Selling Features - IBM System x3200 M3 Product Manual

An affordable single-socket, quad-core server with high performance
and data protection for small, medium, and large businesses

Selling Features

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ServerGuide , the x3200 M3 is designed for superior uptime.
For a balance of high-performance processing, high availability and vast internal storage at a
budget price, the x3200 M3 is the ideal system.
Price/Performance
The x3200 M3 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce product and
operating costs:
• Models with a quad-core Xeon processor, high-end 1333MHz memory access, and 8MB
of L3 cache, offer peak performance, capable of tackling the toughest jobs.
• Models containing a high-performance dual-core Core i3 processor, with high-end
1333MHz memory access and 4MB of L3 cache, offer superior performance at an
aggressive price.
• Models containing a dual-core Celeron or Pentium processor with speedy 1066MHz
memory access, for those on a budget.
• Ultra-fast 1333MHz or 1066MHz DDR3 ECC memory offers high speed and high
availability.
• High-speed PCIe adapter slots offers investment protection by supporting high-
performance adapters, such as Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand cards, none of
which will run in older legacy PCI slots.
• Integrated hardware RAID-0/1 support (standard in hot-swap models; optional in simple-
swap models) doesn't consume a valuable adapter slot. RAID-0 offers improved disk
performance via data striping and RAID-1 offers disk mirroring for high availability.
• Gen 2 HDD cage support for up to four hot-swap 3.5-inch SAS or SATA hard disk
drives or up to eight hot-swap 2.5-inch SAS HDDs (CTO/special bid), offers high-
performance and large capacity with high availability. The SAS/SATA controller provides
full-duplex (2 x 300MBps) data transfers for SAS drives. For lower cost with high
capacity, other models support up to four simple-swap SATA drives.
• The two integrated single-port Gigabit Ethernet controllers with IPMI 2.0 support provide
high-speed network communications.
• A high degree of device integration, including SAS/SATA, RAID-0/1/1E, Gigabit
Ethernet, IMM systems management, and video controllers, lowers costs and frees up
valuable adapter slots.
Flexibility
The x3200 M3 has the ability to grow with your application requirements, thanks to:
• A choice of one quad-core Xeon processor with 2.4 to 3.06GHz clock rate, 8MB of L3
cache, and up to 1333MHz memory access, or a dual-core Celeron, Pentium or Core i3
processor with a 2.26 to 3.20GHz clock rate, 2MB to 4MB of L3 cache, and 1066MHz or
1333MHz memory access.
• A choice of 73W dual-core or 95W quad-core processors.
• Up to 32GB of high-speed DDR3 system memory.
• Five available adapter slots: two PCIe x8, two PCIe x4 (one PCIe slot is reserved for a
ServeRAID controller) and two legacy PCI (32-bit, 33MHz) slots in all models.
• The seven USB 2.0 ports (two front, four rear, one internal) are up to 40X faster
older USB 1.1 ports. This provides speedy access to external HDDs (non-arrayed),
optical drives, tape drives, and other USB devices. The internal port can be used for an
optional tape drive, disk cartridge backup device or USB key with embedded hypervisor.
• Up to four internal 3.5-inch simple-swap SATA or hot-swap SAS or SATA HDDs or
eight 2.5-inch hot-swap SAS HDDs (by special bid only), can be installed. This provides
tremendous internal storage capability, along with full data backup.
• Alternatively, iSCSI or Fibre Channel-attached storage can be attached using IBM
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System Storage servers.
Manageability
Powerful systems management features simplify local and remote management of the x3200
M3:
• The x3200 M3 includes an Integrated Management Module (IMM) to monitor server
availability, perform Predictive Failure Analysis, etc., and trigger IBM Systems Director
alerts. The IMM performs the functions of both the mini Baseboard Management
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