Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and
expandable, rack-dense, 1U dual-socket server
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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
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Theme Key Workloads
Scalability
Floating Point
Performance
Memory
Throughput
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
3112213 3 3 3
Modeling & Simulation
2 1 1 1 31323 3
High Performance DB
2211132 2 3 3
Business Intelligence
2111212213
Search
3111213 3 1 2
Content
2 2 2 2 2 1 3 3 2 2
Communities
122211232 2
Commerce
2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 2
Collaboration
232321232 2
ERP/SCM
1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2
CRM
2222222213
Best
Hosted Client
132 1 2 2 1 1 2 2
Point of Sale
3332 1 31 1 1 1
Branch Office
23332 2 1 1 2 1
Better
Virtualization
1222121123
Business Continuity
23331 2 2 1 2 2
Database
2212121223
Good
Email/Collaboration
232 1 2 2 1 1 2 2
Security
2222211113
Web Serving
322231 2 1 3 3
File & Print
23231 2 2 1 3 3
1
2
3
Important
Nice to Have
Can do without