Get higher performance per watt for greater cost efficiency
Simplify management and serviceability with flexible design
Maintain availability and lower risk through a resilient architecture.
The IBM System x3550 M3 builds on the latest Intel® Xeon® processor technology with extreme processing power and superb energy-management and cooling features. With twice the performance of previous generations and a flexible, energy-smart design that integrates low-wattage components, the x3550 M3 can help you meet demanding workloads at a lower cost per watt.
The x3550 M3 offers a flexible, scalable design and simple upgrade path from four to eight hard disk drives (HDDs). Comprehensive systems management tools such as advanced diagnostics and the ability to control resources from a single point make it easy to deploy, integrate, service and manage.
Power-optimised performance that leverages the speed of new Intel® processors with more capacity and memory
Innovative, energy-smart 1U design to help lower operational costs
Energy-efficient design with Unregistered Dual Inline Memory Modules (UDIMMs), 40 W processing and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI BIOS
Better serviceability with a highly scalable, flexible design that is easy to deploy, integrate, service and manage
Easier risk management with resilient architectures and virtualised environments
1U chassis
Up to two 3.46 GHz six-core (3.60 GHz four-core) Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors with QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) technology, up to 1333 MHz memory access speed
Up to 192 GB Registered DIMMs (RDIMMs) or 48 GB UDIMMs high-performance, new generation Double Data Rate 3 (DDR-3) memory
Internal storage flexibility with up to eight 2.5" hot-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)/Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) HDDs or Solid State Drives (SSDs)
Up to two PCIe slots
Low 675 W design and up to 94 percent efficient power supplies, six cooling fan modules, new UEFI BIOS, altimeter monitored by Integrated Management Module (IMM) and IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager
Network Equipment Building System (NEBS) 1/European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) equivalent compliance for both AC and DC power supply (model dependent)
Compliant with 80-PLUS and ENERGY STAR energy-efficiency standards (model dependent)
VMware ESXi embedded hypervisor support with optional 2 GB Universal Serial Bus (USB) key for virtualisation
Feature
Benefits
1U rack
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 Level 3 (L3) cache) leveraging QPI technology
Improves productivity through higher processing performance
Reduces cost with outstanding performance per watt
Up to 1333 MHz memory access speed
Delivers ultimate processor performance with up to 12 cores using optimised L3 cache
Maximises multi-threaded applications for faster concurrent execution
Lowers overall system power requirements
Large cache size yields more transaction processing
Fast 1333 MHz, DDR-3 RDIMM memory with 18 DIMM slots, up to 192 GB max memory or up to 48 GB max memory with 12 UDIMMs
Supports 2 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB or 16 GB DDR-3 RDIMMs with 18 slots or supports 2 GB or 4 GB DDR-3 UDIMMs with 12 slots
Memory scalability ideal for compute-intensive, general business applications and virtualised environments
Ability to 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 lower power than previous generations, supports 1.5 V or 1.35 V memory DIMMs
Ability to transfer input/output (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
Memory mirroring capability to increase system and application reliability by allowing the system to continue operating even if a DIMM fails
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 embedded hypervisor (optional)
Innovative, thin hypervisor architecture is operating system-independent and designed to optimise virtualisation performance
Integrated into server hardware to help provide compatible, pretested and optimised hardware configurations
Optimised for remote management tools and industry-standard protocols such as CIM
Support for up to eight 2.5" hot-swap SAS, SATA HDDs or 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/SATA HDDs are a robust drive choice to power your enterprise servers and storage solutions
Support for optional 50 GB SSDs, featuring no moving parts for improved reliability and performance
Support for PCIe
Standard PCIe allows faster interconnect speeds than PCI-X 133 MHz
Choice of a PCI-X riser card to support PCI-X adapters that can be ordered instead of the standard PCIe riser card
Two PCIe (2x 16) Gen 2 slots: one x16 full-height, half-length convertible to PCI-X/133 MHz with riser option, one x16 – low-profile
Provides expandability choices and the opportunity to increase I/O bandwidth for performance and productivity
Integrated with 3 Gigabits per second (Gbps) or 6 Gbps Redundant Array of Independent Disk (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):
3 Gbps RAID-0, -1, -1E or
6 Gbps RAID-0, -1, -10 (additional option RAID-5, -50 with Self Encrypting Disk (SED) function or
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 (TOE) (standard)
TOE improves system performance by offloading protocol processing from the Central Processing Unit (CPU) to a separate hardware engine
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
Choice of one of the following power supplies (model dependent): 460 W ac, 675 W ac, 675 W ac high efficiency or 675 W dc
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 failing component inside the system
IBM 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)
Provides increased network throughput and redundancy with efficient adapter slot-saving integration
Optional Network Interface Card (NIC) does not use a 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 (FDE)
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 operating system
NEBS 1/ETSI compliance
Equivalent compliance for both AC and DC power supply (model dependent)
Energy-efficiency compliance
Compliant with 80-PLUS and ENERGY STAR energy-efficiency standards (model dependent)
Three year customer replaceable unit (CRU) and on-site 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
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