IBM System x3550 M4 7
Standard specifications
The following table lists the standard specifications.
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Components Specification
Form factor 1U Rack.
Processor E5-2600 v2: Up to two Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family CPUs with 12 cores
(up to 2.7 GHz) or ten cores (up to 3.0 GHz) or eight cores (up to 3.3 GHz) or six cores (up to
3.5 GHz) or four cores (up to 3.5 GHz). Two QPI links up to 8.0 GT/s each. Up to 1866 MHz
memory speed. Up to 30 MB L3 cache.
E5-2600: Up to two Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family CPUs with eight cores (up to
2.9 GHz) or six cores (up to 2.9 GHz) or quad-cores (up to 3.3 GHz). Two QPI links up to 8.0
GT/s each. Up to 1600 MHz memory speed. Up to 20 MB L3 cache.
Chipset Intel C604
Memory Up to 24 DIMM sockets (12 DIMMs per processor).
E5-2600 v2: RDIMMs and LRDIMMs (Load Reduced DIMMs) are supported but memory
types cannot be intermixed. Memory speed up to 1866 MHz.
E5-2600: RDIMMs, UDIMMs and LR-DIMMs (Load Reduced DIMMs) are supported but
memory types cannot be intermixed. Memory DIMM speeds up to 1600 MHz.
Memory
maximums
E5-2600 v2:
With RDIMMs: Up to 384 GB with 24x 16 GB RDIMMs and two processors
With LRDIMMs: Up to 768 GB with 24x 32 GB LRDIMMs and two processors
E5-2600:
With RDIMMs: Up to 384 GB with 24x 16 GB RDIMMs and two processors
With UDIMMs: Up to 64 GB with 16x 4 GB UDIMMs and two processors
With LRDIMMs: Up to 768 GB with 24x 32 GB LRDIMMs and two processors
Memory
protection
ECC, Chipkill (for x4-based memory DIMMs), memory mirroring, and memory rank sparing.
Disk drive bays Up to eight 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs, or up to three 3.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs, or
up to three 3.5" Simple Swap SATA HDDs.
Maximum internal
storage
Up to 7.2 TB with 900 GB 2.5" SAS HDDs (E5-2600 v2), or up to 9.6 TB with 1.2 TB 2.5" SAS
HDDs (E5-2600), or up to 8 TB with 1 TB 2.5" NL SAS/SATA HDDs, or up to 12.8 TB with 1.6
TB 2.5" SAS SSDs, or up to 12 TB with 4 TB 3.5" NL SAS/SATA HDDs. Intermix of SAS/SATA
is supported.
RAID support 6 Gb SAS/SATA: RAID 0, 1, 10 with H1110, M1115 or M5110. Optional upgrades to RAID 5,
50 available for M1115. Optional upgrades to RAID 5, 50 are available for M5110
(zero-cache; 512 MB battery-backed cache; 512 MB or 1 GB flash-backed cache). Optional
upgrade to RAID 6, 60 are available for M5110 with 512 MB or 1 GB cache upgrades.
12 Gb SAS/SATA: RAID 0, 1, 10 with optional M5210. Optional upgrades to RAID 5, 50 are
available for M5210 (zero-cache; 1 GB non-backed cache; 1 GB or 2 GB flash-backed cache).
Optional upgrade to RAID 6, 60 are available for M5210 with 1 GB or 2 GB cache upgrades.
Optical drive bays One, optional, for models with 2.5" drives. Support for DVD-ROM or Multiburner.
Tape drive bays None.
Network
interfaces
Four integrated Gigabit Ethernet 1000BASE-T ports (RJ-45); two integrated 10 Gb Ethernet
ports (10GBASE-T RJ-45 or 10GBASE-SR SFP+ based) on optional 10 Gb Ethernet
mezzanine card (does not consume a PCIe slot).
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