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IBM United States Hardware Announcement
112-044, dated March 6, 2012
IBM United States Hardware Announcement 112-044 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation
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IBM BladeCenter HS23 high-performance blade server
Table of contents
1 Overview 8 Product number
2 Key prerequisites 20 Publications
2 Planned availability date 22 Technical information
3 Description 42 Pricing
8 Product positioning 61 Order now
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
High-speed I/O on the blade with integrated 10GbE Virtual Fabric

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