| Flexible, balanced design for scalability, memory expansion |
- Freedom to choose the right balance of processing power and memory capacity for your workloads
- Flexibility to scale your platform up or out as workload demands change
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| Fifth-generation IBM® X-Architecture® chipset design combined with the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E7 product line |
- Maximise memory
- Twice the memory capacity of x3850 M2, and expandable by an additional 50% with MAX5
- More virtual machines
- Larger virtual machines
- Bigger databases and faster database performance
- Improved server utilisation
- Minimise cost
- More virtual machines on one platform
- Reduce software licensing costs with higher performance per processor
- eXFlash SSD technology designed to improve database performance and reduce database storage and energy costs
- Reduce certification/testing costs with simplified deployment
- Buy the capacity you need when you need it
- Simplify deployment
- Preconfigured workload optimised systems for faster deployment and faster time to value
- Reduce qualification time with a single architecture
- Scalability from 2 to 8 processors
- Ability to expand memory, CPU and I/O independently
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| IBM MAX5 for System x® |
- Expand memory by an additional 32 DIMMs for a total of 96 DIMMs, up to 3.0 TB, in a 4-processor system. 50% more memory can deliver more virtual machines, larger virtual machines, and larger, faster databases.
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| Exclusive IBM eXFlash high-performance SSD technology |
- Up to 3.2 TB high-performance, high-reliability internal solid state drive storage
- Improve performance and reduce space, energy and hardware costs by consolidating spinning HDDs to SSDs
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| Available Emulex integrated 10 GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter delivering Line Rate 10 Gbps performance with TCP Offload and capability for future upgrades to FCoE |
- 10 Gb Ethernet removes bottlenecks to network traffic to maximise data centre capability
- TCP Offload Reduces CPU utilisation by up to 31% freeing the system to handle greater application workloads or more VMs
- Upgradeability to FCoE provides an easy path to convergence, reducing hardware capital expenditure costs and operating expenditure management costs
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| IBM Systems Director |
- Increased uptime, reduced costs and improved productivity via advanced server management capabilities
- Simplified management including around-the-clock remote management capability
- Improves server availability by continuously monitoring your system and notifying you of potential system failures or changes
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| IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ |
- Advanced power notification, control and monitoring to help achieve lower heat output and cooling costs
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| Power-optimised, energy-smart design |
- Promotes greater energy savings in the data centre
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| Hot-swap, redundant, rear-access power supplies |
- Increase system and application uptime by eliminating another single point of failure with a second hot-swap power supply
- Access power supplies from the rear of the system
- Improved usability with rear chassis accessibility, allowing you to remove the power supplies without having to pull the system from the rack
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| Light path diagnostics |
- Provides information on failing components without interrupting system operations
- Provides a lighted path to failing components inside the system
- Speeds hardware repairs to reduce service time
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| Predictive Failure Analysis |
- Detects when components are operating outside of set thresholds or are approaching historical failure thresholds
- Helps you increase uptime by enabling you to receive proactive alerts in advance of failure
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| RAID-0, -1 and -1E (optional RAID-5 and -6 with battery-backed cache) |
- Enhanced system availability and data protection by supporting solid-state drives with advanced RAID capabilities
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| Optional embedded hypervisor |
- Embedded hypervisor technology to simplify adoption and deployment of industry-leading third-party virtualisation solutions
- New, system-friendly thin hypervisor architecture can help optimise virtualisation performance
- Integrated into server hardware, the hypervisor can provide compatible, pretested and optimised hardware configurations
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| Hot-swap redundant components |
- Allow the server to continue operating in case of fan, power supply, hard disk drive or solid-state drive failure
- Replace components without taking your server offline or out of the rack
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| Memory reliability features through IBM Active Memory™ |
- Enhanced error recovery with Chipkill memory, Memory ProteXion™ and memory mirroring to help maintain data integrity
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| Integrated dual port Gigabit Ethernet |
- Provides increased network throughput and redundancy with efficient slot-saving integration
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| OS flexibility |
- Choice of Windows Server®, 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux® and SUSE Enterprise Linux, (Server and Advanced Server), VMware vSphere Hypervisor
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