IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Hardware Announcement
ZG12-0059, dated March 6, 2012
IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Hardware
Announcement ZG12-0059
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IBM BladeCenter HS23 high-performance blade server
Table of contents
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Overview
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Product number
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Key prerequisites
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Publications
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Planned availability date
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Technical information
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Description
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Pricing
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Product positioning
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Announcement countries
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Corrections
At a glance
The IBM® BladeCenter® HS23 is a versatile blade server that offers outstanding
performance for virtualization with new levels of memory capacity, CPU
performance, and highly scalable I/O.
Overview
The IBM BladeCenter HS23 offers high performance balanced with flexible, scalable
configuration options and simple management in an efficient server designed to run
a broad range of workloads exceptionally well.
Versatile:
• A feature-rich design enables the HS23 to run a broad range of workloads,
including infrastructure, virtualization, and enterprise applications. This makes it
ideal for cloud computing.
• Integrated 10GbE Virtual Fabric allows for more scalable I/O solutions.
• An extensive choice of processors, memory, internal storage, and I/O options
allows flexible configurations.
• The BladeCenter HS23 is supported in the BladeCenter H chassis (#8852), the
BladeCenter HT chassis (#8740, #8750), the BladeCenter E chassis (#8677),
and the BladeCenter S chassis (#8886). Some configuration limitations apply;
refer to the
Limitations
section.
Easy to use:
• Simplify deployment of infrastructure for faster time-to-value with IBM
FastSetup.
• Two hot-swap storage bays support SAS and SATA (which includes solid-state)
drives, enabling drives to be removed easily for quick replacement.
• An optional embedded hypervisor helps enable "instant virtualization."
• The Integrated Management Module provides remote supervision and cKVM
functions as standard.
• Light path diagnostics and Predictive Failure Analysis help enable quick
serviceability and maintenance.
Performance optimized:
• Next-generation Intel Xeon
TM
processor E5-2600 product family
• High memory capacity with 16 DDR3 VLP memory DIMM slots supporting 1600
MHz memory and up to 256 GB of DDR3 memory
