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A stable, long-life, dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP
server, offering high-performance, massive capacity and
outstanding availability
Product Guide
December 2007
IBM System x3500
Outstanding performance, capacity and availability
Product Overview
[Suggested uses: Workgroups of medium-to-large corporations; remote offices; fast growing small
businesses]
In a distributed computing environment, servers are spread across many locations; therefore, as limited
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A stable, long-life, dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server, offering high-performance, massive capacity and outstanding availability dual-core processors. • Ultra-fast fully buffered 667MHz PC2-5300 DDR II ECC memory with Chipkill protection provides speed and high availability. • Three high-speed PCI-E and two PCI-X adapter slots offer potential investment protection by supporting high-performance adapters, such as 10Gb Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand cards, none of which w
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A stable, long-life, dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server, offering high-performance, massive capacity and outstanding availability Availability and Serviceability The x3500 provides many features to simplify serviceability and increase system uptime: • x3500 servers use Chipkill-enabled fully buffered memory DIMMs. Chipkill memory is up to 16X better than standard ECC memory at correcting memory errors. This can help reduce downtime caused by memory errors. Fully buffered DIMMs
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A stable, long-life, dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server, offering high-performance, massive capacity and outstanding availability Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T) 64-bit extensions allow the Xeon processor to use large memory addressing when running with a 64-bit operating system. This in turn lets individual software processes directly access more than 4GB of RAM, which was the limit of 32-bit addressing. This can result in much higher performance for certain kinds of
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A stable, long-life, dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server, offering high-performance, massive capacity and outstanding availability the older parallel PCI and PCI-X buses. A x8 PCI-E adapter offers approximately four times the maximum 4 throughput of a 133MHz PCI-X adapter . (A x1 adapter offers throughput similar to a 66MHz PCI-X slot.) Because the SAS, ServeRAID-8k, dual Gigabit Ethernet, systems management and video controllers are integrated onto the system board, the six adapte
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A stable, long-life, dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server, offering high-performance, massive capacity and outstanding availability Internal Backup The x3500 supports several internal tape backup options. Supported technologies include: • DDS-5 (half-high) • DDS-6 (half-high) • LTO-2 Ultrium (half-high) • LTO-3 Ultrium (full-high) • VXA-3 (half-high) Dual Gigabit Ethernet Controllers The x3500 includes two integrated Gigabit Ethernet controllers (one Broadcom BCM5721 and o
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A stable, long-life, dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server, offering high-performance, massive capacity and outstanding availability one video port is provided on the front of the unit and one on the back. • Toolless chassis — The cover can be opened without tools, and many components can be removed and replaced without tools, including the DVD drive, hot-swap HDDs, plus PCI, PCI-X and PCI-E adapters, as well as the integrated ServeRAID-8k and Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine.
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A stable, long-life, dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server, offering high-performance, massive capacity and outstanding availability The IBM Standalone Solutions Configuration Tool (SSCT) is a downloadable tool that simplifies the often complex chore of configuring a full rack of servers (including blade servers) and confirming that you have all the cables, power distribution units, KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) switch boxes and other components you need, as well as the proper airf
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A stable, long-life, dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server, offering high-performance, massive capacity and outstanding availability • Other mandatory and optional IPMI BMC functions The BMC alerts IBM Director to anomalous environmental factors, such as voltage and thermal conditions—even if the server has failed. The x3500 also supports an optional IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine for additional systems management capabilities, including: • Predictive Failure Analysis fo
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A stable, long-life, dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server, offering high-performance, massive capacity and outstanding availability Processors — The Intel Xeon processor provides high clock rates, dual-cores, 64-bit extensions, a large cache and advanced features for availability and manageability. Large cache size, combined with a fast 1066MHz or 1333MHz front-side, reduces memory latency and facilitates the movement of data through the processor and I/O devices. (Note: System perf
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A stable, long-life, dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server, offering high-performance, massive capacity and outstanding availability x3500 Images Front View Rear View Hot-Swap Power and Fans DVD-ROM Keyboard Drive and Mouse 2 Open Ports 5.25” Drive Serial Bays Parallel Port Cover Port USB 2.0 Latch Video Ports Port Cover Lock Rear USB Fan Ports Externally Visible Light Path Ethernet Diagnostics Panel Ports Locking Fast Ethernet Drive Serial 8 Hot-Sw
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A stable, long-life, dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server, offering high-performance, massive capacity and outstanding availability x3500 Specifications 7977-4xX/4xY, 6xX/6xY, 9xX/9xY, AxX/AxY, BxX/BxY, CxX/CxY, DxX/DxY, Machine type FxX/FxY, GxX/GxY, HxX/HxY, JxX/JxY, LxX/LxY, MxX/MxY, RxX/RxY Form factor Tower (convertible to 5U rack) Quad-core Intel Xeon Quad-core Intel Xeon (E54xx/X54xx) (E53xx) 2.0GHz E5405 (AxX/AxY), 1.6GHz E5310 (BxX/BxY), Dual-core Intel Xeon 2.3
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A stable, long-life, dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server, offering high-performance, massive capacity and outstanding availability x3500 Specifications 73.4, 146.8GB — 15K RPMs # of HDDs standard None # of optical drives standard 1 DVD-ROM Combo (16X, in dedicated 5.25" bay) # of diskette drives standard None (USB-attach) One full-high (uses two 5.25” bays), or Internal tape drives supported One half-high (uses one 5.25” bay) Disk drive technology Hot-swap SAS Integrated dis
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A stable, long-life, dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server, offering high-performance, massive capacity and outstanding availability x3500 Specifications # of fans/blowers standard / maximum 3 (with one power supply installed) / 6 (with redundant power installed) Hot-swap/redundant fans supported Yes / Yes (with two power supplies installed) Heat emitted: minimum/maximum 2,013 / 2,951 BTUs 7,000 ft; Maximum altitude 2,133 m Operating temperature range 50 – 95º F; 10 – 35º C (up
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A stable, long-life, dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server, offering high-performance, massive capacity and outstanding availability One 33MHz legacy PCI slot • Integrated DVD-ROM drive ™ ™ • Optional iSCSI HBA Adapter for IXA Connectivity (to System i /iSeries servers) Manageability, Serviceability and Availability • IBM Director systems management software, including: IBM Management Processor Assistant IBM Rack Manager IBM RAID Manager IBM Update Assistant IBM Sof
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A stable, long-life, dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server, offering high-performance, massive capacity and outstanding availability For More Information IBM System x and xSeries Servers ibm.com/systems/x Electronic Service Agent ibm.com/support/electronic IBM System x and BladeCenter Power Configurator ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/powerconfig Standalone Solutions Configuration Tool ibm.com/servers/eserver/xseries/library/configtools.html C
