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These configurations are summarized in Table 1-1.

Table 1-1 IBM PureFlex System configurations

The fundamental building blocks of IBM PureFlex System solutions are the IBM Flex System

Enterprise Chassis complete with compute nodes, networking, and storage.

For more information about IBM PureFlex System, see Chapter 2, “IBM PureFlex System” on

page 11.

1.2 IBM PureApplication System

IBM PureApplication System is a platform system that includes a full application platform set

of middleware and expertise in with the IBM PureFlex System. It can be controlled with a

single management console. This workload-aware, flexible platform is easy to deploy,

customize, safeguard, and manage in a traditional or private cloud environment. IBM

PureApplication System ultimately provides superior IT economics.

With the IBM PureApplication System, you can provision your own patterns of software,

middleware, and virtual system resources. You can provision these patterns within a unique

framework that is shaped by IT guidelines and industry standards. These standards have

been culled from many years of IBM experience with clients and a deep understanding of

computing. These IT guidelines and standards are infused throughout the system.

Component IBM PureFlex System

Express

IBM PureFlex System

Standard

IBM PureFlex System

Enterprise

IBM PureFlex System 42U

Rack

111

IBM Flex System Enterprise

Chassis

111

IBM Flex System Fabric

EN4093 10 Gb Scalable

Switch

1 1 2 with both port-count

upgrades

IBM Flex System FC3171 8 Gb

SAN Switch

122

IBM Flex System Manager

Node

111

IBM Flex System Manager

software license

IBM Flex System Manager

with 1-year service and

support

IBM Flex System Manager

Advanced with 3-year

service and support

Flex System Manager

Advanced with 3-year

service and support

Chassis Management Module 2 2 2

Chassis power supplies

(std/max)

2 / 6 4 / 6 6 / 6

Chassis 80 mm fan modules

(std/max)

4 / 8 6 / 8 8 / 8

IBM Storwize® V7000 Disk

System

Yes (redundant controller) Yes (redundant controller) Yes (redundant controller)

IBM Storwize V7000 Software Base with 1-year software

maintenance agreement

Base with 3-year software

maintenance agreement

Base with 3-year software

maintenance agreement

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IBM PureApplication System provides the following advantages:

򐂰 IBM builds expertise into preintegrated deployment patterns, which can speed the

development and delivery of new services

򐂰 By automating key processes such as application deployment, PureApplication System

built-in expertise capabilities can reduce the cost and time required to manage an

infrastructure

򐂰 Built-in application optimization expertise reduces the number of unplanned outages

through guidelines and automation of the manual processes identified as sources of those

outages

򐂰 Administrators can use built-in application elasticity to scale up or to scale down

automatically. Systems can use data replication to increase availability.

Patterns of expertise can automatically balance, manage, and optimize the elements

necessary, from the underlying hardware resources up through the middleware and software.

These patterns of expertise help deliver and manage business processes, services, and

applications by encapsulating guidelines and expertise into a repeatable and deployable form.

This knowledge and expertise has been gained from decades of optimizing the deployment

and management of data centers, software infrastructures, and applications around the

world.

These patterns help you achieve the following types of value:

򐂰 Agility: As you seek to innovate to bring products and services to market faster, you need

fast time-to-value. Expertise built into a solution can eliminate manual steps, automate

delivery, and support innovation.

򐂰 Efficiency: To reduce costs and conserve valuable resources, get the most from your

systems in terms of energy efficiency, simple management, and fast, automated response

to problems. With built-in expertise, you can optimize your critical business applications

and get the most out of your investments.

򐂰 Increased simplicity: You need a less complex environment. Patterns of expertise can help

you easily consolidate diverse servers, storage, and applications onto an

easier-to-manage, integrated system.

򐂰 Control: With optimized patterns of expertise, you can accelerate cloud implementations

to lower risk by improving security and reducing human error.

IBM PureApplication System is available in four configurations. These configuration options

enable you to choose the size and compute power that meets your needs for application

infrastructure. You can upgrade to the next size when your organization requires more

capacity, and in most cases, you can do so without taking an application downtime.