System x3500 M2
Highlights
- High availability features and integrated systems management tools maximise uptime
- Stability combined with flexible growth options delivers increased investment protection
- The latest processor technology with superior energy-management and cooling efficiency.
Maintain peak performance and reliability
Designed to meet the highest levels of dependability, the IBM System x3500 M2 delivers outstanding quad-core performance and availability to help keep mission-critical applications and virtualised environments up and running. Redundant components to reduce points of failure and light path diagnostics provide resiliency, while integrated support features like a remote presence key optimise systems management efficiency.
Protect IT investments over the long term
A long-life platform, the x3500 M2 provides exceptional stability in a volatile marketplace. Flexible configurations and a generous storage capacity enable emerging enterprise environments to meet the demands of today and easily grow to accommodate additional applications as business requirements evolve.
Product features
- Ideal for mid-size to emerging enterprise and virtualised environments
- Dual-socket computing platform offering high availability and resiliency with standard or optional redundant features such as hot-swap hard disk drives (HDDs), dual network connections, fully redundant hot-swap power supplies and hot-swap redundant cooling fans
- Integrated systems management with integrated management module (IMM) and optional remote presence key
- Stable-life platform offers longevity and flexible growth options
- Dynamic adaptability features help allocate resources for more efficient utilisation and power consumption
Hardware summary
- 5U tower with optional rack-mount capability
- Up to two Intel Xeon Processors X5570 up to 2.93 GHz and up to 8 MB cache
- Fast 1333 MHz registered DDR-3 DIMM memory through 16 DIMM slots
- Up to eight input/output (I/O) slots including PCI-X, Active PCI and high-performance PCI-Express
- Support for up to 16 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF) hot-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) HDDs, eight standard with the option to add an additional eight for up to 2.3 TB of total internal storage
All products within the System x category
- System x3200 M3
- System x3250 M3
- System x3250 M2
- System x3550
- System x3550 M3
- System x3550 M2
- System x3650 T
- System x3650 M3
- System x3650 M2
- System x3755 M3
- System x3250 M3
- System x3400 M3