System x3400 M2 at a glance
Form factor/height Tower/5U (rack-mountable)
Processor (max) Intel®Xeon®E5540 up to 2.53 GHz and up to 8 MB cache
Number of processors (std/max) 1/2
Cache (max) 4 MB or 8 MB per processor socket
Memory1(max) 2 GB/96 GB registered DDR-3 DIMMs
Expansion slots 5 PCI-Express and 1 PCI; 2 PCI-X or 1 PCI-E (optional)
Disk bays (total/hot-swap) 4/4 or 8/8 (model dependent)
Maximum internal storage1, 2 4.0 TB hot-swap Serial ATA hard disk drives (HDDs); 1.2 TB
hot-swap SAS, 3.0 TB simple-swap Serial ATA, or 2.4 TB
hot-swap SFF SAS
Network interface Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet
Power supply (std/max) 670 W 1/1
Hot-swap components Hard disk drives, fans
RAID support Integrated RAID-0, -1, -1E (software or hardware, model
dependent), optional RAID-10, -5, -50, -6, -60
Systems management Integrated management module (IMM); optional remote
presence hardware key; IBM Systems Director; IBM Systems
Director Active Energy Manager™
Operating systems supported3,4 Microsoft®Windows®, Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, SUSE
Linux Enterprise, VMware ESX
Limited warranty51-/3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited
warranty
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