Blades

HP VS IBM Blades (IBM Biased)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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IBM	HP
Chassis flexibility Provides a variety of chassis offerings to meet your specific needs BladeCenter S, BladeCenter E, BladeCenter H, BladeCenter T, BladeCenter HT, Common set of blades, switches, I/O fabrics and management infrastructure	BladeSystem c-Class, BladeSystem p-Class, bh 5700 ATCA
Blade server flexibility Provides a large selection of blades optimized for specific workloads Intel® Xeon®, AMD Opteron, IBM POWER™, Cell BE™	Intel Xeon, AMD Opteron, Intel Itanium®
Legacy I/O support Provides a more seamless transition from industry-standard rack and/or tower servers to blade servers PCI Expansion Module	-- PCI Expansion Module, (c-class only)
Next-generation local storage Helps improve reliability Solid State Drives (SSD)	--
Storage flexibility Provides choices to meet your specific storage needs External: NAS, FC SAN, iSCSI SAN, SAS Internal: Solid State, Flash, SAS, SATA	External: NAS, FC SAN, iSCSI SAN Internal: Flash, SAS, SATA
Redundancy Helps provide end-to-end high availability IBM designs its blades with redundant connections and its chassis with a redundant-path midplane	--
Illuminated path to blade components Helps improve reliability by identifying a component in need of maintenance—even without system power Light Path Diagnostics	-- Limited functionality
Event identification Helps simplify problem determination First Failure Data Capture	--
Integrated 10Gb Ethernet switch modules Delivers additional bandwidth between the blade, the chassis and the network BladeCenter H, BladeCenter HT	Announced on c-Class only, but not available yet
Integrated 4X InfiniBand® switch modules Provides a high-speed, low latency interconnect enabling I/O virtualization and HPC Two ports/card, managed	Two ports/card unmanaged
Blade deployment and redeployment Helps reduce the time it takes to deploy servers, data and storage to minutes or hours instead of days or weeks. Open Fabric Manager, Uses standard switches, single login across 100 chassis	Virtual Connect, Uses proprietary switches, single login across four chassis
Efficient utilization of available power resources Helps optimize resources and save money PowerExecutive™	Power Regulator, Less functionality and over $400 charge

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