Standard Specifications - IBM System x3550 M4 Product Manual

Standard specifications

The following table lists the standard specifications.
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Components Specification
Form factor 1U 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 C604
Memory Up to 24 DIMM sockets (12 DIMMs per processor). RDIMMs, UDIMMs and LR-DIMMs (Load
Reduced DIMMs) supported but memory types cannot be intermixed. Memory DIMM speeds up
to 1600 MHz.
Memory With RDIMMs: Up to 384 GB with 24x 16 GB RDIMMs and two processors
maximums With UDIMMs: Up to 64 GB with 16x 4 GB UDIMMs and two processors
With LRDIMMs: Up to 768 GB with 24x 32 GB LRDIMMs and two processors
Memory ECC, memory mirroring, and memory sparing.
protection
Disk drive bays Up to eight 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs, or up to three 3.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs, or up
to three 3.5" Simple Swap SATA HDDs.
Maximum Up to 7.2 TB with 900 GB 2.5" SAS HDDs, or up to 8 TB with 1 TB 2.5" NL SAS/SATA HDDs, or
internal storage up to 9 TB with 3 TB 3.5" NL SAS/SATA HDDs. Intermix of SAS/SATA is supported.
RAID support RAID 0, 1, 10 with H1110, M1115 or M5110. Optional upgrades to RAID 5, 50 available for
M1115. Optional upgrades to RAID 5, 50 are available (zero-cache; 512 MB battery-backed
cache; 512 MB or 1 GB flash-backed cache) for M5110. Optional upgrade to RAID 6. 60 are
available for M5110 with caches.
Optical drive One, optional, for models with 2.5" drives. Support for DVD-ROM or Multiburner.
bays
Tape drive bays None.
Network Four integrated Gigabit Ethernet 1000BASE-T ports (RJ-45); two integrated 10 Gb Ethernet ports
interfaces (10GBASE-T RJ-45 or 10GBASE-SR SFP+ based) on optional 10 Gb Ethernet mezzanine card
(does not consume a PCIe slot).
PCI Expansion Two slots, depending on the riser cards installed. The slots are as follows (all PCIe slots are PCIe
slots 3.0, all PCI-X slots are 64 bit/133 MHz):
Slot 1: PCIe x16; low profile, half-length
Slot 2: PCIe x8, opt. PCI-X or PCIe x16; full-height/length (req. 2nd CPU)
Additional dedicated slot for ServeRAID adapter.
Ports Two USB 2.0 (three USB 2.0 for 3.5" HDD models) and one DB-15 video on front. Four USB 2.0,
one DB-15 video, one DB-9 serial, one RJ-45 systems management, four RJ-45 GbE network
ports, two optional RJ-45 or SFP+ 10 GbE network ports on rear. One internal USB ports (for
embedded hypervisor).
Cooling IBM Calibrated Vectored Cooling™ with up to six N+N redundant hot-swap fans (four standard,
additional two with second processor); each fan has two motors.
Power supply Up to two redundant hot-swap 550 W ac or 750 W ac power supplies (80+ Platinum certification).
Hot-swap parts Hard drives, power supplies, fans.
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