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Intel® Blade Server Management System
Intel Blade server technology is ideal for centralised application delivery and core IT services. The Blade chassis provides all the scalability and resilience in one 7U chassis to support your enterprise's constant processing demands. The Blade server chassis architecture allows for expansion in power, connectivity and compute blades servers in real-time as your business changes without affecting your core infrastructure. All Intel blade systems come with management console and software to make management and deployment easy.
The proliferation of rack-based servers has created a huge server management
chore for most data centre managers. Before a new server can be fully deployed,
it requires going through the process of updating the firmware and BIOS, then
installing the operating system, patches, middleware and applications. Next
comes the configuration of one or more network cards with appropriate network
settings. This complex process often takes hours for each server and becomes
impractical in a blade environment with dozens or even hundreds of server compute
blades. In addition, because hardware resources cannot easily be shared among
applications, over-provisioning and under-utilisation of servers is common.
Intel® Deployment Manager by VERITAS OpForce™
Moving to the Intel® Enterprise Blade Server Family allows you to add compute
blades to your data centre in a simple, automated fashion. Using the Intel®
Deployment Manager by VERITAS OpForce™, you can provision servers on-demand,
thus reducing over-provisioning and achieving a far more efficient utilisation
of your server resources.
Intel Deployment Manager can rapidly and efficiently provision a large number
of servers, simultaneously and remotely. Intel Deployment Manager auto-discovers
servers in the bare-metal state (no OS available) and loads a snapshot of the
complete and fully configured server. You can provision dozens of server blades
in minutes. Administrators use the same Web console to deploy application and
OS patches, as well as to quickly upgrade BIOS, firmware, and RAID configurations.
You can also use Intel Deployment Manager to automatically and remotely restore
and back up servers.
Intel® Server Management Module
The Intel Server Management Module SBCECMM, integrated into the Intel® Server
Chassis SBCE, provides a secure, single point of control for managing all blades
in the chassis and hides complexities caused by differences in underlying hardware
and software. Key features include:
- Easy to use web-based graphical user interface for control and monitoring
of all blades and chassis components (blades and switches)
- Remote out-of-band management regardless of OS
- Integrated KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) switch for full text and graphical
access to any blade server console from anywhere on the network
- Group operations for easier configuration
- Emergency management access over LAN
- Integration into enterprise management consoles via SNMP
- Automated thermal monitoring and blower speed regulation for improved cooling
- Intel® Light-Guided Diagnostics for fast failure resolution
- Redundancy and failover via optional second management module
| Features | Benefits |
| Web-based console | Efficiently manage hundreds of blade servers and chassis from a single location anywhere on the network |
| Automated deployment | Reduce time for server deployment by automatically and simultaneously installing and configuring applications, OS patches and service packs, firmware, BIOS and RAID configurations on multiple servers |
| Auto-discovery of resources | Avoid the need to visit servers to identify available resources (blade chassis and servers) even in bare-metal (i.e. no OS available) state |
| Server Pre-deployment | Define policies on chassis slot number to provision a blade server automatically upon insertion into the chassis |
| Save full or incremental snapshots | Quick restoration of server to original configuration by deploying stored snapshot |
| Create custom scripts and schedule jobs | Automatically schedule one-time or recurring tasks |
| Role-based administration | Enhance and maintain data centre security through granular role-based permissions and controls |
| Software license usage tracking | Aid better utilisation and compliance with software licenses |
| Blade Server Components | ||
| • | Blade Server Chassis | 7U Chassis accommodating up to 14 blade servers, multiple power supplies, network switching fabric and management controller |
| • | Server Blades (dual CPU) | Up to dual Xeon processor compute blades (800FSB) |
| • | Server Blades (Quad CPU) | Up to quad Xeon processor compute blades |
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