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require the replacement of any standard hard drives and/or 
memory and the population of all hard disk bays and memory 
slots with the largest currently supported drives available. 
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Summary of Contents for 79784AU

Page 1: ...nch simple swap Serial ATA II The integrated SAS controller provides hardware based RAID 0 1 10 standard for SAS drives SATA models offer firmware based RAID 0 1 support standard Additional RAID suppo...

Page 2: ...es The integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet controllers with IPMI 2 0 support provide high speed network communications Jumbo Frames offer higher efficiency transfers for large data packets The TCP Offloa...

Page 3: ...x3550 servers use Chipkill enabled fully buffered memory DIMMs Chipkill memory is up to 16X better than standard ECC memory at correcting memory errors This can help reduce downtime caused by memory...

Page 4: ...d core processors similarly contain four cores Some processors contain one unified cache shared by all cores while other processors have multiple independent caches one per pair of cores The shared ca...

Page 5: ...MMs one pair per memory channel Up to 16GB four 4GB DIMMS of memory is available for use with mirroring enabled Note Due to the double writes to memory performance is affected When online hot spare me...

Page 6: ...is available using one of several supported direct attach iSCSI or SAN controllers Large HDD Storage Capacity The x3550 offers a choice of disk storage supporting up to two 3 5 inch or four 2 5 inch...

Page 7: ...ns to reduce the ambient noise reduce the wear and tear on the fans and reduce the server power draw The reduction in ambient noise and power draw may be relatively minor for a single server but put d...

Page 8: ...ack Cable Management and KVM Console Switching IBM Advanced Cabling Technology ACT is an optional feature that offers many advantages over standard KVM cabling across the entire System x and xSeries p...

Page 9: ...he automated installation of the Microsoft Windows Server 2000 and 2003 operating systems device drivers and other system components with minimal user intervention Drivers are also included for suppor...

Page 10: ...em according to available power input It provides the ability to plan and predict power consumption based on your hardware configuration It also helps enable you to reduce the infrastructure required...

Page 11: ...ch processor Adding a second processor may be a cost effective way to achieve significant performance improvements Memory Memory is a significant factor in systems application performance Adding more...

Page 12: ...rage is available using one of several IBM System Storage and TotalStorage host bus adapters Additionally external LAN attached tape storage is available The iSCSI HBA Adapter for IXA Connectivity is...

Page 13: ...460 B7X B7Y BGX BGY Quad core Xeon E53xx L53xx 1 6GHz L5310 JAX JAY 1 86GHz L5320 JBX JBY Dual core Xeon 51xx 1 6GHz 5110 2xX 2xY 2 33GHz 5140 5xX 5xY 3 0GHz 5160 7xX 7xY Maximum processor power draw...

Page 14: ...ble 1 0 CD RW DVD installed Maximum HDD capacity 3 5 inch SAS 600GB 2 x 300GB hot swap 3 5 inch SAS x1X x1Y L2X L2Y x3X x4Y x3X x4Y x5X x5Y x7X x7Y x9X x9Y 2 5 inch SAS 587 6GB 4 x 146 8GB hot swap 2...

Page 15: ...Predictive Failure Analysis support Processors memory voltage regulator modules VRMs HDDs power supplies plus fans when an optional Remote Supervisor Adapter SlimLine II is used Power supply size 670W...

Page 16: ...disk storage Up to 2TB of internal SATA II storage 600GB of internal SAS storage 3 5 inch or 587 2GB of internal SAS storage 2 5 inch High performance external expansion Six 480Mbps USB 2 0 ports two...

Page 17: ...hot spare memory or Memory mirroring Slotless hardware based RAID 1 disk mirroring and RAID 10 striped mirrored arrays standard optional slotless RAID 1E 5 6 highly available arrays Hot swap SAS hard...

Page 18: ...in all countries in which IBM operates IBM PROVIDES THIS PUBLICATION AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A...

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