| Feature |
Benefits |
| 2U rack |
High-density 8, 16 and 24-port configurations |
| Auto-sensing 8, 4, 2 and 1 Gbps ports |
* Provides expandability and high performance in a dense form factor |
| High-performance, energy-efficient six-core Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors (up to 12 MB L3 cache) leveraging QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) technology |
* Improves productivity through higher processing performance
* Reduces cost with outstanding performance per watt
* Up to 1333 MHz memory access speed
* Six-core processing provides significant performance gains
* Delivers ultimate processor performance with up to 12 cores using optimized L3 cache
* Maximizes multithreaded applications for faster concurrent execution
* Helps lower overall system energy requirements
* Large cache size yields more transaction processing |
| Fast 1333 MHz, DDR-3 RDIMM memory with 18 DIMM slots (up to 192 GB RDIMMs¹ or 48 GB UDIMMs¹ via 12 slots) |
* Supports 2 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB or 16 GB1 DDR-3 RDIMMs with 18 slots or supports 2 GB or 4 GB¹ DDR-3 UDIMMs with 12 slots
* Memory scalability ideal for compute-intensive, general-business applications and virtualized environments
* Match the high performance speed of the Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors with high-speed DDR-3 RDIMM or UDIMM memory
* DDR-3 memory operates at a lower power than previous generations, supports 1.5 V or 1.35 V memory DIMMs
* Ability to transfer I/O data at eight times the speed of the memory cell it contains, enabling faster bus speeds and higher peak throughput than previous-generation memory
* Interleaved memory to improve application performance
* Two DIMMs per channel at 1333 MHz supported on single-rank and dual-rank RDIMMs and UDIMMs |
| Support for the VMware ESXi 4.0 embedded hypervisor (optional) |
* Innovative, thin hypervisor architecture is operating system-independent and designed to optimize virtualization performance
* Integrated into server hardware to help provide compatible, pretested and optimized hardware configurations
* Optimized for remote management tools and industry-standard protocols such as CIM |
| Support for up to 16 2.5" hot-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), Serial ATA (SATA) HDDs or solid-state drives (SSDs) |
* Provides a range of affordable storage solutions to meet today’s storage needs and tomorrow’s expansion requirements
* High-capacity, high-performance 2.5" hot-swap SAS HDDs provide robust drive choice to power your enterprise servers and storage solutions
* Support for optional 50 GB SSD with no moving parts for improved reliability and performance |
| 4 PCIe (4 x8) Gen 2 slots: 2x8 full length, full height; 1 x8 half length, full height; 1 x8 low profile. 4 x8 convertible to 2 x16 via optional risers. Also convertible to 2 PCI-X via optional risers |
* Provides expandability choices and the opportunity to increase I/O bandwidth for performance and productivity
* Option to utilize existing PCI-X adapters during the transition to the PCIe standard |
| Support for PCIe |
* Standard PCIe allows faster interconnect speeds than PCI-X 133 MHz
* Choice of a PCI-X riser card to support their PCI-X adapters that can be ordered instead of the standard PCIe riser card |
| Integrated with 3 Gbps or 6 Gbps RAID controller (model dependent) |
* Enhances system availability and data protection without using a PCI slot
* Choice of one of the following RAID adapters (model dependent):
* ServeRAID M1015 3 Gbps RAID-0, -1, -1E or
* ServeRAID M5014 6 Gbps RAID-0, -1, -10 (additional option RAID-5 with Self Encrypting Disk (SED) function) or
* ServeRAID M5015 6 Gbps RAID-0, -1, -10, -5, -50 with 256 MB or 512 MB cache (additional option -6, -60 with SED function and additional optional battery backup) |
| IBM Systems Director and IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ |
* IBM Systems Director is a comprehensive systems management platform that helps increase uptime, reduce costs and improve productivity via advanced server management capabilities
* IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager helps provide advanced power notification and control, monitor power consumption, achieve lower heat output and decrease cooling costs |
| IBM Calibrated Vectored Cooling™ |
Helps maintain a healthy system by keeping internal components cool |
| TCP-IP Offload Engine (standard) |
* TOE improves system performance by offloading protocol processing from CPU to a separate engine or code
* Standard feature at no additional charge |
| Snoop filters on Intel® core™ chipset |
* Improves application efficiency to boost processor performance |
| Hot-swap redundant power supplies and fan modules |
* Increases system and application uptime by eliminating another potential point of failure with a second hot-swap power supply
* Allows the server to continue operating even with a fan failure |
| Drop-down light path diagnostics panel |
* Gives information about a failing component without interrupting system operation
* Expedites hardware repairs to dramatically reduce service time
* Provides a lighted path to the failing component inside the system |
| IBM Integrated Management Module (IMM) |
* Increases server availability by continuously monitoring your system and notifying you of potential system failures or changes
* Virtual Media Key provides for around-the-clock remote management capabilities (optional) |
| Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet standard; two additional Gigabit ports (via option) |
* Provides increased network throughput and redundancy with efficient slot-saving integration
* Optional NIC does not use PCIe slot |
| Security/trusted computing technologies |
* Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 enables advanced cryptographic functionality such as digital signatures and remote attestation
* CRTM for secure boot
* Microsoft® bit locker for full disk encryption |
| Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) |
* Common across all IBM next-generation servers, this new BIOS is easy to configure and deploy
* Provides more functionality than previous generation BIOS and facilitates greater manageability through a common infrastructure for managing all machines
* Server efficiency is improved by providing a faster boot and restart of OS |
| 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty |
Provides peace of mind for an extended period of time |
| 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 |
