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IBM System x3550 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 

Power supply

(std/max)

Hot-swap 
components

RAID support 

Systems management 

Operating systems
supported 

Rack/1U

Up to two 3.33 GHz six-core (3.46 GHz four-core)
Intel Xeon 5600 series processors with QuickPath
Interconnect technology, up to 1333 MHz 
memory access speed, supports select Intel Xeon
5500 series via configure to order

1/2

Up to 12 MB L3

192 GB DDR-3 RDIMMs

1

via 18 DIMM slots or 

48 GB DDR-3 UDIMMs

1

via 12 DIMM slots

2

Up to eight 2.5" hot-swap Serial Attached SCSI
(SAS)/Serial ATA (SATA) HDDs or solid-state 
drives (SSDs)

Up to 4.0 TB hot-swap SAS or up to 4.0 TB 
hot-swap SATA or up to 400 GB hot-swap SSD
storage

Integrated 2 ports, plus 2 ports optional Gigabit
Ethernet

1/2; 675 W each

Power supplies, fan modules, disks

Hardware RAID-0, -1, -1E or RAID-0, -1, 
-10 (additional option RAID-5 with Self Encrypting
Disk (SED) function) or RAID-0, -1, -10, -5, -50 with
256 MB or 512 MB cache (additional option 
RAID-6, -60 with SED function and additional
option battery backup), model dependent

IBM Integrated Management Module with Virtual
Media Key for optional remote presence enable-
ment, Predictive Failure Analysis, Integrated Service
Processor, Diagnostic LEDs, light path diagnostics
panel, Automatic Server Restart, IBM Systems
Director and IBM Systems Director Active Energy
Manager™, IBM ServerGuide

Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 and 2008,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server and VMware ESXi 4.0 embedded hypervisor

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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IBM Systems and Technology Group
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Somers, New York 10589

Produced in the United States of America
March 2010
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1

Maximum RDIMM support for 192 GB when 16 GB

DIMMs are available 2Q 2010, and maximum UDIMM
support for 48 GB when 4 GB DIMMs are available 
2Q 2010.

XSD03059-USEN-02

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