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The engine of growth for your emerging businesses.
Product Guide
May 2009
IBM System x3400 M2
IBM System x3400 M2 provides flexible capabilities and
Product Overview
outstanding performance that drives affordable business
growth
[Suggested uses: Small/medium businesses, large multilocation enterprises and bank branch offices
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seeking scalability, top performance and availability features at an entry-level price.]
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The dual-socket
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The engine of growth for your emerging businesses. than the single-core processors of a few years ago that you may still be using. 2 • Twelve DIMMs of fast registered 1066MHz (or 800MHz) DDR3 ECC memory with Chipkill protection (optional) provides speed, high availability, and a memory capacity of up 96GB. • Four high-speed PCIe Gen 2 adapter slots offer investment protection by supporting high- performance adapters, such as 10Gb Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand cards, none of which wi
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The engine of growth for your emerging businesses. • Integrated Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 support. • The completely redesigned IBM Systems Director is included for proactive systems management. IBM Systems Director comes with a portfolio of tools, including Active Energy Manager, and Service and Support Manager. In addition, IBM Systems Director offers extended systems management tools for additional server management and increased availability. When a problem is encountered, IBM S
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The engine of growth for your emerging businesses. Turbo Boost Technology dynamically turns off unused processor cores and increases the clock speed of the cores in use, by up to two model frequencies. For example, with three cores active, a 2.26GHz processor can run the cores at 2.4GHz. With only one or two cores active, the same processor can run those cores at 2.53GHz. Similarly, a 2.93GHz processor can run at 3.06GHz or even 3.33GHz. When the cores are needed again, they are dynamically
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The engine of growth for your emerging businesses. memory channels on a socket have the same amount of memory. A memory rank is simply a segment of memory that is addressed by a specific address bit. DIMMs typically have 1, 2 or 4 memory ranks, as indicated by their size designation. • A typical memory DIMM description is 2GB 4Rx8 DIMM • The 4R designator is the rank count for this particular DIMM (R for rank = 4) • The x8 designator is the data width of the rank It is important to ensu
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The engine of growth for your emerging businesses. Drive Bays The x3400 M2 contains either 11 drive bays (in 2.5-inch models) or 7 bays (in 3.5-inch) models. 2.5-inch models support small form-factor (SFF) hot-swap SAS drives. 3.5-inch models support four hot-swap SAS or SATA II drives, or simple-swap SATA II drives. In addition, there are three 5.25-inch bays. An internal full-high tape drive can be installed using two of the 5.25-inch drive bays; alternatively, an internal half-high
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The engine of growth for your emerging businesses. remote boot, TCPIP Offload Engine (TOE), Internet SCSI (iSCSI), Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), and jumbo frames (9KB). A license key is required to enable the iSCSI and RDMA features. Jumbo Frames—those larger than the standard frame (packet) size of 1,500 bytes—can be more efficient, dramatically increasing network performance and reducing server CPU overhead. TOE helps improve overall system performance by offloading TCP/IP protocol
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The engine of growth for your emerging businesses. Rack Cable Management and KVM Console Switching IBM Advanced Cabling Technology (ACT) is an optional feature that offers many advantages over standard KVM cabling across the entire System x product line. So now you can interconnect all of your servers with one smart cabling architecture. ACT cabling eliminates the need for one-to-one direct connections between each server and a KVM switch by using a daisy-chain approach. The snarl of cab
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The engine of growth for your emerging businesses. systems: power input (watts), PDU sizing (amps), heat output (BTUs), airflow requirements through chassis (CFM), VA rating, leakage current (mA), and peak inrush current (amps). IBM ServerGuide (installed from CD) simplifies the process of installing and configuring System x and xSeries servers. ServerGuide goes beyond mere hardware configuration by assisting with the automated ® ® installation of the Microsoft Windows Server 2000 and 2003
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The engine of growth for your emerging businesses. capabilities, including: • Predictive Failure Analysis for system fans • Graphical console redirection over LAN • Web-based out-of-band control • Windows “blue screen” capture • Remote virtual floppy and CD-ROM • High-speed remote redirection of PCI video, keyboard and mouse • SSL (Secure Socket Layer) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) support IBM developed IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager to put control of syst
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The engine of growth for your emerging businesses. performance in a server with a 4-core processor, there should be twice as much memory available as for a 2-core processor. Backup Drives — Backup drives help you protect your data. IBM offers several choices of capacities and technologies, including DDS-5, DDS-6, LTO-3, LTO-4, and GoVault. Hard Disk Drives — IBM hard disk drives help you improve the transaction and cost performance of your System x servers. The choice of hard disk drives c
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The engine of growth for your emerging businesses. x3400 M2 Images Front View Rear View Power Supply 2 USB Hexagonal 2.0 Ports DVD-ROM Drive Ventilation (behind Holes door) 2 Open Locking 5.25” Drive Serial Bays Drive Port Covers Video Port Hexagonal Fast Ethernet Ventilation Port for IMM Holes Cover 2 USB Lock Key 2.0 Ports GB Ethernet (internal) 8 Hot-Swap 2.5” Ports 4 USB SAS HDD Bays; Ports Adapter or 4 HS 3.5” Slot SAS/SATA Covers Bays; or 4 SS
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The engine of growth for your emerging businesses. x3400 M2 Specifications 7836-1xX/1xY, 2xX/2xY, 3xX/3xY, 4xX/4xY, 7837-1xX/1xY, 2xX/2xY, 3xX/3xY, Machine type 5xX/5xY 4xX/4xY, 5xX/5xY (1 yr. warr.) (3 yr. warr.) Form factor Tower (or 5U rack; CTO models only) BIOS type Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) 4-Core Intel Xeon (E55xx) 2-Core Intel Xeon Processor type 2.0GHz E5504 (2xX/2xY), 2.26GHz E5520 (E55xx) (3xx/3xY), 2.4GHz E5530 (4xX/4xY), 1.86GHz E5502 (1xX/1xY), 2.
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The engine of growth for your emerging businesses. x3400 M2 Specifications ServeRAID-BR10i (0MB cache standard)— Four-port integrated SATA—simple-swap Integrated disk controller internal SAS/SATA (RAID-0/1/1E)---hot-swap models models # of disk drives supported per port 1 ServeRAID-MR10i (256MB cache standard)—SAS/SATA (adds RAID-10/5/50/6/60); Optional RAID controllers supported ServeRAID-MR10is Vault (256MB cache standard)—SAS/SATA (adds full drive hardware encryption) External disk
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The engine of growth for your emerging businesses. x3400 M2 Specifications maximum # of fans/blowers standard / maximum 3 / 3 (nonredundant) Heat emitted: minimum/maximum 693 / 2,788 (BTUs); BTUs/Watts 203 / 817 (Watts) 7,000 ft; Maximum altitude 2,133 m Operating temperature range 50 – 95º F; 10 – 35º C (up to 7,000 ft / 2,133m) Operating humidity range 8-80% Tower Tower Rack Rack 17.3” (440mm) H 44.0 – 77.0 lb; 16.7” (424mm) H 44.0 – 68.2 lb; Dimensions (HWD) / weight 8.6” (218m
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x3500 M2 x3400 M2 x3200 M2 x3100 Distributed Deployment Security Systems Management High Availability Density I/O and Storage Integer Performance Memory Throughput Floating Point Performance Scalability The engine of growth for your emerging businesses. 13 Two x8/x4 PCIe Gen 2 slots (4GBps) One 33MHz PCI slot (500MBps) Optionally, one x8/x4 PCIe Gen 1 slot or two 133MHz PCI-X slots (via CTO) • Integrated DVD/CD-RW combo drive Manageability, Serviceabil
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The engine of growth for your emerging businesses. For More Information IBM System x Servers http://ibm.com/systems/x IBM Systems Director Service and Support Manager 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/xseries/library/configtools.html Configurat
