IBM System x3500 M2 (7839-42A)

Product
Model	IBM System x3500 M2
P/N	7839-42A
Form Factor	Tower 5U
Processor
Processor	Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor
Speed supported	E5530 2.4 GHz
Cache size	8MB (1 x 8MB) Level 3 cache
Data bus speed	DDR3-1066
Feature	HT, Turbo 1/1/2/2
Upgradeability	1/2
Chipset	Intel 5520
Memory
Type	Registered PC3-10600 (DDR III ECC (Chipkill protection when using x4 DIMMs); single-, dual-, or quad-rank
Installed Size	2GB (2 x 1GB)
Maximum	128GB
DIMM sockets total / available	16 (8 per processor) / 14
Drive bays total / available
	19 (11 standard, 19 via CTO) / 11 or 19
HDD drive bays total / available
HDD drive bays total / available	8 standard, 16 by CTO / 8 or 16
2.5-inch HDD drive bays total / available	8 standard, 16 by CTO / 8 or 16
HDD capacities supported
	2.5-inch Hot-Swap SAS 73.4, 146.8, 300GB — 10K RPMs; 73.4, 146.8GB — 15K RPMs
Storage
Diskette Drive	None
Optical Drive	DVD-ROM
Hard Drive	146 GB SAS 2,5"/ 2.4 TB SAS
Maximum HDD capacity
	2.4TB (8 x 300GB) hot-swap 2.5-inch SAS (standard); 4.8TB (16 x 300GB) hot-swap 2.5-inch SAS (CTO)
Optional RAID controllers supported
	ServeRAID-BR10i (0MB cache standard)—internal SAS (RAID-0/1/1E)
External disk drives supported
Adapter slots total / available	7 / 6 (standard); 8 / 7 (CTO)
PCIe x16 Gen 2 physical/x8 Gen 2 electrical slots (8GBps)	1 full-height/full-length
PCIe x8 Gen 2 physical/ electrical slots (8GBps)	2 full-height/full-length (1 slot reserved for RAID card)
PCIe x8 Gen 2 physical/x4 Gen 2 electrical slots (4GBps)	2 full-height/full-length
PCIe x8 Gen 1 physical/ electrical slots (2GBps)	1 full-height/half-length (on an extender card)
PCI-X/133 slots (1GBps)	None standard (2 optional via CTO, by adding a PCI-X extender card)
33MHz legacy PCI slots	1 full-height/half-length
Video ports	1
USB 2.0 ports	8 total; 6 external (2 front, 4 rear) ports, plus 1 internal connector for a tape drive and 1 internal connector for an embedded hypervisor (on USB flash drive)
Integrated systems management controller	Yes (IMM)
Graphic
Video controller	Matrox G200eV (in IMM)
Video memory	16MB DDR-2 SDRAM
Gigabit Ethernet controller
	1 dual-port Broadcom BCM5709C (TOE, iSCSI, RDMA)—iSCSI/RDMA support requires license key
Power supply size
Video controller	920W universal, autoswitching
Operating systems supported
	Microsoft Windows Server 2008 32/64-bit, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 32/64-bit, RHEL 4/5 32/64-bit (with and without Xen), SLES 10 32/64-bit (without Xen), VMware ESX Server 3.5