Key Features - IBM System x3550 M4 Product Manual

Key features

The x3550 M4 is a cost- and density-balanced 1U, 2-socket business-critical server, offering improved
performance and pay-as-you grow flexibility along with new features that improve server management
capability. The powerful system is designed for your most important business applications and cloud
deployments.
Combining balanced performance and flexibility, the x3550 M4 is a great choice for small and medium
businesses and up to the large enterprise. It can provide outstanding uptime to keep business-critical
applications and cloud deployments running safely. Ease-of-use and comprehensive systems
management tools make it easy to deploy. Outstanding RAS and high-efficiency design improves your
business environment and helps save operational costs.
Scalability and performance
The x3550 M4 offers numerous features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs:
Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family
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Improves productivity by offering superior system performance with up to 12-core processors, up
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to 30 MB of L3 cache, and up to two 8 GT/s QPI interconnect links.
Supports up to two processors, 24 cores, and 48 threads maximize the concurrent execution of
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multi-threaded applications.
Supports up to 1866 MHz memory speeds.
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Supports up to 768 GB memory with 32 GB LRDIMMs.
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Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family
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Improves productivity by offering superior system performance with up to 8-core processors, up
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to 20 MB of L3 cache, and up to two 8 GT/s QPI interconnect links.
Supports up to two processors, 16 cores, and 32 threads maximize the concurrent execution of
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multi-threaded applications.
Supports up to 1600 MHz memory speeds.
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Supports up to 768 GB memory with 32 GB LRDIMMs.
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Intelligent and adaptive system performance with Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 allows CPU cores
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to run at maximum speeds during peak workloads by temporarily going beyond processor TDP.
Intel Hyper-Threading Technology boosts performance for multithreaded applications by enabling
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simultaneous multithreading within each processor core, up to two threads per core.
Intel Virtualization Technology integrates hardware-level virtualization hooks that allow operating
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system vendors to better utilize the hardware for virtualization workloads.
Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) significantly improve floating point performance for
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compute-intensive technical and scientific applications compared to Intel Xeon 5600 series
processors.
12 Gbps SAS internal storage connectivity doubles the data transfer rate compared to 6 Gb SAS
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solutions to maximize performance of storage I/O-intensive applications.
The use of solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of or along with traditional spinning drives (HDDs) can
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significantly improve I/O performance. An SSD can support up to 100 times more I/O operations per
second (IOPS) than a typical HDD.
The server has four integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports and two optional 10 Gb Ethernet ports with
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mezzanine cards that do not consume a PCIe slot.
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