IBM System x3550 M2 7946KCG Leaflet

1U rack

Up to two quad-core Intel® Xeon® 5500 Series with Intel

QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) technology, up to 2.93 GHz and

up to 1333 MHz front-side bus

1/2

Up to 8 MB

1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB or 8 GB DDR-3 RDIMMs with 16 DIMM

slots—up to 128 GB maximum memory

2 PCI-Express x16 Gen 2 slots; one is half-length, full-height

and one is low-profile (each slot convertible to PCI-X with riser

option)

Up to six (2.5") hot-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)/Serial ATA

(SATA) or solid-state drives (SSDs)

Up to 3.0 TB hot-swap SAS or up to 3.0 TB hot-swap SATA or

up to 300 GB hot-swap SSD storage

Integrated 2 ports, plus 2 ports optional Gigabit Ethernet

1/2; 675 W each

Power supplies, fan modules, disks

Hardware RAID-0, -1, -1E or RAID-0, -1, -10, -5, -50 (with

additional option -6,-60) model dependent

IBM IMM with Virtual Media Key for optional remote presence

enablement, Predictive Failure Analysis, Integrated Service

Processor, Diagnostic LEDs, light path diagnostics panel,

Automatic Server Restart, IBM Systems Director and

IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™,

IBM ServerGuide

Microsoft® Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Red Hat

Enterprise Linux®, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and VMware

ESXi 3.5 embedded hypervisor

3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty

U.S.

Canada

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September 2009

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1

Maximum internal hard disk and memory

capacities may require the replacement of any

standard hard drives and/or memory and the

population of all hard disk bays and memory

slots with the largest capacity supported drives

available. When referring to variable speed 

CD-ROMs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs and DVDs, actual

playback speed will vary and is often less than

the maximum possible.

2

GB and TB = 1,000,000,000 and

1,000,000,000,000 bytes, respectively, when

referring to storage capacity. Accessible

capacity is less.

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