IBM BladeCenter HX5
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IBM BladeCenter HX5
IBM Redbooks Product Guide
The IBM® BladeCenter® HX5 server is a blade server based on the fifth generation of the Enterprise
X-Architecture®, delivering innovation with enhanced scalability, reliability, and availability features to
enable optimal performance for databases, enterprise applications, and virtualized environments.
The IBM BladeCenter HX5 supports up to two processors, using latest "EX" generation of Intel Xeon
processor E7 family. Two HX5 servers can be connected together for a high-performance single image
with four processors and up to 1 TB of RAM in a blade form factor.
Suggested uses: Front-end and mid-tier applications requiring high performance (CPU, memory or I/O),
enterprise-class availability, and extreme flexibility and power efficiency.
Figure 1 shows the IBM BladeCenter HX5 in the three scalable configurations.
Figure 1. IBM BladeCenter HX5
Did you know
For applications that need to maximize available memory but that do not need four processors, a single
HX5 server can be attached to a MAX5 memory expansion blade to form a single image with two
processors and up to 1.25 TB of RAM. This level of processing and memory capacity is ideal for
large-scale database or virtualization requirements.
