IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Hardware Announcement ZG09-0254
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Overview
With fixed power, hot-swap cooling fans, and greater systems management control,
the System x3400 M2 servers feature:
• 4.8 GTS or 5.86 GTS Quickpath Interconnect (QPI) support
• Three hot-swap fans standard
• Five PCI-Express card slots (1 x16, 4 x8), one 32-bit/33 MHz card slot
• Integrated dual port Gigabit Ethernet with TCPIP Offload Engine (TOE)
• Hot-swap models with Standard PCI-Express ServeRAID-BR10i for RAID-0, -1,
and -1E support
• Simple-swap/SATA models with SATA controller
• DDR3 ECC RDIMMs, combined with an integrated ECC memory controller in core
logic, that correct many soft and hard single-bit memory errors4, to minimize
disruption of service to LAN clients
• Integrated Management Module (IMM) with an optional upgrade to Remote
Presence function with IMM hardware key option
Powered and scaled for needed business growth
• Powerful 2C 1.86 GHz, 4C 2.0 GHz with 4 MB cache, and 2.26 GHz, 2.4 GHz, or
2.53 GHz 4C Intel Xeon processors with 8 MB cache1
• 2 GB of high-speed 1333 MHz ECC memory, 96 GB maximum2
• Broadcom 5709C dual Gigabit Ethernet ports and SAS/SATA support
• Eight SFF hot-swap drive bays, four 3.5-inch hot-swap or four simple-swap drive
bays: up to 4.0 TB total capacity using 4 x 1 TB SATA 3.5-inch hot-swap HDD
options; or up to 2.4 TB using 8 x 300 GB 2.5-inch SAS SFF slim-line HDDs;
model dependent
High availability for around-the-clock business demand
• Integrated management module and support for the IMM hardware key option
• Wake on LAN®
• ECC memory to detect memory double-bit errors and correct memory single-bit
errors
• Integrated memory mirroring
Service and support perfected for needs of business
• ServerGuidetm, which includes utilities and drivers for assisted installation of
popular network operating systems
• IBM® Director, a powerful, highly integrated systems management software
solution
• IBM Server support and Web support5
• Three-year, customer replaceable unit (CRU) and on-site6 service, limited
warranty7, (7837 machine models only) or
• One year, customer replaceable unit (CRU), on-site6 service, limited warranty7,
(7836 machine models only)
• Optional warranty service upgrades available
1 GHz and MHz denote the internal and/or external clock speed of the
microprocessor only, not application performance. Many factors affect application
performance.
