IBM x3800 server

IBM x3800 Overview

The IBM x3800 establishes a new standard for industry-leading x86 64-bit performance in a tower-based design system. The x3800 provides more computing power than many competitive models, giving organizations powerful commercial application-hosting capabilities without sacrificing expansion. Using the IBM XA-64e third-generation chipset, this X3 Architecture system benefits from reduced processor front-side bus traffic via an industry-exclusive integrated snoop filter for more intelligent caching. The XA-64e speeds communications between the processors, main memory and I/O, helping the x3800 power commercial IT applications, particularly those suited for hotel, retail and insurance industries. It delivers up to 16 times the memory addressing and three times the CPU bus bandwidth of previous server designs. The x3800 supports up to 64GB of total memory to load entire databases into main memory for extremely fast transaction processing. For persistent storage, the IBM x3800 offers more than 3TB of data with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives (HDDs) and back up that data with an optional internal tape drive?for an all-in-one solution.

IBM x3800 Specifications

Form factor
Tower or 7U rack

Processor (max)
Intel Xeon Processor MP up to 3.66 GHz (single-core) and 3.50 GHz (dual-core)/667 MHz front-side bus

Number of processors
(std/max) 1 or 2/4

Cache (max)
1MB L2 per processor (single-core) and up to 2MB L2 (dual-core) and up to 16MB L3 (dual-core)

Memory (max)
1GB or 2GB/64GB PC2-3200 DDR II SDRAM

Disk bays
(total/hot-swap) 12/12 3.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)

Maximum internal storage
1, 2 3.6TB SAS (supports 300GB SAS HDDs)

I/O slots
(total/hot-swap) 6/6, two Active PCI-X 2.0/266 MHz and four PCI-Express x8

Network interface
Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet

Power supply
(std/max) 775W 2 or 3/3 hot-swap (N+1)

Hot-swap components
Power supplies, fans, memory, hard disk drives and PCI-Express and PCI-X adapters

RAID support
RAID-0, -1, -5 optional (ServeRAID?-8i)

Systems management
Alert on LAN 2, Automatic Server Restart, IBM Director, IBM ServerGuide?, Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine optional, light path diagnostics (independently powered), Predictive Failure Analysis on processors, VRMs, fans, power supplies and memory, Wake on LAN�

IBM System x3800 supported Operating systems
supported Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Standard and Enterprise editions 32-bit and 64-bit), 32- and 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux� and SUSE Enterprise Linux, VMware ESX Server
Limited warranty3 3-year onsite limited warranty

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