Datasheet

IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Hardware
Announcement ZG12-0133
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Refer to the Planning information section or the System x server website for
memory options.
• The onboard HDD controller and SW RAID supports SATA hard drives. SAS hard
drives and solid-state drives require an optional CIOv RAID card.
• Microprocessors must be of the same type, power level, and clock speed on each
BladeCenter HS23E. Mixing microprocessors of different speeds, power levels, or
cache sizes or upgrading the base processors is not supported.
• Solid-state memory cells have an intrinsic, finite number of write cycles that each
cell can incur. As a result each solid-state device has a maximum amount of write
cycles it can be subjected to, documented as TBW (Total Bytes Written). IBM is
not responsible for replacement of hard-ware that has reached the maximum
guaranteed number of write cycles. This limit may be revealed as the device
failing to communicate to system generated commands or become incapable of
being written to.
• The latest BladeCenter hardware and software compatibility is available at
http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/
• The new IBM BladeCenter HS23E 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).
• The IBM BladeCenter HS23E contains built-in Software RAID, ServeRAID C105. It
supports SATA hard drives and either a RAID 0 or RAID 1 array must be created.
VMware does not support ServerRAID C105 and there is no native driver support
for Linux distributions. The ServeRAID H1135 Controller for IBM Flex System and
BladeCenter, Option Part Number 90Y4750, is a cost-optimized hardware RAID
upgrade which supports SAS hard drives, SATA hard drives and solid-state drives
and non-RAID and is supported natively by all operating systems supported on
HS23E.
For the most current list of supported configurations, refer to the latest BladeCenter
hardware configuration tools at
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/hardware/configtools.html
Refer to the Software requirements section for operating system limitations.
Planning information
Customer responsibilities
This product is designated as customer setup. Customer setup instructions are
shipped with the product.
Configuration information
BladeCenter HS23E models must be installed in a BladeCenter chassis.
BladeCenter configuration
Processor upgrades
For systems that come standard with one Intel Xeon E5-2400 series processor, an
additional processor may be added by purchasing a supported processor option. The
optional processor must match the initial processor in each system.
The following processor options are supported with the new BladeCenter HS23E
models:
• Intel Xeon Processor E5-2403 4C 1.8GHz 10MB Cache 1066MHz 80W (90Y5292)
• Intel Xeon Processor E5-2407 4C 2.2GHz 10MB Cache 1066MHz 80W (90Y5291)
• Intel Xeon Processor E5-2418L 4C 2.0GHz 10MB Cache 1333MHz 50W (94Y6288)