Executive Summary - IBM System x3500 M3

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Executive Summary - IBM System x3500 M3.............................................................................1

Our Understanding of Your Goals.............................................................................................1Our Approach to Meeting Your Goals.......................................................................................1Solution Overview.....................................................................................................................1Why IBM?..................................................................................................................................2

IBM System x3500 M3...................................................................................................................3

Highlights...................................................................................................................................3Grow at your own pace.......................................................................................................3Stay up and running............................................................................................................3Build on the latest technology.............................................................................................3

Features and Benefits...............................................................................................................4Specifications............................................................................................................................5

Other System x Products.............................................................................................................7

System x Racks.........................................................................................................................7

Services..........................................................................................................................................8

Support Services.......................................................................................................................8IBM ServicePac for Warranty and Maintenance Options.........................................................8IBM ServicePac for Remote Technical Support Services.........................................................8Support for IBM System x.........................................................................................................8STG Lab Services.....................................................................................................................8

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Executive Summary - IBM System x3500 M3

Our Understanding of Your Goals

We understand the challenges a growing business faces when trying to get peak performance and maintain high availability for mission-critical and virtualized environments. You’re looking for a reliable platform with high processing speeds, generous scalability and energy-saving features to stretch your IT dollar.

Our Approach to Meeting Your Goals

To serve demanding applications in growing businesses, we are pleased to offer the IBM® System x3500 M3—a high-performance, two-socket tower server designed to optimize the latest Intel® Xeon® processors, allow tremendous scalability and keep costs down.

Features in the x3500 M3, such as new 6 Gbps RAID, enable higher performance when scaling up. Comprehensive systems management, diagnostics and support for more memory and storage options help keep applications available while maximizing your investment. IBM tools and technologies such as IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ and low-voltage memory support help increase energy efficiency while lowering costs.

Solution Overview

Ideal for small to midsize and growing businesses as well as distributed enterprise environments, the x3500 M3 incorporates innovative technologies in a reliable, cost-effective solution. Highlights include:

Support for high-performance six-core Intel Xeon X5680 3.33 GHz processors or four-core Intel Xeon X5677 3.46 GHz with 12 MB of cache per processor socket

Up to 8 3.5" or 24 2.5" hard disk drives (HDDs)

6 Gbps RAID controller standard

Scalable memory up to 192 GB1

Low-voltage memory, cooling features and energy management tools to save costs

Superior performance per cost and watt

Comprehensive systems management capabilities

Flexible upgrade configurations for affordable growth


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Why IBM?

A trusted partner for organizations around the globe, IBM’s commitment to technology innovation is legendary. Leveraging extensive expertise gained from thousands of customer engagements, IBM offers innovations today that best suit your business requirements now and in the future.

With innovative technologies as its standard, the x3500 M3 can deliver on the high performance growing businesses expect and new processors can provide while remaining reliable. Outstanding scalability allows you to use flexible configurations to expand storage capacity to much higher levels and at the same time maintain optimal performance. Low-voltage memory, cooling features and energy-management tools—all standard—combined with an overall efficient design of the x3500 M3 help make the most of your IT investment.

1 Maximum RDIMM support for 192 GB when 16 GB DIMMs are available 2Q 2010


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IBM System x3500 M3

High-performance, scalable tower server brings rock-solid reliability to your desk side

Highlights Allows greater flexibility with storage upgrade options and increased memory

capacity

Enables high availability with enhanced RAID support and integrated systems management tools

Leverages latest Intel® Xeon® technology for faster processing speeds and energy-smart design

Grow at your own pace

A high-performance dual-socket tower server, the IBM® System x3500 M3 provides generous bandwidth, storage and expanded memory capacity up to 192 GB1. Start with a single Intel® Xeon® six-core processor, and add a second to double your processing capability. You can even add processors, storage and memory independently of one another for maximum configuration flexibility.

Stay up and running

With no single point of failure, the x3500 M3 is designed to run the most demanding applications reliably. New 6 Gbps RAID, more RAID adapters and more concentrated memory support higher availability, while integrated systems management tools provide control of resources from anywhere for simplified serviceability.

Build on the latest technology

The x3500 M3 takes advantage of the latest Intel Xeon technology with extreme processing power and superior energy efficiency. Low-voltage memory, cooling features and energy-smart design enable lower power, lower heat and less noise. At the same time, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ can help you keep costs down and track, monitor and measure power consumption.


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Select configurations of the x3500 M3 are part of the IBM Express Advantage™ Portfolio designed to meet the needs of midsized businesses. Easy to manage, Express™ models and configurations vary by country.

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Features and BenefitsFeature Benefits

Up to two six-core Intel Xeon X5680 3.33 GHz or four-core Intel Xeon X5677 3.46 GHz processors (configure to order only) with 12 MB cache per processor socket, Intel Turbo Boost Technology, Intel Hyper-Threading Technology and Intel QuickPath interconnect

Extreme processor performance with 12 total cores using optimized cache

Additional performance boost during peak demand times with Turbo Boost

Faster execution and more concurrent processing of multithreaded applications

Fast two DIMMs per channel at 1333 MHz, DDR-3 RDIMM and UDIMM memory

A new generation of high-performance memory matches the speed of the Intel Xeon processors to optimize throughput

Improved application performance with interleaved memory

Low-voltage memory support for energy efficiency

Support for up to 24 small form factor (SFF) 2.5" hot-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives (model dependent)

Increased performance, simplified cabling and better fault isolation than parallel SCSI without cost premium of SAS

Up to 12 TB of data storage capacity (model dependent)

8 or 16 hard disk drives standard

Storage upgrade flexibility to increase the number of drives from 8 to 16 to 24 with an optional HDD upgrade kit

Integrated 6 Gbps hardware RAID-0, -1, -1E High speed 6 Gbps interface RAID support for improved performance

Advanced RAID protection delivers basic high availability to your HDDs efficiently without sacrificing performance

Standard on all models of the x3500 M3

Up to eight available PCI I/O slots for system expansion (available via configure to order only)

Extensive I/O bandwidth for greater performance and productivity

Six PCIe slots standard Interconnect speeds significantly faster than PCI-X


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Feature Benefits

Up to two PCI-X slots Enables you to continue using legacy PCI-X adapters while you transition to the PCIe standard (available via configure to order only)

Optional hot-swap, redundant power and cooling

Potentially eliminates downtime by maintaining system availability if a fan or power supply needs to be replaced

Virtualization support Supports most major virtualization environments

Supports optional hypervisor USB key

Externally visible light path diagnostics panel

Gives information about a failing component without interrupting system operation—visible without removing the system cover

Expedites hardware repairs to dramatically reduce service time

Provides a lighted path to failing components inside the system

Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet Provides increased network throughput and redundancy with efficient slot-saving integration

IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™

Provides comprehensive systems management tools

Helps increase uptime, reduce costs and improve productivity with advanced server management capabilities

Allows continuous real-time monitoring, measuring and management of power consumption

IBM ServerGuide software Assists with the installation of operating systems and drivers

Gets your server up and running faster

Simplifies installation and configuration of your IBM System x® servers

Security capabilities Offers ServeRAID with leadership disk encryption to help protect your data

Provides side door with key lock to help protect data while allowing media access

Trusted platform module technology

Standard 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty

Provides peace of mind for an extended period of time

SpecificationsForm factor/height Tower/5U (rack-mountable)

Processor (max) Intel Xeon 5500/5600 processors (six-core Intel Xeon X5680 3.33 GHz or four-core Intel Xeon X5677 3.46 GHz up to 6.4 GTps QPI system speed)


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Number of processors (std/max) 1/2

Cache (max) 12 MB

Memory (max) 16 DIMM slots maximum, 192 GB with DDR-3 1333 MHz RDIMMs1 or 48 GB with DDR-3 1333 MHz UDIMMs1

Expansion slots Six PCIe and one PCI standard; additional two PCI-X available via configure to order and requires removal of one PCIe slot

Disk bays (total/hot-swap) 8/8 or 16/16 2.5" hot-swap standard; 24/24 2.5" hot-swap or 8/8 3.5" hot-swap or 4/0 3.5" simple swap (available via configure to order only)

Maximum internal storage 8 TB of 2.5" hot swap SAS/SATA standard; 12 TB of 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA (model dependent)

Network interface Broadcom 5709S onboard NIC with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports with TOE

RAID support Integrated 6 Gbps or 3 Gbps hardware RAID-0, -1, -1E, optional RAID-5, -6, -10, -50, -60

Systems management Automatic Server Restart; Predictive Failure Analysis on hard disk drives, processors, voltage regulator modules (VRMs), fans and memory; light path diagnostics; integrated management module; remote presence; IBM Systems Director and IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager

Operating systems supported Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 R2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, SUSE Linux Enterprise, VMware ESX and ESXi

Limited warranty 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty

1 Maximum RDIMM support for 192 GB when 16 GB DIMMs are available 2Q 2010, and maximum UDIMM support for 48 GB when 4 GB DIMMs are available 2Q 2010.


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Other System x Products

System x Racks

Attractively priced NetBAY rack solutions help you manage and control xSeries® and Netfinity® servers in your enterprise. Features include:

Three new members for the family of rugged, heavy-duty rack cabinets

Perforated steel doors -- optimize cooling for high-density appliance installation

Improved cable management system

Models include:

– NetBAY42 – S2 42 U rack space

– NetBAY42 E -- 42 U rack expansion space

– NetBAY25 SR -- 25 U rack space

– NetBAY11 Standard Rack Cabinet – 11 U rack space

Security through locking front and rear doors

Heavy-duty caster set for mobility

Standard side panels on Standard Rack (SR) models

Support for many of the current rack options

Three-year, on-site service, limited warranty


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Services

Support Services

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IBM ServicePac for Warranty and Maintenance Options

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IBM ServicePac for Remote Technical Support Services


Support for IBM System x

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STG Lab Services

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