The BladeCenter HS21 blade servers revolutionize the economics of application server deployment with power, scalability, control, and serviceability.

These server models include:

• Single-wide, high-performance blade servers


• Choice of Intel** quad-core processors with 2 MB L2 cache per core


• Up to two quad-core Xeon processors with 1066 MHz(1) front-side bus (FSB)


• Standard models with high-speed 2 GB (2 x 1 GB DIMMs) PC2-5300 667 MHz high-performance double data rate (DDR2) ECC memory; maximum system memory 16 GB(2) expandable to 32 GB using the IBM BladeCenter Memory and I/O Expansion Blade option


• Dual Broadcom 5708S Gigabit Ethernet connections with failover support; additional Dual Gigabit Ethernet connections with Broadcom 5714s using the IBM BladeCenter Memory and I/O Expansion Blade option


• Support for Ethernet or Fibre Channel expansion cards


• Integrated systems-management processor


• Support for up to two non-hot swap SAS SFF HDDs with RAID 0, 1


• Support for IBM BladeCenter Storage and I/O Expansion Blade with three additional hot-swap SAS SFF HDDs and optional support for RAID 0, 1, or 5


• Concurrent keyboard, video, mouse (KVM) option for additional systems-management features