Working With A Scalable Blade Complex - Lenovo BladeCenter HX5 Installation And User Manual

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Working with a scalable blade complex

You can assemble two BladeCenter HX5 blade servers together to create a scalable blade complex.
A scalable blade complex supports the following implementation modes:
• Single partition. The complex functions as a single server that contains up to four multi-core processors
and up to 32 DIMMs. When the complex is implemented as a single hardware partition, the leftmost blade
server (as installed in a BladeCenter chassis) is called the primary blade server. The blade server on the
right is called the secondary blade server.
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