IBM X3400 M2 - Manual

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Product Guide

May 2009

IBM

System x3400 M2

Product Overview

CONTENTS

Product Overview

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Selling Features

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Key Features

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Key Options

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x3400 M2 Images

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x3400 M2 Specifications

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The Bottom Line

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Server Comparison Table

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For More Information

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Legal Information

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IBM System x3400 M2 provides flexible capabilities and
outstanding performance that drives affordable business
growth

[

Suggested uses:

Small/medium businesses, large multilocation enterprises and bank branch offices

seeking scalability, top performance and availability features at an entry-level price.

]

The

dual-socket

IBM

®

System

x3400 M2

, incorporating IBM

X-Architecture

™

features, provides

outstanding value to workgroups by combining scalable performance and availability features at an
outstanding price. The x3400 M2 supports the latest

quad-

and

dual-core

Intel

®

Xeon

™

5500 series

(Nehalem) processors, designed with up to

1066MHz

memory access and

8MB

(4-core) or

4MB

(two-

core) of L2 cache and

Hyper-Threading Technology

, to help provide you with the computing power you

need to match your business needs and growth. In addition, the x3400 M2 supports industry-standard

registered DDR-3

memory with

Chipkill

™

ECC

(Error Checking and Correcting) protection—for high

performance, energy savings, and reliability. For even higher levels of availability, the x3400 M2 also
offers

memory mirroring

. A

dual-port

integrated high-speed

Gigabit Ethernet

controller is standard, as

are high-performance PCIe adapter slots and a legacy PCI-32 slot to support legacy expansion cards.

All models offer impressive scalability, including dual-processor support and up to

96GB

of memory. Some

models support

eight

high-performance

2.5-inch

hot-swap Serial-Attach

SCSI

(SAS) HDDs with an

internal storage capacity of up to

2.4TB

. Other models support up to

four

3.5-inch

simple-swap Serial

ATA II

(SATA II) hard disk drives with a total capacity of up to

3.0TB

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,

or up to

four

3.5-inch high-

performance

hot-swap Serial-Attach

SCSI

(SAS) drives with an internal storage capacity of

1.2TB

, or

up

to

four

hot-swap

SATA II hard disk drives with a total capacity of up to

4.0TB

. For additional performance

and high availability, the hot-swap x3400 M2 models include an IBM

ServeRAID

®

-BR10i

controller,

providing

RAID-0/1/1E

support. Additional RAID support is available via the optional IBM ServeRAID

™

family of SAS/SATA controllers, which support

RAID-1/1E/10/5/6

, and even

full-drive hardware

encryption

. The x3400 M2 ships as a tower unit; CTO models can be ordered as a

5U

rack-mounted

server to help save precious data center floor space.

Standard in the x3400 M2 is an

Integrated Management Module (IMM)

that enables users to manage

and control the server easily—both locally and, using an optional Virtual Media Key, remotely. Unified
Extensible Firmware Interface (

UEFI

) is an evolutionary leap over legacy BIOS. This high level of

manageability is designed to keep costs down and the system up—even when network usage increases.
These advanced features help maximize network availability by increasing uptime, as do

hot-

swap/redundant

HDDs

;

Active Memory

™

;

temperature-controlled fans

with

Calibrated Vectored

Cooling

™

; industry-standard

IPMI 2.0

support, including

highly secure remote power control

and

Serial

over LAN

; as well as

text-console redirect over LAN

.

With the inclusion of unique IBM service and support features such as

IBM Systems Director

,

IBM

Systems Director Active Energy Manager

,

ServerGuide

™

, and

the IMM, the x3400 M2 is equally well

designed for a locally managed data center environment as for a remotely managed or stand-alone
environment, while offering maximum availability.

For a balance of high-performance dual-core, dual-socket processing, high availability and vast internal
SAS storage at a budget price, the x3400 M2 is the ideal system.

Selling Features

Price/Performance

The x3400 M2 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce product and operating costs:

•

Up to

two 4-core

Xeon 5500 Series processors and

8MB

or

4MB

of shared cache per processor, offer

superior performance capable of tackling the toughest jobs.

64-bit extensions

provide the flexibility to

run 32-bit and 64-bit applications concurrently. Xeon 5500 series processors offer up to 225% better
performance than the previous-generation 5400 series processors and up to 900% better performance

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GB equals 1,000,000,000 bytes and TB equals 1,000,000,000,000 bytes when referring to hard disk drive capacity. Accessible

capacity may be less.