Standard Specifications - IBM System x3250 M4 At-A-Glance Manual

Standard specifications

Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Components Specification
Form factor 1U Rack.
Processor One quad-core Intel Xeon E3-1200 series processor (up to 3.5 GHz/8 MB) or one dual-core
Intel Core i3 2100 series processor (up to 3.3 GHz/3 MB) with up to 1333 MHz memory
speed. Supports specific quad-core and dual-core processors via Configure-To-Order (CTO).
Memory cache Up to 8 MB L3 for Intel Xeon E3-1200 series processors. Up to 3 MB L3 for Intel Core i3 2100
series processors.
Chipset Intel C202.
Memory DIMM slots 4.
Memory capacity Up to 32 GB with 8 GB DDR3 UDIMMs and four populated DIMM slots. RDIMMs are not
supported.
Memory protection ECC.
Disk drive bays Three configurations:
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Maximum internal Up to 2.4 TB with 600 GB SAS HDDs, or up to 4.0 TB with 2 TB SATA HDDs. Intermix of
storage SAS/SATA is not supported.
RAID Support Software RAID 0, 1 with ServeRAID C100 controller. Optional hardware RAID 0, 1, 1E with
ServeRAID-BR10il v2 or M1015. Optional upgrade to RAID 5 is available for M1015 and
C100. Optional RAID 5, 50 with ServeRAID M5014.
Optical drive bays One, support for DVD-ROM or multiburner.
Tape drive bays No internal tape drive support.
Network interfaces Integrated 2 port Gigabit Ethernet/1 port is shared with IMM.
PCI Expansion slots Two PCI Express 2.0 slots:
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External ports Two USB 2.0 ports on front. Four USB 2.0, one DB-15 video, one DB-9 serial, two RJ-45
Gigabit Ethernet network ports (one is dedicated, one is shared with IMM) on rear.
Cooling IBM Calibrated Vectored Cooling™ with 4 fans and N+1 redundancy.
Power supply One fixed 300 W AC power supply; or up to two redundant 460 W AC power supplies (model
dependent)
Hot-swap Hot-swap SAS drives (some models)
components
Systems UEFI, IBM Integrated Management Module II (IMM2), Predictive Failure Analysis, Automatic
management Server Restart, IBM Systems Director and IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™,
IBM ServerGuide.
IBM System x3250 M4
Up to two 3.5" simple-swap SATA HDDs (some models)
Up to four 2.5" hot-swap SAS HDDs (some models)
Up to four 2.5" simple-swap SAS HDDs (CTO only)
One PCI Express 2.0 x4 (for use only by the optional BR10il v2 controller)
One PCI Express 2.0 x8, full-height, half-length
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