IBM x3500 M3 User Manual

IBM Asia Pacific Hardware Announcement
AG11-0009, dated February 15, 2011
IBM Asia Pacific Hardware Announcement AG11-0009 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation
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IBM System x3500 M3 servers feature fast 4C and 6C
Intel Xeon processors with QPI and 4 MB, 8 MB, or
12 MB cache, delivering enhanced performance and
scalability
Table of contents
2 Overview 12 Publications
3 Key prerequisites 14 Technical information
3 Planned availability date 24 Terms and conditions
3 Description 27 Prices
10 Product positioning 27 AP distribution
10 Product number 28 Corrections
At a glance
The System x3500 M3 servers feature:
• Powerful 4C 2.13 GHz, 2.26 GHz and 2.4 GHz, 2.53 GHz 6C, 2.66 GHz 6C, or
3.06 GHz 6C, or 3.46 GHz 6C Intel® Xeon® processors with 8 MB or 12 MB
cache, model dependent
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4 GB of 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC system memory
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; 192 GB maximum
• Eight port SAS/SATA RAID controller
• One hot-swap 920-watt power supply fitted standard; optional hot-swap
redundant power and cooling with hot-swap upgrade
• Integrated management module
• Six PCI-Express slots, and one PCI 32-bit/33 MHz slot
• Support for up to twenty-four 2.5-inch drives plus one standard optical drive or
up to eight 3.5-inch drives plus one slim type optical drive
• A tape drive up to full-high
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Up to 24 TB
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with 1 TB 2.5-inch HS NL SFF SAS/SATA disk storage
• Dual integrated 5709C Gigabit Ethernet controllers
• SVGA video with 16 MB memory
• Support for Remote Presence function

IBM x3500 M3 Specifications

General

Form Factor	Tower
Processor	Intel Xeon 5600 series
Processor Cores	Up to 6 cores per processor
Chipset	Intel 5520
Memory	Up to 192 GB DDR3
Management	Integrated Management Module (IMM)
Storage	Supports SAS, SATA, SSD
Hard Drive Bays	Up to 8 x 3.5" or 16 x 2.5"
RAID Support	RAID 0, 1, 10
Network Interface	Dual Gigabit Ethernet
Expansion Slots	6 PCIe slots
Operating System Support	Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware ESXi