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An affordable dual-socket, dua l- and quad-core SMP server with high perf ormance an d data protect ion for sm all and medium busi nesses Product Guide October 2008 IBM System x3400 Product Overview CONTENTS Product Over view 1 Selling Features 1 Key Features 3 Key Options 8 x3400 Images 10 x3400 Specifications 11 The Bottom Lin e 13 Server Compari[...]
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An affordable dual-socket, dua l- and quad-core SMP server with high perf ormance an d data protect ion for sm all and medium busi nesses • Three high-speed PCIe and t wo PCIx adapter slots offer investment protection by supporting high- performance adapters, such as 10Gb Ethernet, Fi b re Channel and InfiniBand cards, none of which will run in o[...]
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An affordable dual-socket, dua l- and quad-core SMP server with high perf ormance an d data protect ion for sm all and medium busi nesses Availability and Serviceability The x3400 provides many features to simplify serviceability and increase system uptime: • x3400 servers use Chipkill-enabled full y buffered memory DIMMs. Chipkill memory is up t[...]
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An affordable dual-socket, dua l- and quad-core SMP server with high perf ormance an d data protect ion for sm all and medium busi nesses rates. Intelligent Power Capabilit y powers individual processor elem ents on and off as needed, to reduce le Bit functionality can help prevent certain classes of malicious buffer overflow attacks power draw. Ex[...]
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An affordable dual-socket, dua l- and quad-core SMP server with high perf ormance an d data protect ion for sm all and medium busi nesses and installing the drives.) Hot-swap SAS drives use the Converged Tra y for interchangeability with other IBM System x ™ systems. If you need more storage space, terabyte capacities are possible with exte rnal [...]
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An affordable dual-socket, dua l- and quad-core SMP server with high perf ormance an d data protect ion for sm all and medium busi nesses height x4 (2GBps) PCIe slot; Slots 4 and 5 are full-length/ full-height (1 GBps) 133MHz PC Ix s Slot 6 is a half-length/full- height 33MHz legacy PCI slot. PCI-Express is a high-performance, low-latency, next- ge[...]
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An affordable dual-socket, dua l- and quad-core SMP server with high perf ormance an d data protect ion for sm all and medium busi nesses actually contribute to equipment failure due to over heating. ACT cabling is the solu behind-the-rack cabling by as much as 87% . tion for reducing . The DUs, which onl umber—and switches and PDUs. Instead, the[...]
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An affordable dual-socket, dua l- and quad-core SMP server with high perf ormance an d data protect ion for sm all and medium busi nesses IBM Electronic Service Agent ™ is an innovative “call home” feature that allows System x and BladeCenter servers to automatically report hardware problems to IBM support, which can even dispatch ty ation to[...]
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An affordable dual-socket, dua l- and quad-core SMP server with high perf ormance an d data protect ion for sm all and medium busi nesses event of a system lockup. ASR tech ystem reset function and a device d nology is a combi nation of hardware circuitry tied into the server’s s river. As long as the server continues running, the ASR watchdog op[...]
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An affordable dual-socket, dua l- and quad-core SMP server with high perf ormance an d data protect ion for sm all and medium busi nesses allows an array consisting of multiple physical har d disk drives to be treated as one logical drive. quire veRAID-8k SA S/SA TA controller offers enhanced perform ance for internal drives d al hared y is a PCI a[...]
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An affordable dual-socket, dua l- and quad-core SMP server with high perf ormance an d data protect ion for sm all and medium busi nesses x3400 Images Front View Rear View x3400 Specifications Machine type 7973-2xX/2xY,4xX/4xY, AxX/AxY, DxX/DxY, JxX/JxY, LxX/LxY (Simple-swap 1 yr. w arr.) 7974-2xX/2xY, 4xX/4xY, AxX/AxY, DxX/DxY, JxX/JxY, LxX/LxY (S[...]
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An affordable dual-socket, dua l- and quad-core SMP server with high perf ormance an d data protect ion for sm all and medium busi nesses x3400 Specifications DIMM capacities supported 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB # of DIMM sockets total / a vailable 8 / 6 # of DIMMs supporte d 2, 4, 8 Online spare memor y supported / # of DIMM sockets reserved for sp arin[...]
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An affordable dual-socket, dua l- and quad-core SMP server with high perf ormance an d data protect ion for sm all and medium busi nesses x3400 Specifications # of serial ports 2 (rear) # of parallel ports 1 (rear) # of PS/2 mouse ports 1 (rear) # of PS/2 keyboard por ts 1 (rear) # of USB 2.0 ports 4 external (2 front, 2 rear) ports, plus 1 interna[...]
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An affordable dual-socket, dua l- and quad-core SMP server with high perf ormance an d data protect ion for sm all and medium busi nesses • 64-bit extension s (EM64T) • Leading-edge front -side bus —Up to 1333M Hz FSB (model-specific) • Fast memory — Fully buffered 667MHz PC2-5 300 DDR II ECC memor y standard with tw o- way or four-wa y i[...]
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An affordable dual-socket, dua l- and quad-core SMP server with high perf ormance an d data protect ion for sm all and medium busi nesses Server Comparison Table The following table shows the suggested uses for the respective IB M System x tower servers, incl uding comparisons of the uses f or which each server is best suited: Theme Key Workloads S[...]
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An affordable dual-socket, dua l- and quad-core SMP server with high perf ormance an d data protect ion for sm all and medium busi nesses For More Informatio n IBM System x and xSeries Servers http:// ibm.com /systems/x Electronic Service Agent http:// ibm.com /support/electronic IBM System x and BladeCenter Power Configurato r http:// ibm.com /sys[...]