IBM x3250 M4 User Manual

IBM System x3250 M4 6
Standard specifications
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Components Specification
Form factor 1U rack system
Processor One quad-core Intel Xeon E3-1200 or Xeon E3-1200 v2 series processor (up to 3.6 GHz/8
MB/1600 MHz) or one dual-core Intel Core i3 2100 series processor (up to 3.4 GHz/3 MB)
with up to 1333 MHz memory speed. Supports specific quad-core and dual-core processors
via Configure-To-Order (CTO).
Memory cache Up to 8 MB L3 for Intel Xeon E3-1200 and E3-1200 v2 processors. Up to 3 MB L3 for Intel
Core i3 2100 series processors.
Chipset Intel C202.
Memory DIMM slots 4 DIMM slots supporting UDIMMs. RDIMMs are not supported.
Memory capacity Up to 32 GB with four 8 GB DDR3 UDIMMs.
Memory protection ECC.
Disk drive bays Three configurations:
Up to two 3.5" simple-swap SATA HDDs (some models)
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Up to four 2.5" hot-swap SAS HDDs (some models)
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Up to four 2.5" simple-swap SAS HDDs (CTO only)
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Maximum internal
storage
Up to 8 TB with 4 TB SATA HDDs, or up to 4.8 TB with 1.2 TB SAS HDDs. Intermix of
SAS/SATA is not supported.
RAID Support Software RAID 0, 1 with ServeRAID C100 controller. Some models with hardware RAID 0,
1, 1E with ServeRAID-BR10il v2 or H1110. Optional RAID 5 with ServeRAID M1015.
Optional RAID 5, 50 with ServeRAID M5014 and M5015.
Optical drive bays One, support for optional DVD-ROM or multiburner.
Tape drive bays No internal tape drive support.
Network interfaces Integrated two-port Gigabit Ethernet using Intel 82574L controller. One port is shared with
IMM2.
PCI Expansion slots Two PCI Express slots:
One PCI Express 2.0 x4 (for use only by compact adapters such as the ServeRAID
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BR10il v2 or H1110 controllers or the Broadcom NetXtreme Dual Port Ethernet
Compact Adapter)
One PCI Express 3.0 x8, full-height, half-length (PCIe 2.0 in models with processors
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announced September 2011 - see Table 4)
External ports Front: Two USB 2.0 ports
Rear: Four USB 2.0, one DB-15 video, one DB-9 serial, two RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet network
ports (one is dedicated, one is shared with IMM2)
Internal: One USB 2.0 port for embedded hypervisor
Cooling IBM Calibrated Vectored Cooling™ with 4 fans and N+1 redundancy.
Power supply One fixed 300 W AC power supply; or up to two redundant 460 W AC power supplies
(model dependent)
Hot-swap
components
Hot-swap SAS drives (some models)

IBM x3250 M4 Specifications

General

Form Factor	1U Rack
Max Processors	1
Memory	Up to 32 GB DDR3
Memory Slots	4 DIMM slots
Processor	Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2 series
Chipset	Intel C202
Storage	SATA/SAS
Hard Drive Bays	4x 3.5" or 8x 2.5"
RAID Support	RAID 0, 1, 10
Network	2x Gigabit Ethernet
Power Supply	350W
Expansion Slots	1x PCIe 3.0 x8
Operating System Support	Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware