhanced

remote Mirroring for a truly affordable integrated disaster

recovery solution.

Virtualization helps to keep your storage acquisition and

maintenance costs low, and enables you to optimize floor

space and reduce your power and cooling needs. Plus,

extensive interoperability improves your accessibility to

valuable business data, while advanced availability features

raise virtual machine service levels.

MANAGE YOUr SYSTEM INTELLIGENTLY AND AFFOrDABLY

IBM Systems Director 6.1 is an easy-to-use, point-and-click

management solution that streamlines the way physical and

virtual systems are managed together. Leveraging industry

standards, IBM Systems Director supports multiple operating

systems and virtualization technologies across IBM and non-

IBM platforms. Through a single graphical user interface, IBM

Systems Director provides consistent views for visualizing

managed systems, monitors health and usage information,

maintains firmware currency and helps automate IT operations.

IBM Systems Director integrates with VMware vCenter to

permit select vSphere functions to be accessed from IBM

Systems Director. This enables customers to use the same

console for physical and virtual management. It also can

be used to automate operations; for example, virtual server

evacuation can be initiated by defining a System Director

event actions plans which calls VMotion in response to physical

server thresholds or alerts.

IBM Systems Director 6.1 is provided at no additional charge for

use on IBM blade servers. IBM Systems Director functionality

can be extended with plug-ins—such as IBM Systems Director

Active Energy Manager, BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager

and Service and Support Manager—to provide additional

capabilities from a consistent, single point of management.

(Some plug-ins require a license available at additional charge).

SEIzE A POWErFUL VIrTUALIzATION PArTNErSHIP

IBM and VMware know how to deliver the full power of

virtualization. We’ve been collaborating for eight years on

virtualization solutions, delivering deeply integrated

technologies to more than 10,000 joint customers, and

offering far more than simple add-on virtualization. As IBM

and VMware continue to focus on designing and developing

virtualization solutions for running business and mission-

critical workloads, you can continue to rely on the power

of our virtualization partnership to meet your growing

business demands.

FOr MOrE INFOrMATION

To learn more about consolidation and virtualization

solutions, visit:

VMware and IBM solutions: •www.vmware.com/go/ibm

IBM virtualization: •ibm.com/virtualization/vmware

IBM BladeCenter: •ibm.com/systems/bladecenter

IBM DS5020 Express: •ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/ds5000/

IBM Systems Management: •ibm.com/systems/management/

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