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IBM System x3500 M4

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Highlights

  • Offers flexible scalability features designed to grow with your business needs
  • Provides abundant storage capacity to help safeguard data
  • Enables easy installation, use and management across long distances

Robust features accommodate growth

A high-performance dual-socket tower server, the IBM System x3500 M4 can deliver the scalability, reliable performance and optimized efficiency for your business critical applications. Start with the basics and upgrade as your business changes without jeopardizing existing investments. Virtualizing the PC infrastructure into one server can provide access to a powerful server with abundant storage space, while significantly reducing IT costs.

Triple the storage capacity

The x3500 M4 supports the latest Intel microarchitecture, delivering intelligent performance enhancements that adapt to your workload environment. The x3500 M4 provides triple the storage capacity of the x3500 M3 without the cost of external devices. A flexible design and consolidated server help optimize intensive workloads and provide greater utilization, making the x3500 M4 a great choice for small and medium businesses.

Product features

  • Intelligent processor performance that helps you get more computing power when you need it; up to 16 cores
  • Flexible outstanding storage capacity and storage choices
  • Comprehensive systems management tools help increase uptime, reduce costs and improve productivity with advanced server management capabilities
  • Support for SAS or SATA HDDs or solid-state drives
  • Provides flexibility to use legacy PCI-X adapters while making the transition to the PCIe standard

Hardware summary

  • 5U tower with optional rack-mount capability
  • Up to two Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 product family
  • Up to 1600 MHz memory speed
  • Up to eight PCIe expansion slots; six PCIe slots standard, plus two additional PCIe slots when the second processor is populated. An optional PCI-X slot is available via an interposer conversion kit
  • Up to 32 TB of 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA drives (HDD upgrade options required) or 24 TB of 3.5" hot-swap or simple-swap SAS/SATA HDDs
  • Integrated 6 Gbps hardware RAID-0, -1, -10

Feature Benefits
High-performance, energy-smart Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 product family with more cores and memory supporting the improved Intel Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology and Intel Integrated I/O
  • Intelligent performance that adapts to your software workload environment to help you get more computing power when you need it; up to 16 cores of large cache memory
  • PCIe integrated within the processor for lower latency and power usage with increased total capacity and bandwidth
  • Maximizing turbo mode duration and speed by the new enhanced technology with improved power and thermal management
Ultra-fast, two DIMMs per channel at 1600 MHz, 24 DIMM sockets of DDR3 RDIMM 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
  • Fast memory bandwidth with the ability to run two DIMMs per memory channel at 1600 MHz
  • 1.5 V memory operates at 17% lower energy than the previous generation memory’s thermal design. Save up to an additional 10% on your memory power budget with 1.35 V memory
  • The new load-reduced memory support for maximum memory capacity*
Support for up to 32 small form factor (SFF) 2.5" hot-swap or 8 large form factor (LFF) 3.5" hot-swap or simple-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) hard disk drives (model dependent)
  • Reduce cost with large capacity 3.5" SATA drives and increase performance with 2.5" SAS/SATA drives
  • Up to 24 TB of data storage capacity on 3.5" models and 32 TB of data storage capacity on 2.5" models
  • Easy field upgrade flexibility to increase the number of drives from eight to 16, 24, or 32 with the easy-to-install optional HDD upgrade kits
  • Consolidate server design to optimized for storage-intensive workloads
  • Enhanced performance and reliability storage with support for 2.5" solid state drives (SSDs)*
Integrated 6 Gbps hardware RAID-0, -1, -10 with optional upgrade to -5, -50, -6, -60 with cache and battery or flash and supercap
  • High speed 6 Gbps interface RAID support for improved performance
  • Advanced RAID protection delivers advanced high availability to your HDDs efficiently without sacrificing performance
  • The new Flash technology extends the useful life to nearly 7 years, versus a typical 1-year replacement for batteries
  • Common RAID management tool across System x portfolio
Up to eight Intel integrated PCIe I/O 3.0 specification slots for system expansion. (Six PCIe slots standard)
  • Extensive I/O bandwidth for greater performance and productivity
  • Delivers double the bandwidth with reduced I/O latency
  • Scale up to more I/O slots as needed by upgrading to a second processor
Optional PCI-X slots
  • Enables you to continue using legacy PCI-X adapters while you transition to the PCIe standard
Optional hot-swap, redundant power and simple-swap cooling
  • Potentially eliminates downtime by maintaining system availability if a power supply needs to be replaced
  • Easy simple-swap cooling design for fast replacement as needed
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 quad-port Gigabit Ethernet
  • Provides double the network throughput with features that reduce processor workload
  • Lower power consumption and more reliable network with smart management tools built-in
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
Warranty
  • 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty, next business day 9x5, service upgrades available
  • Provides peace of mind for an extended period of time

Form factor/height Tower/5U (rack-mountable)
Processor (max) Up to two Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 product family at 2.9 GHz, 8.0 GT/s QPI system speed, and 20 MB of cache per processor socket
Number of processors (std/max) 1/2
Cache (max) Up to 20 MB per processor
Memory (max) Maximum 384 GB of DDR3 RDIMMs or 768 GB‡ of DDR3 LRDIMMs or 64 GB‡ of DDR3 UDIMMs; 24 DIMM slots maximum, up to 1600 MHz memory speed
Expansion slots Up to eight PCIe expansion slots; Six PCIe standard with additional two PCIe slots when the second processor is populated. Optional PCI-X available via interposer conversion kit.
Drive bays (total/hot-swap) Eight 2.5" hot-swap or eight 3.5" hot-swap bays standard; up to 32 2.5" hot-swap bays via optional upgrade kit or eight 3.5" simple-swap bays via configure to order (CTO)
Maximum internal storage 32 TB of 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA (HDD upgrade options required) or 24.0 TB of 3.5" hot-swap or simple- swap SAS/SATA (via configure to order only)
Network interface Intel I350AM4 Quad Port GbE
Power supply (std/max) 1/2 hot-swap redundant 550 W‡/750 W/900 W, 80 plus
Hot-swap components Power supply and hard disk drives
RAID support Integrated 6 Gbps or 3 Gbps hardware RAID-0, -1, -10, optional RAID-5, -6, -10, -50, -60 with cache and battery or flash and supercap
System management Automatic Server Restart; Predictive Failure Analysis on processors, voltage regulator modules (VRMs), fans and memory; light path diagnostics; Integrated Management Module 2; optional remote presence; IBM Systems Director and IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager, IMM2 with dedicated management port
Operating systems supported Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, VMware vSphere Hypervisor
Limited warranty 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty, next business day 9x5, service upgrades available

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