IBM 250000, 190000 specifications Server Comparison Chart, ‰ Memory mirroring

Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 1U dual-socket server

‰Advanced Chipkill ECC memory protection, and either

‰Memory mirroring

•Slotless hardware-based ServeRAID BR10idisk mirroring; RAID -1, 5, 6, 10, 50 uses PCIe slot

•Hot-swap SAS /SATA/SSD hard disk drives or simple-swap SSD drives

•Ultra-efficient cooling incorporating Calibrated Vectored Cooling features and hot- swap/redundant fans

•Optional hot-swap/redundant power supplies

•Light path diagnostics (front LED panel, drop-down light path panel)

•Optional Virtual Media Key daughter card (no slot required)

‰Supports LDAP and SSL industry standards

•Toolless chassis and toolless slide design; integrated Cable Management Arm

Server Comparison Chart

Important

Nice to Have

Can do without

Best

Better

Good

Requirements

Rack-Optimized Servers

Theme

Key Workloads

Scalability

Memory Throughput Floating Point Performance

Integer Performance

I/O and Storage

Density

High Availability

Systems Management

Security

Distributed Deployment

x3250 M2

x3350

x3450

x3455

x3550 M2

x3610

x3650 M2

x3655

x3755

x3850 M2

x3950 M2

Cluster / HPC

Important

HPC

Modeling & Simulation

High Performance DB

Business Intelligence

Search

Nice to Have

Web 2.0 /

Content

Communities

Web 3D

Commerce

Can do without

Collaboration

ERP/SCM

Business

CRM

Best

Hosted Client

Applications

Point of Sale

Branch Office

Better

Virtualization

Business Continuity

Infrastructure

Database

Good

Applications

Email/Collaboration

Security

Web Serving

File & Print

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