IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Hardware
Announcement ZG10-0267
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• Standard IMM enabling diagnostic, reset, POST, and auto recovery functions from
remote locations and monitoring of temperature, voltage, and fan speed; alerts
generated when thresholds are exceeded without utilizing an I/O slot
• Information LED panel, diagnostics LED panel, and component LEDs for visual
indications of system well-being
• Light path diagnostics for an outside view of the potential problem without
removing the cover, to help reduce downtime and service costs
• Easy top access to system board, adapter cards, and memory
• CPU failure recovery in SMP configurations, allowing a failed processor to be
forced offline, the server rebooted, an alert generated, and operation continued
with the working processor
The servers include:
• Up to 2-socket (12-core) SMP operations with powerful 6-core Xeon processors
• Up to 16 GB high-speed PC3-10600 DDR3 ECC memory standard, supporting up
to 1024 GB of system memory per system
• Up to six universal, voltage-sensing 675-watt, hot-swap power supplies with auto
restart
• Sixteen hot-swap drive bays, supporting up to 8 TB of internal data storage
(using sixteen 500 GB SAS Hot-Swap HDDs)
• 8 terabytes of external data storage supporting optional storage units,
ServeRAID SCSI controllers, and Fibre Channel controllers and storage units
Configurations
XpandOnDemand scalability
• Modular building-block scalability delivers the flexibility to scale to meet your
business needs, allowing you to configure your system to optimize for your
application needs.
Systems management
x3690 X5 Virtualized System and MAX5 servers feature IBM Director, a powerful,
highly integrated, systems-management software solution built on industry
standards and designed for ease of use.
With IBM Director, a network administrator can perform the following tasks:
• View the hardware configuration of remote systems in detail
• Monitor the usage and performance of critical components such as
microprocessors, disks, and memory
• Centrally manage individual or large groups of IBM and non-IBM, Intel-based
servers, desktop computers, workstations, and mobile computers on a variety of
platforms
IBM Director provides a comprehensive entry-level workgroup hardware manager. It
has the following key features:
• Advanced self-management capabilities for maximum system availability.
• Support for multiple operating systems, including certain versions of Microsoft®
Windows® 2003 Server, Windows XP Professional, Red Hat Linux®, SUSE Linux,
and Novell NetWare. For a complete list of operating systems that support IBM
Director, visit
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/index.jsp?topic=/
diricinfo_5.20/fqm0_r_supported_operating_systems.html
The list is updated periodically.
• Support for IBM and non-IBM servers, desktop computers, workstations, and
mobile computers. (Not all IBM Director features are supported on non-IBM
servers.)
