Standard Specifications - IBM x3755 M3 Product Manual

Standard specifications

The following table lists the standard specifications.
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Component Specification
Form factor 2U rack.
Processor Up to four AMD Opteron processors.
Models with AMD Opteron 6300 processors: Either 16 cores (up to 2.8 GHz) or 12 cores (up
to 2.8 GHz) or 8 cores (up to 3.2 GHz) or 4 cores (3.5 GHz), HyperTransport 3 technology up to
6.4 GT/s, and up to 1600 MHz memory speed.
Models with AMD Opteron 6200 processors: Either 16 cores (up to 2.5 GHz) or 12 cores (up
to 2.6 GHz) or 8 cores (up to 3.0 GHz), HyperTransport 3 technology up to 6.4 GT/s, and up to
1333 MHz memory speed.
Memory cache Up to 16 MB L3.
Chipset Models with AMD Opteron 6300 processors: AMD SB5790 and SP5100
Models with AMD Opteron 6200 processors: AMD SR5690 and SP5100.
Memory Up to 32 DIMM sockets (eight DIMMs per processor). Four memory channels per processor, up
sockets to 2 DIMMs per channel
Memory Models with AMD Opteron 6300 processors: Supports RDIMMs only
Models with AMD Opteron 6320 processors: Supports RDIMMs or UDIMMs.
With RDIMMs: Up to 512 GB using 16 GB DDR3 RDIMMs and four processors
With UDIMMs: Up to 128 GB with 4 GB DDR3 UDIMMs and four processors
Memory ECC, Chipkill (for x4-based and x8-based memory DIMMs), and memory sparing.
protection
Disk drive bays Up to six 3.5" simple-swap (SS) SATA HDDs (CTO only), or up to eight 3.5" hot-swap (HS)
SAS/SATA HDDs.
Maximum Up to 32 TB with 4 TB 3.5" HS NL SATA or NL SAS HDDs
internal storage
Up to 4.8 TB with 600 GB 3.5" HS SAS HDDs
Up to 18.0 TB with 3 TB 3.5" SS SATA HDDs (CTO only)
Intermix of SAS/SATA is supported.
RAID support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 with ServeRAID M5014 or M5015. RAID 0, 1, 1E with ServeRAID BR10ilv2
(CTO only) or ServeRAID M1015. Optional upgrade to RAID 6, 60 is available for M5014 and
M5015. Optional upgrade to RAID 5 is available for M1015.
Optical drive One with support for optional UltraSlim DVD-ROM or Multiburner.
bays
Tape drive bays None in standard models with hot-swap HDDs. One optional in CTO models with simple-swap
HDDs.
Network Four integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports (two dual-port Ethernet controllers). Broadcom
interfaces BCM5709C chipset.
PCI Expansion The server offers four PCI Express slots (one of them is reserved for the RAID controller):
slots
Slot 1: PCIe 2.0 x16, full height, full length

Slot 2: PCIe 2.0 x8, low profile, half length

Slot 3: PCIe 2.0 x8 (x4 wired), low profile, half length

Slot 4: PCIe 2.0 x8, low profile, half length (internal only, reserved for RAID controller)

IBM System x3755 M3 4