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Standard specifications
The following table lists the standard specifications.
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Components
Specifications
Form factor
Single-wide (30 mm) blade server.
Chassis support BladeCenter H, BladeCenter HT, BladeCenter S, and BladeCenter E. (Some configurations may
have limitations. See Table 5 for compatibility details.)
Processor
Up to two Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 product family processors with eight cores (up to 2.3
GHz), six cores (up to 2.4 GHz), or four cores (up to 2.2 GHz), one QPI link up to 8.0 GTps, up
to 1600 MHz memory speed, up to 20 MB L3 cache; or
one Intel Xeon processor E5-1410 with four cores at 2.8 GHz, 10 MB L3 cache, and 1333 MHz
memory speed; or
one Intel Pentium processor 1400 product family with two cores up to 2.8 GHz, 5 MB L3 cache,
and 1066 MHz memory speed.
Chipset
Intel C600 Series.
Memory
Up to 12 DDR3 DIMM sockets (six DIMMs per processor) using Very Low Profile (VLP) DIMMs.
Support for up to 1600 MHz memory speed depending on the processor. Three memory
channels per processor (two DIMMs per channel).
Memory
Up to 192 GB with 12x 16 GB RDIMMs and two processors.
maximums
Memory
ECC, Chipkill, memory mirroring, and memory sparing.
protection
Drive bays
Two 2.5-inch SAS/SATA hot-swap drive bays supporting SAS/SATA HDDs and SSD drives.
Maximum
Up to 2.4 TB with 1.2 TB 2.5-inch SAS HDDs, up to 2 TB with 1 TB 2.5-inch NL SAS or SATA
internal storage
HDDs, or up to 3.2 TB with 1.6 TB 2.5-inch SAS SSDs. An intermix of SAS and SATA HDDs and
SSDs is supported with the optional H1135.
RAID support
RAID 0 and 1 with C105 (support for SATA HDDs only). Optional RAID 0, 1, 10, and 1E with
H1135 (support for SAS/SATA HDDs and SSDs).
Network
Two Gigabit Ethernet ports with an integrated Broadcom BCM5718 controller.
interfaces
PCI Expansion
One CIOv slot (PCIe 3.0 x8) and one CFFh slot (PCIe 3.0 x16). Two additional PCIe 2.0 x8
slots
standard form factor slots (slot 1 is full-height full-length, slot 2 is full-height half-length) with the
optional PCI Express Gen 2 Expansion Blade II. One HS23E supports up to four PCIe
expansion blades (8 slots). Up to four optional GPU expansion blades with either NVIDIA Tesla
M2090, M2075, or M2070Q graphics processing units.
Ports
One internal USB port (for embedded hypervisor).
Hot-swap
Hard drives and solid state drives.
components
Systems
UEFI, Renesas SH7757 controller-based IBM Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) with
management
remote presence (graphics, keyboard and mouse, and virtual media), Predictive Failure
Analysis, light path diagnostics panel, Automatic Server Restart, IBM Systems Director, IBM
Systems Director Active Energy Manager, IBM ServerGuide, and IBM FastSetup.
Security
Power-on password, administrator's password, and Trusted Platform Module (TPM) V1.2.
features
IBM BladeCenter HS23E
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