IBM System x3550 M3 - Standard Specifications; Core System Specifications; Connectivity and Expansion Options; Power and Cooling Details

IBM System x3550 M3 7
Standard specifications
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Components Specification
Form factor 1U Rack.
Processor Up to two six-core (up to 3.46 GHz) or quad-core (up to 3.6 GHz) Intel Xeon 5600 series
processors with QuickPath Interconnect technology up to 6.4 GT/s, and up to 1333 MHz
memory speed.
Memory cache Up to 12 MB L3.
Chipset Intel 5520.
Memory Up to 18 DIMM sockets (9 DIMMs per processor). Up to 288 GB with 16 GB DDR3 RDIMMs
and 18 populated DIMM slots (up to 144 GB with 9 DIMMs per processor), or up to 48 GB with
4 GB DDR3 UDIMMs and 12 populated DIMM slots (up to 24 GB with 6 DIMMs per
processor).
Memory
protection
ECC, ChipKill (for x4-based memory DIMMs), Memory Mirroring, and Memory Sparing.
Disk drive bays Up to eight 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or solid-state drives (SSDs).
Maximum
internal storage
Up to 7.2 TB with 900 GB SAS HDDs, or up to 8.0 TB with 1 TB SATA HDDs, or up to 1.6 TB
with
200 GB SSDs. Intermix of SAS/SATA/SSD is supported.
RAID Support RAID 0, 1, 1E with ServeRAID-BR10il v2 or M1015; RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50
with M
5014 or
M5015. Optional upgrade to RAID 5 is available for M1015. Optional upgrade to RAID 6, 60 is
available for M5014/M5015.
Optical drive
bays
One with optional Optical Drive Enablement Kit, support for DVD-ROM or Multiburner. If used,
the maximum number of HDD bays is limited to 4.
Tape drive bays None.
Network
interfaces
Integrated 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports, plus 2 ports on optional Gigabit Ethernet with Ethernet
Daughter Card (does not consume PCI slot).
PCI Expansion
slots
Up to 3 slots (up to 2 standard slots are available; one slot is dedicated to RAID controller),
dependant on the riser cards used. Standard models have:
Slot 1: PCI Express 2.0 x16, Low-profile
Slot 2: PCI Express 2.0 x16, full-height, half-length
Each slot is implemented using a riser card. Each PCIe riser card can be replaced with a
PCI-X riser card offering one PCI-X 64-bit/133 MHz slot.
External ports Two USB 2.0 and one DB-15 video on front. Two USB 2.0, one DB-15 video, one DB-9 serial,
one RJ-45 systems management, up to 4 RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet network ports (2 standard, 2
optional) on rear. One internal USB port for embedded hypervisor.
Cooling IBM Calibrated Vectored Cooling™ with 6 counter-rotating hot swap fans with N+1
redundancy. Altimeter is to control fan speed based on atmospheric pressure.
Power supply Up to 2 redundant hot-swap 460 W AC or 675 W AC or 675 W high efficiency (HE) AC power
supplies with 90%+ efficiency. 675 W -48 V DC models are available via CTO.
Hot-swap
components
Hard drives, power supplies, fans.