Product guide

IBM System x3500 M4 7
Standard specifications
The following table lists the standard specifications.
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Components Specification
Form factor Tower or 5U Rack.
Processor E5-2600 v2: Up to two Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family CPUs with 12 cores (up
to 2.7 GHz) or ten cores (up to 3.0 GHz) or eight cores (up to 3.3 GHz) or six cores (up to 3.5
GHz) or four cores (up to 3.5 GHz). Two QPI links up to 8.0 GT/s each. Up to 1866 MHz
memory speed. Up to 30 MB L3 cache.
E5-2600: Up to two Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family CPUs with eight cores (up to
2.9 GHz) or six cores (up to 2.9 GHz) or quad-cores (up to 3.3 GHz). Two QPI links up to 8.0
GT/s each. Up to 1600 MHz memory speed. Up to 20 MB L3 cache.
Chipset Intel C602J.
Memory Up to 24 DDR3 DIMM sockets (12 DIMMs per processor).
E5-2600 v2: RDIMMs and UDIMMs are supported. Support for LRDIMMs (Load Reduced
DIMMs) is planned for earlier in 2014. Memory types cannot be intermixed. Memory speed up to
1866 MHz.
E5-2600: RDIMMs, UDIMMs, and LRDIMMs are supported, but memory types cannot be
intermixed.
Memory
maximums
E5-2600 v2:
With UDIMMs: Up to 128 GB with 16x 8 GB UDIMMs and two processors.
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With RDIMMs: Up to 384 GB with 24x 16 GB RDIMMs and two processors
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With LRDIMMs (support is planned for earlier in 2014): Up to 768 GB with 24x 32 GB
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LRDIMMs and two processors
E5-2600:
With LRDIMMs: Up to 768 GB with 24x 32 GB LRDIMMs and two processors.
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With RDIMMs: Up to 384 GB with 24x 16 GB RDIMMs and two processors.
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With UDIMMs: Up to 64 GB with 16x 4 GB UDIMMs and two processors.
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Memory
protection
ECC, Chipkill (for x4-based memory DIMMs), memory mirroring, and memory rank sparing.
Disk drive bays Up to 32 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs, or up to eight 3.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs, or up
to eight 3.5" Simple Swap SATA HDDs.
Maximum
internal storage
38.4 TB with 1.2 GB 2.5" SAS HDDs, or 32 TB with 1 TB 2.5" SATA HDDs, or 32 TB with 4 TB
3.5" SATA HDDs, or 51.2 TB with 1.6 TB 2.5" SAS SSDs. Intermix of SAS/SATA is supported.
RAID support 6 Gb SAS/SATA: RAID 0, 1, 10 with M1115 or M5110. Optional upgrade to RAID 5, 50 available
for M1115. Optional upgrades to RAID 5, 50 are available for M5110 (zero-cache; 512 MB
battery-backed cache; 512 MB or 1 GB flash-backed cache). Optional upgrade to RAID 6, 60
available for M5110 with 512 MB or 1 GB cache upgrades.
12 Gb SAS/SATA support planned for 1Q/2014: RAID 0, 1, 10 with optional M5210. Optional
upgrades to RAID 5, 50 are available for M5210 (zero-cache; 1 GB non-backed cache; 1 GB or
2 GB flash-backed cache). Optional upgrade to RAID 6, 60 for M5210 with 1 GB or 2 GB cache
upgrades.
Optical drive
bays
Two half-height 5.25" bays for optical or tape drives. Supports DVD-ROM or Multiburner.
Tape drive bays Two half-height 5.25" bays for optical or tape drives. Support for one RDX or DDS internal USB
tape drive. Supports up to two LTO internal SAS tape drives.
Network
interfaces
Four integrated Gigabit Ethernet 1000BASE-T ports (RJ-45) based on Intel I350AM4 Quad Port
GbE LAN Controller chip.