IBM X3500 specifications One 33MHz legacy PCI slot

Astable, long-life, dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server, offering high-performance, massive capacity and outstanding availability

￿ One 33MHz legacy PCI slot

•Integrated DVD-ROMdrive

•Optional iSCSI HBA Adapter for IXA Connectivity (to System i™/iSeries™ servers)

Manageability, Serviceability and Availability

•IBM Director systems management software, including:

￿IBM Management Processor Assistant

￿IBM Rack Manager

￿IBM RAID Manager

￿IBM Update Assistant

￿IBM Software Distribution

￿IBM System Availability

•Integrated Baseboard Management Controller (BMC):

￿IPMI 2.0 compliance, including highly secure remote power control

￿Text console redirection systems management standard

•Active Memory protection:

￿Advanced Chipkill ECC memory protection, and either

￿Online hot-spare memory, or

￿Memory mirroring

•Support for highly available hardware-based RAID-1/10/1E/5/6arrays standard, without consuming an adapter slot

•Hot-swap SAS or SATA II hard disk drives

•Ultra-efficient cooling incorporating Calibrated Vectored Cooling features

•Optional hot-swap/redundant power supplies and cooling

•Light path diagnostics (front LED panel, externally viewable light path panel)

•Optional Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine daughter card (no slot required)

￿Supports the LDAP and SSL industry standards

•Optional tower-to-rack conversion kit

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