IBM System x3250 M4 At-A-Glance Guide

IBM System x3250 M4 4
Standard specifications
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Components Specification
Form factor 1U Rack.
Processor One quad-core Intel Xeon E3-1200 series processor (up to 3.5 GHz/8 MB) or one dual-core
Intel Core i3 2100 series processor (up to 3.3 GHz/3 MB) with up to 1333 MHz memory
speed. Supports specific quad-core and dual-core processors via Configure-To-Order (CTO).
Memory cache Up to 8 MB L3 for Intel Xeon E3-1200 series processors. Up to 3 MB L3 for Intel Core i3 2100
series processors.
Chipset Intel C202.
Memory DIMM slots 4.
Memory capacity Up to 32 GB with 8 GB DDR3 UDIMMs and four populated DIMM slots. RDIMMs are not
supported.
Memory protection ECC.
Disk drive bays Three configurations:
Up to two 3.5" simple-swap SATA HDDs (some models)
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Up to four 2.5" hot-swap SAS HDDs (some models)
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Up to four 2.5" simple-swap SAS HDDs (CTO only)
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Maximum internal
storage
Up to 2.4 TB with 600 GB SAS HDDs, or up to 4.0 TB with 2 TB SATA HDDs. Intermix of
SAS/SATA is not supported.
RAID Support Software RAID 0, 1 with ServeRAID C100 controller. Optional hardware RAID 0, 1, 1E with
ServeRAID-BR10il v2 or M1015. Optional upgrade to RAID 5 is available for M1015 and
C100. Optional RAID 5, 50 with ServeRAID M5014.
Optical drive bays One, support for DVD-ROM or multiburner.
Tape drive bays No internal tape drive support.
Network interfaces Integrated 2 port Gigabit Ethernet/1 port is shared with IMM.
PCI Expansion slots Two PCI Express 2.0 slots:
One PCI Express 2.0 x4 (for use only by the optional BR10il v2 controller)
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One PCI Express 2.0 x8, full-height, half-length
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External ports Two USB 2.0 ports on front. Four USB 2.0, one DB-15 video, one DB-9 serial, two RJ-45
Gigabit Ethernet network ports (one is dedicated, one is shared with IMM) on rear.
Cooling IBM Calibrated Vectored Cooling™ with 4 fans and N+1 redundancy.
Power supply One fixed 300 W AC power supply; or up to two redundant 460 W AC power supplies (model
dependent)
Hot-swap
components
Hot-swap SAS drives (some models)
Systems
management
UEFI, IBM Integrated Management Module II (IMM2), Predictive Failure Analysis, Automatic
Server Restart, IBM Systems Director and IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™,
IBM ServerGuide.

IBM System x3250 M4 Specifications

General

Brand	IBM
Model	System x3250 M4
Category	Server
Language	English