IBM System x3400 M3 Product Manual

Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 1 Product Guide February 2011 IBM System x3400 M3 Product Overview CONTENTS Product Overview 1 Selling Features 1 Key Features 3 Key Options 11 x3400 M3 Images 13 x3400 M3 Specifications 14 The Bottom Line 17 Server Comparison Ta ...

Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 2 Selling Features Price/Performance The x3400 M3 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce product and operating costs: • Up to two 4- or 6-core Xeon 5600 Series processors and 12MB of shared cache per processor ...

Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 3 perform Predictive Failure Analysis, etc., and trigger IBM Systems Director alerts. The IMM performs the functions of both the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) of earlier systems and the Remote Supervisor Adapter II and is ...

Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 4 Key Features High-Performance Xeon 5600 and 5500 Series Processors The x3400 M3 supports up to two high-performance Intel Xeon processors, allowing you to upgrade to a second processor as business needs require. The x3400 M3 of ...

Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 5 DDR-3 Registered Memory with Chipkill ECC Protection The x3400 M3 ships with registered double data rate III (DDR-3) memory and provides Active Memory features, including advanced Chipkill memory protection (optionally), for up ...

Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 6 system. Dual-rank DIMMs offer better interleaving and hence better performance than single-rank DIMMs. For instance, a system populated with six 2GB dual-rank DIMMs outperforms a system populated with six 2GB single-rank DIMMs ...

Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 7 slots, and Slot 6 is a half-length/full-height 33MHz legacy PCI slot. The PCI-X riser contains two full-length/full-height slots. Disk/Tape Controllers All 3.5-inch hot-swap x3400 M3 models include an integrated hardware-based ...

Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 8 • 7,200 RPMs — 250 or 500GB, 1TB, or 2TB (8TB / 16TB via CTO) 3.5-inch Simple-Swap SATA • 7,200 RPMs — 250 or 500GB, or 2TB (8TB / 8TB via CTO) 2.5-inch Hot-Swap SAS • 7,200 RPMs — 500GB (4TB—8 bays / 8TB—16 bay ...

Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 9 Onboard Broadcom 5716 Gigabit Ethernet controller provides two Gigabit ports supporting IEEE 802.3 for 1000Base-T, 100Base-TX, and 10Base-T applications (802.3, 802.3u, 802.3ab) over a CAT 5 twisted-pair cable. Other Features � ...

Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 10 • High-speed remote redirection of PCI video, keyboard and mouse IBM ToolsCenter consolidates 42 needed tools for managing servers individually into an integrated suite of 8 tools. They are organized by function: deployment, ...