Fast, easy installation and maintenance to help protect your IT investment
Integrates well into any chassis for enhanced flexibility
Helps reduce power and cooling costs without sacrificing performance
A flexible, integrated solution
Organizations need reliable servers that offer consistent performance with minimal maintenance. IBM BladeCenter® HS21 is simple to install and maintain, integrates into all BladeCenter chassis at power-efficient envelopes and offers key features for fewer maintenance hassles, such as:
Predictive Failure Analysis®, light path diagnostics and an integrated System Management Processor for more accurate problem-solving.
Remote management from a single graphical console with IBM Director for automated tasks.
Product features
Hardware summary
Revolutionary blade form factor delivers flexibility and simplicity for the data center
Integrated System Management Processor, light path diagnostics, and Predictive Failure Analysis combine to provide powerful management capabilities
IBM Director provides remote management from a single graphical console—helping simplify and automate IT and networking tasks
Easily add or change blades without disrupting the operation of other blades installed in the chassis
Features up to two high-performance Dual-Core or Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processors
1 GB standard/16 GB maximum memory per blade (32 GB with Memory and I/O Expansion Unit)
Two Gigabit Ethernet controllers standard, with load balancing and failover features, up to eight Ethernet ports per blade optional
Expansion capabilities for iSCSI, 2 Gb or 4 Gb Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, Myrinet, and 1X or 4X InfiniBand®
