IBM Blade Systems

Blade Servers

Products Description
IBM BladeCenter HS22
IBM Center HS22

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

Processor (Max):

2-socket quad-core Intel® Xeon®

Internal Memory (Max):

Up to 96GB

Storage (Max):

Up to 600GB with 2 hot-swap SAS, SATA or solid-state drives

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IBM BladeCenter HS12
IBM Center HS12

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

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IBM BladeCenter HS21
(Extended Memory)
IBM Center HS21 Extended

Performance efficiency blade ideal for virtualisation, collaboration, clusters and compute-centric applications.

Processor (Max):

2-socket dual-core or quad-core Intel® Xeon®

Internal Memory (Max):

Up to 32GB

Storage (Max):

Up to 587.2MB with 1 SAS HDD or 2 Solid State Drives or 1 IBM Modular Flash Drive

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IBM BladeCenter LS42
IBM Center HS21

Scalable SMP blade ideal for high performance computing, virtualization, consolidation and database applications.

Processor (Max):

2 and 4-socket, six-core or quad-core AMD Opteron™

Internal Memory (Max):

Up to 128GB

Storage (Max):

Up to 62.8GB using solid-state drives or up to 293.6GB internally with 2 SAS HDDs; up to 734GB with Storage and I/O Expansion blade installed

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IBM BladeCenter LS22
IBM Center LS22

High Performance Computing blade ideal for memory-intensive applications including research, modelling and simulation.

Processor (Max):

2-socket quad-core AMD Opteron

Internal Memory (Max):

Up to 32GB

Storage (Max):

Up to 293.6 GB with 2 SAS HDDs

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IBM BladeCenter JS23 Express
IBM Center JS23 Express

Delivering on the promise of a truly Dynamic Infrastructure®, the BladeCenter JS23 helps in delivering superior business and IT services with agility and speed—all in a simple-to–manage, highly efficient way.

Processor (Max):

Four 64-bit 4.2 GHz POWER6™ with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration

Internal Memory (Max):

4GB/64GB

Storage (Max):

One 73,146 or 300GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm non-hot-swappable disk drive or 69GB Solid State Disk; No disk drive required on base offering.

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IBM BladeCenter JS43 Express
IBM Center JS22 Express

The JS43 helps deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed. With built-in support for IBM PowerVM™ for advanced virtualization, the JS43 is the ideal blade server solution for driving your most demanding performance and memory-intensive workloads.

Processor (Max):

Eight 64-bit 4.20GHz POWER6 with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration

Internal Memory (Max):

8GB/128GB

Storage (Max):

One or two 73, 146 or 300GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm non-hot-swappable disk drive or 69GB Solid State Disk; No disk drive required on base offering

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IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express
IBM Center JS21 Express

Durable blade ideal for small database and application serving and for replacing traditional AIX®, IBM i or Linux® rack-mount and tower servers.

Processor (Max):

1-socket dual-core 64-bit IBM POWER6™ with AltiVec™ SIMD accelerator

Internal Memory (Max):

Up to 64GB

Storage (Max):

Up to 292GB with 2 SAS HDDs

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IBM BladeCenter JS22 Express
IBM Center JS21 Express

Feature-rich blade ideal for workload consolidation with built-in PowerVMTM virtualization and broad based commercial AIX®, IBM i or Linux® for Power™ applications.

Processor (Max):

2-socket dual-core 64-bit IBM POWER6™ with AltiVec™ SIMD accelerator

Internal Memory (Max):

Up to 32GB

Storage (Max):

Up to 146GB with 1 SAS HDD

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IBM BladeCenter QS22
IBM Center QS22

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 32GB

Storage (Max):

Optional 8GB modular flash drive

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IBM BladeCenter QS21
IBM Center QS21

High Performance Computing blade ideal for tasks that require single-precision processing such as image processing, signal processing and graphics rendering.

Processor (Max):

2-socket multi-core Cell/B.E

Internal Memory (Max):

Up to 2GB

Storage (Max):

N/A

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IBM BladeCenter PN41
IBM Center PN41

Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) functional blade ideal for enhancing security and improving control of network traffic.

Processor (Max):

Contains an Intel® IXP 2805 network processor for use in handling packets

Internal Memory (Max):

Contains multiple types of memory such as TCAM, QDR and RDRAM

Storage (Max):

Contains no disk or flash drives

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Blade Chassis

Products Description
IBM BladeCenter S
IBM BladeCenter S

All-in-one chassis with integrated, high-performance SAN ideal for small offices and remote branch environments.

Height/Bays:

7U high / 6 bays with 2 disk storage module bays and up to 12, 3.5" HDD bays

Power Modules:

950W / 1450W AC

I/O Modules:

Up to 4 legacy

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IBM BladeCenter H
IBM BladeCenter H

High performance and high density chassis ideal for even the most demanding applications

Height/Bays:

9U high / 14 bays

Power Modules:

2900W AC

I/O Modules:

Up to 4 legacy, 4 high-speed, 4 bridge

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IBM BladeCenter E
IBM BladeCenter E

Energy-efficient, high density chassis ideal for space and power constrained data centers.

Height/Bays:

7U high / 14 bays

Power Modules:

2000W AC

I/O Modules:

Up to 4 legacy

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IBM BladeCenter T
IBM BladeCenter T

Ruggedised NEBS-3/ETSI-compliant chassis ideal for harsh environments and running applications under the most demanding conditions.

Height/Bays:

8U high / 8 bays

Power Modules:

1300W AC / DC

I/O Modules:

Up to 4 legacy

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IBM BladeCenter HT
IBM BladeCenter HT

Ruggedised NEBS-3/ETSI-compliant chassis ideal for next-generation, high-performance applications.

Height/Bays:

12U high / 12 bays

Power Modules:

3160W AC / DC

I/O Modules:

Up to 4 legacy, 4 high-speed, 4 bridge

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