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The engine of growth for your emerging businesses.

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Product Guide

May 2009

IBM System x3400 M2

Product Overview

CONTENTS

Product Overview

Selling Features

Key Features

Key Options

x3400 M2 Images

x3400 M2 Specifications

The Bottom Line

Server Comparison Table

For More Information

Legal Information

IBM System x3400 M2 provides flexible capabilities and

outstanding performance that drives affordable business

growth

[Suggested uses: Small/medium businesses, large multilocation enterprises and bank branch offices

seeking scalability, top performance and availability features at an entry-level price.]

The dual-socket IBM

System x3400 M2, incorporating IBM X-Architecture

™

features, provides

outstanding value to workgroups by combining scalable performance and availability features at an

outstanding price. The x3400 M2 supports the latest quad- and dual-core Intel

Xeon

™

5500 series

(Nehalem) processors, designed with up to 1066MHz memory access and 8MB (4-core) or 4MB (two-

core) of L2 cache and Hyper-Threading Technology, to help provide you with the computing power you

need to match your business needs and growth. In addition, the x3400 M2 supports industry-standard

registered DDR-3 memory with Chipkill

™

ECC (Error Checking and Correcting) protection—for high

performance, energy savings, and reliability. For even higher levels of availability, the x3400 M2 also

offers memory mirroring. A dual-port integrated high-speed Gigabit Ethernet controller is standard, as

are high-performance PCIe adapter slots and a legacy PCI-32 slot to support legacy expansion cards.

All models offer impressive scalability, including dual-processor support and up to 96GB of memory. Some

models support eight high-performance 2.5-inch hot-swap Serial-Attach SCSI (SAS) HDDs with an

internal storage capacity of up to 2.4TB. Other models support up to four 3.5-inch simple-swap Serial

ATA II (SATA II) hard disk drives with a total capacity of up to 3.0TB

, or up to four 3.5-inch high-

performance hot-swap Serial-Attach SCSI (SAS) drives with an internal storage capacity of 1.2TB, or up

to four hot-swap SATA II hard disk drives with a total capacity of up to 4.0TB. For additional performance

and high availability, the hot-swap x3400 M2 models include an IBM ServeRAID

-BR10i controller,

providing RAID-0/1/1E support. Additional RAID support is available via the optional IBM ServeRAID

™

family of SAS/SATA controllers, which support RAID-1/1E/10/5/6, and even full-drive hardware

encryption. The x3400 M2 ships as a tower unit; CTO models can be ordered as a 5U rack-mounted

server to help save precious data center floor space.

Standard in the x3400 M2 is an Integrated Management Module (IMM) that enables users to manage

and control the server easily—both locally and, using an optional Virtual Media Key, remotely. Unified

Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is an evolutionary leap over legacy BIOS. This high level of

manageability is designed to keep costs down and the system up—even when network usage increases.

These advanced features help maximize network availability by increasing uptime, as do hot-

swap/redundant HDDs; Active Memory

™

; temperature-controlled fans with Calibrated Vectored

Cooling

™

; industry-standard IPMI 2.0 support, including highly secure remote power control and Serial

over LAN; as well as text-console redirect over LAN.

With the inclusion of unique IBM service and support features such as IBM Systems Director, IBM

Systems Director Active Energy Manager, ServerGuide

™

, and

the IMM, the x3400 M2 is equally well

designed for a locally managed data center environment as for a remotely managed or stand-alone

environment, while offering maximum availability.

For a balance of high-performance dual-core, dual-socket processing, high availability and vast internal

SAS storage at a budget price, the x3400 M2 is the ideal system.

Selling Features

Price/Performance

The x3400 M2 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce product and operating costs:

• Up to two 4-core Xeon 5500 Series processors and 8MB or 4MB of shared cache per processor, offer

superior performance capable of tackling the toughest jobs. 64-bit extensions provide the flexibility to

run 32-bit and 64-bit applications concurrently. Xeon 5500 series processors offer up to 225% better

performance than the previous-generation 5400 series processors and up to 900% better performance

GB equals 1,000,000,000 bytes and TB equals 1,000,000,000,000 bytes when referring to hard disk drive capacity. Accessible

capacity may be less.

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Page 1 - IBM System x3400 M2

The engine of growth for your emerging businesses. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 1 Product Guide

Page 2 - Manageability

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Page 3 - Key Features

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Page 5 - Large HDD Storage Capacity

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Page 7 - Other Features

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Page 8 - • Max.16 servers per port

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Page 10 - Key Options

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Page 15 - The Bottom Line

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Page 16 - Server Comparison Table

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