System x3500 M3: Overview
| Product characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Form factor/height | Tower/5U (rack-mountable) |
| Processor (max) | Intel Xeon 5500/5600 processors (Six-core Intel Xeon X5680 3.33 GHz or quad-core Intel Xeon X5677 3.46 GHz up to 6.4 GT/s QPI system speed with 12 MB of cache per processor socket) |
| Number of processors (std/max) | 1/2 |
| Cache (max) | 12 MB |
| Memory (max) | 16 DIMM slots maximum, 192 GB with DDR-3 1333 MHz RDIMMs1 or 48 GB with DDR-3 1333 MHz UDIMMs1 |
| Expansion slots | Six PCIe and one PCI standard; additional two PCI-X available via configure to order and requires removal of one PCIe slot |
| Disk bays (total/hot-swap) | 8/8 or 16/16 2.5" hot-swap standard; 24/24 2.5" hot-swap or 8/8 3.5" hot-swap or 4/0 3.5" simple swap (available via configure to order only) |
| Maximum internal storage | 8 TB of 2.5" hot swap SAS/SATA standard; 12 TB of 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA (model dependent) |
| Network interface | Broadcom 5709S onboard NIC with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports with TOE |
| RAID support | Integrated 6 Gbps or 3 Gbps hardware RAID-0, -1, -1E, optional RAID-5, -6, -10, -50, -60 |
| Systems management | Automatic Server Restart; Predictive Failure Analysis on hard disk drives, processors, voltage regulator modules (VRMs), fans and memory; light path diagnostics; integrated management module; remote presence; IBM Systems Director and IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager |
| Operating systems supported | Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, VMware ESX and ESXi |
| Limited warranty | 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty |
1 Maximum RDIMM support for 192 GB when 16 GB DIMMs are available 2Q 2010, and maximum UDIMM support for 48 GB when 4 GB DIMMs are available 2Q 2010.
All products within the System x category
- System x3200 M3
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- System x3250 M2
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- System x3550 M3
- System x3550 M2
- System x3650 T
- System x3650 M3
- System x3650 M2
- System x3755 M3
- System x3250 M3
- System x3400 M3
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