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IBM BladeCenter® supports a wide selection of processor technologies and operating systems to allow clients to run all of their diverse work loads inside a single architecture. Reducing complexity, improving systems management, and increasing flexibility while driving down total cost of ownership.

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IBM BladeCenter HS12

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The IBM BladeCenter® HS12 is a cost-efficient uniprocessor blade that offers the same reliability, availability and serviceability that IT organizations have come to expect from two-socket servers—at new lower price points.

Ideal Applications Include: Applications customers currently run on uniprocessor systems, general business applications including file and print, collaboration and Web serving.

Processor/Speed		Single- or Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® up to 2.13 GHz or Quad-Core Intel Xeon up to 2.83 GHz and up to 1333 MHz front-side bus
Number of Processors		1 standard
Memory (Range)		1 GB to 24 GB
Disk (Range)		0 GB – 293.6 GB

BladeCenter HS21 extended memory

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The IBM BladeCenter® HS21 XM is a high-density blade server providing expanded memory and processing power to enterprise environments.

Processor/Speed		Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® up to 3.00 GHz or Quad-Core Intel Xeon up to 3.0 GHz and up to 1333 MHz front-side bus
Number of Processors		HS21 XM
Memory (Range)		1 GB to 32 GB
Disk (Range)		0 GB – 587.2 GB (four 146.8 GB HDDs)

BladeCenter HS21

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The HS21 blade is a high-density blade server supported in all IBM BladeCenter® chassis that features high-performance Dual-Core and Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processors.

Ideal applications include: Collaboration, Citrix, Linux® clusters and compute-centric applications.

Processor/Speed		Dual-Core Intel Xeon up to 3.0 GHz or Quad-Core Intel Xeon up to 3.16 GHz and up to 1333 MHz front-side bus
Number of Processors		1 standard/2 maximum
Memory (Range)		1 GB to 32 GB
Disk (Range)		0 GB – 734 GB2

IBM BladeCenter LS21

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The IBM BladeCenter® LS21 provides extreme energy efficiency, high density and high availability.

Ideal applications include: collaboration, Web serving and general-purpose applications

Processor/Speed		AMD Opteron™ Model 2210EE, 2216HE, 2218HE, 2220 and 2222
Number of Processors		1 standard/2 maximum
Memory (Range)		512 MB to 32 GB
Disk (Range)		0 GB – 587.2 GB (HDD) 0 GB – 31.4 GB (solid state)

IBM BladeCenter LS41

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The IBM BladeCenter® LS41 delivers an energy-efficient, scalable server for enterprise environments

Ideal Applications Include: Virtualization, database, SAP and ERP

Processor/Speed		AMD Opteron™ Model 8214HE, 8216HE, 8218, 8220 and 8222
Number of Processors		1 or 2 standard/4 maximum
Memory (Range)		2 GB to 64 GB
Disk (Range)		0 GB – 734 GB*

* With the Storage and I/O Expansion Blade (SIO) installed