IBM HX5 7873 7873AMG User Manual
Product codes
7873AMG
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Key prerequisites
• BladeCenter chassis (BCH, BCS, BCHT)
• Monitor, keyboard, and mouse for setup
• Network switch module
• Boot device, such as on-board SSD or network storage device
• Advanced Management Module with latest-level firmware
• Rack and appropriate PDUs and main power distribution
• Monitor, keyboard, and mouse for setup
• Network switch module
• Boot device, such as on-board SSD or network storage device
• Advanced Management Module with latest-level firmware
• Rack and appropriate PDUs and main power distribution
Planned availability date
March 25, 2014
Description
BladeCenter HX5
High-performance, blade server subsystems
The IBM BladeCenter HX5 is a blade server designed to provide new levels of
The IBM BladeCenter HX5 is a blade server designed to provide new levels of
utilization, performance, and reliability for compute-intensive and memory-intensive
workloads such as database, virtualization, business intelligence, modeling and
simulation, and other enterprise applications.
The BladeCenter HX5 server supports up to two Intel Xeon processors. The
processor board has the following major components:
• Two 1,567-pin LGA sockets for dual-processor operation.
• Two Enterprise Voltage Regulator-Down (EVRD) regulators. The EVRD supplies
• Two Enterprise Voltage Regulator-Down (EVRD) regulators. The EVRD supplies
the processor core voltage, I/O voltage, and L2 cache voltage, and must adhere
to Intel
to Intel
TM
Voltage Regulator Module (VRM) and Enterprise Voltage-Regulator-
Down (EVRD) 11.1 Specification.
• One Intel 7500 IOH I/O Controller. ControllertHubI101 (ICH10) Bridge.
• Eight Intel 7500 Memory Buffers.
• Sixteen DDR-3 Very Low Profile (VLP) memory DIMM sockets.
• One Vitesse VSC452 Integrated Management Module (IMM) with Integrated VGA
• Eight Intel 7500 Memory Buffers.
• Sixteen DDR-3 Very Low Profile (VLP) memory DIMM sockets.
• One Vitesse VSC452 Integrated Management Module (IMM) with Integrated VGA
Controller.
• 128 MB DDR-2 Video Memory.
• One 8 Mb IMM Boot ROM.
• One Broadcom BCM5709S dual-port 1 Gigabit Ethernet Controller.
• One Spartan 3E FPGA.
• One 128 Mb UEFI Flash ROM.
• One 4 Gb NAND Flash ROM and EEPROM for DSA, IMM Kernel, and IMM SDR/SER
• One 8 Mb IMM Boot ROM.
• One Broadcom BCM5709S dual-port 1 Gigabit Ethernet Controller.
• One Spartan 3E FPGA.
• One 128 Mb UEFI Flash ROM.
• One 4 Gb NAND Flash ROM and EEPROM for DSA, IMM Kernel, and IMM SDR/SER
Logs.
• One TPM 1.2 Controller.
• Light Path LEDs.
• USB ports for keyboard, mouse, FDD, CD-ROM, and DVD-ROM.
• One CIOv Expansion Card Connector, which supports CIOv PCIe Expansion Cards.
• One CFFh Blade Expansion Connector, CFFh PCIe Expansion Cards, or Expansion
• Light Path LEDs.
• USB ports for keyboard, mouse, FDD, CD-ROM, and DVD-ROM.
• One CIOv Expansion Card Connector, which supports CIOv PCIe Expansion Cards.
• One CFFh Blade Expansion Connector, CFFh PCIe Expansion Cards, or Expansion
Blades.
• One PCIe expansion connector to support the SSD Expansion Card option.