executive summary - ibm system x3500 m2

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Executive Summary - IBM System x3500 M2.............................................................................1

Our Understanding of Your Goals.............................................................................................1Our Approach to Meeting Your Goals.......................................................................................1Solution Overview.....................................................................................................................1Why IBM?..................................................................................................................................2

IBM System x3500 M2...................................................................................................................3

Highlights...................................................................................................................................3Maintain peak performance and reliability..........................................................................3Protect IT investments over the long term..........................................................................3Take processor technology to the next level......................................................................3

Features and Benefits...............................................................................................................4Specifications............................................................................................................................5

Other System x Products.............................................................................................................7

System x Racks.........................................................................................................................7

Services..........................................................................................................................................8

Support Services.......................................................................................................................8IBM ServicePac for Warranty and Maintenance Options.........................................................8IBM ServicePac for Remote Technical Support Services.........................................................8Support for IBM System x.........................................................................................................8STG Lab Services.....................................................................................................................8

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Executive Summary - IBM System x3500 M2

Our Understanding of Your Goals

We understand the challenges emerging enterprises face when trying to ensure availability and performance for their mission-critical and virtualized environments. You’re looking for a dependable platform with increased reliability and manageability to maximize uptime and minimize maintenance. Furthermore, we understand that your search for a high-performance platform should offer longevity and the chance to optimize IT investments over the long term, as well as provide additional capacity to expand as your business needs change and the number of applications grow.

Our Approach to Meeting Your Goals

We are pleased to present a solution that can address the complexity of your business requirements. The IBM® System x3500 M2 server is a highly dependable two-socket tower server designed for distributed and virtualized environments and medium-sized businesses.

Features in the x3500 M2, such as redundant components and advanced data protection, help deliver high availability and resiliency, while integrated systems management capabilities lessen the time and cost spent supporting your systems. Full service processor support including Predictive Failure Analysis® and an externally visible light path diagnostic panel enable you to quickly pinpoint possible failures and avoid downtime. The x3500 M2 offers exceptional stability and longevity, as well as flexible growth options and large storage capacity to meet future business requirements.

Solution Overview

Ideal for emerging mid-size to large enterprise customers with both traditional and virtualized environments, the x3500 M2 provides the ultimate balance of high performance, high availability and vast internal storage capacity in a stable-life, distributed platform that is easy to manage and delivers value over its long life. Solution highlights include:

High availability and resiliency through hot-swap hard disk drives and redundant features

Simplified systems management with an integrated management module (IMM) and remote presence

Long-life, flexible growth options to optimize IT investments

Dynamic workload adaptability to allocate processor resources for more efficient server utilization and reduced power consumption


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Expansion options and the capability to increase I/O bandwidth for performance and productivity

Support for most major virtualization environments

Why IBM?

IBM offers you a powerful, highly redundant server with the performance and features you would expect on a robust enterprise-class server. Combining decades of experience in mainframe business servers with the low-cost and high-value of industry-leading technology components from Intel® and others, IBM has produced a rock-solid, high-performance server that can satisfy the needs of your most demanding applications.

With outstanding configuration flexibility, improved power efficiency, simplified system management and a generous three-year warranty term, the x3500 M2 can exceed the unique needs of virtually every mid-size to enterprise class customer. It’s IBM’s goal to provide you with a just-right solution today, then build on our relationship as you grow your server, to become your information technology provider of choice well into the future.


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IBM System x3500 M2

Rock-solid, high-performance tower server for your most demanding applications

Highlights High availability features and integrated systems management tools maximize

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 virtualized 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 optimize 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.

Take processor technology to the next level

The x3500 M2 harnesses the benefits of the latest Intel® Xeon® quad-core technology, including faster processing, simultaneous multithreading and dynamic power management. It builds on standard technology to offer superior power


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efficiency and proactive manageability through built-in capabilities for monitoring, measurement and management of energy consumption.

Select configurations of the x3500 M2 are part of the IBM Express Advantage™ Portfolio, designed to meet the needs of mid-sized businesses. Easy to manage, Express models/configurations vary by country.

Features and BenefitsFeature Benefits

Up to two Intel® Xeon® Processors X5570 up to 2.93 GHz and up to 8 MB cache, Intel Turbo Boost Technology, Intel HT Technology

Ultimate processor performance with eight total cores using optimized L2 cache

Additional performance boost during peak demand times with turbo mode

Faster and concurrent execution of multithreaded applications

Fast 1333 MHz, DDR-3 registered DIMM memory

Matching the speed of high-performance Intel Xeon processors with new-generation, high-performance memory to optimize throughput

Improved application performance with interleaved memory

Support for up to 16 small form factor (SFF) 2.5-inch hot-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives

Increased performance, simplified cabling and better fault isolation than parallel SCSI without cost premium via SAS

Up to 4.8 TB of data storage capacity

Eight drive bays standard with the option to add eight additional drives

Up to six PCI-Express slots Faster interconnect speeds than PCI-X 133 MHz

One available PCI I/O slot for system expansion

Provides investment protection by supporting legacy adapters

Up to two PCI-X slots Enables you to continue using your existing PCI-X adapters while you transition to the PCI-Express standard; replaces one PCI-Express slot

Integrated Hardware RAID-0, -1, -1E Advanced Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) protection delivers basic high availability to your HDDs efficiently without sacrificing performance

Standard on all models of the x3500 M2

Optional SAS RAID-5, -50, -6, -60, -10 Optional upgrade to RAID-5, -50, -6, -60 or -10 protection efficiently brings advanced data availability to your HDDs without sacrificing performance

Optional hot-swap/redundant power and cooling

Potentially eliminates downtime by maintaining system availability if a fan or power supply needs to be replaced


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Feature Benefits

Virtualization support Supports most major virtualization environments

Supports optional hypervisor USB key

Externally visible light path diagnostics panel

Gives information about a failing component without interrupting system operation—visible without removing the system cover

Expedites hardware repairs to dramatically reduce service time

Provides a lighted path to failing component inside the system

Integrated management module (IMM) and remote presence

Provides around-the-clock remote management capabilities

Increases server availability by continuously monitoring your system and notifying you of potential system failures or changes

Activates dedicated systems management Ethernet port enabling remote access

Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet Provides increased network throughput and redundancy with efficient slot-saving integration

Trusted Platform Module (TPM) standard Integrated hardware chip enabling advanced security features

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

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

Standard three-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty¹

Provides peace of mind for an extended period of time

1 IBM hardware products are made from new parts, or new and serviceable used parts. Regardless, our warranty terms apply. For a copy of applicable product warranties, write to: Warranty Information, P.O. Box 12195, RTP, NC 27709, Attn. Dept. JDJA/B203. IBM makes no representation or warranty regarding third-party products or services, including those designated ServerProven®.

SpecificationsForm factor/height Tower/5U (rack-mountable)

Processor (max) Intel® Xeon® X5570 up to 2.93 GHz and up


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to 8 MB cache

Number of processors (std/max) 1/2

Cache (max) 8 MB per processor socket

Memory1 (max) 2 GB/128 GB max 1333 MHz DDR-3 registered DIMMs via 16 DIMM slots

Expansion slots 6 PCI-Express, 1 PCI, 2 PCI-X (optional—requires removal of 1 PCI-Express)

Disk bays (total/hot-swap) 16/16 (SFF) (8 standard with additional 8 available)

Maximum internal storage1, 2 4.8 TB hot-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)

Network interface Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet

Power supply (std/max) 920 W 1/2

Hot-swap components Power supply, fans and hard disk drives

RAID support Integrated Hardware RAID-0, -1, -1E, optional RAID-5, -6, -10, -50, -60

Systems management Automatic Server Restart; IBM Predictive Failure Analysis on hard disk drives, processors, voltage regulator modules (VRMs), fans and memory; light path diagnostics; integrated management module; remote presence; IBM Systems Director and IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™

Operating systems supported3,4 Microsoft® Windows®, Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, SUSE Linux Enterprise, VMware ESX and ESXi

Limited warranty5 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty

1 Maximum internal hard disk and memory capacities may require the replacement of any standard hard drives or memory, and the population of all hard disk bays and memory slots with the largest currently supported drives available. When referring to variable speed CD-ROMs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs and DVDs, actual playback speed will vary and is often less than the maximum possible.

2 When referring to storage capacity, GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes, and TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Accessible capacity is less.

3 OS support and certification information can be found on the IBM ServerProven® Web site at http://ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/indexsp.html .

4 Microsoft, Red Hat, Novell SUSE and/or VMware offerings are available for purchase with System x servers in most countries.

5 IBM hardware products are made from new parts, or new and serviceable used parts. Regardless, our warranty terms apply. For a copy of applicable product warranties, write to: Warranty Information, P.O. Box 12195, RTP, NC 27709, Attn: Dept. JDJA/B203. IBM makes no representation or warranty regarding third-party products or services, including those designated as ServerProven.


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Other System x Products

System x Racks

Attractively priced NetBAY rack solutions help you manage and control xSeries® and Netfinity® servers in your enterprise. Features include:

Three new members for the family of rugged, heavy-duty rack cabinets

Perforated steel doors -- optimize cooling for high-density appliance installation

Improved cable management system

Models include:

– NetBAY42 – S2 42 U rack space

– NetBAY42 E -- 42 U rack expansion space

– NetBAY25 SR -- 25 U rack space

– NetBAY11 Standard Rack Cabinet – 11 U rack space

Security through locking front and rear doors

Heavy-duty caster set for mobility

Standard side panels on Standard Rack (SR) models

Support for many of the current rack options

Three-year, on-site service, limited warranty


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Services

Support Services

http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/xseries/services.html

IBM ServicePac for Warranty and Maintenance Options

http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/index.wss/offering/its/a1001480

IBM ServicePac for Remote Technical Support Services


Support for IBM System x

http://www-304.ibm.com/jct01004c/systems/support/supportsite.wss/brandmain?brandind=5000008

Find local contact and support information for United States.

http://www.ibm.com/planetwide/us/

STG Lab Services

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/services/labservices/labservices_x.html

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/services/labservices/labservices_virtualizationcp.html


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