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IBM BladeCenter HX5 Blade Servers With SSD and Ethernet Options

Can be installed within zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension.

The IBM BladeCenter HX5 is a blade server designed to provide new levels of utilization, performance, and reliability for compute-intensive and memory-intensive workloads such as database, virtualization, business intelligence, modeling and simulation, and other enterprise applications.

Going beyond the industry standards with innovations from fifth-generation IBM X-Architecture technology (eX5), the BladeCenter HX5 models deliver improved compute performance, memory footprint, and I/O bandwidth to enable new levels of utilization in a blade form factor for compute-intensive and memory-intensive enterprise workloads.

Selected models may be installed within traditional BladeCenter chassis or the zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension (zBX).

These BladeCenter HX5 models are configured with FC and Ethernet networking options, making them easy to order, configure, and deploy.

HX5 features:

  • Single-wide (30mm), high-performance blade server
  • Two Xeon E7-2830 CPUs per node
  • Sixteen DDR3 VLP DIMMs per node
  • Support for the QLogic 8GB FC CIOv expansion card
  • Support for Broadcom 2-port 10GB Virtual Fabric Adapter (CFFh)
  • Integrated dual GbE connections
  •  Support for 200GB SSD and SSD Expansion Card for BladeCenter HX5

These selected models of HX5 may be used in the zBX.

Key prerequisites

  • BladeCenter chassis (BCH, BCS, BCHT)
  • Monitor, keyboard, and mouse for setup
  • Network switch module
  • Boot device, such as on-board SSD or network storage device
  • Advanced Management Module with latest-level firmware
  • Rack and appropriate PDUs and main power distribution

Planned availability date: March 25, 2014

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