BladeCenter blade servers

IBM BladeCenter® blade servers support a wide selection of processor technologies and operating systems to allow clients to run all of their diverse workloads inside a single architecture. Reduce complexity, improve systems management, and increase flexibility while driving down total cost of ownership.

x86 processor-based servers
POWER processor-based servers
Cell/B.E. processor-based servers

Blade servers	Business use	Processor (Max)	Internal Memory (max) ¹	Storage (max)¹,²
IBM BladeCenter PS703 Express More details	The PS703 helps deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed. When used with PowerVM™ for advanced virtualisation, the PS703 is the ideal blade server solution for driving your most demanding performance and memory-intensive workloads.	Thirty two 64-bit 2.4 GHz POWER7® cores with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration	16 GB/128 GB	0 GB/600 GB HDD or 0 GB/354GB Solid State
IBM BladeCenter HX5 More details How to buy	Scalable high-performance blade server ideal for compute- and memory-intensive workloads such as databases, enterprise applications and virtualisation.	2- and 4-socket, six-core, eight-core or ten-core Intel Xeon	Up to 512 GB per 2-socket HX5, up to 1.0 TB for a 4-socket HX5 configuration, and up to 1.25 TB for an HX5 + MAX5 configuration	Up to 800 GB per 2-socket HX5 using solid state drives; scalable to 1600 GB per 4-socket HX5 (with 400 GB SSDs)
IBM BladeCenter HS23E More details Browse & Buy	Provides the versatility you need to manage your data centre by offering performance flexibility and energy efficiency.	Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 product family, with up to 8 cores, processing up to 16 simultaneous threads	Up to 192 GB of DDR3 memory	Up to 2 TB
IBM BladeCenter HS23 More details Browse & Buy	Allows you to do more now in the data center you own, and is ideal for a wide variety of workloads including virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions.	Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family, with up to 8 cores, processing up to 16 simultaneous threads	Up to 512 GB of DDR3 memory (assuming 32 GB DIMMs), 16 DIMM sockets - VLP Registered ECC DDR3, memory mirroring and sparing supported	Up to 2 TB
IBM BladeCenter PS700 Express More details How to buy	The BladeCenter® PS700 Express blade server is an excellent alternative to a traditional entry rack or tower server, and can handle a range of commercial workloads across the broadest OS environments available.	Four 64-bit 3.0 GHz POWER7™ cores with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration	Base offering: 8GB (2 x 4GB); Express offering: 16GB (4 x 4GB), up to 64GB maximum per blade, eight DIMM slots, ECC IBM Chipkill™ DDR3 SDRAM running at 1066 MHz (4GB DIMMs) 800 MHz (8GB DIMMs)	600GB

¹ Maximum internal hard disk and memory capacities may require the replacement of any standard hard drives and/or memory and the population of all hard disk bays and memory slots with the largest currently supported drives available. When referring to variable speed CD-ROMs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs and DVDs, actual playback speed will vary and is often less than the maximum possible.

² When referring to storage capacity, GB = 1,000,000,000bytes and TB = 1,000,000,000,000bytes. Accessible capacity is less.

³ With the Storage and I/O Expansion Blade (SIO) installed.

⁴ Memory is dedicated to packet processing and is not expandable.