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Server Comparison Chart
The following table shows the suggested uses for the respective IBM BladeCenter blade servers, including comparisons of the uses for which
each server is best suited:
Important Nice to Have Can do without
1 2 3
Best
Better
Good
Theme Key Workloads
Scalability
Floating Point
Performance
Memory
Throughput
Integer
Performance
I/O and Storage
Density
High Availability
Systems
Management
Security
Distributed
Deployment
HS12
HS22
HS22V
HX5
LS22
LS42
JS12
PS700
PS701
PS702
Cluster / HPC
3 1 1 2 2 1 3 3 3 3
Modeling & Simulation
2 1 1 1 3 1 3 2 3 3
High Performance DB
2 2 1 1 1 3 2 2 3 3
Business Intelligence
2 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 3
Search
3 1 1 1 2 1 3 3 1 2
Content
2 2 2 2 2 1 3 3 2 2
Communities
1 2 2 2 1 1 2 3 2 2
Commerce
2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 2
Collaboration
2 3 2 3 2 1 2 3 2 2
ERP/SCM
1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2
CRM
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 3
Hosted Client
1 3 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 2
Point of Sale
3 3 3 2 1 3 1 1 1 1
Branch Office
2 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 2 1
Virtualization
1 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 3
Business Continuity
2 3 3 3 1 2 2 1 2 2
Database
2 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 3
Email/Collaboration
2 3 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 2
Security
2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 3
Web Serving
3 2 2 2 3 1 2 1 3 3
File & Print
2 3 2 3 1 2 2 1 3 3
BladeCenter ServersRequirements
Infrastructure
Applications
Web 2.0 /
Web 3D
HPC
Business
Applications