x3950 at a glance
Form factor/height
Rack/3U per chassis
Processor
(max)
Intel Xeon Processor MP up to 3.30 GHz (dual-core)/667 MHz
front-side bus
Number of processors
(std/max)
2/4 per chassis, 32 per configuration
Cache
(max)
Up to 2x2MB L2 and up to 16MB L3
Memory
2
(std/max)
2GB or 4GB/64GB PC2-3200 DDR II per chassis, 512GB
maximum
Disk bays
(total/hot-swap)
6/6 (per chassis) 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Maximum internal storage
2, 3
440.4GB SAS per chassis (supports 36.4GB and 73.4GB hard
disk drives)
I/O slots
(total/hot-swap)
6/6 (per chassis) Active PCI-X 2.0, all slots supporting up to
266 MHz
Network interface
Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet
Power supply
(std/max)
1300W 220V 2/2
Hot-swap components
Power supplies, fans, memory, HDDs and PCI-X adapters
RAID support
Integrated RAID-0, -1, -5 (model dependent)
Systems management
Alert on LAN™ 2, Automatic Server Restart, IBM Director,
IBM ServerGuide™, Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine,
light path diagnostics (independently powered), Predictive
Failure Analysis on hard disk drives, processors, VRMs, fans
and memory, Wake on LAN
®
Operating systems supported
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Standard, Enterprise and
Datacenter editions 32-bit and 64-bit), 32- and 64-bit Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and SUSE Enterprise Linux, Microsoft Windows
2000 (Server and Advanced Server), VMware ESX Server
Limited warranty
4
3-year onsite limited warranty
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Canada
ibm.com
/ca/en/systems/x
Reseller locator
U.S.
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Canada
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1
IDC, 3Q 2005, IDC Server Tracker
2
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