Going beyond the industry standards with unique innovations, the new IBM BladeCenter® HX5 offers unparalleled value for your business critical applications. HX5 delivers unprecedented compute performance, memory footprint and I/O bandwidth to enable maximum utilization in a blade form factor for compute- and memory-intensive enterprise workloads.
Key features
IBM BladeCenter HX5 is a scalable, high-performance blade server with unprecedented memory and compute performance, delivering capacity and flexibility for enterprise workloads. The HX5 features:
- Intel® Xeon® processor E7-2800, E7-4800, and E7-8800, enabling up to 20 CPU cores in a 2-socket, single-wide blade server.
- Up to 1.25 TB memory with MAX5, enabling more or larger VMs per server
- Enhanced computing capacity for more transactions per minute in a blade server
- FlexNode failover and partitioning for unprecedented investment protection and maximum system uptime
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