Outstanding innovation in only 1U
Suggested Uses: All sectors requiring highly available, energy-efficient, rack-optimized solution for physical and virtual intensive commercial environments like eBusiness/eCommerce, collaboration, virtualization, database, and enterprise resource planning applications.
Your challenge is to do more with less—serve more Web pages, handle more secure connections, support more e-mail users. You need to reduce the costs of doing business and improve the service you deliver to your customers while lower your overall risk. The dual-socket
1IBM® System x3550 M2 can reduce your costs with its new energy smart design. It can improve service with reduced operational complexity and increased management functionality. It will lower
2your IT risk with the resiliency that comes from no single point of failure. And like all IBM servers,
| 4 | the x3550 M2 offers you the trust that comes from the IBM global reach, service and support. |
| The x3550 M2 is not simply an upgrade to a previous server. It is one of our new generation of |
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| X-Architecture servers. It is a game-changing, completely redesigned rack server using |
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| significantly less power with unified systems management tools, leadership reliability, availability, |
| 15 | serviceability features and broad systems flexibitliyt housed in a compact 1U mechanical |
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| The x3550 M2 features Intel® Xeon® 5500 Series Processors and either 8MB or 4MB of shared |
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18cache, to help provide you with the computing power you need to match your business needs
19and growth. This new line of Intel processors delivers unprecedented intelligent performance with
19features like adaptive performance for applications and environments, turbo boost and hyper- threading technology, and integrated power gates and automated power management.
The x3550M2 uses up to 16 DIMMs with 128GB of registered 1333MHz DDR3 memory with Chipkill™ ECC (Error Checking and Correcting) protection—for high performance and reliability. For even higher levels of availability, the x3550M2 also offers online memory mirroring. Up to 4 integrated high-speed Gigabit Ethernet controllers with TOE (TCP Offload Engine) and Jumbo Frame support are available, as are two high-performance adapter slots (PCIe x16). The x3550M2 offers an optional embedded hypervisor to manage your virtual workloads.
The x3550 M2 offers a choice of up to six high-performancehot-swap hard disk drives with an internal storage capacity of 1.8TB (six 2.5-inchhot-swapSerial-Attached SCSI (SAS) or SATA HDDs) Optional solid-state drives are also available to keep power low and improve resiliency and offer up to 300GB of storage. The server supports a choice of four IBM ServeRAID® storage controllers which provide broad levels of hardware-basedRAID solutions. The ultradense 1U form factor allows businesses to increase their computing power and spread their workload without outgrowing their current data center. Up to 42 of these 1U servers can be installed in a single 42U rack, for a total of up to 84 processors and 336 processor cores, offering tremendous deployment flexibility. Optional Advanced Connectivity Technology (ACT) interconnect cabling reduces cable clutter and cost and minimizes installation time when interconnecting many rack- mounted servers.
Standard in the x3550 M2 is the Integrated Management Module (IMM) that enables the user to manage and control the server easily—both locally and remotely. In conjunction with the IMM, the x3550 M2 comes with an altitude sensor (altimeter), which governs fan rotation based on altitude to help lower your energy consumption. The IMM offers a high level of manageability that is designed to keep costs down and the system up—even when network usage increases. IBM’s innovative pop-out/drop-down light path diagnostics panel enables quick servicing of the system if a problem develops. These advanced features help maximize network availability by increasing uptime, as do hot simple-swapsolid-state drives; hot-swap/redundant SAS or SATA HDDs, redundant ultra-efficient power supplies and fans; Active Memory™; integrated RAID; temperature-controlled fans with Calibrated Vectored Cooling™; IPMI 2.0 support, including highly secure remote power control and Serial over LAN; as well as text-console redirect over LAN.
Another improvement with the new generation of X-Architecture is the replacement of old BIOS
