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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 energy efficiency while driving down total cost of ownership.
| Product | Business use | Processor (Max) |
Memory (Min/Max) |
Internal storage (Max) |
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IBM BladeCenter HX5 (US)
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Ideal applications include database, virtualization, business intelligence, modeling and simulation and other enterprise applications. | 2- and 4-socket, six-core, eight-core or ten-core Intel® Xeon® | Up to 256 GB per 2-socket HX5; scalable up to 640 GB using MAX5 expansion blade | Up to 100 GB per 2-socket HX5 using solid-state drives; scalable to 200 GB per 4-socket HX5 (with 50 GB SSDs) |
IBM BladeCenter HS22V (US)
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High-density, high-performance blade server with expanded memory ideal for optimizing performance for virtualization and memory-intensive applications | 2-socket, six-core or quad-core Intel® Xeon® | Up to 288 GB of VLP DDR-3 memory | Up to 100 GB total internal storage |
IBM BladeCenter HS22 (US)
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Versatile, easy-to-use blade optimized for performance, power and cooling - ideal for most enterprise applications including virtualization, hosted client and SAP | 2-socket, six-core or quad-core Intel® Xeon® | Up to 192 GB of VLP DDR-3 memory | Up to 1.0TB with 2 hot-swap SAS, SATA or solid-state drives |
IBM BladeCenter HS12 (US)
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Cost-efficient uniprocessor blade ideal for general business applications such as file and print, collaboration and Web serving | 1-socket single, dual or quad-core Intel® Xeon® | Up to 24GB | Up to 293.6GB 1 with hot-swap SAS or non-hot-swap SATA HDDs or up to 32GB with hot swap or non-hot swap solid-state drives |
IBM BladeCenter PS704 Express (US)
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The PS704 helps deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed. When used with PowerVM for advanced virtualization, the PS704 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 | 32 GB/256 GB | 0 GB/1.2 TB HDD or 0 GB/708GB Solid State |
IBM BladeCenter PS703 Express (US)
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The PS703 helps deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed. When used with PowerVM™ for advanced virtualization, 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 PS702 Express (US)
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The PS702 helps deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed. When used with PowerVM for advanced virtualization, the PS702 is the ideal blade server solution for driving your most demanding performance and memory-intensive workloads | Sixteen 64-bit 3.0 GHz POWER7 cores with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration | 32GB/256GB | 0GB/1.2TB |
IBM BladeCenter PS701 Express (US)
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The PS701 helps deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed. When used with PowerVM™ for advanced virtualization, the PS701 is the ideal blade server solution for driving your most demanding performance and memory-intensive workloads | Eight 64-bit 3.0 GHz POWER7 cores with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration | 16GB/128GB | 0GB/600GB |
IBM BladeCenter PS700 Express (US)
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Delivering on the promise of a truly Dynamic Infrastructure, the BladeCenter® PS700 helps in delivering superior business and IT services with agility and speed—all in a simple-to-manage, highly efficient way | Four 64-bit 3.0 GHz POWER7™ cores with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration | 8GB/64GB | 0GB/1.2TB |
IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express (US)
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Durable blade ideal for small database and application serving and for replacing traditional AIX®, IBM i or Linux® rack-mount and tower servers | 1-socket dual-core 64-bit IBM POWER6™ with AltiVec™ SIMD accelerator | Up to 64GB | Up to 292GB with 2 SAS HDDs |
IBM BladeCenter QS22 (US)
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High Performance computing blade ideal for accelerating key algorithms such as 3D rendering, compression and encryption with double precision floating point computing power | 2-socket multi-core PowerXCell™ 8i | Up to 32GB | Optional 8GB modular flash drive |
* Memory is dedicated to packet processing and is not expandable.
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 = 1,000,000,000 bytes and TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Accessible capacity is less. 2 When referring to storage capacity,GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes and TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Accessible capacity is less
