Lenovo x3400 M3- User Manual

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Product Guide

February 2011

IBM

System x3400 M3

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 M3 Images

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x3400 M3 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 M3 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 M3

, incorporating IBM

X-Architecture

™

f eatures, provides

outstanding value to workgroups by combining scalable perf ormance and availability f eatures at an
outstanding price. The x3400 M3 supports the latest

4-core

Intel

®

Xeon

™

5600 series (W estmere)

and

2

- and

4

-core Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) processors, designed with up to

1066MHz

memory access

and

12MB

or

4MB

of L3 cache,

Turbo Boost

, and

Hyper-Threading Technology

(processor-

specific), to help provide you with the computing power you need to match your business needs and
growth. For maximum performance, x3400 M3 also supports the latest

6-core

Xeon

5600 series

processors with up to

1333Mhz

memory access and

12MB

L3 cache, by CTO only. In addition, the

x3400 M3 supports industry-standard

registered DDR-3

memory with

Chipkill

™

ECC

(Error

Checking and Correcting) protection—f or high perf ormance, energy savings, and reliability. For even
higher levels of availability, the x3400 M3 also off ers

memory mirroring

. A

dual-port

integrated

high-speed

Gigabit Ethernet

controller is standard, as are high-perf ormance PCIe adapter slots and

a legacy PCI-32 slot to support legacy expansion cards.

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

128GB

of

memory. Some models supports up to

8

or

2.5

-inch

hot-swap Serial-Attach

SCSI

(

SAS

) or

Serial

ATA II

(SATA II) HDDs, with up to

4TB

1

capacity, or up to

16

or

2.5

-inch

hot-swap SAS

or

SATA II

HDDs, with up to

8TB

capacity. Other models support up to

4

3.5

-inch

hot-swap SAS

HDDs with up

to

2.4T B

capacity,

or 4 3.5

-inch

hot-swap or simple-swap SATA

HDDs with up to

8TB

capacity.

For additional storage requirements, Configure-to-Order (CTO) models are available with support for
up to

8

3.5

-inch

hot-swap

SATA/SAS HDDs, or up to

16 2.5-inch

HDDs. For advanced performance

and high availability, the

four-driv e hot-swap

x3400 M3 models include an IBM

Serv eRAID

®

-

BR10il

V2

controller, providing

RAID-0/1/1E

support. The IBM

ServeRAID

®

-M1015

controller,

providing

RAID-0/1/10

with an option to upgrade to

RAID 5

is standard on

8-drive

2.5-inch models,

while the

ServeRAID-5014

controller, which provides

RAID-0/1/10/5/50

support (upgradeable to

RAID-6/60) and includes

256GB

of cache memory, is standard on

16-drive

2.5-inch models.

Additional RAID support is optionally available via the IBM ServeRAID family of SAS/SATA
controllers. The x3400 M3 ships as a tower unit; a tower-to-rack option is available, or CTO models
can be ordered as a

5U

rack-mounted server to help save precious data center floor space.

Standard in the x3400 M3 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 Interf ace (

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 f eatures 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

.

W ith the inclusion of unique IBM service and support f eatures such as

IBM Systems Director

,

IBM

Systems Director Active Energy Manager

,

ServerGuide

™

, and

the IMM, the x3400 M3 is as

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

For a balance of high-perf ormance two-, f our-, or six-core, dual-socket processing, high availability
and vast internal SAS storage at a budget price, the x3400 M3 is the ideal system.

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

capacity may be less.