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BladeCenter HX5: Overview

Product characteristics
Form factor/height Singlewide (30 mm) double-wide (60 mm)
Processor (max) Intel Xeon 7500 and 6500 processors; 4/6/8 cores, up to 2.66 GHz
Up to 2 processors per single-wide HX5; scalable to 4 processors
Number of processors (std/max) 1/2 (scalable to 4)
Cache (max) Up to 24 MB per processor (8 core)
Memory (max) 16 DDR-3 VLP DIMM slots, capacity up to 128 GB, per single-wide HX5 (scalable up to 320 GB max, at speeds up to 1067 MHz, via 40 DIMM slots, using a MAX5 expansion blade)
Expansion slots 1 CIOv slot (standard PCIe daughter card) and 1 CFFh slot (high-speed PCIe daughter card) for total of 8 ports of I/O to each blade, including 4 ports of high-speed I/O
Scalable up to 16 ports of I/O in 4-socket, double-wide form factor
Disk bays (total/hot swap) 2 non-hot-swap bays supporting solid-state drives per single-wide HX5
Maximum internal storage Up to 100 GB of solid-state storage per single-wide HX5 (with 50 GB SSDs)
Network interface Broadcom 5709S onboard NIC with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports with TOE
RAID support Optional RAID-0, -1, -1E
Systems management Integrated systems management processor
Operating systems supported Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, VMware
Limited warranty 3-year customer replaceable unit and on-site limited warranty

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