IBM BladeCenter HX5

Form factor/height Singlewide (30 mm) – double-wide (60 mm)
Processor (max) Intel Xeon E7-8800, E7-4800 and E7-2800 processors; 6/8/10 cores, up to 2.67 GHz
Up to 2 processors per single-wide HX5; scalable to 4 processors
Number of processors (std/max) 1/2 (scalable to 4)
Cache (max) Up to 30 MB per processor (10 core)
Memory (max) 16 DDR-3 VLP DIMM slots, capacity up to 512 GB, per single-wide HX5, 1.0 TB for a 4-socket HX5 configuration, and 1.25 TB for an HX5 + MAX5 configuration
Expansion slots
  • 1 CIOv slot (standard PCIe daughter card) and 1 CFFh slot (high-speed PCIe daughter card) for total of 8 ports of I/O to each blade, including 4 ports of high-speed I/O
  • Scalable up to 16 ports of I/O in 4-socket, double-wide form factor
Disk bays (total/hot swap) Two non-hot-swap bays supporting solid-state drives per single-wide HX5
Maximum internal storage Up to 800 GB of solid-state storage per single-wide HX5 (with 400 GB SSDs)
Network interface Broadcom 5709S onboard NIC with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports with TOE
RAID support Optional RAID-0, -1, -1E
Systems management Integrated systems management processor
Operating systems supported Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, VMware
Limited warranty 3-year customer replaceable unit and on-site limited warranty

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