System x3400 M2 at a glance
Form factor/height
Tower/5U (rack-mountable)
Processor
(max)
Intel
®
Xeon
®
E5540 up to 2.53 GHz and up to 8 MB cache
Number of processors
(std/max)
1/2
Cache
(max)
4 MB or 8 MB per processor socket
Memory
1
(max)
2 GB/96 GB registered DDR-3 DIMMs
Expansion slots
5 PCI-Express and 1 PCI; 2 PCI-X or 1 PCI-E (optional)
Disk bays
(total/hot-swap)
4/4 or 8/8 (model dependent)
Maximum internal storage
1, 2
4.0 TB hot-swap Serial ATA hard disk drives (HDDs); 1.2 TB
hot-swap SAS, 3.0 TB simple-swap Serial ATA, or 2.4 TB
hot-swap SFF SAS
Network interface
Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet
Power supply
(std/max)
670 W 1/1
Hot-swap components
Hard disk drives, fans
RAID support
Integrated RAID-0, -1, -1E (software or hardware, model
dependent), optional RAID-10, -5, -50, -6, -60
Systems management
Integrated management module (IMM); optional remote
presence hardware key; IBM Systems Director; IBM Systems
Director Active Energy Manager™
Operating systems supported
3,4
Microsoft
®
Windows
®
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
®
, SUSE
Linux Enterprise, VMware ESX
Limited warranty
5
1-/3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited
warranty
For more information
World Wide Web
U.S.
ibm.com
/systems/x
Canada
ibm.com
/systems/ca/en/servers/
x/index.html
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