IBM System x3400 - Manual (Page 2)

An affordable dual-socket, dual- and quad-core SMP server
with high performance and data protection for small and
medium businesses
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• Ultra-fast fully buffered 667MHz PC2-5300 DDR II ECC memory with Chipkill protection provides
speed and high availability.
• Three high-speed PCI-E and two PCI-X adapter slots offer investment protection by supporting high-
performance adapters, such as 10Gb Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand cards, none of which will
run in older 33MHz and 66MHz conventional PCI slots.
• Integrated ServeRAID-8k-l provides hardware RAID-0/1/10 support with 32MB of cache at no extra
charge and without consuming a valuable adapter slot. RAID-0 offers improved disk performance via
data striping; RAID-1 offers disk mirroring for high availability, and RAID-10 combines the benefits of
speed and availability. The x3400 is upgradeable to full
RAID-0/1/1E/5/6 support, using the optional
ServeRAID-8k card. It also offers higher performance, due to the 256MB battery-backed onboard
cache.
• Support for up to four 3.5-inch hot-swap SAS hard disk drives standard offer high-performance with
high availability. Some models also offer an optional upgrade to eight hot-swap SAS or SATA drives.
The SAS controller provides full-duplex ( 2 x 300MBps) data transfers for SAS drives. For lower cost
and high capacity, other models support up to four simple-swap Serial ATA drives. The SATA II
drives offer performance nearly equal to that of Ultra320 SCSI (300MBps half-duplex vs. 320MBps
half-duplex, respectively).
• The integrated Gigabit Ethernet controller with IPMI 2.0 support provides high-speed network
communications.
• A high degree of device integration, including SAS/SATA, RAID, Gigabit Ethernet, systems
management and video controllers, lowers costs and frees up valuable adapter slots.
Flexibility
The x3400 has the ability to grow with your application requirements, thanks to:
• Support for a choice of quad-core processors with 2.0 to 2.66GHz clock rates, 1333MHz FSB, and
80W power draw.
• Support for a choice of dual-core processors with 1.6 to 3.0GHz clock rates, 667MHz or 1066MHz
FSB, and 65W or 95W power draw.
• Up to 32GB of high-speed fully-buffered DDR2 system memory.
• Three available high-performance PCI-E adapter slots, two PCI-X slots, and one legacy PCI slot in
all models.
• The standard ServeRAID-8k-l controller can be upgraded to the slotless ServeRAID-8k controller. It
offers 256MB of battery-backed cache and six RAID levels.
• The five USB 2.0 ports (four external, one internal) are up to 40X faster
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This provides speedy access to external HDDs (non-arrayed), optical drives, internal and external tape
drives, and other USB devices. Two ports are on the front of the unit and two are on the back, for easy
access.
• Up to four internal 3.5-inch simple-swap SATA or hot-swap SAS or SATA HDDs and a half- or full-
high tape drive standard. Selected models offer an optional expansion kit that supports four additional
hot-swap SAS or SATA drives, for a total of eight. This translates into as much as 6TB of internal
SATA or
2.4TB of internal SAS storage (model-specific). This provides tremendous internal storage
capability, along with full data backup.
• Alternatively, iSCSI or Fibre Channel-attached storage can be attached using IBM System Storage
™
or IBM TotalStorage ™ servers.
Manageability
Powerful systems management features simplify local and remote management of the x3400:
• The x3400 includes a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) to monitor server availability,
perform Predictive Failure Analysis, etc., and trigger IBM Director alerts.
• Integrated IPMI 2.0 support alerts IBM Director to anomalous environmental factors, such as voltage
and thermal conditions. It also supports highly secure remote power control using data encryption.
• Text Console Redirection support allows the administrator to remotely view x3400 text messages
over Serial or LAN.
• IBM Director 5.1x is provided for proactive systems management. It comes with a portfolio of tools,
including Management Processor Assistant, RAID Manager, Update Assistant, Software Distribution
and a Real Time Diagnostics tool. In addition, IBM Director offers extended systems management tools
for additional server management and increased availability.
• An optional Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine provides additional systems management
capabilities, including Web-based out-of-band control; virtual floppy and optical drive support; Windows
“blue screen” error capture; LDAP and SSL support; and remote redirection of PCI video, text,
2 Data transfer rates may be less than the maximum possible.