Standard specifications

The following table lists the standard specifications.

Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)

Components

Specification

 

 

Form factor

2U Rack.

 

 

Processor

Up to two six-core (up to 3.46 GHz) or quad-core (up to 3.6 GHz) Intel Xeon 5600 series

 

processors with QuickPath Interconnect technology up to 6.4 GT/s, and up to 1333 MHz

 

memory speed. Also supports the Intel Xeon X5698 4.4 GHz dual-core processor. Supports

 

specific Quad-core and Dual-core Intel Xeon 5500 series processors via Configure-To-Order

 

(CTO).

 

 

Memory cache

Up to 12 MB L3 for Xeon 5600 processors. Up to 8 MB L3 for Xeon 5500 processors.

 

 

Chipset

Intel 5520.

 

 

Memory

Up to 18 DIMM sockets (9 DIMMs per processor). Up to 288 GB with 16 GB DDR3 RDIMMs and

 

18 populated DIMM slots (up to 144 GB with 9 DIMMs per processor), or up to 48 GB with 4 GB

 

DDR3 UDIMMs and 12 populated DIMM slots (up to 24 GB with 6 DIMMs per processor).

 

 

Memory

ECC, ChipKill (for x4-based memory DIMMs), memory mirroring, and memory sparing.

protection

 

 

 

Disk drive bays

Up to 16 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or solid-state drives.

 

 

Maximum

Up to 14.4 TB with 900 GB SAS HDDs, or up to 16.0 TB with 1 TB SATA HDDs, or up to 3.2 TB

internal storage

with 200 GB SSD HDDs. Intermix of SAS/SATA/SSD is supported.

 

 

RAID support

RAID 0, 1, 1E with ServeRAID-BR10il v2 or M1015; RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 with M5014 or M5015.

 

Optional upgrade to RAID 5 is available for M1015. Optional upgrade to RAID 6, 60 is available

 

for M5014/M5015.

 

 

Optical drive

One, support for DVD-ROM or Multiburner. Separate bay.

bays

 

 

 

Tape drive bays

Optional Tape Enablement Kit is available to support one DDS5, DDS6, or RDX internal tape

 

drive. If used, the maximum number of HDD bays is limited to 8.

 

 

Network

Integrated 2 ports, plus 2 ports on optional Gigabit Ethernet with Ethernet Daughter Card (does

interfaces

not consume PCIe slot).

 

 

PCI Expansion

Up to 5 (up to 4 available, one slot is dedicated to RAID controller), dependant on the riser cards

slots

used (three different riser cards are available: 2x PCI-E x8 Gen 2, 1x PCI-E x16 Gen 2, and 2x

 

PCI-X 64 bit/133 MHz). Up to two riser cards are supported.

 

 

External ports

Two USB 2.0 and one DB-15 video on front. Two USB 2.0, one DB-15 video, one DB-9 serial,

 

one RJ-45 systems management, up to 4 RJ-45 network ports (2 standard, 2 optional) on rear.

 

One internal USB port for embedded hypervisor.

 

 

Cooling

IBM Calibrated Vectored Cooling™ with 3 counter-rotating hot swap fans with N+1 redundancy.

 

Altimeter is to control fan speed based on atmospheric pressure.

 

 

Power supply

Up to 2 redundant hot-swap 460 W AC or 675 W AC or 675 W high-efficiency (HE) AC power

 

supplies with 90%+ efficiency. 675 W -48 V DC models are available via CTO.

 

 

Hot-swap

Hard drives, power supplies, fans.

components

 

 

 

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