| 2U rack form factor |
- Helps provide expandability, high performance and storage capacity in a dense form factor
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| Latest high-performance, energy-efficient 2-, 4-, 6- and 8-core Intel Xeon processors, up to 1600 MHz memory access speed |
- Helps improve productivity through higher processing performance
- Helps reduce cost with better performance per watt
- Up to 1600 MHz memory access speed
- Eight-core processing can provide significant performance gains
- Helps deliver superior processor performance with up to 8 cores using optimized L3 cache
- Helps optimize multithreaded applications for faster concurrent execution
- Helps reduce overall system energy requirements
- Larger cache size yields more transaction processing
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| Fast 1600 MHz, DDR-3 RDIMM memory or up to 384 GB of LRDIMM memory with 12 DIMM slots () |
- Supports 2GB, 4GB DDR-3 UDIMMs, 2 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB high-performance DDR-3 RDIMMs and 32 GB DDR-3 LRDIMM with 12 slots
- Helps enable memory scalability to match performance to workload requirements
- DDR-3 memory uses less energy than previous generations, and supports 1.5 V or 1.35 V memory DIMMs
- Two RDIMMs per channel at 1600 MHz supported on single-rank and dual-rank RDIMMs
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| Support for up to fourteen 3.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA hard disk drives, for up to 56 TB of local storage capacity |
- Helps provide choice of storage solutions to meet today’s storage needs and tomorrow’s expansion requirements
- Generous local storage helps enable increased performance for data-intensive workloads
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| Optional support for the VMware ESXi 5.0 embedded hypervisor |
- Innovative, thin hypervisor architecture is operating system-independent and designed to help optimize virtualization performance
- Integrated into server hardware to help provide compatible, pretested and optimized hardware configurations
- Optimized for remote management tools and industry-standard protocols such as CIM
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| 2 - 4 x8 PCIe slots + x4 slotless RAID |
- Helps provide expandability choices and the opportunity to increase I/O bandwidth for performance and productivity
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| Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet standard |
- Helps enable greater network bandwidth and redundancy
- Helps provide increased network throughput and redundancy with efficient slot-saving integration
- Provides additional integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet ports to upgrade via FoD
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| Eight USB ports (2 front, 4 rear, 2 internal) |
- Helps provide easier connectivity to multiple peripheral devices
- Support internal for USB tape and hypervisor
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| Up to two 550 W/750 W/900 W 80-PLUS certified PSU; optional hot-swap redundant power supply |
- Increases system and application uptime by reducing another potential point of failure with a second hot-swap power supply
- Helps improve availability with redundant power supply
- Helps improve serviceability with hot-swappable components
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| Three redundant fan modules standard |
- Helps improve availability with redundant fan modules
- Allows the server to continue operating even with a fan failure
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| Energy-efficient components |
- Integrated power gates and automated low-power states help improve energy efficiency
- Power control unit (PCU) improvements help enable more efficient turbo boost and memory power management
- Low-voltage CPUs and low-voltage DDR-3 memory help reduce energy consumption
- Energy-efficient power supplies including 80-PLUS® certification, up to 94 percent efficiency
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| Broad operating system support |
- Helps enable customer choice of operating system platforms
- Broadens the application offerings that can be supported, increasing deployment opportunities
- Provides customer convenience through operating systems that can be purchased with the hardware
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| IBM Systems Director |
- Web-based GUI helps provide intuitive access to powerful systems management functions
- Helps enable quick time-to-value using extensive wizards and tutorials
- Facilitates management of physical and virtual resources across heterogeneous systems
- Helps increase uptime, reduce costs and improve productivity via advanced server management capabilities using a robust systems management platform
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| IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ |
- Helps report and collect actual energy usage
- Helps enable automated or user-defined energy control
- Helps enable system-level energy analysis through energy trending reports
- Helps reduce energy draw during low utilization using CPU controls
- Helps provide advanced energy notification and control, monitor energy consumption, achieve lower heat output and help decrease cooling costs
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| Integrated Management Module (IMM) with IPMI 2.0 support |
- Helps enable standards-based alerting for upward integration with management environments
- Helps provide error diagnostics for more effective troubleshooting
- Helps provides around-the-clock remote management capabilities designed to manage, monitor and troubleshoot from any location using Optional Virtual Media Key
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| Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) |
- Helps provide a richer management experience, provide more functionality than previous generation BIOS and facilitate greater manageability through a common infrastructure for managing all machines using next-generation BIOS
- Helps improve server efficiency by using a faster boot and restart of OS
- Helps allow Intuitive interface to add features and functions quickly
- Helps provide simplified error handling
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| IBM ToolsCenter |
- Helps provide a consolidated, integrated suite of management tools
- Helps reduce the complexity of choosing and learning platform management tools
- Helps provide a bootable media creator for executing customized updates
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| IBM ServerGuide software |
- Assists with the installation of operating systems and drivers
- Helps get your server up and running faster
- Simplifies installation and configuration of your IBM System x® servers
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| Limited warranty |
- Helps provide investment protection and confidence for an extended period of time
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| RAID support |
- Integrated 3 Gbps software RAID-0, -1, -10 for value entry model; optional hardware RAID-0, -1, -10 or RAID-5, -50 or -6, -60
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| Slotless hardware RAID |
- Optional advanced RAID protection can deliver advanced high availability to your HDDs more efficiently without sacrificing performance
- Flash technology extends the usable life to nearly seven years versus a typical one-year replacement for batteries
- Support up to 1.0 GB flashback or 512 MB cache (model dependant)
- FoD helps you upgrade RAID-5, -50 or RAID-6, -60 without open chassis
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