Lenovo System x3550 M5 Product Manual page 6

Components Specification
Memory protection Error correction code (ECC), Chipkill (for x4-based memory DIMMs).
Disk drive bays Up to 12x 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs, or up to 8x 2.5" Simple Swap SATA HDDs, or up
to 4x 3.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs, or up to 4x 3.5" Simple Swap SATA HDDs.
Maximum internal Up to 21.6 TB with 1.8 TB 2.5" SAS HDDs, or up to 12 TB with 1 TB 2.5" NL SAS/SATA
storage HDDs, or up to 38.4 TB with 3.84 TB 2.5" SAS SSDs, or up to 24 TB with 6 TB 3.5" NL
SAS/SATA HDDs. Intermix of SAS/SATA is supported.
Storage controller
Optical drive bays One, optional, for models with 4 or 8 drive bays (models with 10 drive bays do not support
an internal optical drive). Support for DVD-ROM or Multiburner.
Tape drive bays None.
Network interfaces Four integrated RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet 1000BASE-T ports (BCM5719); optional Mezzanine
LOM (ML2) slot for dual-port 10 GbE cards with SFP+ or RJ-45 connectors or quad-port
GbE cards with RJ-45 connectors.
PCI Expansion Up to four slots, depending on the riser cards installed. The slots are as follows:
slots
Ports
Cooling Calibrated Vectored Cooling with up to eight redundant hot-swap fans (six standard,
additional two with the second processor or with the x3550 M5 Thermal Solution Kit); dual
fan zones with N+1 fan redundancy; each fan has two motors.
Power supply Up to two redundant hot-swap 550 W, 750 W, 900 W, or 1500 W High Efficiency Platinum
AC power supplies, or 750 W High Efficiency Titanium AC power supplies, or 900 W High
Efficiency -48 V DC power supplies.
Hot-swap parts Hard drives, power supplies, and fans.
Systems Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), Integrated Management Module II (IMM2.1)
management based on Renesas SH7758, Predictive Failure Analysis, light path diagnostics, Automatic
Server Restart, ToolsCenter, XClarity Administrator, and Intel Node Manager. Optional
Advanced Management Module Advanced Upgrade for remote presence (graphics,
keyboard and mouse, virtual media).
System x3550 M5
Onboard 6 Gb SATA: no RAID support
12 Gb SAS/SATA RAID: RAID 0, 1, 10 with M1215 or M5210. Optional upgrade to
RAID 5, 50 is available for M1215. Optional upgrade to RAID 5, 50 is available for
M5210 (zero-cache; 1 GB non-backed cache; 1 GB, 2 GB, or 4 GB flash-backed
cache). Optional upgrade to RAID 6, 60 is available for M5210 with memory cache
upgrades. Optional SSD Caching and Performance Accelerator upgrades
are available.
12 Gb SAS/SATA non-RAID: N2215 HBA
Slot 1: PCIe 3.0 x16 or ML2; low profile, half-length (not present if the HDD Rear Kit is
installed)
Slot 2: PCIe 3.0 x16 or PCIe 3.0 x8; low profile or full-height, half-length (PCIe 3.0 x16
slot requires the second processor to be installed) (not present if the HDD Rear Kit is
installed)
Slot 3: PCIe 3.0 x16 or PCIe 3.0 x8; low profile, half-length
Slot 4: PCIe 3.0 x8 (dedicated for an internal RAID controller)
Front: 1x USB 2.0 (8x 2.5" drive bay models) or 2x USB 2.0 l (4x 3.5" and 10x 2.5"
drive bay models), 1x USB 3.0, and 1x DB-15 video.
Rear: 2x USB 3.0, 1x USB 2.0, 1x DB-15 video, 1x RJ-45 systems management, 4x
RJ-45 GbE network ports. Optional 1x DB-9 serial port.
Internal: 1x USB 3.0 port (for embedded hypervisor).
Internal: 1x SD Media Adapter slot (for embedded hypervisor)
6