BladeCenter blade servers

Versatile, easy-to-use blade optimized for performance, power and cooling - ideal for most enterprise applications including virtualization, hosted client and SAP.

• Processor (Max)2-socket quad-core Intel® Xeon® Processor
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• Internal Memory (max)Up to 96GB
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• Storage (max)Up to 600GB with 2 hot-swap SAS, SATA or solid-state drives

Cost-efficient uniprocessor blade ideal for general business applications such as file and print, collaboration and Web serving.

• Processor (Max)1-socket single, dual or quad-core Intel® Xeon® Processor
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• Internal Memory (max)Up to 24GB
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• Storage (max)Up to 293.6GB¹ with hot-swap SAS or non-hot-swap SATA HDDs or up to 32GB with hot swap or non-hot swap solid-state drives.

High-density blade server with expanded memory ideal for optimizing performance for virtualization, collaboration, clusters and compute-centric applications.

• Processor (Max)2-socket dual-Core or quad-core Intel® Xeon® Processor
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• Internal Memory (max)Up to 64GB
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• Storage (max)Up to 587.2GB with 1 SAS HDD or 2 solid-state Drives or 1 IBM Modular Flash Drive

Scalable SMP blade ideal for high performance computing, virtualization, consolidation and database applications.

• Processor (Max)2 and 4-socket, six-core or quad-core AMD Opteron™
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• Internal Memory (max)Up to 128GB
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• Storage (max)Up to 62.8GB using solid-state drives or up to 293.6GB internally with 2 SAS HDDs; up to 734GB with Storage and I/O Expansion blade installed

High Performance Computing blade ideal for memory-intensive applications including research, modeling and simulation.

• Processor (Max)2-socket, six-core or quad-core AMD Opteron™
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• Internal Memory (max)Up to 64GB
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• Storage (max)Up to 62.8GB using solid-state drives or up to 293.6GB internally with 2 SAS HDDs; up to 734GB with Storage and I/O Expansion blade installed

Delivering on the promise of a truly Dynamic Infrastructure®, the BladeCenter JS23 helps in delivering superior business and IT services with agility and speed—all in a simple-to–manage, highly efficient way.

• Processor (Max)Four 64-bit 4.2 GHz POWER6™ with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
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• Internal Memory (max)4GB/64GB
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• Storage (max)One 73,146 or 300GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm non-hot-swappable disk drive or 69GB Solid State Disk; No disk drive required on base offering.

The JS43 helps deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed. With built-in support for IBM PowerVM™ for advanced virtualization, the JS43 is the ideal blade server solution for driving your most demanding performance and memory-intensive workloads.

• Processor (Max)Eight 64-bit 4.20GHz POWER6 with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
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• Internal Memory (max)8GB/128GB
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• Storage (max)One or two 73, 146 or 300GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm non-hot-swappable disk drive or 69GB Solid State Disk; No disk drive required on base offering.

Durable blade ideal for small database and application serving and for replacing traditional AIX®, IBM i or Linux® rack-mount and tower servers.

• Processor (Max)1-socket dual-core 64-bit IBM POWER6™ with AltiVec™ SIMD accelerator
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• Internal Memory (max)Up to 64GB
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• Storage (max)Up to 292GB with 2 SAS HDDs

Feature-rich blade ideal for workload consolidation with built-in PowerVMTM virtualization and broad based commercial AIX®, IBM i or Linux® for Power™ applications.

• Processor (Max)2-socket dual-core 64-bit IBM POWER6™ with AltiVec™ SIMD accelerator
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• Internal Memory (max)Up to 32GB
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• Storage (max)Up to 146GB with 1 SAS HDD

High Performance computing blade ideal for accelerating key algorithms such as 3D rendering, compression and encryption with double precision floating point computing power.

• Processor (Max)2-socket multi-core PowerXCellTM 8i
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• Internal Memory (max)Up to 32GB
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• Storage (max)Optional 8GB modular flash drive

High Performance Computing blade ideal for tasks that require single-precision processing such as image processing, signal processing and graphics rendering.

• Processor (Max)2-socket multi-core Cell/B.E
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• Internal Memory (max)2GB
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• Storage (max)n/a

Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) functional blade ideal for enhancing security and improving control of network traffic.

• Processor (Max)Contains an Intel® IXP 2805 network processor for use in handling packets.
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• Internal Memory (max)Contains multiple types of memory such as TCAM, QDR and RDRAM.^*
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• Storage (max)Contains no disk or flash drives