IBM X3400 - Manual

An affordable dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server
with high performance and data protection for small and
medium businesses

Product Guide

October 2008

IBM

System x3400

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 Images

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x3400 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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egal Information

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Outstanding performance, capacity and availability

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Suggested uses:

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

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

]

The

dual-socket

IBM

®

System

x3400

, incorporating IBM

X-Architecture

™

features, provides outstanding

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

quad-

and

dual-core

Intel

®

Xeon

™

processors, designed with up to a

leading-edge

1333MHz

front-side bus (FSB),

64-bit extensions

(

EM64T

) and

6MB

(dual-core) or

12MB

(quad-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 uses industry-standard

fully buffered

667MHz

memory with

Chipkill

™

ECC

(Error Checking and Correcting) protection—for high

performance and reliability. For even higher levels of availability, the x3400 also offers a choice of optional
online hot-spare memory or memory mirroring. An integrated high-speed

Gigabit Ethernet

controller is

standard, as are high-performance adapter slots (

PCIe x8

and

x4

and

PCIx/133

).

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

32GB

of memory and up to

four

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

high-performance

hot-swap Serial-Attach

SCSI

(SAS) drives with an internal storage capacity of

1.2TB

. Specific models support an upgrade kit that increases

hot-swap

support to

eight

SATA or SAS

drives (

6.0TB

or

2.4TB

, respectively). For additional performance and high availability, the x3400 includes

the

hardware

-based

ServeRAID-8k-l

controller

standard

, providing

RAID-0/1/10

support. Additional RAID

support is available via the optional IBM ServeRAID

™

family of SAS/SATA and Ultra320 SCSI controllers.

The x3400 ships as a tower unit; an optional

rack conversion kit

turns the x3400 into a

5U

rack-mounted

server to save precious data center floor space.

Standard in the x3400 is a

Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)

that enables users to manage

and control the server easily. This high level of manageability is designed to keep costs down and the
system up—even when network usage increases. Other advanced features that help maximize network
availability by increasing uptime, include

simple-swap

or

hot-swap/redundant

HDDs

,

hot-

swap/redundant

power

and

fans

;

Active Memory

™

; integrated

RAID

;

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 Director

,

IBM ServerGuide

™

and

support for the optional

IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine

, the x3400 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 is the ideal system.

Selling Features

Price/Performance

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

•

Up

to

two multi-core

Xeon processors with high-end

1066MHz

or

1333MHz

front side bus and either

12MB

or

6MB

(processor-specific) of integrated Level 2 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.

•

Low-voltage processors

draw less power and produce less waste heat than high-voltage processors,

thus helping to reduce data center energy costs. On a per-core basis, the

80W

quad-core

processors

consume only

20W

per core, vs.

32.5W

per core for the 65W dual-core processors.

•

Ultra-fast

fully buffered

667MHz PC2-5300 DDR II

ECC memory with

Chipkill

protection provides

speed and high availability.

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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.

Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information.

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