X86 VisionProduct Line, Bricks, Blades,

Virtualisation, Energy Efficiency

Tikiri Wanduragala

Snr. Consultant Server Systems

Overview• Event Driven World• Centralised computing

– SW Model – Server Consolidation– Desktop Consolidation

• Scale up and Scale out• Market driven systems

– Volumes– Rapid Evolution of Technology

• Virtualisation Revolution in x86 market• Energy efficiency

Innovation and Technical Leadership - The Server Portfolio

Source: xSeries Linux Marketing Management & Strategy

Customer value

IBM's best technology

Shared innovation

Faster servers

Improved availability

Faster to market

Investment leverage

Series UniqueTechnologies

z/OS, AIX 5L™, OS/400, Windows Operating System, FICON Express

SharedComponents

BladeCenter, Linux, Processors, I/O Power, Hardware Console, Adapters, Switches,

Power/Mechanical frames

Autonomic Computing

WorkLoad Mgr,Virtualization, Partitioning, Security, Systems Mgmt

System z9 ™

System p5™

System x™System i5™

Enterprise Storage Server™

BladeCenter™

Virtualisation – The Killer Application

• “Build your own server”

• Increase workloads by combining applications

• Reduce physical population of servers

• Reduce management by automating tasks

• SW server – break link with HW

• Efficient Energy Utilisation

Virtualisation – Path

• Virtualise Server Apps

• Virtualise I/O / Storage– IBM Open Fabric Manager SW

• Virtualise Desktops– Security– Service / Support– Energy Efficiency 150W -> 15W

“a server or desktop is a file”

Combining Bricks & BladesA Smart, Flexible, Energy Efficient - Computing Platform

StorageBackup

Network

Management & Control IBM Advantage•Blades

•Stable Compatible Proven Platform since 2002•Choice

•Processors•Switches•Chassis

•Energy Efficiency

IBM Advantage•Bricks

•Industry Leading Scalability•Industry Leading Performance•Optimised Memory System•Virtualisation ready•Proven Platform since 2001•Energy Efficiency

Brick Blade CombinationNo Single Point of FailureEnergy & Systems ManagementScale-up Scale-outInvestment/Technology Protection

Portfolio that Covers the Spectrum of Business Needs

BladeCenter

Enterprise eX4

iDataPlex

IBM give you the RIGHT choice for your business needs• Scale Up Enterprise eX4 Rack Servers for Consolidation ,Virtualization and Database Serving

• Scale Out BladeCenter for Infrastructure Simplification and Application Serving

• Scale Out iDataPlex for Internet Scale Applications.

Infrastructure Simplification,

Application Serving

Web 2.0, HPC, Grid

Server Consolidation, Virtualization

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Scale out / distributed computing

BladeCenter TBladeCenter H

Large symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP)

‘Bricks’

‘Blades’

LS21

x3755

HS21

‘Classic Servers’

Platforms for Virtualisation

IBM System x3950 M2 The Next Generation of X-Architecture

ENTERPRISE

Intel® Quad Core Xeon processor for greater peak protection

Outstanding performance leveraging both the advancements of the X4 Architecture and the new Intel® CoreTM Microarchitecture

Easy to expand and scale with Scalability Wizard

Greater Memory support in junction with VMware 3.1 128GB memory support

Secure design with the onboard Trusted Platform Module (TPM) that

Delivers embedded virtualization with the new VMware ESX 3i on board

IBM System x3950 M2 – Server Consolidation Industry Leading Virtualisation Platform

ENTERPRISE

"This is the game changer here: an IBM data-class machine with four

quad-core processors ... running an embedded hypervisor.

Mark Schlackvice president of Editorial, Storage and

Windows Media Groups, TechTarget Inc.

Layer 2 Switches

SSL Appliances

Caching Appliances

Storage Fibre

Switches

Storage Fibre

Switches

SSL Appliances

Caching Appliances

Step 1Consolidate Servers

File/PrintServers

WebServers

SecurityGateway

WebSphere Application

Servers

ERPServers

ApplicationServers

SecurityServers

SCMServers

SAN

Layer 4-7 Switches

Public Internet/Intranet Clients

Routers (Layer 3

Switches)

Firewalls

Clients

Web F/P WSGateApp Sec SCMERPW

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Storage Fibre

Switches

SSL Appliances

Caching Appliances

SSL Appliances

Caching Appliances

Step 2Integrate First Layerof the Network (L2)

Storage Fibre

Switches

SAN

Layer 4-7 Switches

Public Internet/Intranet Clients

Routers (Layer 3

Switches)

Firewalls

Layer 2 Switches

WebF/P

GateApp Sec

SCMERPWS

Storage Fibre

Switches

Storage Fibre

Switches

SSL Appliances

Caching Appliances

SSL Appliances

Caching Appliances

Step 3Integrate Storage Fabric

Layer 4-7 Switches

Public Internet/Intranet Clients

Routers (Layer 3

Switches)

Firewalls

SAN

WebF/P

GateApp Sec

SCMERPWS

SSL Appliances

Caching Appliances

SSL Appliances

Caching Appliances

Layer 4-7 Switches

Public Internet/Intranet Clients

Routers (Layer 3

Switches)

Firewalls

SAN

Step 4Integrate Second Layerof the Network (L4-7)

WebF/P

GateApp Sec

SCMERPWS

Step 5Consolidate Applications

SSL Appliances

Caching Appliances

SSL Appliances

Caching Appliances

Public Internet/Intranet Clients

Routers (Layer 3

Switches)

Firewalls

SAN

WebF/P

GateApp Sec

SCMERPWS

WebF/P

GateApp Sec

SCMERPWS

Public Internet/Intranet Clients

Routers (Layer 3

Switches)

Firewalls

SAN

Step 6Consolidate Clients

Web

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ResultBladeCenterCollapses Complexity:

Reduce costs 1/4Reduce power costs 1/3Reduce floor space 1/2Integrate into 1

IBM BladeCenter – 5 Reasons

1.No

2.Single

3.Point

4.Of

5.Failure

IBM BladeCenter HT Ruggedized, high performance

IBM BladeCenter E Best energy efficiency,

best density

IBM BladeCenter H High performance

IBM BladeCenter T Ruggedized

A common set of bladesA common set of industry-standard switches and I/O fabrics

A common management infrastructure

Extend blade benefits to your entire business

RIGHT

IBM BladeCenter S Distributed, small office,

easy to configure

RIGHT

IBM BladeCenter®

© 2006 IBM Corporation

HS21Proc: Xeon Quad CoreMem: 4 DIMM / 16GBHDD: 2

HS21 XMProc: Xeon Quad CoreMem: 8 DIMM / 32GBHDD: 1

LS21Proc: Opteron Dual CoreMem: 8 DIMM / 32GBHDD: 1

LS41Proc: Opteron Dual CoreMem: 16 DIMM / 64GBHDD: 2

HC10Proc: Conroe dual core Mem: 4 DIMM/8GBHDD: 1

QS21Proc: Cell BEMem: 2GB (XDR)HDD: 1

JS12Proc: PowerPCMem:4 DIMM / 16GB

HDD: 2

IBM BladeCenter S

• Integrated business-in-a box foundation with configurable shared storage

• Big IT results even from the smallest IT staffs to deliver big IT results

• Easy with “select-and-click” configurability

• Office-friendly 240v power

• Grows with your business

• Optimised for small office environments

All-in-one gets you up and running fast

RIGHT

Blade Deployment Made Easy

Software utility in Advanced Management Module MAC, WWN address assignment and management for initial blade deployment and

re-deployment

Optional standalone utility for advanced functions MAC, WWN Address assignment and management for initial blade deployment and

re-deployment Creates blade failover pools – Event Action Plans Provides I/O parameter and VLAN migration in case of

failover

Embedded switch enhancements Easy to use GUI for switch configuration Switch stacking for network simplification

Open Fabric Manager

IBM BladeCenterOpen Fabric

Open Fabric Manager in AMM simplifies server deployment and failover

Blade 2 Blade 2

BladeCenter

VLAN B

VLAN D

VLAN A

VLAN C

Ethernet MAC addressesare assigned to blade slot by

AMM

Blade 1 Blade 1

MA

C 1

MA

C 2

Blade 14 Blade 14

MA

C 3

MA

C 4

ManagementModule

ManagementModule

Any switch or pass through

Open Fabric Manager in AMM simplifies server deployment and failover

Blade 1 Blade 1

BladeCenter

VLAN B

VLAN A

Any switch or pass through

MA

C 1

MA

C 2

Blade 2 Blade 2

MA

C 3

MA

C 4

SpareBlade SpareBlade

MA

C 3MA

C 4

ManagementModule

ManagementModule

Blade 14 Blade 14 VLAN D

VLAN C

New blade inherits I/O addressesmove to new blade assigned to

slot

Manage failover across your data center

1) Blade X fails in chassis SIX 3) Blade Y in chassis FORTY receives blade X I/O parameters

2) Failover pool event action plan executes

The real picture from data center input to usage: Where are the W consumed ?

Memory; 11%

Fans; 9%

Processor

30%

HVAC,UPS 40%

IT power

60%

Used Resource

20%

= 3,6% of total

Idle;

80%

+1 W equiv. used ressource5 W equiv processor16 W equiv IT power27 W data center

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Data Center

Servers Hardware

Server Loads

X1,7 x3 x5

Planar; 4%

PCI; 3%Drives; 6%

Standby; 2%

DC/DC losses; 10%

AC/DC losses; 25%

Need one more W of compute energy ?

Typical Utilization Mainframe 80 – 90%Unix 10 – 20% Wintel 5 – 12%

SPL Sites & Facilities GTS STG Systems Design

STG Lab Services

GTS DC Design – Southbank Ground Floor Lab

Passive Power Continues to Explode

• Power components:– Active power– Passive power

• Sub-threshold leakage (source-drain leakage)

–Gate leakage Po

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Gate Length (microns)

Active Power

Passive Power

1994 2005

Gate Length (microns)

Gate Leakage

Multi-Threaded, Multi-Core Chips Are Enabling Power-Efficient, High-Performance Processors

• Use multiple cores at lower frequency to speed-up parallel part of a program, and single core at higher frequency for sequential parts, to minimize power consumption

• Variety of techniques are becoming available to exploit multi-threaded and multi-core processors

– Enhancements to compilers and operating systems

– Extensions to and new programming languages

• Application optimization at chip level will be achieved with different size cores, cores with dedicated SW functionality and accelerators

MIPS

MIPS/Watt

Multi-coreexploitation

Single core

Scale-up

C

L2

C

C

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Scale-out

L2

C

CC

C

AA

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C C

C C C

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C C

C C C

Small Core

C Large Core

C CMedium

Core Accelerator

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Other44%

Planar4%

PCI3%

Memory11%

Processor30%

Standby2%

HDD6%

Processor

Memory

PCI

Planar

HDD

Standby

Other

What’s Using the Power?• The processor power growth is the largest single contributor but there are many

other areas - the more you pack into a server the more power it needs!

OTHER?

•AC to DC Transitions

•DC to DC Deliveries

•Fans and air movement

Low Voltage processors help

in this area

BladeCenter helps in this area

HDD7%

Standby2%

Processor46%

Memory13%

PCI4%

Planar5%

Other25% Processor

Memory

PCI

Planar

HDD

Standby

Other

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Simple, powerful and easy power management

Trackheat emitted

Compare rackactual power vs.label power

Trend poweruse over time

Compare actual vs. name platepower at system level

View inlet andexhaust temperature

Trend temperatureover time

GREEN

Power, Can Virtualization Help?• Typical Intel type server utilization is quite low (15 - 40%)• Tools like VMWare can increase utilization and unlock new

processing capability for scale up and scale out without adding to power at the rack level

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Power and CoolingFinancial Services – High Density Computing Deployment

Client requirements High density blade deployment for compute

intensive financial applications Limited floor space and limited power

availability High availability and resiliency Cost and energy efficient

Solution 2,100 blades in 1100 m2 IBM Integrated Rack Solution for High Density Integrated networking, power management

and environmental monitoring

Benefits Centre enclosed cold aisle layout enables 6kW

per m2 or 25kW/rack Significant reduction in data center size and

number of air conditioning units – cooling efficiency increased by 40-60%

Reduction of 15-25% in space needed for cabling; improves air flow distribution

x86 Linux master cluster

Cell/B.E. accelerator

cluster

HYBRID supercomputing

Targeting 1.4 petaflop peak, 1.0 petaflop sustained performance

Combining Bricks & BladesA Smart, Flexible, Energy Efficient - Computing Platform

StorageBackup

Network

Management & Control IBM Advantage•Blades

•Stable Compatible Proven Platform since 2002•Choice

•Processors•Switches•Chassis

•Energy Efficiency

IBM Advantage•Bricks

•Industry Leading Scalability•Industry Leading Performance•Optimised Memory System•Virtualisation ready•Proven Platform since 2001•Energy Efficiency

Brick Blade CombinationNo Single Point of FailureEnergy & Systems ManagementScale-up Scale-outInvestment/Technology Protection