Product guide

Ultrascalability in a 2-socket package, combined with extreme availability features and industry-

leading performance

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• High-performance external I/O expansion — Eight 480Mbps USB 2.0 ports (two front, four

rear, two internal)

• Hardware-based RAID-0/1/10 support standard in all models; optional RAID support for RAID-

10/5/50/6/60

• Five PCIe slots (4 x 8GBps, 1 x 4GBps)

• Optical drive

Manageability, Serviceability and Availability

• IBM Systems Director systems management software, including:

• IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager

• IBM Service and Support Manager

• Integrated Management Module (IMM):

 IPMI 2.0 compliance, including highly secure remote power control

 Text console redirection systems management standard

 Supports LDAP and SSL industry standards

• Active Memory protection:

 Advanced Chipkill ECC memory correction

 Memory ProteXion

 Spare rank memory

 Memory mirroring

 Memory scrubbing

• Hardware-based RAID-1/10 disk mirroring standard in a dedicated slot; optional RAID-

10/5/50/6/60 highly available arrays

• Ultra-efficient cooling

• Hot-swap HDDs and/or SSDs

• Hot-swap/redundant power supplies

• Hot-swap/redundant cooling

• Light path diagnostics (front LED panel, drop-down light path panel) monitoring processors,

memory, power supplies, fans, HDDs, PCIe adapter slots, and system temperature

• PFA support for processors, memory, PCIe slots, power supplies, fans, hard disk drives, and

solid-state drives

• Toolless chassis and toolless slide design; integrated Cable Management Arm simplify

installation and removal of the server from the rack