IBM System x3500 Installation And User Manual page 28

v Integrated network support
v Integrated Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
v Large data-storage capacity and hot-swap capability
v Light path diagnostics
v PCI adapter capabilities
v Active Energy Manager
v Redundant connection
v Redundant cooling and optional power capabilities
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IBM System x3500 M4 Type 7383: Installation and User's Guide
The server comes with an integrated dual-port Intel Gigabit Ethernet controller,
which supports connection to a 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, or 1000 Mbps network. For
more information, see "Configuring the Ethernet controller" on page 130.
This integrated security chip performs cryptographic functions and stores private
and public secure keys. It provides the hardware support for the Trusted
Computing Group (TCG) specification. You can download the software to support
the TCG specification, when the software is available. See http://www.ibm.com/
servers/eserver/xseries/scalable_family.html for details about the TPM
implementation. You can enable TPM support through the Setup utility under the
System Security menu option.
The hot-swap server models support a maximum of thirty-two 2.5-inch or eight
3.5-inch hot-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives or hot-swap
Serial ATA (SATA) hard disk drives. The simple-swap server models support a
maximum of eight 3.5-inch simple-swap SATA hard disk drives.
With the hot-swap feature, you can add, remove, or replace hard disk drives
without turning off the server.
Light path diagnostics provides LEDs to help you diagnose problems. For more
information about the light path diagnostics, see "Light path diagnostics panel" on
page 16 and the Problem Determination and Service Guide on the IBM System x
Documentation CD.
The server has six PCI interface slots. Slot 1 can support PCI Express or PCI-X
adapters through an optional PCI-X interposer card. See "Installing an adapter"
on page 86 for detailed information.
The IBM Active Energy Manager solution is an IBM Systems Director plug-in that
measures and reports server power consumption as it occurs. This enables you
to monitor power consumption in correlation to specific software application
programs and hardware configurations. You can obtain the measurement values
through the systems-management interface and view them, using IBM Systems
Director. For more information, including the required levels of IBM Systems
Director and Active Energy Manager, see the IBM Systems Director Information
Center at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/v6r1x/index.jsp?topic=/
director_6.1/fqm0_main.html, or see http://www.ibm.com/servers/systems/
management/director/resources/.
The addition of the optional Ethernet daughter card provides failover capability to
a redundant Ethernet connection with the applicable application installed. If a
problem occurs with the primary Ethernet connection and the optional Ethernet
daughter card is installed on the server, all Ethernet traffic that is associated with
the primary connection is automatically switched to the optional redundant
Ethernet daughter card connection. If the applicable device drivers are installed,
this switching occurs without data loss and without user intervention.
The server supports a maximum of two 750-watt or 900-watt hot-swap power
supplies and six simple-swap fans, which provide redundancy and hot-swap
capability for a typical configuration. The redundant cooling by the fans in the