BladeCenter IBM  HS21 XM servers are designed for front and mid-tier applications requiring high performance, enterprise class availability, and extreme flexibility and power efficiency.  The BladeCenter IBM HS21 offerings are positioned as high-density servers. They represent a new approach to the deployment of application servers where 2-way, SMP-capable Xeon processing, high-availability design, systems management, and easy setup features are combined in an extremely dense package.  The BladeCenter HS21 XM (XM stands for extended memory) servers are positioned as high-density servers. These servers can have up to two dual-core or quad-core Intel processors. Plus, with 8 DIMM sockets for up to 64 GB of DDR2 FB-DIMM memory, this makes the IBM HS21 XM the perfect blade server platform for processor and memory-intensive workloads such as virtualization. All HS21 XM models also include support for one SAS hard disk drive or one dual Solid State Disk drive and one modular flash drive. The optional Storage and I/O (SIO) Expansion Unit can connect to a IBM HS21 XM blade server to provide an additional three 2.5 SAS HDDs with hot-swap support, optional RAID-5 with battery-backed cache, and four additional communication ports.

The IBM HS21 XM has the ability to grow with your application requirements;

• Up to two multi-core Xeon processors (four or eight cores in all).
• Low-voltage processors available that use as little as 20W per core.
• Up to 32 Gb of system memory in 8 DIMM slots provides flexibility in memory configurations
• One internal 2.5-inch SAS HDD drive that supports either a single SAS drive or a single or dual solid state drive.
• An optional Modular Flash Drive can be used in place of, or in addition to, the internal SAS HDD, as a boot device (Linux only).
• Two Gigabit Ethernet ports standard; plus more, using either a 2-port Gigabit Ethernet Expansion Card or an I/O Expansion Unit.
• Supports optional expansion blade: IBM BladeCenter Storage and I/O (SIO) Expansion Blade with support for up to three additional hot-swap SAS SFF HDDs with RAID-0 and RAID-1 (through ServeRAID 8k-l adapter as standard), as well as two additional I/O expansion slots. An optional ServeRAID 8k adapter is available that will add RAID-5 capability and a battery backed cache.
• Advanced high-availability and systems-management features  Concurrent keyboard, video, mouse (cKVM) support with the addition of the optional IBM BladeCenter Concurrent KVM feature card.
  

Key features include:

• High density for better processor-to-memory performance on select applications
• Simplified local storage with new rugged solid state drives
• Ideal for a virtualized environment with high-speed I/O, expanded memory and embedded hypervisor

Highlights:

• Expanded memory and new lower voltage processors enable more powerful blade performance
• Cool, “green” solution to help reduce energy costs
• Ideal rack-to-blade conversion for optimized efficiency

Hardware Summary:

• Features up to two high-performance Dual-Core or Quad-Core Intel Xeon® Processors
• 1 GB standard/32 GB maximum memory per blade
• Two Gigabit Ethernet controllers standard, with load balancing and failover features, up to twelve Ethernet ports per blade optional
• Expansion capabilities for iSCSI, 4 Gb Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, Myrinet and 1X or 4X InfiniBand®
• Optional 15.8 GB single or dual solid state drives
• Optional IBM 4.0 GB or 8.0 GB Modular Flash Drive

Product Features:

• Revolutionary blade form factor delivers flexibility and simplicity for the data center
• Integrated System Management Processor, light path diagnostics and IBM Predictive Failure Analysis® combine to provide powerful management capabilities
• IBM Director provides remote management from a single graphical console—helping simplify and automate IT and networking tasks
• Easily add or change blades without disrupting the operation of other blades installed in the chassis
• Virtualize in minutes with the integrated VMware ESX Server 3i embedded hypervisor

Model Numbers:

7995G1U, 7995G3U, 7995GLU, 7995L4U, 7995G4U, 7995GNU, 7995C2U, 7995G5U, 7995G6U, 7995R2U, 7995NTU, 7995EHU, 7995HVU

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