Product guide

IBM System x3500 M4 8
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 2)
Components Specification
PCI Expansion
slots
Up to eight slots with two processors and six slots when one CPU is installed. All slots are PCIe
3.0 slots except Slot 1, which is a Gen 2 slot:
Slot 1: PCIe x8 (x4 wired); full-height, half-length (supports optional PCI-X 64 bit/133 MHz
interposer card)
Slot 2: PCIe x8; full-height, half-length
Slot 3: PCIe x8; full-height, full-length
Slot 4: PCIe x8 (x4 wired); full-height, full-length
Slot 5: PCIe x16; full-height, full-length
Slot 6: PCIe x8 (x4 wired); full-height, full-length
Slot 7: PCIe x16; full-height, full-length (requires second processor)
Slot 8: PCIe x16; full-height, full-length (requires second processor)
Ports Two USB 2.0 ports on front. Four USB 2.0, one DB-15 video, one DB-9 serial, one RJ-45
systems management, four RJ-45 GbE network ports on rear. Two internal USB ports (for
embedded hypervisor and internal tape drive).
Cooling IBM Calibrated Vectored Cooling with up to six simple swap fans (two fans shipped standard on
single processor models and three fans shipped on dual processor models) with optional N+N
redundancy available .
Power supply Up to two redundant hot-swap 550 W ac, 750 W ac or 900 W ac power supplies (80 PLUS
Platinum certification).
Hot-swap parts Hard drives, power supplies.
Systems
management
UEFI, IBM Integrated Management Module II (IMM2), Predictive Failure Analysis, Light Path
Diagnostics, Automatic Server Restart, IBM Systems Director and IBM Systems Director Active
Energy Manager, IBM ServerGuide. Optional IBM Integrated Management Module Advanced
Upgrade via Feature on Demand (FoD) for remote presence (graphics, keyboard and mouse,
virtual media).
Security
features
Power-on password, administrator's password, Trusted Platform Module (TPM).
Video Matrox G200eR2 with 16 MB memory integrated into the IMM2. Maximum resolution is
1600x1200 at 75 Hz with 16 M colors.
Operating
systems
supported
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, 2008 and 2012 (support for 2012 R2 is planned for earlier
in 2014), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11, VMware
ESX 4.1 and ESXi 4.1 (E5-2600 only), and VMware vSphere 5.0 and 5.1.
Limited
warranty
3-year customer-replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty with 9x5/NBD.
Service and
support
Optional service upgrades are available through IBM ServicePacs®: 4-hour or 2-hour response
time, 8-hour fix time, 1-year or 2-year warranty extension, remote technical support for IBM
hardware and selected IBM and third-party (Microsoft, Linux, VMware) software.
Dimensions Width: 218 mm (8.6 in), depth: 750 mm (29.5 in), height: 440 mm (17.3 in).
Weight Minimum configuration: 25.0 kg (55.1 lb), maximum: 39.8 kg (87.7lb).