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An affordable dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server
with high performance and data protection for small and
medium businesses
Product Guide
October 2008
IBM System x3400
Outstanding performance, capacity and availability
Product Overview
[Suggested uses: Small/medium businesses, large multilocation enterprises and bank branch offices
seeking scalability, top performance and new availability features at an entry-level price.]
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The dual-socket IBM System x3
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An affordable dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server with high performance and data protection for small and medium businesses • Three high-speed PCIe and two PCIx adapter slots offer investment protection by supporting high- performance adapters, such as 10Gb Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand cards, none of which will run in older 33MHz and 66MHz conventional PCI slots. • Integrated ServeRAID-8k-l provides hardware RAID-0/1/10 support at no extra charge and without consuming a v
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An affordable dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server with high performance and data protection for small and medium businesses Availability and Serviceability The x3400 provides many features to simplify serviceability and increase system uptime: • x3400 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 provi
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An affordable dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server with high performance and data protection for small and medium businesses rates. Intelligent Power Capability powers individual processor elements on and off as needed, to reduce power draw. Execute Disable Bit functionality can help prevent certain classes of malicious buffer overflow attacks when combined with a supporting operating system. DDR II ECC Fully Buffered Memory with Chipkill Protection The x3400 supports up to 32G
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An affordable dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server with high performance and data protection for small and medium businesses and installing the drives.) Hot-swap SAS drives use the Converged Tray for interchangeability with other ™ IBM System x systems. If you need more storage space, terabyte capacities are possible with external direct-attach, NAS and SAN solutions. Drive Bays All x3400 models contain 7 drive bays standard. Hot-swap models are upgradeable to 11. All models offe
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An affordable dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server with high performance and data protection for small and medium businesses height x4 (2GBps) PCIe slot; Slots 4 and 5 are full-length/full-height (1GBps) 133MHz PCIx slots, and Slot 6 is a half-length/full-height 33MHz legacy PCI slot. PCI-Express is a high-performance, low-latency, next-generation serial I/O bus that is rapidly replacing the older parallel PCI and PCIx buses. A x8 PCIe adapter offers approximately four times the ma
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An affordable dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server with high performance and data protection for small and medium businesses actually contribute to equipment failure due to overheating. ACT cabling is the solution for reducing behind-the-rack cabling by as much as 87%. The illustration below shows a sample ACT configuration: Directly Via Daisy-Chain • Max.16 servers per port All CAT5, 5e, 6 Via Secondary cabling Switch Conventional cabling has bulky KVM cables exiting each s
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An affordable dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server with high performance and data protection for small and medium businesses ™ IBM Electronic Service Agent is an innovative “call home” feature that allows System x and BladeCenter servers to automatically report hardware problems to IBM support, which can even dispatch 8 onsite service if necessary to those customers entitled to onsite support under the terms of their warranty or an IBM Maintenance Agreement. Electronic Service Agent
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An affordable dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server with high performance and data protection for small and medium businesses event of a system lockup. ASR technology is a combination of hardware circuitry tied into the server’s system reset function and a device driver. As long as the server continues running, the ASR watchdog timer will keep being reset, but if the operating system crashes or the hardware freezes somehow the ASR software will be unable to reset the hardware timer.
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An affordable dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server with high performance and data protection for small and medium businesses allows an array consisting of multiple physical hard disk drives to be treated as one logical drive. ServeRAID technology also allows data to be stored redundantly, across multiple hard disk drives— enhancing both the integrity and the availability of the data. SAS and SATA ServeRAID controllers offer enhanced performance due to onboard processors and cache. B
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An affordable dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server with high performance and data protection for small and medium businesses x3400 Images Front View Rear View Hot-Swap Power and Fans CD-ROM Keyboard Drive and Mouse Ports Serial Cover USB 2.0 Port Parallel Latch Ports Port Video 2 Open Port Cover 5.25” Drive Lock Bays Rear USB Fan Ports Ethernet Locking Port Drive Cover Fast Ethernet Serial 4 3.5” SAS/SATA Port for BMC HDD Bays Port Hexagonal Vent
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An affordable dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server with high performance and data protection for small and medium businesses x3400 Specifications DIMM capacities supported 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB # of DIMM sockets total / available 8 / 6 # of DIMMs supported 2, 4, 8 Online spare memory supported / # of Yes / 1 DIMM “rank” per memory branch (2 ranks total) DIMM sockets reserved for sparing Memory mirroring supported / # of Yes / 4 DIMM sockets reserved for mirroring 11 / 10 with
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An affordable dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server with high performance and data protection for small and medium businesses x3400 Specifications # of serial ports 2 (rear) # of parallel ports 1 (rear) # of PS/2 mouse ports 1 (rear) # of PS/2 keyboard ports 1 (rear) # of USB 2.0 ports 4 external (2 front, 2 rear) ports, plus 1 internal USB connector for tape drive Integrated systems management Yes (BMC) controller Optional systems management Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimL
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An affordable dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server with high performance and data protection for small and medium businesses • 64-bit extensions (EM64T) • Leading-edge front-side bus —Up to 1333MHz FSB (model-specific) • Fast memory — Fully buffered 667MHz PC2-5300 DDR II ECC memory standard with two- way or four-way interleaving • Fast disk technology — Integrated Serial-Attach SCSI (SAS) controller (selected models) and slotless hardware-based RAID controller with optional upgrad
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x3500 x3400 x3200 M2 x3100 Distributed Deployment Security Systems Management High Availability Density I/O and Storage Integer Performance Memory Throughput Floating Point Performance Scalability An affordable dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server with high performance and data protection for small and medium businesses Server Comparison Table The following table shows the suggested uses for the respective IBM System x tower servers, including comparisons of the uses for which
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An affordable dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server with high performance and data protection for small and medium businesses For More Information IBM System x and xSeries Servers http://ibm.com/systems/x Electronic Service Agent http://ibm.com/support/electronic IBM System x and BladeCenter Power Configurator http://ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/powerconfig Standalone Solutions Configuration Tool http://ibm.com/servers/eserver/xs
