Standard Specifications - IBM System x3500 M4 Product Manual

Standard specifications

The following table lists the standard specifications.
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Components Specification
Form factor Tower or 5U Rack.
Processor Up to two Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family CPUs with eight cores (up to 2.9 GHz) or
six cores (up to 2.9 GHz) or quad-cores (up to 3.3 GHz). Two QPI links up to 8.0 GT/s each. Up
to 1600 MHz memory speed. Up to 20 MB L3 cache.
Chipset Intel C602J.
Memory Up to 24 DDR3 DIMM sockets (12 DIMMs per processor). RDIMMs, UDIMMs, and LRDIMMs are
supported, but memory types cannot be intermixed.
Memory With LRDIMMs: Up to 768 GB with 24x 32 GB LRDIMMs and two processors.
maximums
With RDIMMs: Up to 384 GB with 24x 16 GB RDIMMs and two processors.
With UDIMMs: Up to 32 GB with 16x 2 GB UDIMMs and two processors.
Memory ECC, memory mirroring, and memory sparing.
protection
Disk drive bays Up to thirty-two 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs, or up to eight 3.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs,
or up to eight 3.5" Simple Swap SATA HDDs.
Maximum 28.8 TB with 900 GB 2.5" SAS HDDs, or 32 TB with 1 TB 2.5" SATA HDDs, or 24 TB with 3 TB
internal storage 3.5" SATA HDDs. Intermix of SAS/SATA is supported.
RAID support RAID 0, 1, 10 with M1115 or ServeRAID M5110. Optional upgrade to RAID 5, 50 available for
M1115. Optional upgrades to RAID 5, 50 are available for M5110 (zero-cache, 512 MB
battery-backed cache, 512 MB or 1 GB flash-backed cache). Optional upgrade to RAID 6, 60
available for M5110.
Optical drive Two half-height 5.25" bays for optical or tape drives. Supports DVD-ROM or Multiburner.
bays
Tape drive bays Two half-height 5.25" bays for optical or tape drives. Support for one RDX or DDS internal USB
tape drive. Supports up to two LTO internal SAS tape drives.
Network Four integrated Gigabit Ethernet 1000BASE-T ports (RJ-45) based on Intel I350AM4 Quad Port
interfaces GbE LAN Controller chip.
PCI Expansion Up to eight slots with two processors and six slots when one CPU is installed. All slots are PCIe
slots 3.0 slots except Slot 1, which is a Gen 2 slot:
Slot 1: PCIe x8 (x4 wired); full-height, half-length (supports optional PCI-X 64 bit/133 MHz
interposer card)
Slot 2: PCIe x8; full-height, half-length
Slot 3: PCIe x8; full-height, full-length
Slot 4: PCIe x8 (x4 wired); full-height, full-length
Slot 5: PCIe x16; full-height, full-length
Slot 6: PCIe x8 (x4 wired); full-height, full-length
Slot 7: PCIe x16; full-height, full-length (requires second processor)
Slot 8: PCIe x16; full-height, full-length (requires second processor)
Ports Two USB 2.0s on front. Four USB 2.0s, one DB-15 video, one DB-9 serial, one RJ-45 systems
management, four RJ-45 GbE network ports on rear. Two internal USB ports (for embedded
hypervisor and internal tape drive).
Cooling IBM Calibrated Vectored Cooling with up to six simple swap fans (two fans shipped standard on
single processor models and three fans shipped on dual processor models) with optional N+N
redundancy available .
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