| Form factor |
Single-wide (30 mm) |
| Processor (max) |
Choice of two Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors, up to 3.60 GHz |
| Number of processors (std/max) |
1/2 |
| Memory (max) |
Twelve DDR-3 VLP DIMM slots (up to 192 GB of total memory capacity and memory speeds up to 1333 MHz) with memory sparing |
| Expansion slots |
One CIOv slot (standard PCIe daughter card) and one CFFh slot (high-speed PCIe daughter card) for a total of eight ports of I/O to each blade, including 4 ports of high-speed I/O |
| Disk bays (total/hot-swap) |
Two hot-swap bays supporting SAS HDDs or solid-state drives |
| Maximum internal storage |
Up to 1.0 TB total internal storage |
| Network interface |
Virtual Fabric Adapter (10 GbE) ships integrated in some models Broadcom 5709S onboard NIC with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports with TOE |
| Hot-swap components |
Internal storage bays |
| RAID support |
RAID-0, -1 and -1E (optional RAID-5 with battery-backed cache) |
| Systems management |
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), IBM Integrated Management Module (IMM), Predictive Failure Analysis, optional embedded hypervisor for virtualization, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™, light path diagnostics, IBM Systems Director and IBM ServerGuide™ |
| Operating systems supported |
Microsoft® Windows®, Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, SUSE Linux Enterprise, VMware, Oracle Solaris |
| Limited warranty |
Three-year customer replaceable unit and onsite and offsite limited warranty |