IBM x3500 M3 7380 Product Manual - page 7
IBM System x3500 M3
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Standard specifications
The following table lists the standard specifications.
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Component
Specification
Form factor
Tower or 5U Rack.
Processor
Up to two six-core (up to 3.46 GHz) or quad-core (up to 3.6 GHz) Intel Xeon 5600 series
processors with QuickPath Interconnect technology up to 6.4 GT/s, and up to 1333 MHz
memory speed. Supports specific Quad-core Intel Xeon 5500 series processors via
Configure-To-Order (CTO).
Memory cache
Up to 12 MB L3 for Xeon 5600 processors. Up to 8 MB L3 for Xeon 5500 processors.
Chipset
Intel 5520.
Memory
Up to 16 DIMM sockets (eight DIMMs per processor). Up to 192 GB with 16 GB DDR3 RDIMMs
and 12 populated DIMM slots (up to 96 GB with six DIMMs per processor), or up to 48 GB with 4
GB DDR3 UDIMMs and 12 populated DIMM slots (up to 24 GB with six DIMMs per processor).
Memory
protection
ECC, ChipKill (for x4-based memory DIMMs), memory mirroring, and memory sparing.
Disk drive bays
Up to four 3.5" Simple-Swap SATA HDDs, or up to eight 3.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs, or up
to twenty-four 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or solid-state drives.
Maximum
internal storage
Up to 24 TB with 3 TB 3.5" HS NL SAS or NL SATA HDDs, or up to 24 TB with 1 TB 2.5" HS NL
SAS or NL SATA HDDs. Intermix of SAS/SATA is supported.
RAID support
RAID 0, 1, 1E with 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
bays
One with support for HH DVD-ROM or Multiburner (for all models except 8x 3.5" HDDs), or one
with support for UltraSlim DVD-ROM or Multiburner (for 8x 3.5" HDD models).
Tape drive bays
Two with support for HH internal tape drives. A maximum of one or two internal tape drives can
be installed (tape drive dependent).
Ethernet
Integrated two Gigabit Ethernet ports.
PCI Expansion
slots
The server supports up to eight PCI slots (six slots are on the system planar and one or two
slots are on the extender card). The slot form factors are as follows.
System planar:
Slot 1: PCIe 2.0 x8, full height, half length
Slot 2: PCIe 2.0 x16 (x8 wired), full height, full length
Slot 3: PCIe 2.0 x8 (x4 wired), full height, full length
Slot 4: PCIe 2.0 x8 (x4 wired), full height, full length
Slot 5: PCIe 2.0 x8, full height, full length
Slot 6: PCI 32-bit/33 MHz, full height, half length
PCI Express extender card (included in standard and express models):
Slot 7: PCIe x8 (x4 wired), full height, full length
PCI-X extender card: (optional, for CTO configurations only):
Slot 7: PCI-X 64-bit/133 MHz, full height, full length
Slot 8: PCI-X 64 bit/133 MHz, full height, full length
External ports
Two USB 2.0 on front. Four USB 2.0, one DB-15 video, one DB-9 serial, one RJ-45 systems
management, two RJ-45 network ports on rear. One internal USB port for embedded
hypervisor. One internal USB port for internal USB tape drive.