Product guide

Superior performance/U in a 4-socket, 2U server with up to 64 processor cores
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• Fast disk technology — Integrated ServeRAID-M1015 SAS/SATA controller providing
RAID-0/1/10, upgradeable to RAID-0/1/10/5/50 with SED; or integrated ServeRAID-M5015
SAS/SATA controller with 512MB of battery-backed cache, providing RAID-0/1/10/5/50,
upgradeable to RAID-6/60 with SED; optional ServeRAID-5014 SAS/SATA controller
• Fast communications — Integrated two dual-port Gigabit Ethernet controllers with TOE/
iSCSI/RDMA support
• Fast I/O — Four PCIe Gen 2 adapter slots
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 adapter slots:
 One x16/x16
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PCIe Gen 2 slot (16GBps)
 Two x8/x8
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PCIe Gen 2 slot (8GBps)
 One x8/x4
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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) standard
• Optional hot-swap/redundant power supplies (up to 3)
• 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:
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x16 Gen 2 slots can accept x1, x4, x8, or x16 Gen 1 or Gen 2 adapters running at the adapters’ maximum throughput.
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x8 Gen 2 slots can accept x1, x4 or x8 Gen 1 or Gen 2 adapters running at the adapters’ maximum throughput.
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x4 Gen 2 slots can accept x1 or x4 Gen 1 or Gen 2 adapters running at the adapters’ maximum throughput.