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IBM X3400 M2 manual

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    The engin e of growth for yo ur emerging busin esses. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 1 Product Guide May 2009 IBM System x3 400 M2 Product Overvie w CONTENT S Product Overvie w 1 Selling Features 1 Key Feat ures 3 Key Options 9 x3400 M2 Images 12 x3400 M2 Specificati ons 13 The Bottom Line 15 Server [...]

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    The engin e of growth for yo ur emerging busin esses. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 2 than the single-cor e processors of a few years ago tha t you may still b e using. • Twelve DIMMs of fast registered 10 66MHz (or 800MHz ) DDR 3 ECC memory with Chipkill 2 protection (optional) prov ides speed, h[...]

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    The engin e of growth for yo ur emerging busin esses. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 3 • Integrated Trusted Platfor m Module (TP M) 1.2 support. • The completely redesigned IBM Sy stems Director is include d for proactive sys tems manage ment. IBM Systems Direc tor comes with a portfolio of tools[...]

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    The engin e of growth for yo ur emerging busin esses. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 4 Turbo Boost Tec hnology dynamically turns off unu sed processor c ores and increase s the clock speed of the cores in use, by up to two model frequencies. For ex ample, with t hree cores active, a 2 .26GHz processo[...]

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    The engin e of growth for yo ur emerging busin esses. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 5 memory channel s on a socket have the same amount of memory. A memory rank is simply a segme nt of memory that is addressed by a specific address bit. D IMMs typically have 1, 2 or 4 memory ra nks, as indicated by [...]

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    The engin e of growth for yo ur emerging busin esses. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 6 Drive Bay s The x340 0 M2 contains either 11 dr ive bays (in 2.5-inch mod els) or 7 bay s (in 3.5-inch) model s. 2.5-inch models support s mall form-factor ( SFF) hot-s wap SAS drives. 3.5-in ch models support four[...]

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    The engin e of growth for yo ur emerging busin esses. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 7 remote boot, TCP IP Offload Engi ne ( TOE ), Interne t SCSI ( iSCSI ), R emote Direct Memory Access ( RDMA ), and jumbo frames (9KB ). A license key is re quired to enable the iSCSI and RDM A features. Jumbo Frames[...]

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    The engin e of growth for yo ur emerging busin esses. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 8 Rack Cable Manageme nt and KVM Conso le Switching IBM Advanced Cab ling Technolog y ( ACT ) is an optional feature that o ffers many advantages over standard KVM cabling across the e ntire System x pr oduct line. S[...]

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    The engin e of growth for yo ur emerging busin esses. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 9 systems: power in put (watts), PDU siz ing (amps), heat output (BTUs), airflo w requiremen ts through chassis (CFM), VA rating , leakage curren t (mA), and pea k inrush current (a mps). IBM ServerGuide (installed f[...]

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    The engin e of growth for yo ur emerging busin esses. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 10 capabilities, including: • Predictive Failure Analysis for system fan s • Graphical console redirectio n over LAN • W eb-based out-of-band contro l • W indow s “blue screen” capture • Remote virtual [...]

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    The engin e of growth for yo ur emerging busin esses. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 11 performance in a server with a 4-co re processor, there should be twice a s much memory availab le as for a 2-core processor. Backup Drives — Backup drives help you protect your data. IBM off ers several choices[...]

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    The engin e of growth for yo ur emerging busin esses. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 12 x3400 M2 Images Front View Rear View Interior View 8 Hot - Swap 2.5 ” SAS HDD Bays; or 4 HS 3.5 ” SAS/SATA Ba y s; or 4 SS 3.5 ” SATA Bay s 2 Open 5.25 ” Drive Ba y s DVD - ROM Drive Locking Drive Covers H[...]

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    The engin e of growth for yo ur emerging busin esses. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 13 x3400 M2 Speci fications Machine ty pe 7836-1xX/1xY , 2xX/2xY, 3xX/3xY , 4xX/4xY, 5xX/5xY (1 yr. warr.) 7837-1xX/1xY , 2xX/2xY, 3xX/3xY , 4xX/4xY, 5xX/5xY (3 yr. warr.) Form factor Tow er (or 5U rack; CTO mod els [...]

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    The engin e of growth for yo ur emerging busin esses. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 14 x3400 M2 Speci fications Integrated disk co ntroller ServeRAID- BR 10i ( 0MB cache sta ndard)— internal SAS/SAT A (RAID-0/1/1E)-- -hot-swap models Four-port integrated SATA—simpl e-swap models # of disk drives[...]

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    The engin e of growth for yo ur emerging busin esses. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 15 x3400 M2 Speci fications maximum # of fans/blowers standard / max imum 3 / 3 (nonredundan t) Heat emitted: mi nimum/maximum BTUs/Watts 693 / 2,788 (BTU s); 203 / 817 ( W atts) Maximum altitude 7,000 ft; 2,133 m Op[...]

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    The engin e of growth for yo ur emerging busin esses. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 16  Two x8/x4 13 PCIe Gen 2 slots (4GBps)  One 33 MHz PCI slot (500M Bps)  Optionally, one x8 /x4 PCIe Gen 1 slot or two 133 MHz PCI-X slots (v ia CTO) • Integrated DVD/CD-R W combo drive Manageability , S[...]

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    The engin e of growth for yo ur emerging busin esses. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 17 For More Information IBM System x Servers ht tp:// ibm.com /sy stems/x IBM Systems Direc tor Service and Support Manager http :// ibm.com /support/elec tronic IBM System x and BladeCenter P ower Configurator http:[...]