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Highlights

  • Provides optimum performance and processing capability at a lower cost
  • Offers large storage capacity and flexible configurations to scale as needs grow
  • Helps reduce energy costs and ease management with efficient design.

Achieve IT goals with a sustainable investment

The IBM System x3400 M3 leverages the latest Intel® Xeon® processors and memory capacity to deliver greater processing power and flexibility. Enhanced with cost-optimised Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID) technology, mainframe-inspired reliability and additional memory, the x3400 M3 can provide superior performance per cost for virtualisation and other intensive applications.

Grow affordably with flexible upgrades

The x3400 M3 offers flexible configuration options to help you scale easily as business grows. Higher storage capacity as well as choice in storage interface lets you transform your business as you require. Select the right combination of hard disk drive (HDD) size, processor and memory capacity for today and easily incorporate more tomorrow.

Product features

  • Dual-socket computing power optimised for up to eight total cores standard or up to 12 cores (configure to order only) at lower power usage per core
  • Greater memory and storage capacity than previous generations
  • Cost-saving design to help achieve data centre like computing power at desk-side infrastructure price point
  • Optional hot-swap hard disk drives (HDDs) and performance-optimised RAID support
  • Mainframe-inspired reliability and quality for maximum uptime
  • Energy-efficient design and IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager to save electricity and cooling costs and reduce noise
  • Comprehensive systems management
  • Support legacy PCI slots for smooth transition

Hardware summary

  • 5U tower with optional rack-mount capability
  • Up to two four-core Intel® Xeon® E5640 2.66 GHz processors with 12 MB optimised cache standard or up to two six-core Intel® Xeon® X5670 2.93 GHz processors with 12 MB optimised cache (configure to order only)
  • 1333 MHz, DDR-3 Registered DIMM (RDIMM) memory
  • Up to five high-performance PCIe input/output (I/O) slots and one PCI slot standard, additional two PCI-X or one PCIe available via configure to order only
  • Supports up to eight or 16 small form factor (SFF) (2.5") hot-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) HDDs (model dependent); or up to four 3.5" simple-swap SATA HDDs or up to eight 3.5" hot-swap SAS or SATA HDDs (model dependent)
  • 6 Gigabits per second (Gbps) RAID and 3 Gbps adapters standard (model dependent)

Feature Benefits
Wide choice of processors supported – Intel® Xeon® 5600 (six-core or four-core) and select Intel® Xeon® 5500 (four-core or two-core)
  • Ultimate processor performance with multiple cores using optimised cache
  • Accelerated application performance with 1333 MHz front side bus and integrated memory controller
  • Additional performance boost during peak demand with turbo mode
Fast two DIMMs per channel at 1333 MHz, DDR-3 RDIMM and Unregistered DIMM (UDIMM) memory (model dependent)
  • A new generation of high-performance memory matches the speed of the Intel® Xeon® processors to optimise throughput
  • Improved application performance with interleaved memory
  • Low-voltage memory support for energy efficiency
Support for up to eight or 16 SFF (2.5") hot-swap SAS or SATA HDDs (model dependent)

Support for up to four 3.5" simple-swap SATA HDDs or up to four 3.5" hot-swap SAS or SATA HDDs standard. Up to eight 3.5" hot-swap SAS or SATA HDDs (configure to order only)
  • Flexible selection of storage interface with support for both 2.5" and 3.5" HDDs
  • SAS offers increased performance, simplified cabling and better fault isolation than parallel SCSI without a cost premium
  • Up to 16.0 TB of internal data storage capacity (model dependent)
Integrated 6 Gbps RAID-0, -1, -1E (model dependent)
  • High-speed 6 Gbps interface RAID support for improved performance
  • Basic RAID protection provides high availability for your HDDs efficiently without sacrificing performance
  • Hot-swap models come with hardware RAID-0, -1 standard and simple-swap models have the option to upgrade to hardware RAID
Optional advanced 6 Gbps SAS RAID
  • Optional upgrade to advanced 6 Gbps RAID-5, -6, -10, -50 or -60 protection via ServeRAID-M5014 or M5015 adapter bringing high availability to your HDDs without sacrificing performance
Six PCIe slots standard
  • Interconnect speeds significantly faster than PCI-X
Up to two PCI-X slots
  • Enables you to continue using legacy PCI-X adapters while you transition to the PCIe standard (configure to order only)
Integrated Management Module (IMM) and optional remote presence key
  • Provides around-the-clock remote management capabilities with optional hardware hypervisor key
  • Increases server availability by continuously monitoring your system and proactively notifying you of potential system failures or changes
Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)
  • Provides increased network throughput and redundancy with efficient slot-saving integration
IBM Systems Director
  • Provides comprehensive systems management tools
  • Helps increase uptime, reduce costs and improve productivity with advanced server management capabilities
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
Available with one or three year customer replaceable unit (CRU) and on-site limited warranty
  • Flexible warranty options provide extended peace of mind for whatever coverage period you choose

Form factor/height Tower/5U (rack-mountable)
Processor (max) Four-core Intel® Xeon® E5640 2.66 GHz with 12 MB of cache per processor socket standard or six-core Intel® Xeon® X5670 2.93 GHz with 12 MB of cache per processor socket (configure to order only)
Number of processors (std/max) One/two
Cache (max) 4 MB or 12 MB per processor socket
Memory (max) 16 Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) slots maximum, 128 GB with Double Data Rate (DDR)-3 1333 MHz Registered DIMMs (RDIMMs)
Expansion slots Five PCIe and 1 PCI standard; additional 2 PCI-X or 1 PCIe (configure to order only)
Disk bays (total/hot-swap) Standard with four 3.5" simple-swap Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) or 3.5" hot-swap SATA/Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) HDDs or eight or 16 2.5" hot-swap SAS HDDs. Eight 3.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs (model dependent)
Maximum internal storage 3 TB of 3.5" simple-swap SATA HDDs; 16.0 TB of 3.5" hot-swap SATA or 7,200 revolutions per minute (rpm) SAS HDDs; or 9.6 TB of 2.5" hot-swap SATA/SAS HDDs (model dependent)
Network interface Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)
Power supply (std/max) 920 W (One/two) or 670 W (One/one) (model dependent)
Hot-swap components Fans and HDDs standard, power supply (model dependent)
RAID support Integrated 6 Gigabits per second (Gbps) or 3 Gbps RAID-0, -1, -1E (model dependent), optional RAID-10, -5, -50, -6, -60
Systems management Integrated systems management processor
Operating systems supported Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 R2, Red Hat Linux®, SUSE Linux, VMware ESX Server; integrated hypervisor key
Limited warranty Three year customer replaceable unit (CRU) and on-site limited warranty

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