IBM x3500 M3 - Page 6

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High-availability and serviceability features
• Redundant cooling includes:
– Three hot-swap fans (single replaceable unit) with one hot-swap 920 W power
supply option
• One hot-swap power supply standard, and one optional redundant power supply
to support robust high-availability applications
• Hot-swap HDD bays with SAS backplane
• Standard SAS controller to support up to eight internal hot-swap SATA or SAS
HDD devices
• DDR3 ECC RDIMMs, combined with an integrated ECC memory controller in core
logic, to correct many soft and hard single-bit memory errors (using memory
mirroring), while minimizing disruption of services to LAN clients
• Memory hardware scrubbing to correct soft memory errors automatically without
software intervention
• 12 MB cache processors to improve data integrity and help reduce downtime
• PFA on processors and memory to help alert the system administrator of an
imminent component failure
• Six hot-swap redundant system cooling fans to cool system and enable
replacement without powering down the server
• Integrated management module that supports:
– Fan monitoring and control
– Power supply monitoring
– Temperature monitoring
– Voltage monitoring
– Power on/off, reset sequencing
– LED controls (light path diagnostics support)
– IPMI capability that allows you to accept commands and send status
– Remote firmware update
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Automatic server restart (ASR)
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– Numeric error logging
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The ASR function is currently supported on Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and
Windows 2003.
• Information LED panel to give visual indications of system health
• Light path diagnostics and onboard diagnostics for an LED map that provide error
codes which are explained in the hardware maintenance manual
• Easy access to system board, adapter cards, processor, and memory
• CPU failure recovery in SMP configurations
– Generates alerts error logs
Expandability and growth
The System x3500 M3 server is a 5U tower configuration engineered to meet the
compactness of a 5U rack drawer. SVGA video, SAS/SATA, and full-duplex Gigabit
Ethernet are integrated on the system board.
Features include:
• System memory expansion to 192 GB (with 16 GB memory RDIMMs installed in
12 DIMM slots)
• Seven adapter card slots: six PCI-Express, and one 32-bit/33 MHz card slot
• Eleven or 19 drive bays: