IBM BladeCenter HS23E Xeon 6C E5-2430

Form factor/height  

• Single-width (30 mm)

Processor (max)  

• Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 product family, with up to 8 cores, processing up to 16 simultaneous threads

Number of processors (std/max)  

• 1/2

Cache (max)  

• 20 MB

Memory (max)  

• Capacity: 12 DIMM sockets at 192 GB Speed: VLP Registered ECC DDR3, at 1333 or 1600 MHz, memory mirroring and sparing supported

Expansion slots  

• 1 CIOv slot (standard PCIe daughter cards) and 1 CFFh slot (high-speed PCIe daughter card)

Disk bays (total/hot swap)  

• 2 hot-swappable hard disk drives or solid state drives

Maximum internal storage  

• 2 TB (assumes 1 TB drives)

Network interface  

• Broadcom 5718 onboard NIC with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports with TOE

RAID support  

• RAID-0, -1: choice of software and hardware RAID

Systems management  

• Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), IBM Integrated Management Module, Predictive Failure Analysis, optional embedded hypervisor for virtualization, Systems Director Active Energy ManagerT, light path diagnostics, IBM Systems Director, IBM Server Guide, UpdateXpress, Dynamic System Analysis with Integrated RT Diagnostics, BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager

Operating systems supported  

• Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, VMware

Limited warranty  

• 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty, next business day 9x5, service upgrades available