Standard specifications
Table 1. Standard specifications
Components
Specification
Form factor
2U rack.
Processor
Up to two six-core (up to 3.06 GHz) or quad-core (up to 3.2 GHz) Intel Xeon 5600 series
processors with QuickPath Interconnect technology up to 6.4 GT/s, and up to 1333
MHz memory speed. Supports basic Quad-core and Dual-core Intel Xeon 5500 series
processors either in standard models or via Configure-To-Order (CTO).
Memory cache
Up to 12 MB L3 for Intel Xeon 5600 series processors. Up to 4 MB L3 for Intel Xeon
5500 series processors.
Chipset
Intel 5500.
Memory DIMM slots
12 DDR3 DIMM slots (6 per installed processor).
Memory capacity
Up to 192 GB with 16 GB DDR3 RDIMMs and 12 populated DIMM slots (up to 96 GB
with 6 DIMMs per processor).
Memory protection
ECC, ChipKill (for x4-based memory DIMMs), and Memory Mirroring.
Disk drive bays
Four 3.5" simple-swap SATA HDD bays; or eight 3.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDD bays
(model dependent).
Maximum internal
storage
Up to 7.2 TB with 900 GB SAS HDDs, or up to 24 TB with 3 TB SATA HDDs. Intermix of
SAS/SATA is supported.
RAID Support
Software RAID 0, 1 with integrated 6-port SATA controller. RAID 0, 1, 1E with an
optional ServeRAID M1015 controller. RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 with an optional ServeRAID
M5014 or M5015 controller. Optional upgrade to RAID 5 is available for M1015. Optional
upgrade to RAID 6, 60 is available for M5014/M5015.
Optical drive bays
Optional. Optical Disk Drive (ODD) Enablement kit is required to support internal optical
drive. Support for Multiburner.
Tape drive bays
Optional. Tape Enablement Kit is required to support internal tape drive.
Network interfaces
Integrated 2-port Gigabit Ethernet (Intel 82575).
PCI Expansion slots
Three PCI Express 2.0 slots:
One PCI Express 2.0 x16 (x4 wired) (dedicated to ServeRAID BR10il v2)
One PCI Express 2.0 x16 (x8 wired), full-height, half-length
One PCI Express 2.0 x8 (x8 wired), full-height, half-length
External ports
Front: Two USB 2.0 ports.
Rear: Two USB 2.0, one DB-15 video, one DB-9 serial, one RJ-45 systems
management, two RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet network ports.
Internal: USB port for embedded hypervisor. USB port for internal USB tape drive.
Cooling
IBM Calibrated Vectored Cooling™ with four counter-rotating non-hot-swap fans with
N+1 redundancy.
Power supply
Up to 2 redundant hot-swap 460 W AC or 675 W AC or 675 W high-efficiency () AC
power supplies with 90%+ efficiency.
Hot-swap components
Hard drives, power supplies.
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