Key Features - Lenovo System x3250 M5 Product Manual

Key features

The System x3250 M5 server is a compact, cost-effective, single-processor 1U rack server that has been
optimized to provide outstanding availability, manageability, and performance features to
small-to-medium-sized businesses, retail stores, or distributed enterprises.
Scalability and performance
The x3250 M5 offers numerous features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs:
The Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 v3 product family improves productivity by offering affordable
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single-socket system performance with four-core processors with up to 3.6 GHz core speeds, up to 8
MB of L3 cache.
Choice of processors with up to four cores to enable the effective use of multithreaded applications.
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Intelligent and adaptive system performance with Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 allows processor
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cores to run at maximum speeds during peak workloads by temporarily going beyond processor
thermal design power (TDP).
Intel Hyper-Threading Technology boosts performance for multithreaded applications by enabling
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simultaneous multithreading within each processor core, up to two threads per core.
Intel Virtualization Technology integrates hardware-level virtualization hooks that allow operating
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system vendors to better use the hardware for virtualization workloads.
Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) significantly improve floating point performance for
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compute-intensive technical and scientific applications.
The four 1600 MHz DDR3 ECC memory UDIMMs provide speed, high availability, and a memory
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capacity of up to 32 GB.
The server offers up to four integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports with a convenient Lenovo Features on
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Demand (FoD) upgrade process that does not require the purchase of additional hardware.
The server offers PCI Express 3.0 I/O expansion capabilities that improve the theoretical maximum
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bandwidth by almost 100% (8 GTps per link using 128b/130b encoding) compared to the PCI Express
2.0 (5 GTps per link using 8b/10b encoding).
With Intel Integrated I/O Technology, the PCI Express 3.0 controller is integrated into the Intel Xeon
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processor E3-1200 v3 product family. Such integration reduces I/O latency and increases overall
system performance.
Up to eight 2.5-inch hot-swap or simple-swap drive bays or four 3.5-inch hot-swap or simple-swap
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drive bays provide maximum internal storage capacity in a compact 1U form factor.
The use of solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of, or along with, traditional spinning drives (hard disk
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drives or HDDs) can significantly improve I/O performance. An SSD can support up to 100 times
more I/O operations per second (IOPS) than a typical HDD.
Availability and serviceability
The x3250 M5 provides many features to simplify serviceability and increase system uptime:
ECC memory provides error correction not available in PC-class "servers" that use parity memory.
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Avoiding system crashes (and data loss) due to soft memory errors can mean greater system uptime.
Tool-less cover removal provides easy access to upgrades and serviceable parts, such as processor,
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memory, and adapter cards.
The server offers simple-swap or hot-swap drives with support for an affordable ServeRAID or
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advanced hardware RAID redundancy for data protection and greater system uptime.
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