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Form factor/height Half-depth, 2U Flex chassis or 3U storage chassis
Processor (max) Intel® Xeon® 5600 series up to 3.06 GHz (6-core) or 3.20 GHz (4-core)
Number of processors (std/max) 2 CPU, 2 GPU adapters (optional)
Cache (max) 4 MB to 12 MB
Memory (max) Up to 192 GB DDR-3 1333 MHz via 16 DIMM slots
Expansion slots Up to 2 slots PCIe x16 electrical/x16 mech (Gen 2), 2 x8 PCle
Disk bays (total) Up to 8 2.5" (2U) or 12 3.5" (3U storage density)
Maximum internal storage 24.0 TB (3U storage chassis)
Interconnect Fabric Adapters Ethernet―Integrated 1 Gb dual-port Ethernet, 10 Gb (optional); Fibre Channel―8 GB dual-port HBA (optional); InfiniBand―QDR or DDR single- or dual-port HCA (optional); solid-state drives―160 or 320 GB High IOPS PCIe (optional)
Power supply (std/max) 900 W high efficiency nonredundant (per two servers)
550 W high efficiency nonredundant (per two servers)
750 W N+N redundant (per two servers)
Hot-swap components Hot-swap HDDs in 3U storage dense configuration
RAID support RAID-0, -1, -5, -6, -10, -50, -60 via optional I/O controller
Systems management IBM Systems Director including IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™, Integrated Management Module (IMM) with optional remote KVM support, integrated 10/100 configurable management port
Operating systems Red Hat Enterprise Linux® versions 6, 5 and 4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server versions 11 and 10, Microsoft® Windows Server 2008 R2, 2008 (Datacenter, HPC, Enterprise and Web), VMware Infrastructure 3.5 and VMware vSphere 4.1
Limited warranty 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty

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