IBM BladeCenter HS23
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IBM BladeCenter HS23
IBM Redbooks Product Guide
The IBM® BladeCenter® HS23 is a next-generation two-socket blade server running the Intel® Xeon®
processor E5-2600 product family. With its industry-leading RAS features, energy efficiency, outstanding
performance, flexible and scalable I/O, and complete systems management, HS23 offers a robust
platform optimized for your mission-critical applications. Standard 30 mm single-wide form-factor protects
your investments by providing compatibility with the IBM BladeCenter H, E, S, and HT chassis.
Suggested use: versatile platform to run a broad range of workloads, including infrastructure,
virtualization, and enterprise applications.
Figure 1 shows the HS23.
Figure 1. IBM BladeCenter HS23
Did you know?
IBM BladeCenter HS23 is the first BladeCenter server that offers four integrated LAN ports: dual-port
Gigabit Ethernet and dual-port 10Gb Ethernet with IBM Virtual Fabric capability. With Emulex 10GbE
Virtual Fabric Adapter II for HS23 CFFh expansion card, HS23 scales up to 14 virtual NICs (vNICs) per
single-wide blade server for a total of 18 I/O ports with the choice of Ethernet, Fibre Channel, SAS, iSCSI,
and FCoE connectivity.
