Product guide

IBM System x3500 M4 24
As shown in Figure 5, each configuration supports an optical drive and a tape drive. All standard
configurations ship with DVD-ROM optical drive. For configure-to-order (CTO) configurations, you can
add a tape drive instead of an optical drive if so desired.
Controllers for internal storage
The following table lists the RAID controllers and additional options used for internal disk storage of the
x3500 M4 server.
Table 8. RAID controllers and HBAs for internal storage (Part 1: 6 Gbps SAS/SATA)
Part
number
Feature
code
Description Max
quantity
supported
Standard models
where used
81Y4448 A1MZ ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller 2 A2x, B2x, C2x, C4x,
D2x, A5x, B5x, C5x,
C7x, D5x
81Y4542 A1X1 ServeRAID M1100 Series Zero Cache/RAID 5
Upgrade
1* -
81Y4481 A347 ServeRAID M5110 SAS/SATA Controller 2 C9x, F2x, G2x, H2x,
J2x, F5x, G5x, G9x,
H5x, J5x
81Y4544 A1X2 ServeRAID M5100 Series Zero Cache/RAID 5
Upgrade
1* -
81Y4484 A1J3 ServeRAID M5100 Series 512MB Cache/RAID 5
Upgrade
2 -
81Y4487 A1J4 ServeRAID M5100 Series 512MB Flash/RAID 5
Upgrade
2 F2x, F5x
81Y4559 A1WY ServeRAID M5100 Series 1GB Flash/RAID 5
Upgrade
2 C9x, G2x, H2x, J2x,
G5x, G9x, H5x, J5x
81Y4508 A22E ServeRAID M5100 Series Battery Kit 2** -
81Y4546 A1X3 ServeRAID M5100 Series RAID 6 Upgrade 1*† -
90Y4273 A2MC ServeRAID M5100 Series SSD Performance
Accelerator
1* -
90Y4318 A2MD ServeRAID M5100 Series SSD Caching Enabler 1* -
46M0912 3876 IBM 6Gb Performance Optimized HBA 1 -
46C8988 A3MW N2115 SAS/SATA HBA for IBM System x 1
* Only one M1100 or M5100 Series FoD software license is required per server.
** The ServeRAID M5100 Series Battery Kit (81Y4508) is only supported with ServeRAID M5100 Series 512MB
Cache/RAID 5 Upgrade (81Y4484).
† The ServeRAID M5100 Series RAID 6 Upgrade (81Y4546) requires 512 MB or 1 GB cache upgrades.