- Single-wide (30 mm), scalable, high-performance blade server
- 16x DDR3 VLP DIMMs per single-wide node
- Scalable to 4-socket, 32 DIMM in double-wide form factor
- Support for additional Ethernet, SAS, Fiber Channel, and InfiniBand expansion cards and a total of eight I/O ports per blade
- Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet connections
- Internal standard USB port for optional Embedded Hypervisor
- Integrated Management Module for remote supervision with concurrent keyboard, video, and mouse (cKVM) standard
- Modular design, enabling standardization on same platform for 2- and 4-socket server needs to deliver faster time to value
The IBM BladeCenter HX5 is a scalable blade server designed to provide higher levels of utilization, performance, and reliability for compute- and memory-intensive workloads such as database, virtualization, business intelligence, modeling and simulation, and other enterprise applications.
Going beyond the industry standards with unique innovations from fifth-generation IBM X-Architecture technology (eX5), the IBM BladeCenter HX5 delivers unprecedented compute performance, memory footprint, and I/O bandwidth to enable higher levels of utilization in a blade form factor for compute- and memory-intensive enterprise workloads.