Cooling Fans - IBM System x3300 M4 Product Manual

Cooling fans

Standard models of the server come standard with two simple swap cooling fans, one rear fan and one
system fan. The server supports up to four fans, including one that provides N+1 cooling redundancy. The
following table lists the power supplies and redundant cooling upgrade option.
Table 21. Fan upgrades
Part number Feature code
00D2593 A2SJ
* Not including the rear fan (4) as shown in the following figure.
The following figure shows the location of the four fans.
Figure 8. Location of the cooling fans
Standard fans are fan 2 and fan 4. The following table shows the configuration requirements for fans 1
and 3.
Table 22. Fan upgrades
Configuration
Either of:
Two CPUs installed

Three or more PCIe adapters installed

Both:
Fan 3 installed

Any quantity of 16GB 1600 MHz RDIMM (00D4968) installed

N+1 Fan redundancy desired*

* Redundancy is not available if any quantity of 16GB 1600 MHz RDIMM (00D4968) is installed.
IBM System x3300 M4
Description
Redundant System Fan
Standard / Maximum*
1 / 3
Fan
requirement
Install fan 3
only
Install both fan
1 and fan 3
Install fan 1
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