IBM x3200 Product Guide - Page 2

An affordable single-socket, dual-core server with high performance and data protection for small and medium businesses • Ultra-fast 667MHz PC2-5300 DDR II ECC memory offers high speed and high availability. • One x8 high-speed PCI-E adapter slot offers investment protection by supporting high-performance adapters, such as Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand cards, none of which will run in older conventional PCI slots. • Integrated hardware RAID-0/1/1E support at no extra charge and without consuming a valuable adapter slot. RAID-0 offers improved disk performance via data striping; RAID-1 offers disk mirroring for high availability, and RAID-1E provides mirroring functionality with an odd number of drives. • Support for up to four hot-swap 3.5-inch SAS or SATA hard disk drives, or up to eight hot-swap 2.5-inch SAS HDDs, offers high-performance with high availability. The SAS/SATA controller provides full-duplex (2 x 300MBps) data transfers for SAS drives. For lower cost with high capacity, other models support up to four simple-swap Serial ATA drives. The SATA drives offer performance approximately equal to that of Ultra320 SCSI. • The integrated Gigabit Ethernet controller with IPMI 2.0 support provides high-speed network communications. • A high degree of device integration, including SAS/SATA, RAID-0/1, Gigabit Ethernet, systems management and video controllers, lowers costs and frees up valuable adapter slots. Flexibility The x3200 M2 has the ability to grow with your application requirements, thanks to: • A choice of one quad-core Xeon processor with 2.5 to 2.83GHz clock rate, and 1333MHz FSB, a dual-core Xeon processor with 3.0GHz clock rate, and 1333MHz FSB, or a dual-core Core 2 Duo processor with 2.4GHz clock rate, and 800MHz FSB. • A choice of 65W or 95W processors. • Up to 8GB of high-speed DDR2 system memory. • Four or five available adapter slots: two low-latency PCI-E (x8, x1), and two legacy PCI (32-bit, 33MHz) slots in all models. (An optional PCI-X/66 slot is available as an add-on.) • Seven USB 2.0 ports (six external, one internal), which are up to 40X faster2 than older USB 1.1 ports. This provides speedy access to external HDDs (non-arrayed), optical drives, internal and external tape drives, and other USB devices. Two ports are on the front of the unit and four are on the back, for easy access. The internal port is reserved for a half-high tape drive. • Up to four internal 3.5-inch simple-swap SATA or hot-swap SAS or SATA HDDs or eight 2.5inch hot-swap SAS HDDs, and a half-high tape drive, DVD-RAM drive, or GoVault drive. This provides tremendous internal storage capability, along with full data backup. • Alternatively, iSCSI or Fibre Channel-attached storage can be attached using IBM System Storage™ or TotalStorage™ servers. Manageability Powerful systems management features simplify local and remote management of the x3200 M2: • The x3200 M2 includes a mini Baseboard Management Controller 2 (mBMC2) to monitor server availability, perform Predictive Failure Analysis, etc., and trigger IBM Director alerts. • Integrated IPMI 2.0 support alerts IBM Director to anomalous environmental factors, such as voltage and thermal conditions. It also supports highly secure remote power control using data encryption. • IBM Director is provided for proactive systems management. It comes with a portfolio of tools, including Management Processor Assistant, RAID Manager, Update Assistant, Software Distribution and a Real Time Diagnostics tool. In addition, IBM Director offers extended systems management tools for additional server management and increased availability. • An optional Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine provides additional systems management capabilities, including Web-based out-of-band control; virtual floppy and optical drive support; Windows "blue screen" error capture; LDAP and SSL support; and remote redirection of PCI video, text, keyboard and mouse. And it does all this without consuming a valuable adapter slot. Availability and Serviceability The x3200 M2 provides many features to simplify serviceability and increase system uptime: • x3200 M2 servers use standard ECC memory, which can correct certain types of memory errors. This can help reduce downtime caused by memory failure. • Toolless cover removal provides easy access to upgrades and serviceable parts. Similarly, the Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine, simple-swap or hot-swap/redundant HDDs, as well as hot-swap/redundant fans and power supplies (model-specific) can be installed and replaced without tools, meaning greater system uptime while these components are being serviced. 2 Data transfer rates may be less than the maximum possible. 2 Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information.