IBM BladeCenter HS22 1I B M ®IBM BladeCenter HS22IBM Redbooks Product GuideThe IBM BladeCenter HS22 is a two-socket blade server running Intel Xeon processors. It is ideal formainstream business applications including as a virtualization engine, and is compatible with the IBMBladeCenter H, E, S, and HT chassis. The HS22 supports up to two Intel Xeon 5500 or 5600 seriesmulti-core processors, 12 DIMMs modules, two hot-swap drives, two PCI Express connectors, and oneinternal USB connector for embedded virtualization.The HS22 is shown in Figure 1.Figure 1. IBM BladeCenter HS22Did you know?IBM BladeCenter HS22 delivered leadership two-processor, single-node result for SPECjEnterprise2010— 2,752.06 Enterprise jAppServer Operations Per Second (SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS). This score wasachieved using the IBM BladeCenter HS22 as the application server running IBM WebSphere ApplicationServer V7 as the middle tier and the IBM System x3850 X5 as the database server running IBM DB2 9.7Enterprise Server. With this SPECjEnterprise2010 result, IBM demonstrates its ability to provide bothsoftware and hardware for an optimal solution in the middle tier and in the back-end database layer, andalso to deliver a robust solution for clients’ complex workloads.