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Versatile, easy-to-use blade optimized for performance, power and cooling
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additional 2.5-inch SAS HDDs in BladeCenter S chassis
• Optional IBM 31.4GB or 50.0GB Solid State Drive as an energy-saving alternative to HDD storage
• Integrated RAID — RAID-1 mirrored arrays standard; enhanced RAID-1E/5 arrays optional using a
BladeCenter S chassis; RAID-5 arrays also available using an optional ServeRAID-MR10ie
controller
• Two available adapter slots standard —
 Two CFF (compact form factor) slots: one high-speed CFFh and one standard-speed CIOv
• Additional optional adapter slots —
 Provided by a BladeCenter PCI Express I/O Expansion Unit
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Manageability and Availability:
• IBM Systems Director systems management software, including:
 IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager for x86
 IBM Management Processor Assistant
 IBM Rack Manager
 IBM RAID Manager
 IBM Update Assistant
 IBM Software Distribution
 IBM System Availability
• Integrated Management Module:
 IPMI 2.0 compliance, including highly secure remote power control
 cKVM
 Advanced management capabilities
• Interface to one or two Advanced Management Modules in the chassis for advanced systems
management capability
 Supports LDAP and SSL industry standards
 Text and graphics console redirection systems management
 Serial over LAN
• Optional solid-state drive as a high-reliability alternative to internal storage (with up to three times
the MTBF of spinning disk drives)
• Numerous hot-swap/redundant capabilities provided via the chassis
Server Comparison Chart
The following table shows the suggested uses for the respective IBM BladeCenter blade servers, including comparisons of the uses
for which each server is best suited:
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The PCI I/O Expansion Unit requires an adjacent blade slot.
Important Nice to Have Can do without
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Theme Key Workloads
Scalability
Floating Point
Performance
Memory
Throughput
Integer
Performance
I/O and Storage
Density
High Availability
Systems
Management
Security
Distributed
Deployment
HS12 HS22
HS22V
HX5
LS22 LS42
JS12 JS23
QS22
Cluster / HPC
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Modeling & Simulation
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High Performance DB
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Business Intelligence
2 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 3
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Search
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Content
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Communities
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Commerce
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Collaboration
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ERP/SCM
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CRM
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 3
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Hosted Client
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Point of Sale
3 3 3 2 1 3 1 1 1 1
Branch Office
2 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 2 1
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Virtualization
1 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 3
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Business Continuity
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Database
2 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 3
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Email/Collaboration
2 3 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 2
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Security
2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 3
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Web Serving
3 2 2 2 3 1 2 1 3 3
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File & Print
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BladeCenter ServersRequirements
Infrastructure
Applications
Web 2.0 /
Web 3D
HPC
Business
Applications