
IBM System x3100 M4
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Standard specifications
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Components
Specification
Form factor
Tower (can be a 4U rack form factor using the optional Tower-to-Rack conversion kit).
Processor
One quad-core Intel Xeon E3-1200 or Xeon E3-1200 v2 series processor (up to 3.6
GHz/8 MB/1600 MHz) or one dual-core Intel Core i3 processor (up to 3.4 GHz/3
MB/1333 MHz), or one dual-core Pentium processor (up to 3.1 GHz/3 MB/1333 MHz) or
one Intel Celeron (1.6 GHz/1 MB/1066 MHz)
Memory cache
Up to 8 MB L3 for Intel Xeon E3-1200 and E3-1200 v2 processors. Up to 3 MB L3 for
Intel Core i3 and Pentium processors.
Chipset
Intel C202.
Memory DIMM slots
4 DDR3 DIMM slots.
Memory capacity
Up to 32 GB with 8 GB DDR3 UDIMMs and four populated DIMM slots. RDIMMs are not
supported.
Memory protection
ECC.
Disk drive bays
Up to four 3.5" Simple Swap SATA HDDs.
Maximum internal
storage
Up to 12 TB with 3 TB 3.5" SATA HDDs.
RAID support
Software RAID 0, 1, 10 with ServeRAID C100 controller; hardware RAID 0, 1, 1E with
ServeRAID H1110, BR10il v2, M1015, M5014 and M5015. Optional RAID 5, 50 with
ServeRAID M5014. Optional upgrade to RAID 5 is available for M1015.
Optical drive bay
One 5.25" HH bay, support for DVD-ROM or Multiburner. Half-High SATA DVD-ROM
standard in standard models.
Tape drive bays
One 5.25 HH bay, support for DDS, RDX, or LTO.
Network interfaces
Integrated two-port Gigabit Ethernet (Intel 82574L) / 1 port is shared with IMM2.
PCI Expansion slots
Four PCI Express slots:
Slot 1, PCIe 3.0 x8, full-height, half-length (PCIe 2.0 in models with processors
announced September 2011 - see Table 4)
Slot 2, PCIe 3.0 x16 (x8 wired), full-height, half-length (PCIe 2.0 in models with
processors announced September 2011 - see Table 4)
Slot 3, PCIe 2.0 x4, full-height, half-length
Slot 4, PCIe 2.0 x1, full-height, half-length
External ports
Two USB 2.0 ports on front. Four USB 2.0, one DB-15 video, one DB-9 serial, two RJ-45
Gigabit Ethernet network ports (one is dedicated, one is shared with IMM2) on rear. One
internal USB port for internal USB tape drive.
Cooling
One speed-controlled non-redundant fan.
Power supply
One fixed 350 W AC or 300 W AC 80Plus Bronze power supply (model dependent)
Hot-swap components None.
Systems management UEFI, IBM Integrated Management Module II (IMM2), Predictive Failure Analysis,
Automatic Server Restart, IBM Systems Director and IBM Systems Director Active
Energy Manager™, IBM ServerGuide. Optional IMM2 Standard and IMM2 Advanced
Upgrade via Feature on Demand (FoD) for additional management capabilities including
remote presence (graphics, keyboard and mouse, virtual media).