IBM System x3530 M4 Product Guide

IBM System x3530 M4 (E5-2400) 7
Standard specifications
The following table lists the standard specifications.
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Components Specification
Form factor 1U rack.
Processor Up to two Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 product family processors with eight cores (up to 2.3
GHz), six cores (up to 2.4 GHz), or four cores (up to 2.2 GHz), one QPI link up to 8.0 GTps,
up to 1600 MHz memory speed, up to 20 MB L3 cache; or
one Intel Xeon processor E5-1400 product family processor with four cores up to 2.8 GHz, 10
MB L3 cache, and 1333 MHz memory speed (CTO only); or
one Intel Pentium processor 1400 product family processor with two cores up to 2.8 GHz, 5
MB L3 cache, and 1066 MHz memory speed (CTO only).
Chipset Intel C600 series.
Memory Up to 12 DIMM sockets (six DIMMs per processor). LRDIMMs, RDIMMs, and UDIMMs are
supported, but the memory types cannot be intermixed. DIMM speeds up to 1600 MHz.
Memory
maximums
With LRDIMMs: Up to 384 GB with 12x 32 GB RDIMMs and two processors.
With RDIMMs: Up to 192 GB with 12x 16 GB RDIMMs and two processors.
With UDIMMs: Up to 48 GB with 12x 4 GB UDIMMs and two processors.
Memory protection ECC, Chipkill, memory mirroring, and memory rank sparing.
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 9.4 TB with 1.2 TB 2.5-inch SAS HDDs, up to 8 TB with 1 TB 2.5-inch NL SAS/SATA
HDDs, up to 6.4 TB with 800 GB 2.5-inch SAS SSDs, or up to 16 TB with 4 TB 3.5-inch NL
SAS/SATA HDDs. Intermix of SAS/SATA is supported.
RAID support RAID 0 and 1 with the C105. RAID 0, 1, and 10 with the H1110, M1115, or M5110. Upgrades
to RAID 5 and 50 are available for the M1115. Upgrades to RAID 5 and 50 are available for
the M5110 (zero-cache; 512 MB battery-backed cache; 512 MB or 1 GB flash-backed cache).
Optional upgrades to RAID 6 and 60 are available for the M5110 with caches.
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 Intel
I350-CM2 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 three slots, depending on the riser cards installed. The slots are as follows:
Slot 1: PCIe 3.0 x16 (x8-wired), opt. PCIe 3.0 x16 (x16-wired); full-height, half-length
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Slot 2: PCIe 3.0 x16 (x8-wired); low-profile, half-length (not present if an optional
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x16-wired slot 1 riser is used)
Slot 3: PCIe 3.0 x4 (dedicated slot for ServeRAID adapter); standard on hardware RAID
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models, optional on software RAID models
Ports Two USB 2.0 ports and one DB-15 video port (CTO or special bid only, feature code A23Q)
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 up to six redundant non-hot-swap fans (four standard,
additional two with second processor). Each fan has two motors.

IBM System x3530 M4 Specifications

General

Brand	IBM
Model	System x3530 M4
Category	Server
Language	English