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Ultrascalability combined with extreme availability
features and industry-leading performance
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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-1/1E disk mirroring standard in a dedicated slot; optional RAID-
10/5/50/6/60 highly available arrays
Ultra-efficient cooling incorporating Calibrated Vectored Cooling features
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)
PFA support for processors, memory, PCIe slots, VRMs, 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
Server Comparison Chart
The following table shows the suggested uses for the respective IBM System x rack-optimized servers, including comparisons of the
uses for which each server is best suited:
Theme Key Workloads
Scalability
Floating Point
Performan ce
Memory
Throughput
Intege r
Performan ce
I/O and Storage
Density
High Availability
Systems
Managemen t
Security
Distributed
De ployment
x3250
M3
x3550
M3
x3620
M3
x3630
M3
x3650
M3
x3690
X5
x3755
M3
x3850
X5
x3950
X5
Cluster / HPC
3 1 1 2 2 1 3 3 3 3
Modeling & Simulation
2 1 1 1 3 1 3 2 3 3
High Performance DB
2 2 1 1 1 3 2 2 3 3
Business Intelligence
2 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 3
Search
3 1 1 1 2 1 3 3 1 2
Content
2 2 2 2 2 1 3 3 2 2
Communities
1 2 2 2 1 1 2 3 2 2
Commerce
2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 2
Collaboration
2 3 2 3 2 1 2 3 2 2
ERP/SCM
1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2
CRM
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 3
Best
Hosted Client
1 3 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 2
Point of Sale
3 3 3 2 1 3 1 1 1 1
Branch Office
2 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 2 1
Better
Virtualization
1 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 3
Business Continuity
2 3 3 3 1 2 2 1 2 2
Database
2 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 3
Good
Email/Collaboration
2 3 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 2
Security
2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 3
Web Serving
3 2 2 2 3 1 2 1 3 3
File & Print
2 3 2 3 1 2 2 1 3 3
Rack-Optimized ServersRequirements
Infrastructure
Applications
Web 2.0 /
Web 3D
HPC
Business
Applications
1
2
3
Important
Nice to Have
Can do without
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