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IBM System x3500 M3 at a glance
Form factor/height
Processor
(max)
Number of processors
(std/max)
Cache
(max)
Memory
(max)
Expansion slots
Disk bays
(total/hot-swap)
Maximum internal storage
Network interface
RAID support
Systems management
Operating systems supported
Tower/5U (rack-mountable)
Intel Xeon 5500/5600 processors
(six-core Intel Xeon X5690 3.46 GHz or
four-core Intel Xeon X5687 3.60 GHz up to
6.4 GTps QPI system speed)
1/2
12 MB
16 DIMM slots maximum, 192 GB with
DDR-3 1333 MHz RDIMMs or 48 GB with
DDR-3 1333 MHz UDIMMs
Six PCIe and one PCI standard; additional
two PCI
-
X available via configure to order
and requires removal of one PCIe slot
8/8 or 16/16 2.5" hot-swap standard;
24/24 2.5" hot-swap or 8/8 3.5" hot-swap
or 4/0 3.5" simple swap (available via con-
figure to order only)
24 TB
1
of 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA
(HDD upgrade options required) or
16.0 TB of 3.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA
(via configure to order only)
Broadcom 5709S onboard NIC with dual
Gigabit Ethernet ports with TOE
Integrated 6 Gbps or 3 Gbps hardware
RAID
-
0, -1, -1E, optional RAID
-
5, -6, -10,
-50, -60
Automatic Server Restart; Predictive
Failure Analysis on hard disk drives,
processors, voltage regulator modules
(VRMs), fans and memory; light path diag-
nostics; integrated management module;
remote presence; IBM Systems Director
and IBM Systems Director Active Energy
Manager
Microsoft
®
Windows
®
Server 2008 R2,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
®
, SUSE Linux
Enterprise, VMware ESX and ESXi
Limited warranty
3-year customer replaceable unit and
onsite limited warranty
For more information
World Wide Web
U.S.
ibm.com
/systems/x/
Canada
ibm.com
/systems/ca/en/servers/x/index.html
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February 2011
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