IBM BladeCenter HS23
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Standard specifications
Table 1 lists the standard specifications.
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Components
Specifications
Form factor
Single-wide (30 mm) blade server.
Chassis support BladeCenter H, BladeCenter HT, BladeCenter S, BladeCenter E. (Some configurations might
have restrictions. See Table 5 for compatibility details.)
Processor
Up to two Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family CPUs with eight-core (up to 2.7 GHz) or
six-core (up to 2.9 GHz) or quad-core (up to 2.4 GHz) or dual-core (up to 3.0 GHz). Two QPI links
up to 8.0 GT/s each. Up to 1600 MHz memory speed. Up to 20 MB L3 cache.
Chipset
Intel C600.
Memory
Up to 16 DDR3 DIMM sockets (8 DIMMs per processor) using Very Low Profile (VLP) DIMMs.
Support for up to 1600 MHz memory speed depending on the processor. Four memory channels
per processor (2 DIMMs per channel).
Memory
maximums
Up to 256 GB with 16x 16 GB RDIMMs and two processors.
Memory
protection
ECC, memory mirroring, and memory sparing.
Disk drive bays
Two 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA drive bays supporting SAS, SATA, and SSD drives.
Maximum
internal storage
Up to 1.8 TB with 900 GB 2.5" SAS HDDs, or up to 2 TB with 1 TB 2.5" NL SAS HDDs, or up to 2
TB with 1 TB 2.5" SATA HDDs, or up to 512 GB with 256 GB 2.5" SATA SSDs. Intermix of SAS
and SATA HDDs and SSDs is supported.
RAID support
RAID 0, 1, 1E, and 10 with integrated LSI SAS2004 controller.
Network
interfaces
Two Gigabit Ethernet ports and two 10 Gb Ethernet ports with integrated Emulex BladeEngine 3
(BE3) controller.
PCI Expansion
slots
One CIOv slot (PCIe 3.0 x8) and one CFFh slot (PCIe 3.0 x16). Two addtional PCIe 2.0 x8
standard form factor slots (slot 1 is full-height full-length, slot 2 is full-height half-length) with the
optional PCI Express Gen 2 Expansion Blade II. One HS23 supports up to four PCIe expansion
blades (8 slots). Up to four optional GPU expansion blades with either NVIDIA Tesla M2090,
M2075, or M2070Q graphics processing units.
Ports
One internal USB port (for embedded hypervisor).
Hot-swap
components
Hard drives.
Systems
management
UEFI, IBM Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) with Renesas SH7757 controller, Predictive
Failure Analysis, light path diagnostics, Automatic Server Restart, IBM Systems Director, and IBM
Systems Director Active Energy Manager, IBM ServerGuide.
Security
features
Power-on password, administrator's password, Trusted Platform Module (TPM 1.2).
