IBM X3400 M2 Availability and Serviceability, Key Features, High-Performance Xeon Processors

The engine of growth for your emerging businesses.

• Integrated Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 support.

• The completely redesigned IBM Systems Director is included for proactive systems management. IBM Systems Director comes with a portfolio of tools, including Active Energy Manager, and Service and Support Manager. In addition, IBM Systems Director offers extended systems management tools for additional server management and increased availability. When a problem is encountered, IBM Systems Director can issue administrator alerts via e-mail, pager, and other methods.

• IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™, an IBM-exclusive, is designed to take advantage of new system power management features, by providing power monitoring and power capping features.

• The optional Virtual Media key provides IMM remote presence and it does this without consuming a valuable adapter slot.

Availability and Serviceability

The x3400 M2 provides many features to simplify serviceability and increase system uptime:

• x3400 M2 servers offer Chipkill ECC memory protection4 (when using x4 DIMMs). Chipkill memory is up to 16X better than standard ECC memory at correcting memory errors. This can help reduce downtime caused by memory errors.

• The x3400 M2 offers memory mirroring for redundancy in the event of a non-correctable memory failure

• Toolless cover removal provides easy access to upgrades and serviceable parts. Similarly, the optional IMM Virtual Media Key and the ServeRAID-BR10icontroller can be installed and serviced without tools. This means less time (and therefore less money) spent servicing the x3400 M2. Additionally, hot-swap/redundant HDDs, as well as mirrored memory, mean greater system uptime while these components are being serviced.

• Environmental monitoring with fan speed control for temperature, voltages, fan failure, power supply failure, and power backplane failure.

• IPMI 2.0 supports highly secure remote system power control using data encryption. This allows an administrator to restart a server without having to visit it in person, saving travel time and getting the server back up and running quickly and securely. It also adds new features to those provided by IPMI 1.5, including VLAN support, Serial over LAN, enhanced authentication and encryption algorithms (RMCP+, SHA-1, AES) and a firmware firewall.

• Temperature-controlled fans adjust to compensate for changing thermal characteristics. At the lower

	speeds they draw less power and suffer less wear. Equally important in a crowded data center,
	temperature-controlled fans produce less ambient noise in the data center than if they were constantly
	running at full speed.
	• The three-year (parts and labor) limited onsite warranty5 offered on Machine Type 7836 helps
	afford you peace of mind and greater investment protection than a one-year warranty does.
Key Features	High-Performance Xeon Processors
	The x3400 M2 supports up to two high-performance Intel Xeon processors, allowing you to upgrade to a
	second processor as business needs require. The x3400 M2 offers a choice of processor clock rates,
	memory access speeds and power draw:
	• 80W quad-coreXeon 5500 Series processor standard performance models E5540, E5530 or E5520 at
	2.53, 2.4 or 2.26GHz (respectively) running 5.6GT with 8MB of L3 processor cache, 1066MHz memory
	access, and Intel Turbo Boost technology.
	• 80W quad-coreXeon 5500 Series processor standard performance models E5504 at 2.0GHz running
	4.86GT with 4MB of L3 processor cache, with 800MHz memory access.
	• 80W dual-core Xeon 5500 Series processor standard performance models E5502 at 1.83GHz running
	4.86GT with 4MB of L3 processor cache, with 800MHz memory access.
	With the Xeon 5500 Series processors, Intel has diverged from its traditional Symmetric Multiprocessing
	(SMP) architecture to a Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architecture. The Xeon 5500 processors
	are connected through a serial coherency link called QuickPath Interconnect (QPI). QPI is capable of 6.4,
	5.6 or 4.8 GT/s (gigatransfers per second), depending on the processor model.
	Quad-core Xeon processors contain four complete processor cores. Processors contain one unified
	8MB L3 cache. The cache is dynamically allocated between the cores as needed. The multiple cores
	appear to software as multiple physical processors. Quad-core processors offer considerably higher
	performance than a same-speed Xeon processor with dual cores.

4Chipkill protection is supported with x4 DDR-3 DIMMs, but not x8 DIMMs.

5For terms and conditions or copies of the IBM Statement of Limited Warranty, call 800-772-2227 in the U.S. In Canada call 800- 426-2255. Telephone support may be subject to additional charges. For warranties including onsite labor, a technician is sent after IBM attempts to resolve the problem remotely. International warranty service is available in any country in which this product is sold.

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