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Highlights
- Provide optimal performance for your demanding virtualisation and database applications
- Reduce qualification time by standardising on same system for two- and four-socket server needs
- Scale memory without adding Central Processing Units (CPUs) or software licenses
- Get faster time to value by deploying workload-optimised systems.
Maximise memory
Going beyond the industry standards with unique innovations from fifth-generation IBM X-Architecture technology (eX5), the new IBM BladeCenter HX5 enables excellent performance and utilisation in a blade form factor for database and virtualisation. With enhanced MAX5 scalability, the HX5 blade offers memory capacity of up to 640 GB – in a double-wide blade. The result is optimal server utilisation with more virtual machines (VMs) per system and larger and faster databases.
Minimise cost
With MAX5, HX5 currently offers the most memory of any server in its class. Reduce software licence costs by expanding memory capacity with MAX5 without purchasing additional processors.
Easy to own, manage and upgrade with pay-as-you-grow expansion, the HX5 blade server helps protect your investments over the long term. Capabilities such as advanced light path diagnostics, error handling and around-the-clock remote access management help simplify systems management and minimise downtime. Automatic node failover and QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) faildown help promote greater system uptime.
Product features
- Built on the latest IBM X-Architecture technology with fifth-generation eX5 innovation
- Modular design, enabling standardisation on same platform for two- and four-socket server needs to deliver faster time to value
- Greater memory capacity, enabling more or larger VMs per server
- Enhanced computing capacity facilitates more transactions per minute in a blade
- Optional memory expansion separates memory capacity from processors, enabling full utilisation of licence-constrained, memory-rich applications
- High-density, high-utilisation computing allows superb price performance as well as performance per watt
- Flexible node partitioning and pay-as-you-grow expansion offer great investment protection
- Mainframe-inspired reliability and automatic node failover for optimal system uptime
- Remote management from a single graphical console with IBM Systems Director
Hardware summary
- Flexible systems that can be independently scaled for processor and memory
- Compute capacity of up to 20 processor cores in little more than .5U space
- Up to two Intel Xeon E7-8800, E7-2800 or E7-4800 series processors. Scalable to four processors in a double-wide form factor
- Up to 256 GB of memory with 16 very low profile (VLP) Double Data Rate 3 (DDR-3) Dual Inline Memory Modules (DIMMs) per single-wide two-socket node; up to 512 GB in double-wide four-socket configuration
- Scalable MAX5 memory expansion module for up to 640 GB capacity in a double-wide form factor
- Supports 95 W, 105 W and 130 W CPU skews in two-socket and four-socket configurations
- Partition a four-processor blade to two two-processor blades without physical reconfiguration
- One CFFh slot (high-speed PCIe daughter card and one CIOv slot [standard PCIe daughter card]) per two-socket node
- Optional embedded hypervisor
- Support for up to two 1.8" SSDs per two-socket node
- Integrated Virtual Fabric adapter in select models
- HX5 four-socket configuration:
- You can order an HX5 four-socket configuration via the ‘Build your own’ section
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