BladeCenter blade servers

Scalable high-performance blade server ideal for compute- and memory-intensive workloads such as databases, enterprise applications and virtualisation

Business use: Ideal applications include database, virtualisation, business intelligence (BI), modelling and simulation and other enterprise applications.

• Processor (max)Two- and four-socket, six-core, eight-core or ten-core Intel® Xeon®
• Internal memory (max)Up to 256 GB per two-socket HX5; scalable up to 640 GB using MAX5 expansion blade
• Internal storage (Std/Max)Up to 100 GB per two-socket HX5 using solid-state drives (SSDs); scalable to 200 GB per four-socket HX5 (with 50 GB SSDs)

High-density, high-performance blade server with expanded memory ideal for optimising performance for virtualisation and memory-intensive applications.

• ProcessorTwo-socket, six-core or quad-core Intel® Xeon®.
• Internal memory (max)Up to 288 GB of Very Low Profile (VLP) Double Data Rate 3 (DDR-3) memory
• Storage (max)Up to 100 GB total internal storage

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

• Processor (max)Two-socket, six-core or quad-core Intel® Xeon®
• Memory (Range)Up to 192 GB of Very Low Profile (VLP) Double Data Rate 3 (DDR-3) memory
• Internal storage (Std/Max)Up to 1.2 TeraByte (TB) with two hot-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) or solid state drives (SSDs)

Allows you to do more now in the data centre you own, and is ideal for a wide variety of workloads including virtualisation and cloud infrastructure solutions.

• Processor (max)Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family, with up to 8 cores, processing up to 16 simultaneous threads
• Memory (Min/Max)Up to 256 GB of DDR3 memory
• Internal storage (Std/Max)Up to 1.0 TB

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®
• Internal Memory (max)Up to 24GB
• Storage (max)Up to 293.6GB with hot-swap SAS or non-hot-swap SATA HDDs or up to 32GB with hot swap or non-hot swap solid state drives.

Delivering on the promise of a truly Dynamic Infrastructure (DI), the BladeCenter PS700 helps in delivering superior business and IT services with agility and speed – all in a simple-to-manage, highly efficient way.

• Processor coresFour 64-bit 3.0 GigaHertz (GHz) POWER7 cores with AltiVec Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
• Clock rates (Min/Max)3.0 GHz
• System memory (Std/Max)8 GigaByte (GB)/64 GB
• Internal storage (Std/Max)0 GB/1.2 TeraByte (TB)

The PS701 helps deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed. When used with PowerVM for advanced virtualisation, the PS701 is the ideal blade server solution for driving your most demanding performance and memory-intensive workloads.

• Processor coresEight 64-bit 3.0 GHz POWER7 cores with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
• Clock rates (Min/Max)3.0 GHz
• System memory (Std/Max)16 GB/128 GB
• Internal storage (Std/Max)0 GB/600 GB

The PS702 helps deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed. When used with PowerVM for advanced virtualisation, the PS702 is the ideal blade server solution for driving your most demanding performance and memory-intensive workloads.

• Processor (Max)16 64-bit 3.0 GHz POWER7 cores with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
• Clock rates (Min/Max)3.0 GHz
• Internal Memory (max)32 GB/256 GB
• Storage (max)0 GB/1.2 TB

The PS703 helps deliver superb 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

• Processor coresThirty two 64-bit 2.4 GHz POWER7 cores with AltiVec Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
• Clock rates (Min/Max)2.4 GHz
• System memory (Std/Max)16 GB/128 GB
• Internal storage (Std/Max)0 GB/600 GB hard disk drive (HDD) or 0 GB/354GB solid state drive (SSD)

The PS704 helps deliver superb business and IT services with agility and speed. When used with PowerVM for advanced virtualisation, the PS704 is the ideal blade server solution for driving your most demanding performance and memory-intensive workloads

• Processor coresThirty two 64-bit 2.4 GHz POWER7 cores with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
• Clock rates (Min/Max)2.4 GHz
• System memory (Std/Max)32 GB/256 GB
• Internal storage (Std/Max)0 GB/1.2 TB HDD or 0 GB/708GB SSD

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
• Internal Memory (max)Up to 32 GB
• Storage (max)Optional 8GB modular flash drive