IBM Asia Pacific Hardware Announcement AG11-0009
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Planning information
Customer responsibilities
Customer setup
The x3500 M3 servers are designated as customer setup. Customer setup
instructions are shipped with systems and options.
Bay configuration
The server contains 11 drive bays. The four 3.5-inch hot-swap bays or the eight 2.5-
inch bays are located on the lower half of System x3500 tower models. These bays
are ready for various supported hot-swap HDD drive option installation. The three
bays on the top portion of tower models are designed primarily for removable media
devices. One bay contains the DVD-ROM drive, while the remaining two 5.25-inch
half-high bays can support tape backup or other devices.
SAS cabling considerations
The x3500 M3 server contains two backplanes. One backplane supports eight 2.5-
inch SAS/SATA drives. One backplane is connected with ServeRAID-BR10i controller
through two miniSAS cables.
ServeRAID-BR10i is standard offering on system.
The DVD is SATA attached.
External SAS attachment
In the configurations where an external SAS device attachment is required, a
support SAS adapter is required.
External serial attachment
To attach an external serial cable RS-232, use the serial connector at the rear of the
system.
Processor upgrades
The following processor upgrades are supported:
• Addl Intel Xeon Processor E5603 4C 1.60GHz 4MB Cache (81Y5942) 1066Mhz
80w
• Addl Intel Xeon Processor E5606 4C 2.13GHz 8MB Cache (81Y5943) 1066MHz
80w
• Addl Intel Xeon Processor E5607 4C 2.26GHz 8MB Cache (81Y5944) 1066MHz
80w
• Addl Intel Xeon Processor E5645 6C 2.40GHz 12MB Cache (81Y5945) 1333Mhz
80w
• Addl Intel Xeon Processor E5649 6C 2.53GHz 12MB Cache (81Y5946) 1333MHz
80w
• Addl Intel Xeon Processor X5647 4C 2.93GHz 12MB Cache (81Y5947) 1333MHz
130w
• Addl Intel Xeon Processor X5675 6C 3.06GHz 12MB Cache (81Y5949) 1066MHz
95w
• Addl Intel Xeon Processor X5687 4C 3.60GHz 12MB Cache (81Y5950) 1333MHz
130w
• Addl Intel Xeon Processor X5690 6C 3.46GHz 12MB Cache (81Y5951) 1333MHz
130w
