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 flexibility while driving down total cost of ownership.
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| Blade servers | Business use | Processor (Max) | Internal Memory (max) 1 | Storage (max)1,2 |
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IBM BladeCenter HS12
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Ideal Applications Include: Applications customers currently run on uniprocessor systems, general business applications including file and print, collaboration and Web serving | Single- or Dual-Core Intel ® Xeon® up to 3.00GHz or Quad-Core Intel Xeon up to 2.83GHz and up to 1333MHz front-side bus | 512 MB to 24GB | 0GB - 293.6GB |
IBM BladeCenter HS21 XM
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The IBM BladeCenter HS21 XM is a high-density blade server providing expanded memory and processing power to enterprise environments | Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® up to 3.00GHz or Quad-Core Intel Xeon up to 3.00GHz and up to 1333MHz front-side bus | 1GB to 32GB | 0GB - 587.2GB (four 146.8GB hard disk drives (HDDs)) |
IBM BladeCenter HS22
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Ideal Applications Include: Virtualisation, hosted client, general business and enterprise applications. | Two Intel® Xeon® 5500 series processors | 12 slots of very low profile (VLP) Double Data Rate (DDR)-3 memory Dual Inline Memory Modules (DIMMs) with up to 96GB of memory capacity | Two hot-swap 2.5" bays supporting both SAS HDDs and solid-state drives and up to 600GB total internal storage |
IBM BladeCenter LS22
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High performance, low power compute blade for memory-intensive applications. | Latest Six-Core AMD Opteron™ | Up to 64 GB DDR II VLP (up to 800 MHz) | Up to two SAS or solid-state HDDs installed on each blade (support for up to three hot-swap SAS drives with optional storage and I/O expansion blade) |
IBM BladeCenter LS42
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Scalable blade with exceptional performance and energy efficiency. | 2- to 4-socket with latest Six-Core or Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ | Up to 128 GB (up to 800 MHz) | Up to two SAS or solid-state HDDs installed on each blade (support for up to three hot-swap SAS drives with optional storage and I/O expansion blade) |
IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express
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The ability to cut costs with highly energy efficient solutions and offer leadership virtualisation makes the IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express a desirable blade server for organisations of any size. Companies can go green and save while managing growth, complexity and risk, all while using technology that makes innovation in their business real and sets them apart from the competition. The JS12 Express offers exceptional price/performance in a virtualised environment; breadth of available applications; reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS) characteristics; energy efficiency; and leadership virtualisation. | Two 64-bit IBM POWER6 with AltiVec Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration | 4 GB/64 GB | 0 GB/600 GB |
IBM BladeCenter JS22 Express
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The ability to cut costs with highly energy efficient solutions and offer leadership virtualisation makes the IBM BladeCenter JS22 Express a desirable blade server for organisations of any size. Companies can go green and save while managing growth, complexity and risk, all while using technology that makes innovation in their business real and sets them apart from the competition. The JS22 Express offers exceptional price/performance in a virtualised environment; breadth of available applications; reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS) characteristics; energy efficiency; and leadership virtualisation. | Four 64-bit 4.00GHz POWER6 with AltiVec Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration | 4 GB/32 GB | 0 GB/300 GB |
IBM BladeCenter JS23 Express
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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. | Four 64-bit 4.20GHz POWER6™ with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration | 4GB/64GB | 0GB/300GB |
IBM BladeCenter JS43 Express
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The JS43 helps deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed. With built-in support for IBM PowerVM™ for advanced virtualisation, the JS43 is the deal blade server solution for driving your most demanding performance and memory-intensive workloads. | Eight 64-bit 4.20GHz POWER6 with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration | 8GB/128GB | 0GB/600GB |
| IBM BladeCenter QS21
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Ideal applications include: image processing, signal processing and graphics rendering applications in aerospace/defence, medical imaging, error data analysis (EDA), digital video surveillance and other industries. | Cell/B.E. 3.20GHz | 2 GigaByte (GB) | n/a |
| IBM BladeCenter QS22
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Ideal applications include: High performance computing (HPC) applications such as digital content creation, electronic design automation, image and signal processing, financial algorithms, scientific research and seismic processing. The IBM BladeCenter QS22 is an advanced blade server featuring the IBM PowerXCell 8i processor. Based on an enhanced version of the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture, the QS22 offers five times the double precision peak performance of the previous generation blade. |
IBM PowerXCell 8i 3.20GHz | 32GB | n/a |
IBM BladeCenter PN41
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Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) functional blade ideal for enhancing security and improving control of network traffic. | Contains an Intel IXP 2805 network processor for use in handling packets. | Contains multiple types of memory such as TCAM, QDR and RDRAM4 . | Contains no disk or flash drives |
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.
3 With the Storage and I/O Expansion Blade (SIO) installed.
4 Memory is dedicated to packet processing and is not expandable.
5 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.
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