IBM x3400 specifications Product Overview, Selling Features Price/Performance, Contents

An affordable dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server with high performance and data protection for small and medium businesses

Pocket Guide

December 2007

IBM System x3400

Product Overview

CONTENTS

Product Overview

Selling Features

Key Features

Key Options

x3400 Images

x3400 Specifications

The Bottom Line

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Outstanding performance, capacity and availability

[Suggested uses: Small/medium businesses, large multilocation enterprises and bank branch offices seeking scalability, top performance and new availability features at an entry-level price.]

The dual-socketIBM® System x3400, incorporating IBM X-Architecture™features, provides outstanding value to workgroups by combining scalable performance and availability features at an outstanding price. The x3400 supports the latest quad- and dual-coreIntel® Xeon™ processors, designed with up to a

1leading-edge 1333MHz front-side bus (FSB), 64-bit extensions (EM64T), either 4MB (dual-core) or 8MB or 12MB (quad-core) of L2 cache and Hyper-Threading Technology, to help provide you with the

1computing power you need to match your business needs and growth. In addition, the x3400 uses

3industry-standard fully buffered 667MHz memory with Chipkill™ ECC (Error Checking and Correcting)

protection—for high performance and reliability. For even higher levels of availability, the x3400 also offers

8a choice of optional online hot-spare memory or memory mirroring. An integrated high-speed Gigabit

10	Ethernet controller is standard, as are high-performance adapter slots (PCI-E x8 and x4 and PCI-X/133).
11	All models offer impressive scalability, including dual-processor support, up to 32GB of memory and up to
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	four simple-swap Serial ATA II (SATA II) hard disk drives with a total capacity of up to 3.0TB , or up to

13four high-performance hot-swapSerial-Attach SCSI (SAS) drives with an internal storage capacity of 1.2TB. Specific models support an upgrade kit that increases hot-swapsupport to eight SATA or SAS

15drives (6.0TB or 2.4TB, respectively). For additional performance and high availability, the x3400 includes the hardware-based ServeRAID-8k-lcontroller standard, with 32MB of cache, providing RAID-0/1/10

15support. Additional RAID support is available via the optional IBM ServeRAID™ family of SAS/SATA and Ultra320 SCSI controllers. The x3400 ships as a tower unit; an optional rack conversion kit turns the x3400 into a 5U rack-mounted server to save precious data center floor space.

Standard in the x3400 is a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) that enables users to manage and control the server easily—both locally and remotely. This high level of manageability is designed to keep costs down and the system up—even when network usage increases. Other advanced features that

help maximize network availability by increasing uptime, include simple-swapor hot-swap/redundant HDDs, hot-swap/redundant power and fans; Active Memory™; integrated RAID; temperature- controlled fans with Calibrated Vectored Cooling™; industry-standard IPMI 2.0 support, including highly secure remote power control and Serial over LAN; as well as text-console redirect over LAN.

With the inclusion of unique IBM service and support features such as IBM Director, IBM ServerGuide™ and support for the optional IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine, the x3400 is equally well designed for a locally managed data center environment as for a remotely managed or stand-alone environment, while offering maximum availability.

For a balance of high-performance dual-core, dual-socket processing, high availability and vast internal SAS storage at a budget price, the x3400 is the ideal system.

Selling Features	Price/Performance
	The x3400 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce product and operating costs:

•Up to two multi-coreXeon processors with high-end 1066MHz or 1333MHz front side bus and either 12MB, 8MB or 4MB (processor-specific) of integrated Level 2 cache per processor offer superior performance capable of tackling the toughest jobs. 64-bit extensions provide the flexibility to run 32- bit and 64-bit applications concurrently.

•Low-voltage processors draw less power and produce less waste heat than high-voltage processors, thus helping to reduce data center energy costs. Some dual-coreXeon processors use only 65W. This is half the wattage consumed by older 130W processors. On a per-core basis, the 80W quad-coreprocessors are even more economical, consuming only 20W per core, vs. 32.5W per core for the 65W dual-core processors.

1 GB equals 1,000,000,000 bytes and TB equals 1,000,000,000,000 bytes when referring to hard disk drive capacity. Accessible capacity may be less.

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