High availability features and integrated systems management tools maximise uptime
Stability combined with flexible growth options delivers increased investment protection
The latest processor technology with superior energy-management and cooling efficiency.
Maintain peak performance and reliability
Designed to meet the highest levels of dependability, the IBM System x3500 M2 delivers outstanding quad-core performance and availability to help keep mission-critical applications and virtualised environments up and running. Redundant components to reduce points of failure and light path diagnostics provide resiliency, while integrated support features like a remote presence key optimise systems management efficiency.
Protect IT investments over the long term
A long-life platform, the x3500 M2 provides exceptional stability in a volatile marketplace. Flexible configurations and a generous storage capacity enable emerging enterprise environments to meet the demands of today and easily grow to accommodate additional applications as business requirements evolve.
Product features
Hardware summary
Ideal for mid-size to emerging enterprise and virtualised environments
Dual-socket computing platform offering high availability and resiliency with standard or optional redundant features such as hot-swap hard disk drives (HDDs), dual network connections, fully redundant hot-swap power supplies and hot-swap redundant cooling fans
Integrated systems management with integrated management module (IMM) and optional remote presence key
Stable-life platform offers longevity and flexible growth options
Dynamic adaptability features help allocate resources for more efficient utilisation and power consumption
5U tower with optional rack-mount capability
Up to two Intel Xeon Processors X5570 up to 2.93 GHz and up to 8 MB cache
Fast 1333 MHz registered DDR-3 DIMM memory through 16 DIMM slots
Up to eight input/output (I/O) slots including PCI-X, Active PCI and high-performance PCI-Express
Support for up to 16 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF) hot-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) HDDs, eight standard with the option to add an additional eight for up to 2.3 TB of total internal storage
