Product guide

High-performance blade server optimized for virtualization
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BladeCenter HS22V Specifications
# of USB ports
1 (plus 2 via chassis)
Systems management controller
Integrated Management Module
Diagnostic LEDs (front panel)
Power good, blade location, over temperature, information, general fault
Predictive Failure Analysis support
Processor, memory, HDDs, expansion cards
BIOS type
UEFI 2.1
Power supply size
Contained in chassis
# of power supplies standard /
maximum
Contained in chassis
# of fans/blowers standard /
maximum
Contained in chassis
Dimensions (HWD) / weight
9.7” (245mm) H
1.14” (29mm) W
17.6” (446mm) D
12 lbs (maximum)
5.44 kg (maximum)
Operating systems supported
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and R2 (Standard/Web/Enterprise/HPC Editions) 32/64-
bit, Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (Standard/Premium Editions), Windows
Small Business Server 2008 (Standard/Premium Editions), RHEL 5.3 32-bit with Xen or
64-bit—with or without Xen, RHEL AS/ES/WS/HPC 4.7 64-bit, RHEL MRG 1.0 Realtime
64-bit, SLES 11 32-bit without Xen or 64-bit with or without Xen, SLES 10 32-bit with Xen
and 64-bit with or without Xen, SUSE Enterprise Real Time 10 64-bit, Sun Solaris 10,
VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.0
Extended/long life support
Select blades are supported for long life. (Contact IBM sales for details.)
Length of limited warranty
3 years (parts and labor) onsite
The Bottom Line
The HS22V offers maximum bang for the buck by incorporating powerful features in a tiny
package:
Price/Performance
• Multi-core processors — Up to two 2.00 to 3.06GHz two-, four-, or six-core Xeon 5600 Series or
5500 Series processors
• Large cache — Up to 12MB of L3 processor cache (processor-specific)
• Fast memory access — 1333MHz, 1066MHz, or 800MHz access (depending on the processor
model and DIMMs used)
• Embedded virtualization (optional)
• Fast I/O — 10Gb Ethernet, 4X InfiniBand, iSCSI, 3Gb SAS, or 8Gb Fibre Channel connectivity via an
optional expansion card, as well as Virtual Fabric for IBM BladeCenter
• Fast communications — Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet, with the option for two or four additional
Gigabit Ethernet ports via expansion cards and expansion unit (total 12 ports per blade); support for
10Gb Ethernet
Flexibility
• Single- or double-wide configurations (blade server and one I/O expansion unit)
• Large memory capacity — Up to 144GB using 8GB DIMMs
• Up to two internal 1.8-inch non-hot-swap SSDs; more with the BladeCenter S chassis or external
storage
• 50.0GB solid-state drives are an energy-saving, higher-reliability alternative to HDD storage
• Integrated RAID — RAID-1 mirrored arrays standard; enhanced RAID-1E arrays are available using
a BladeCenter S chassis; RAID-5 arrays are also available using an optional ServeRAID controller
• Two available adapter slots standard :
 Two CFF (compact form factor) slots: one high-speed CFFh and one standard-speed CIOv