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• Active Memory protection:
Advanced Chipkill ECC memory protection support
Memory mirroring
• Integrated ServeRAID controller — enhances system availability and serviceability
• A choice of hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or simple-swap SATA HDDs for quicker servicing
than with fixed drives
• Ultra-efficient cooling
• Optional hot-swap/redundant power supplies
• Front-panel status LEDs
• Toolless chassis and toolless slide design
Server Comparison Chart
The following table shows the suggested uses for the respective IBM System x rack-optimized servers, including comparisons of the
uses for which each server is best suited:
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
x3250
M3
x3550
M3
x3620
M3
x3650
M3
x3690
X5
x3755
x3850
X5
x3950
X5
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
Rack-Optimized ServersRequirements
Infrastructure
Applications
Web 2.0 /
Web 3D
HPC
Business
Applications