IBM BladeCenter HX5 Product Manual

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IBM BladeCenter HX5 1I B M ®IBM BladeCenter HX5IBM Redbooks Product GuideThe IBM® BladeCenter® HX5 server is a blade server based on the fifth generation of the EnterpriseX-Architecture®, delivering innovation with enhanced scalability, reliability, and availability features toenable optimal performance for databases, enterprise applications, and virtualized environments.The IBM BladeCenter HX5 supports up to two processors, using latest "EX" generation of Intel Xeonprocessor E7 family. Two HX5 servers can be connected together for a high-performance single imagewith four processors and up to 1 TB of RAM in a blade form factor.Suggested uses: Front-end and mid-tier applications requiring high performance (CPU, memory or I/O),enterprise-class availability, and extreme flexibility and power efficiency.Figure 1 shows the IBM BladeCenter HX5 in the three scalable configurations.Figure 1. IBM BladeCenter HX5Did you knowFor applications that need to maximize available memory but that do not need four processors, a singleHX5 server can be attached to a MAX5 memory expansion blade to form a single image with twoprocessors and up to 1.25 TB of RAM. This level of processing and memory capacity is ideal forlarge-scale database or virtualization requirements.