Product guide

Superior performance/U in a 4-socket, 2U server

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Flexibility

• High-performance configurations using two or four Opteron processors

• Large memory capacity — Up to 512GB, using 32 DIMMs (in a four-processor system)

• Up to eight 3.5-inch hot-swap SAS or SATA drives, or up to six (via CTO only) 3.5-inch

simple-swap SATA drives, as well as support for external iSCSI/FC SANs

• High-performance external expansion — Five 480Mbps USB 2.0 ports (two front, two rear,

one internal for a hypervisor or tape drive)

• Optional high-performance RAID controllers

• Four available adapter slots:

 One x16/x16

PCIe Gen 2 slot (16GBps)

 Two x8/x8

PCIe Gen 2 slot (8GBps)

 One x8/x4

PCIe Gen 2 slots (4GBps)

• Optional integrated optical drive

Manageability, Serviceability and Availability

• IBM Systems Director systems management software, including (among others):

 IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager

• Integrated Baseboard Management Controller (iBMC):

 IPMI 2.0 compliance, including highly secure remote power control

 Text console redirection systems management standard

• Active Memory protection:

 Advanced Chipkill ECC memory protection, and

 Online memory sparing

• ServeRAID-M1015 with RAID-1 disk mirroring and RAID-10 striped/mirrored arrays, or

ServeRAID-M5015 with RAID-1/10/5/50 with memory-backed cache standard (model-

specific)

• Optional (via CTO) hot-swap/redundant power supplies

• Hot-swap/redundant fans standard

• Light path diagnostics (front LED panel, drop-down light path panel)

• Remote presence capability

 Supports LDAP and SSL industry standards

 Remote KVM over IP

• Toolless chassis and toolless slide design; integrated Cable Management Arm

Server Comparison Chart

The following table shows the suggested uses for the respective IBM System x rack-optimized servers, including comparisons of the uses for

which each server is best suited:

x16 Gen 2 slots can accept x1, x4, x8, or x16 Gen 1 or Gen 2 adapters running at the adapters’ maximum throughput.

x8 Gen 2 slots can accept x1, x4 or x8 Gen 1 or Gen 2 adapters running at the adapters’ maximum throughput.

x4 Gen 2 slots can accept x1 or x4 Gen 1 or Gen 2 adapters running at the adapters’ maximum throughput.