Standard Specifications - IBM x3755 M3 At-A-Glance 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 16-core (up to 2.5 GHz) or 12-core (up to 2.6 GHz) or 8-core (up to 3.0 GHz) AMD
Opteron 6200 series processors with HyperTransport 3 technology up to 6.4 GT/s, and up to
1333 MHz memory speed.
Up to four 12-core (up to 2.2 GHz) or 8-core (up to 2.4 GHz) AMD Opteron 6100 series
processors with HyperTransport 3 technology up to 6.4 GT/s, and up to 1333 MHz memory
speed.
Memory cache Up to 16 MB L3.
Chipset AMD SR5690 and SP5100.
Memory sockets Up to 32 DIMM sockets (eight DIMMs per processor).
Memory 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 24.0 TB with 3 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, 1E with BR10ilv2 (CTO only) or M1015; RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 with M5014 or M5015.
Optional upgrade to RAID 5 is available for M1015. Optional upgrade to RAID 6, 60 is available
for M5014/M5015.
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.
Ethernet Four integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports (two dual-port Ethernet controllers).
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
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Slot 2: PCIe 2.0 x8, low profile, half length
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Slot 3: PCIe 2.0 x8 (x4 wired), low profile, half length
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Slot 4: PCIe 2.0 x8, low profile, half length (internal only, reserved for RAID controller)
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External ports Two USB 2.0 on front. Two USB 2.0, one DB-15 video, one DB-9 serial, one RJ-45 systems
management, four RJ-45 network ports on rear. One internal USB port for embedded hypervisor.
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