System x3200 M3 at a glance
Form factor/height Tower/5U (rack mountable)
Processor (CPU GHz/L3
cache/front-side bus MHz max)
Intel Xeon 3400 Series (quad-core) up to 2.93 GHz/8 MB/
1333 MHz
Number of processors (std/max) 1/1
Cache (max) 8 MB L3
Memory1(max) Up to 32 GB DDR-3 ECC memory, up to 1333 MHz; 1 GB,
2 GB and 4 GB UDIMMs2and 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB and 8 GB
RDIMMs2
Expansion slots Two PCIe x8 Gen2, one PCIe x1, two PCI (32-bit/33 MHz),
all slots are full-length and standard height, one dedicated
PCIe x4 for RAID-0, -1 controller
Disk bays (total/hot-swap) Four 3.5" simple-swap or hot-swap SATA hard disk drives
(HDDs). Eight 2.5" hot-swap SAS HDDs (available through sales
configuration tool January 2010)
Maximum internal storage1, 3 Up to 4.0 TB SAS or SATA HDDs
Network interface Dual Gigabit Ethernet
Power supply (std/max) 401 W fixed 1/1 or 430 W hot-swap redundant 2/2
Hot-swap components Four 3.5" hot-swap SATA HDDs, eight 2.5" hot-swap SAS
HDDs (2.5" HDD cage available through sales configuration tool
January 2010)
RAID support Hot-swap hardware RAID-0, -1 (standard), simple-swap
hardware RAID-0, -1 (optional); upgrade to RAID-5 optional;
encrypted RAID-5 optional
Ports Seven USB (2 front/4 rear/1 internal), two Ethernet, one serial
and video
Systems management Integrated Management Module (IMM) with IPMI 2.0 and
Serial over LAN (SOL), IBM Systems Director, Alert Standard
Format 2.0, IBM ServerGuide, hardware Virtual Media Key for
optional remote presence, Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2
Operating systems supported Microsoft®Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition,
Enterprise x64 Edition, Standard Edition, Standard x64 Edition,
DataCenter Edition, DataCenter x64 Edition, Windows®Small
Business Server 2008, Red Hat Linux®, SUSE Linux
Limited warranty41-year or 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited
warranty
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2Maximum UDIMM support for 16 GB when
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