IBM System x3250 User manual

IBM System x3250
Highly affordable, reliable single-socket server for Web and
infrastructure solutions
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Highlights
■Lower cost with ease of
management, deployment and
service
■Maximise and protect your IT
investment with resiliency and
flexibility
■A range of processor choices
offering multiple levels of
price/performance.
The IBM System x3250 is a
single-socket server that is easy to
deploy, manage and service. It provides
outstanding performance and reliability
at an entry-level price.
Simplified computing
The x3250 provides remote monitoring
and alerting capabilities that provide
strong systems management. In
addition:
●Simple-swap and hot-swap hard
disk drives (HDDs) offer easy
serviceability without removing the
system from the rack
●Optional upgrade to the Remote
Supervisor Adapter (RSA) II
SlimLine for remote management
even when the server is powered
down
●Integrated hardware RAID-0 or
RAID-1 without using a slot (select
models)
●Rack-optimised, 22’ deep form
factor with the ability to support
four 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI
(SAS), HDDs.
Performance, protection at entry-level
price
Designed for high-performance, quad-
core and dual-core 64-bit processors,
the x3250 can optimise performance of
your Web and network infrastructure.
For a performance boost, choose
models with Intel®Xeon®or Intel
Pentium®D processors, while those
running less demanding applications
may prefer the Intel Celeron®processor.
SAS HDDs and PCI-Express ensure
even greater integrated input/output
(I/O) performance and compatibility with
next-generation devices for added long-
term investment protection.

IBM System x3250 at a glance
Form factor/height Rack (22" depth)/1U
Processor (L2 cache/CPU GHz/
front-side bus MHz max)
Intel Xeon (quad-core) (8MB/up to 2.4 GHz/1066 MHz) or Intel
Xeon (dual-core) (2MB or 4MB/up to 2.4 GHz/1066 MHz) or
Intel Pentium D (dual-core) (4MB/up to 3.4 GHz/800 MHz) or
Intel Celeron (256KB/2.93 GHz/533 MHz)
Number of processors (std/max) 1/1
Memory1(std/max) 512MB or 1GB/8GB Double Data Rate (DDR) II 667 MHz via
4 DIMM slots
Expansion slots 2 PCI-Express (x8)
Disk bays (total/hot-swap) Up to two 3.5" simple swap Serial Advanced Technology
Attachment (SATA), or two 3.5" hot-swap SATA or SAS HDDs,
or four 2.5" hot-swap SAS
Maximum internal storage1,2 1.0TB SATA or 600GB SAS
Network interface Dual Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)
Power supply (std/max) 350W 1/1
Hot-swap components SATA and SAS HDDs
RAID support Integrated hardware RAID-0, -1 (model dependent) and RAID-
5, optional
Ports Front: two USB; Rear: serial, two USB, two Ethernet, video,
mouse, keyboard
Systems management IPMI 1.5-compliant mini-BMC, Automatic Server Restart,
IBM Director, IBM ServerGuide, Remote Deployment Manager,
IBM Wake on LAN, optional RSA II SlimLine
Operating systems supported Microsoft®Windows®Server 2003 Standard Edition/Enterprise
Edition/Web Edition, Windows Small Business Server 2003,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server,
Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server, Novell NetWare
6.5, Novell NetWare 6.5 Open Enterprise Server
Limited warranty3One year or three year on-site limited warranty
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1Maximum 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.
2GB 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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