| 2U rack |
- Provides expandability and high performance in a dense form factor
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| High-performance, energy-smart Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family with up to 20 MB L3 cache per processor socket, integrated PCIe 3.0, Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, Hyper-Threading Technology and two QuickPath interconnect |
- Boosts performance with the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 series 8-core processors
- Integrated PCIe 3.0 into the processor for lower latency and power while growing total capacity and bandwidth
- Maximizing turbo mode duration and speed by the new improved technology with improved power and thermal management
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| 24 DIMM sockets of DDR3 RDIMM/UDIMM/LRDIMM/HyperCloud DIMM memory |
- Memory scalability ideal for compute-intensive, general-business applications and virtualized environments
- A new generation of high-performance memory matches the speed of the Intel Xeon E5-2600 series processors to optimize throughput
- Improved application performance with interleaved memory
- Fast memory bandwidth with ability to run two DIMMs per channel at 1600 MHz with supported RDIMM
- 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
- Up to 768 GB of memory capacity
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| Support for up to 16 small form factor (SFF) 2.5" hot-swap or 6 large form factor (LFF) 3.5" hot-swap or simple-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) hard disk drives (model dependent), sixteen 2.5" or thirty-two 1.8" simple-swap or hot-swap solid state drives (SSDs) |
- Reduce cost with large-capacity 3.5" SATA drives and increase performance with 2.5" SAS/SATA drives
- Up to 24 TB of storage capacity on 3.5" HDD models or 16.0 TB of storage capacity on 2.5" HDD models
- Easy field upgrade flexibility to increase the number of drives from 8 to 16 with easy-to-install optional HDDs without slot required
- Consolidate server design optimized for storage-intensive workloads
- Enhanced performance and reliability storage with support for sixteen 2.5" or thirty-two 1.8" High IOPS solid state drives (SSDs)
- Supports optional ODD and tape drive
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| Integrated 6 Gbps hardware RAID on the motherboard |
- 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 seven years versus a typical one-year replacement for batteries
- Support up to 1 GB flashback or 512 MB cache
- Common RAID management tool across System x® portfolio
- FoD helps you upgrade RAID-5, -50 or -6, -60 without opening the chassis
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| Up to six next-generation PCIe 3.0 I/O slots for system expansion. |
- Extensive I/O bandwidth for greater performance and productivity
- Deliver double the bandwidth of PCIe 2.0 with lower latency
- Scale up to more I/O slots as needed by upgrading to a second processor
- Supports up to 2 x16 + 2 x8 slots or 1 x16 + 4 x8 or 6 x8 slots
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| Optional PCI-X slots and double-width PCIe 3.0 slots |
- Enables you to continue using legacy PCI-X adapters while you transition to the PCIe standard, Supports up to 4 PCI-X + 2 x16 PCIe 3.0 slots
- Supports up to 2 double-width x16 + 2 x8 PCIe 3.0 slots
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| Integrated quad-port Gigabit Ethernet and optional embedded dual-port 10 GbE |
- Provides double the network throughput with features that reduce processor workload
- Lower power consumption and improved reliable network with smart management tools built in
- Embedded two 10 GbE ports without slot required
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| Optional hot-swap, redundant power and hot-swap cooling |
- Increases system and application uptime by eliminating another potential point of failure with a second hot-swap power supply; allows the server to continue operating even with a fan failure
- Choice of one of the following high-efficiency power supplies (model dependent): 550 W ac, 750 W ac, 900 W ac, or 750 W dc
- Hot-swap dual-motor cooling fans help maintain a healthy system by keeping internal components cool, and help keep your business-critical applications running safely
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| Drop-down light path diagnostics panel |
- Gives information about a failing component without having to open the chassis and without interrupting system operation
- Expedites hardware repairs to dramatically reduce service time
- Provides a lighted path to the failing component inside the system
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| Energy-efficiency compliance |
- Compliant with 80 PLUS® Platinum for ac power supplies
- ENERGY STAR® energy-efficiency standards (model dependent)
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| IBM Integrated Management Module 2 (IMM2) |
- Increases server availability by continuously monitoring your system and notifying you of potential system failures or changes
- Remote presence provides for around-the-clock remote management capabilities (FoD optional); gives information about a failing component without interrupting system operation
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| 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
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| Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) |
- Common across all IBM next-generation servers, this new BIOS is easy to configure and deploy
- Provides more functionality than legacy BIOS and facilitates greater manageability through a common infrastructure for managing all machines
- Server efficiency is improved by a faster boot, and restart of OS Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 enables advanced cryptographic functionality, such as digital signatures and remote attestation
- CRTM for secure boot
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| Support for the VMware vSphere and USB keys (optional) |
- Innovative, thin hypervisor architecture is operating system-independent and designed to optimize virtualization performance
- Integrated into server hardware to help provide compatible, pre-tested and optimized hardware configurations
- Optimized for remote management tools and industry-standard protocols such as CIM
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| Security capabilities |
- Offers ServeRAID with leadership disk encryption to help protect your data
- Trusted platform module technology
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| 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 System x® servers
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| 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
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