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Two x8/x4
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PCIe Gen 2 slots (4GBps)
One 33MHz PCI slot (500MBps)
Optionally, one x8/x4 PCIe Gen 1 slot or two 133MHz PCI-X slots (via CTO)
• Integrated DVD/CD-RW combo drive
Manageability, Serviceability and Availability
• IBM Systems Director systems management software, including:
Active Energy Manager
Service and Support Manager
• Integrated Management Module (IMM):
IPMI 2.0 compliance, including highly secure remote power control
Text console redirection systems management standard
Combines former BMC and Remote Supervisor Adapter II functions
• Active Memory protection:
Advanced Chipkill ECC memory protection
Memory mirroring
• Support for highly available optional hardware-based RAID-1/10/1E/5/50/6/60 arrays
• Hot-swap SAS/SATA or simple-swap SATA hard disk drives
• Ultra-efficient cooling incorporating Calibrated Vectored Cooling features
Server Comparison Table
The following table shows the suggested uses for the respective IBM System x tower servers, including comparisons of the uses for
which each server is best suited:
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The x8/x8 Gen 2 slots can accept x1, x4, or x8 adapters running at x1, x4, or x8 throughput, respectively.
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The x8/x4 Gen 2 slots can accept x1, x4, or x8 adapters running at x1, x4, or x4 throughput, respectively.
Important Nice to Have Can do without
1 2 3
Best
Better
Good
Theme Key Workloads
Scalability
Floating Point
Performance
Memory
Throughput
Integer
Performance
I/O and Storage
Density
High Availability
Systems
Management
Security
Distributed
Deployment
x3100
x3200
M2
x3400
M2
x3500
M2
Cluster / HPC
3 1 1 2 2 1 3 3 3 3
Modeling & Simulation
2 1 1 1 3 1 3 2 3 3
High Performance DB
2 2 1 1 1 3 2 2 3 3
Business Intelligence
2 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 3
Search
3 1 1 1 2 1 3 3 1 2
Content
2 2 2 2 2 1 3 3 2 2
Communities
1 2 2 2 1 1 2 3 2 2
Commerce
2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 2
Collaboration
2 3 2 3 2 1 2 3 2 2
ERP/SCM
1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2
CRM
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 3
Hosted Client
1 3 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 2
Point of Sale
3 3 3 2 1 3 1 1 1 1
Branch Office
2 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 2 1
Virtualization
1 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 3
Business Continuity
2 3 3 3 1 2 2 1 2 2
Database
2 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 3
Email/Collaboration
2 3 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 2
Security
2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 3
Web Serving
3 2 2 2 3 1 2 1 3 3
File & Print
2 3 2 3 1 2 2 1 3 3
Requirements
Infrastructure
Applications
Web 2.0 /
Web 3D
HPC
Business
Applications
Towers