Blade servers from IBM

Product Business use Processor
(Max)		 Memory
(Min/Max)		 Internal
storage (Max)

IBM BladeCenter HS12 Express

 Ideal applications include: Applications customers currently run on uniprocessor systems, general business applications including file and print, collaboration and Web serving. Single- or Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® up to 3.0 GHz or Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® up to 2.83 GHz and up to 1333 MHz front-side bus Up to 1 GB standard memory/24 GB with VLP ECC DDR II 667 MHz Up to two internal hot-swap or non-hot-swap solid state, hot- swap SAS or non-hot-swap SATA drives

IBM BladeCenter HS22 Express

 Ideal Applications Include: Virtualization, hosted client, general business and enterprise applications. Choice of two Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors, up to 3.06 GHz Up to 96 GB of VLP DDR-3 memory. Up to 1.0 TB total internal storage

IBM BladeCenter HS22V Express

 Ideal applications include virtualization and memory-intensive applications. Choice of two Intel® Xeon® 5500 or 5600 series processors; supports advanced, standard, basic and low voltage. Up to 288 GB of VLP DDR-3 memory Up to 100 GB total internal storage.

IBM BladeCenter HX5 Express

 Ideal applications include database, virtualization, business intelligence, modeling and simulation and other enterprise applications. 8-core Intel® Xeon® 7500 and 6500 series (up to 2.26 GHz), 6-core Intel Xeon 7500 and 6500 series (up to 2.66 GHz), 4-core Intel Xeon 7500 and 6500 series (up to 1.86 GHz) Up to 2 processors per single-wide HX5; scalable to 4 processors 16 DDR-3 VLP DIMM slots, capacity up to 128 GB, per single-wide HX5 (scalable up to 640 GB max, at speeds up to 1067 MHz, via 80 DIMM slots, using 2 MAX5 expansion blades) Up to two solid-state drives per singlewide HX5

IBM BladeCenter PS700, PS701 and PS702 Express

 The IBM BladeCenter PS700, PS701 and PS702 Express blade servers are an excellent alternative to a traditional entry rack or tower server, and can handle a range of commercial workloads across the broadest OS environments available. Four 64-bit 3.0 GHz POWER7™ cores with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration Base offering: 8 GB (2 x 4 GB); Express offering: 16 GB (4 x 4 GB), up to 64 GB maximum per blade, eight DIMM slots, ECC IBM Chipkill DDR3 SDRAM running at 1066 MHz (4 GB DIMMs) 800 MHz (8 GB DIMMs) 600 GB

IBM BladeCenter PS703 and PS704

 The PS703 helps deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed. When used with PowerVM™ for advanced virtualization, the PS703 is the ideal blade server solution for driving your most demanding performance and memory-intensive workloads. Thirty two 64-bit 2.4 GHz POWER7® cores with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration PS703 16 GB/128 GB
PS704 32 GB/256 GB		 PS703 0 GB/600 GB HDD or 0 GB/400GB Solid State
PS704 0 GB/1.2 TB HDD or 0 GB/800GB Solid State

IBM BladeCenter S Chassis

  • IBM BladeCenter S Chassis

    Business use: All-in-one chassis with integrated, high-performance SAN ideal for small offices and remote branch environments.


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