IBM System x3250 M5 User Manual

IBM System x3250 M5 6
Standard specifications
The following table lists the standard specifications.
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Components Specification
Form factor 1U rack.
Processor One Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 v3 product family with four cores up to 3.6 GHz, up to
1600 MHz memory speed, 8 MB L3 cache; or
one Intel Core-i3 processor 4100/4300 product families with two cores up to 3.6 GHz, up to 4
MB L3 cache, and 1600 MHz memory speed (CTO only); or
one Intel Pentium processor G3200/G3400 product families with two cores up to 3.2 GHz, 3
MB L3 cache, and up to 1600 MHz memory speed.
Chipset Intel C226.
Memory Four dual inline memory module (DIMM) sockets. Support for UDIMMs. DIMM speeds up to
1600 MHz.
Memory
maximums
Up to 32 GB with 4x 8 GB UDIMMs.
Memory protection ECC
Disk drive bays Up to eight 2.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA drive bays, up to eight 2.5-inch simple-swap drive
bays, up to four 3.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA drive bays, or up to four 3.5-inch SATA
simple-swap drive bays.
Maximum internal
storage
Up to 7.2 TB with 900 GB 2.5-inch SAS HDDs, up to 8 TB with 1 TB 2.5-inch NL SAS/SATA
HDDs, up to 2 TB with 256 GB 2.5-inch SATA SSDs, or up to 12 TB with 3 TB 3.5-inch NL
SAS/SATA HDDs. Intermix of SAS/SATA is supported.
RAID support RAID 0, 1, and 10 with the C100. RAID 0, 1, and 10 with the H1110 or M1115. Optional
upgrade to RAID 5 is available for the C100. Optional upgrade to RAID 5 and 50 is available
for the M1115.
Optical drive bays One, for models with 2.5" drives. Support for optional DVD-ROM or Multiburner.
Tape drive bays None.
Network interfaces Up to four integrated Gigabit Ethernet 1000BASE-T RJ-45 ports with the onboard BCM5719
controller (two ports are enabled, and an additional two ports require the optional software
FoD upgrade to enable them).
I/O expansion
slots
Up to two slots, depending on the riser cards installed. The slots are specified:
Slot 1: PCIe 3.0 x4 (x4-wired); dedicated slot for H1110
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Slot 2: PCIe 3.0 x8 (x8-wired); full-height, half-length
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Ports Two USB 3.0 ports on the front. Four USB 2.0 ports, one DB-15 video port, one DB-9 serial
port, and four RJ-45 GbE network ports on the rear. One internal USB port (for embedded
hypervisor).
Cooling IBM Calibrated Vectored Cooling with five redundant non-hot-swap system fans.

IBM System x3250 M5 Specifications

General

Brand	IBM
Model	System x3250 M5
Category	Server
Language	English