| Product |
|
| Model |
IBM System x3500 M2 |
| P/N |
7839-42A |
| Form Factor |
Tower 5U |
| Processor |
|
| Processor |
Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor |
| Speed supported |
E5530 2.4 GHz |
| Cache size |
8MB (1 x 8MB) Level 3 cache |
| Data bus speed |
DDR3-1066 |
| Feature |
HT, Turbo 1/1/2/2 |
| Upgradeability |
1/2 |
| Chipset |
Intel 5520 |
| Memory |
|
| Type |
Registered PC3-10600 (DDR III ECC (Chipkill protection when using x4 DIMMs); single-, dual-, or quad-rank |
| Installed Size |
2GB (2 x 1GB) |
| Maximum |
128GB |
| DIMM sockets total / available |
16 (8 per processor) / 14 |
| Drive bays total / available |
|
| |
19 (11 standard, 19 via CTO) / 11 or 19 |
| HDD drive bays total / available |
|
| HDD drive bays total / available |
8 standard, 16 by CTO / 8 or 16 |
2.5-inch HDD drive bays total /
available |
8 standard, 16 by CTO / 8 or 16 |
| HDD capacities supported |
|
| |
2.5-inch Hot-Swap SAS
73.4, 146.8, 300GB — 10K RPMs;
73.4, 146.8GB — 15K RPMs |
| Storage |
|
| Diskette Drive |
None |
| Optical Drive |
DVD-ROM |
| Hard Drive |
146 GB SAS 2,5"/ 2.4 TB SAS |
| Maximum HDD capacity |
|
| |
2.4TB (8 x 300GB) hot-swap 2.5-inch SAS (standard);
4.8TB (16 x 300GB) hot-swap 2.5-inch SAS (CTO) |
| Optional RAID controllers supported |
|
| |
ServeRAID-BR10i (0MB cache standard)—internal SAS (RAID-0/1/1E) |
| External disk drives supported |
|
| Adapter slots total / available |
7 / 6 (standard);
8 / 7 (CTO) |
PCIe x16 Gen 2 physical/x8 Gen 2
electrical slots (8GBps) |
1 full-height/full-length |
PCIe x8 Gen 2 physical/
electrical slots (8GBps) |
2 full-height/full-length (1 slot reserved for RAID card) |
PCIe x8 Gen 2 physical/x4 Gen 2
electrical slots (4GBps) |
2 full-height/full-length |
PCIe x8 Gen 1 physical/
electrical slots (2GBps) |
1 full-height/half-length (on an extender card) |
| PCI-X/133 slots (1GBps) |
None standard (2 optional via CTO, by adding a PCI-X extender card) |
| 33MHz legacy PCI slots |
1 full-height/half-length |
| Video ports |
1 |
| USB 2.0 ports |
8 total; 6 external (2 front, 4 rear) ports, plus 1 internal connector for a tape drive and 1
internal connector for an embedded hypervisor (on USB flash drive) |
| Integrated systems management controller |
Yes (IMM) |
| Graphic |
|
| Video controller |
Matrox G200eV (in IMM) |
| Video memory |
16MB DDR-2 SDRAM |
| Gigabit Ethernet controller |
|
| |
1 dual-port Broadcom BCM5709C (TOE, iSCSI, RDMA)—iSCSI/RDMA support
requires license key |
| Power supply size |
|
| Video controller |
920W universal, autoswitching |
| Operating systems supported |
|
| |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 32/64-bit, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 32/64-bit,
RHEL 4/5 32/64-bit (with and without Xen), SLES 10 32/64-bit (without Xen), VMware
ESX Server 3.5 |
