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IBM System x3500 M2

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Highlights

  • High availability features and integrated systems management tools maximise uptime
  • Stability combined with flexible growth options delivers increased investment protection
  • The latest processor technology with superior energy-management and cooling efficiency.

Maintain peak performance and reliability

Designed to meet the highest levels of dependability, the IBM System x3500 M2 delivers outstanding quad-core performance and availability to help keep mission-critical applications and virtualised environments up and running. Redundant components to reduce points of failure and light path diagnostics provide resiliency, while integrated support features like a remote presence key optimise systems management efficiency.

Protect IT investments over the long term

A long-life platform, the x3500 M2 provides exceptional stability in a volatile marketplace. Flexible configurations and a generous storage capacity enable emerging enterprise environments to meet the demands of today and easily grow to accommodate additional applications as business requirements evolve.

Product features

  • Ideal for mid-size to emerging enterprise and virtualised environments
  • Dual-socket computing platform offering high availability and resiliency with standard or optional redundant features such as hot-swap hard disk drives (HDDs), dual network connections, fully redundant hot-swap power supplies and hot-swap redundant cooling fans
  • Integrated systems management with integrated management module (IMM) and remote presence
  • Stable-life platform offers longevity and flexible growth options
  • Dynamic adaptability features help allocate resources for more efficient utilisation and power consumption

Hardware summary

  • 5U tower with optional rack-mount capability
  • Up to two Intel ® Xeon® Processors X5570 up to 2.93GHz and up to 8MB cache
  • Fast 1333MHz registered DDR-3 DIMM memory through 16 DIMM slots
  • Up to eight input/output (I/O) slots including PCI-X, Active PCI and high-performance PCI-Express
  • Support for up to 16 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF) hot-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) HDDs, eight standard with the option to add an additional eight for up to 4.8 TB of total internal storage

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