The industry's first scalable blade server with independent memory expansion just got smarter
Going beyond the industry standards with unique innovations, the new IBM BladeCenter® HX5 offers unparalleled value for your business critical applications. HX5 delivers unprecedented compute performance, memory footprint and I/O bandwidth to enable maximum utilisation in a blade form factor for compute- and memory-intensive enterprise workloads.
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Why choose BladeCenter HX5?
Faster time to value with eX5 enterprise class blade servers
- Get systems up and running up to four times faster by standardising on a single platform for 2- and 4-socket server needs.
- With FlexNode partitioning you can scale your systems to your workloads, splitting a 4-processor system as two 2-processor system and back again without the need for physical reconfiguration.
- Use BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager (US) to pre-configure and automate the failover of HX5 blades.
- Ideal platform for enterprise workloads
- Reduce your total operating costs with a scalable, high-performance blade server designed specifically to support memory- and compute-intensive applications
- Leverage the scalable memory and computing capacity and flexible node partitioning for incremental growth options
- Move off proprietary platforms like Sun SPARC and HP with Itanium to a cost efficient, industry standard platform with enhanced system redundancy and no single point of failure.
- Simplify systems management and reduce operating costs
- The latest HX5 blade servers deliver up to two times the memory per core, enabling more and larger virtual machines per server.
- Reduce your software license costs by expanding memory capacity with MAX5 without purchasing additional processors.
- Virtual fabric I/O support, you get maximum I/O throughput and flexibility.
- The independent scaling of CPU and memory with eX5 delivers customised performance, enabling maximum utilisation.
Key features
IBM BladeCenter HX5 is a scalable, high-performance blade server with unprecedented memory and compute performance, delivering capacity and flexibility for enterprise workloads. The HX5 features:
- Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4800 and E7-2800, enabling up to 20 CPU cores in a 2-socket, single-wide blade server.
- Up to 640 GB memory with MAX5, enabling more or larger VMs per server
- Enhanced computing capacity for more transactions per minute in a blade server
- FlexNode failover and partitioning for unprecedented investment protection and maximum system uptime
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