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than the single-core processors of a few years ago that you may still be using.
•Twelve DIMMs of fast registered 1066MHz (or 800MHz) DDR3 ECC memory with Chipkill2 protection (optional) provides speed, high availability, and a memory capacity of up 96GB.
•Four high-speed PCIe Gen 2 adapter slots offer investment protection by supporting high- performance adapters, such as 10Gb Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand cards, none of which will run in older conventional PCI slots. A legacy PCI/33 adapter slot offers support for older adapters.
•Support for up to four 3.5-inch hot-swap SAS or SATA II hard disk drives or up to eight 2.5-inch hot- swap SAS drives offer high-performance with high availability. The SAS controller provides full-duplex (2 x 300MBps) data transfers for SAS drives. For lower cost and high capacity, other models support up to four simple-swap SATA II drives.
•The integrated dual-port Gigabit Ethernet controller with IPMI 2.0 support provides high-speed network communications, as well as TOE, RDMA, and iSCSI support to offload work from the system processor. (Note: iSCSI/RDMA support requires an optional license key.)
•A high degree of device integration, including SAS/SATA, Gigabit Ethernet, systems management and video controllers, lowers costs and frees up valuable adapter slots.
•Energy-efficient components, including low-voltage transistors and voltage regulator modules, and power supplies that are up to 90% efficient, help keep your energy bills down.
Flexibility
The x3400 M2 has the ability to grow with your application requirements, thanks to:
•A choice of dual-coreor quad-coreprocessors starting at 1.86GHz and up to 2.53GHz clock rates, up to 5.86 gigatransfers per second, and 80W maximum power draw.
•Up to 96GB of high-speed registered DDR-3system memory.
•Five available high-performance PCIe adapter slots and one legacy PCI slot in all models. Optionally, a riser card supporting two PCI-X/133 adapters or one additional PCIe can be selected via Configure-to-Order (CTO) models.
•Installing the ServeRAID-MR10ioption upgrades the basic RAID functionality with 256MB of low-cost, battery-backed cache to enable high-performance hardware RAID support, and allows the x3400 M2 to
offer eight RAID levels: RAID-0, 1, 10, 1E, 5, 50, 6, and 60. The optional ServeRAID-MR10M controller supports up to four IBM System Storage™ EXP3000 expansion units containing up to 48 SAS HDDs and 14.4TB of external storage. If you require full data encryption, the ServeRAID-MR10is offers that in addition to the same RAID levels.
•The eight USB 2.0 ports (six external, two internal) are up to 40X faster3 than older USB 1.1 ports. This provides speedy access to external HDDs (non-arrayed), floppy drives, flash drives, optical drives, tape drives, and other USB devices. Two ports are on the front of the unit and four are on the back.
•Up to four internal 3.5-inch simple-swap SATA, hot-swap SAS or SATA HDDs, or up to eight 2.5- inch SAS drives, plus a half- or full-high tape drive. This translates into as much as 4TB of internal SATA, 2.4TB of internal 2.5-inch SAS or 1.2TB of 3.5-inch SAS storage, providing tremendous internal storage capability, along with full data backup.
Manageability
Powerful systems management features simplify local and remote management of the x3400 M2:
•UEFI — The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface is the next generation of BIOS, providing greater manageability and function. Used in PCs for several years, it is now moving into the server arena. IBM is the first to incorporate UEFI in our new servers. Features include:
Human readable event logs — no more beep codes
Complete out-of-band coverage by the Advance Settings Utility to simplify remote setup
A complete setup solution, allowing adapter configuration functions to be moved into UEFI
Consistent firmware management across an entire product line
•The x3400 M2 includes the IMM to monitor server availability, perform Predictive Failure Analysis, etc., and trigger IBM Systems Director alerts. The IMM enables service personnel to use sophisticated diagnostic tools to resolve problems quickly.
•Integrated IPMI 2.0 support alerts IBM Systems Director to anomalous environmental factors, such as voltage and thermal conditions. It also supports highly secure remote power control using data encryption.
•Text Console Redirection support allows the administrator to remotely view x3400 M2 text messages over Serial or LAN.
2All models require Chipkill-enabled DIMMs for Chipkill protection.
3 Data transfer rates may be less than the maximum possible.
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