| Feature |
Benefits |
| Industry-leading enterprise X-Architecture performance, now available in a two-socket system |
- Greater performance in a denser form factor for a lower purchase price and TCO
- Ample flexibility to meet changing requirements
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| Fifth-generation IBM X-Architecture chipset design combined with next-generation Intel Xeon 7500 series processors |
- Increased productivity for your investment with higher utilisation and greater throughput and bandwidth
- Optimised for databases, enterprise applications and virtualised server workloads
- Deploy more VMs than ever in a two-socket system and double the number of VMs on that system with MAX5
- 12 percent more database transactions processed per minute1
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| IBM Systems Director |
- Increased uptime, reduced costs and improved productivity via advanced server management capabilities
- Simplified management including around-the-clock remote management capability
- Helps improve physical and virtual server availability by continuously monitoring your system and notifying you of potential system failures or changes
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| IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager |
- Advanced power notification, control and monitoring to help achieve lower heat output and cooling costs
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| Balanced, energy-smart design |
- Promotes greater energy savings in the data centre
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| Hot-swap, redundant, rear-access power supplies |
- Increase system and application uptime by eliminating another single point of failure with a second hot-swap power supply
- Improved usability with rear chassis accessibility, allowing you to remove the power supplies without having to pull the system from the rack
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| Light path diagnostics |
- Provides information on failing components without interrupting system operations
- Provides a lighted path to failing components inside the system
- Speeds hardware repairs to reduce service time
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| Predictive Failure Analysis |
- Detects when components or hard drives are operating outside of set thresholds or are approaching historical failure thresholds
- Helps you increase uptime by enabling you to receive proactive alerts in advance of failure via IBM Systems Director
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| Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID)-0, -1 and -1E (optional RAID-5 with battery-backed cache) |
- Enhanced system availability and data protection by supporting SSDs with advanced RAID capabilities
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| Optional embedded hypervisor |
- Embedded hypervisor technology to simplify adoption and deployment of industry-leading third-party virtualisation solutions
- New, system-friendly thin hypervisor architecture can help optimise virtualisation performance
- Integrated into server hardware, the hypervisor can provide compatible, pretested and optimised hardware configurations
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| Hot-swap redundant components |
- Allow the server to continue operating in case of fan, memory, HDD or PCIe adapter failure
- Replace components without taking your server offline or out of the rack
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| Memory reliability features through IBM Active Memory |
- Enhanced error recovery with Chipkill error correction, memory scrubbing, Memory ProteXion and memory mirroring to help maintain data integrity
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| Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) |
- Provides increased network throughput and redundancy with efficient slot-saving integration
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| Operating System flexibility |
- Choice of Microsoft Windows 64-bit, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Enterprise Linux, (Server and Advanced Server), VMware vSphere
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| Three year on-site limited warranty for parts and labour |
- Provides peace of mind for an extended period of time
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