System x M4

Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet

System x New Product Overview

© 2012 IBM Corporation

System x

Take advantage of the benefits from System x infrastructure solutions

Quality
 Predictive Failure Analysis
 New Light Path Diagnostics Lower the risk of virtualizing
 Redundant HS disks, fans and power your business-critical
 Tool-less design applications

Value
 Feature on Demand
 New management module The capabilities you need
– Fast boot time & remote presence now and the ability to scale
 High efficiency thermal and power design as your business needs grow

Performance
 eXFlash
 Slotless, multi-vendor flexible networking Pool your IT resources to put
 Integrated RAID card data and computing power
 Significant performance boost where it’s needed most
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System x Infrastructure: Servers
System x3550 M4
 Up to 8 cores per CPU
 Up to 768GB of memory
 10Gb networking
System x3650 M4  Flexible RAID design

General Business System x3500 M4

System x3750 M4

 Optimized for HPC
 Up to 4 CPUs per 2U
iDataPlex dx360 M4
High Performance
System x3530 M4 NEW  Up to 6 cores per CPU
NEW
 Maximum storage capacity
 Upgradable networking
System x3630 M4
Value 2-socket System x3300 M4

System x3100 M4
 Entry priced
System x3250 M4

Entry 1-socket © 2012 IBM Corporation
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The IBM x3530 M4 General Business 2S 1U Server

Density comes to the General Business Portfolio
Processors Sandy Bridge EN up to 95W
#Socket 2
Form factor 1U Rack
Memory Slots 12 slots (UDIMM/RDIMM/); 192GB
Max Memory (16GB DIMMs avail. 2-4 weeks after
GA), 384GB with 32GB DIMM-Post
GA

Media bays Optional DVD
The right combination of Cost, Density, Features and Efficiency. Disk Drive type SAS/SATA

Flexibility
HDD bays 4x 3.5” SS/HS HDDs or 8x 2.5” HS
 Choose 2.5” or 3.5” HDDs
 Flexible RAID solutions
RAID ServerRAID C105 with RAID 5
 2+2 scalable networking via FoD (SR-C105 avail. upgrade key, Slotless RAID and
 Cost optimized UDIMM or RDIMM memory after GA) advanced HW RAID option
 Redundant fans

NIC/TPM 4x 1Gb on board ( 2 std, up sell 2
ports by FoD) / standard TPM
Innovative design with New features
 Support latest Intel Sandy Bridge EN processors (priced below EP) PCIe (x16/x8) 2 PCIe slots (x16/x8) (1/0 or 0/2) +
Slotless RAID x4
 Cost effective ServeRAID C105 solution + advanced HW RAID options
 Smart use of FoD: 2+2 1Gb, choice between shared and dedicated system management port Power 1.Fixed 460W ( new )
Advanced RAID up sells 2.Redundant 460W
 Great deal of reuse high volume parts (PSUs, HDD, memory) 3.Redundant 675W HE
 Selection of energy efficient fixed and hot swap PSU options USB ports 2 front / 4 Rear / 1 internal
VGA ports 1 front (CTO)/ 1 back
Ideal Workload Fan Design NHS Redundant Fans
 Business infrastructure, File & print, web serving, Web 2.0, virtualization, Light database, ERP
applications, small HPC install Light Path Basic LED; Optional advanced
lightpath as sell up
 Full range of clients: Small Medium business, Large enterprise
System MGMT IMM2, shared or dedicated port
optional
4 Warranty 3 years

System x The IBM x3630 M4 General Business 2S 2U Server
½ of the worlds most powerful 2U portfolio
Processors Sandy Bridge EN up to 8 cores up to 95W
# Socket 2
Form factor 2U Rack
Memory Slots 12 slots (UDIMM/RDIMM), Support 2DPC@1600MHz
Max Memory 192GB (16GB DIMMs avail. 2-4 weeks after
GA)/384GB (Post GA)
Media bays Optional DVD or Tape (Entry Value Model)
Disk Drive NL 3.5” SAS/SATA
HDD bays 4 or 8 x 3.5” SS SATA or 8 x 3.5” HS SAS/SATA (Entry
2 use cases in 1 product Value Model)
12 + 2 x 3.5” HS (Storage Rich Model)
 Optimized for cost and capacity with large 3.5” HDD support
 Start with SW RAID or slotless HW RAID which allows to upgrade to advanced RAID SW RAID or Slotless, Advanced HW RAID (Entry
RAID without consuming PCI slot Value Model) Avail. Post GA
 CFF PSU including Platinum 80plus options Slotless RAID, advanced HW RAID (Storage Rich
Model)
 Lowest cost/TB and highest TB/U
 Redundant fans + HS PSU to support general business applications NIC/TPM 4 x 1Gb on board (2 standard, plus optional 2 ports by
 FoD upgrades make things easy to stock and install for partners or clients FoD) / standard TPM

PCIe (x16/x8) 2 PCIe slots (x16/x8) (1/0 or 0/2) + Slotless RAID x4
Innovative design with New features for 1st CPU
 Supporting the Intel latest Sandy Bridge EN processors 2 PCIe slots (x16/x8) (1/0 or 0/2) with 2nd CPU
 Innovative networking with FoD 2+2 up sell, system management port choice 14 HDDs models support 2 PCIe slots, optional
upgrade Slotless RAID from x4 to x8 with 2nd CPU
between shared and dedicated option installed
 Proven DDR3 technology with choice of UDIMM and RDIMM
 Rich remote experience with IMM2 Power 550W/750W. Redundant, 80PLUS Platinum certified

Best For USB ports
VGA ports
2 front / 4 Rear / 2 internal (for hypervisor and tape)
1 front (Entry Value Model) / 1 Rear
 Web 2.0, File & print, web serving, Enterprise business infrastructure,
virtualization, HPC, virtual PC consolidation, ERP applications and Database Fan Design NHS Redundant System Fans
 Full range of clients: Small business, Large enterprise Light Path Standard Lightpath upgradable to advanced Lightpath
(Entry Value Model)
Basic LED Lightpath (Storage Rich Model)

System MGT. IMM2, shared (w/NIC) or dedicated port
5 Warranty 3/3 years (parts/labor)

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Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet IBM System x3750 M4

Ultra-Dense System x four socket platform optimized for price / performance

Ultra-Dense
 4 Sockets, 48 DIMM slots within a 2U form factor
– More efficiently use rack space and datacenter resources to reduce infrastructure costs
 Up to 32 1.8” SSDs or 16 2.5” HDDs
– Maximize storage performance within a 2U form factor with exclusive IBM eXFlash SSD technology
 Up to 8 PCIe I/O slots
– Balance your processing power with I/O bandwidth to optimize productivity and increase performance

Optimized for Price/Performance
 Up to 24 Cores of processing power and 1.5TB of memory
– Cost conscious solution for business critical workloads that do not need investment in mission critical RAS or
node scalability
– 72% better floating point performance than Westmere processors
– Support for fast 1600MHz memory bus speeds
 Replace traditional HDD with SSD with eXFlash
– Increase storage reliability, save space and improve performance
– Maximum storage performance with only 1/3 of the investment in PCIe based flash storage solutions

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System x Intel Sandy Bridge Processors (E3 & E5)

x4 x8 x4 x8
DDR3
DDR3 DDR3
DDR3
Sandy QPI Sandy
DDR3 QPI DDR3
DDR3 Bridge Bridge DDR3
DDR3
DDR3 Core Core
DDR3
DDR3
 Up to 4 CPUs
Core Core
DDR3
DDR3 DDR3
DDR3  Up to 48 DIMMs
QPI QPI
QPI QPI  Up to 160 PCIe lanes
E5-4600 – IBM x3750 M4 DDR3
DDR3
DDR3
Sandy
QPI
QPI
Sandy
Bridge
DDR3
DDR3
DDR3
 Two QPI links per
DDR3
DDR3
Bridge DDR3
DDR3
CPU
DDR3 DDR3
Density and DDR3
DDR3
Core
Core Core
Core
DDR3
DDR3
(ring topology)
Cost Optimized 4S x4 x8 x4 x8

DDR3 DDR3
DDR3 Sandy Sandy DDR3
 Up to 24 DIMMs
E5-2600 – IBM x3550/x3650 M4 DDR3
DDR3
DDR3
Bridge QPI
QPI Bridge DDR3
DDR3
 Up to 80 PCIe lanes
DDR3 Core QPI
QPI Core DDR3
DDR3
(Romley EP) Highest Performance DDR3
DDR3
Core Core
DDR3
DDR3  Two QPI links
Max Memory x4 x8 x4 x8

E5-2400 – IBM x3530/x3630 M4 DDR3
DDR3 Sandy Sandy DDR3
DDR3
 Up to 12 DIMMs
(Romley EN) DDR3
DDR3 Bridge QPI
QPI Bridge DDR3
DDR3
DDR3
DDR3 Core
Core Core
Core
DDR3
DDR3  Up to 48 PCIe lanes
Density and  One QPI link
Cost Optimized 2S x4 x8 x4 x8

DDR3
DDR3
Sandy
E3-1200 – IBM x3250 M4 Bridge DDR3
DDR3
 Up to 4 DIMMs
Core
Core

Lowest Cost  Up to 20 PCIe lanes
(1S only) x4 x8

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New IBM System x M4 - Innovative Design with New Features
Better Power and Thermal design
Better Power and Thermal design - As data centers grow, power and cooling costs are becoming a larger piece of the IT
budget. According to EPA's report to Congress, data centers will account for nearly 3% of total US electricity consumption
by 2011. IBM has always been focused on help clients reduce their energy consumption through greater efficiency and
innovation. This new generation of servers is no exception to this IBM tradition and provide clients with an even greater
power efficiency than pervious generations.
37% Increased
Energy Efficiency(2)

Energy Star Compliance- Servers
that earn the ENERGY STAR will, on
average, be 30 percent more energy
efficient than standard servers(1). The
IBM System x3650 M4 is slated to be
Energy Star Compliant by 2Q12

Choice of 3 Redundant Power
supplies that are 80PLUS
platinum power (94%) efficiency
design

(1)
Source: US Environmental Protection Agency – Energy Star Website – Click here for more details
(2)
As measured by spec SPECpower_ssj2008 benchmark over pervious generation
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Flexible Networking

Flexible Networking: With the expansion of 10GbE technology on the rise, the IBM System x3650 M4
gives the client the chose of not only leveraging this new technology but also provides a wide variety of
vendors solutions. All of this, while not taking up valuable PCIe slots through our innovative mezzanine
design

Ethernet Ports – The x3550 M4 and
x3650 M4 come standard with 4x
1GbE ports and 1x 1GbE IMM port

Upgrade to 10GbE technology – The
mezzanine design allows the user to easily
upgrade to the 10GbE solution that is right for
their business.
Internal View
• Available 10GbE solutions from Emulex,
Brocade & Qlogic
• Does not require the use of a PCIe slot

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New RAID options
New RAID options: The x3650 M4 now has RAID on the motherboard allowing users to get all of the
benefits or Hardware RAID 0/1 without using a valuable PCIe slot. In addition to including HW RAID,
IBM has expanded the RAID portfolio providing more options, better performance and more flexible.

Standard RAID Options – Standard w/ ServeRAID 5110e
ServeRAID 5110e - RAID
0/1 – Cacheless RAID 5/50 Upgrade
– 512MB Cache with RAID 5/50 Upgrades
– 2GB/1GB/512MB Flash with RAID 5/50 Upgrade
– RAID 6/60 with Upgrade with Feature on Demand

Internal View

Hardware Upgrades Feature on Demand Upgrades
ServeRAID M5100 Series 512MB Cache/RAID 5 ServeRAID M5100 Series Zero Cache/RAID 5
ServeRAID M5100 Series Battery Kit
New Technology New Technology
ServeRAID M5100 Series 512MB Flash/RAID 5 ServeRAID M5100 Series RAID 6 Upgrade

ServeRAID M5100 Series 1GB Flash/RAID 5 ServeRAID M5100 Series Performance Accelerator
ServeRAID M5100 Series 2GB Flash/RAID 5 ServeRAID M5100 Series SSD Caching Enabler

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IBM BladeCenter HS23
Next generation 2S blade optimized for performance & highly scalable I/O!

What is it…
– New 2-socket, 30mm blade server with enhanced I/O capability
– Based on Romley-EP chipset (Sandy Bridge)
– Follow-on product to HS22 and HS22V

Customer importance…
– Delivers a robust set of features valued by clients focused on performance
• 2x ports of integrated 10GbE w/ upgrade path to 4x 10GbE ports
• Up to 18 total ports of IO/blade
• Run multiple protocols (FCoE/iSCSI)
• 2 Romley-EP processors
• 16 memory DIMMs & 2 Hot-swap HDDs
– Backwards compatibility for previous chassis investment
– Time-to-market with the industry’s leading processor vendor

IBM imperative…
– Maintains the $1.5B BladeCenter franchise
– Protects backward compatibility for the 200,000 chassis install base
– This will drive ~45% of IBM BladeCenter sales in 2012
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BladeCenter 2012 Positioning

HS23E HS23 HX5 HX5 w/MAX 5

2 Socket 2 Socket 2-4 Socket 2 Socket
Entry General Purpose High-end High End
Workloads Infrastructure apps Mainstream virtualization and • Max virtualization • Max virtualization and
Rack-to-blade migration cloud computing performance database performance
Grid Does many things very well • HPC • Business intelligence
Branch office/point of sale (workhorse) • SAP
• Rack-to-blade Broad enterprise applications
High performance enterprise

Features • Lowest absolute cost • Balanced proc, memory, • Scalable 2-to-4+ • Add 24 DIMMs on top of HX5
• Lowest absolute power storage, & I/O • Density base
consumption • Integrated 10Gb Virtual Fabric • Max IO • Firehawk chip
• Hot-swap storage • High availability & • Optional 2x 1.8” SSDs • Scale mem and procs at
• Density manageability w/HW RAID lower cost
• OS4690 • Hot-swap storage

Differentiation • Low cost point • Flexibility and Scalability • Max compute density • Max memory density
• Great green story • Compatibility with E chassis • Max IO • Node partitioning
• BCS-optimized • Cooling & RAS • Node partitioning • Node failover
• Blade for retail • Node failover

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Systems Management

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Innovative design of the new IMMv2
Feature on Demand Enhanced Security
for IMMv2
 Three levels of manageability  CRTM (core root of trust measurement) on boot.
 Basic  TPM inside IMMv2 (trusted platform module)
 Standard*  IMMv2 accepts only trusted signed updates
 Runtime firmware measurements with attestation
• Remote Presence
 Advanced*
• Mobile interface

*requires upgrade fee Improvements in IMMv2
HW Design
Easy Serviceability Performance &
Reliability
 Text Logs
 More responsive
 Alerting
 30%-50% Faster Power-On
 First Failure Data Capture
 IMM-UEFI Decoupled Boot
 Responsibility for flash device
management

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14 Note: Current IMM & IMMv2 firmware not interchangeable

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Feature on Demand (FoD) Overview

FoD is the capability to activate or “unlock” features integrated in
System x products. The feature is in the firmware or software but
“locked” until the activation key is installed.

Benefits
 Feature keys for the FoD can be  Secure and customer friendly process --
purchased just like other options Easy to use process for customers or
IBM Business Partners (BPs)
 You buy the features you need now with
 Feature activation can be done on server
the ability to grow your system later or chassis at the time of the
without costly rip and replace server/chassis sale or at a later time
(Pay as You Grow)
 FoD enables ease of installation, reduced
 Allows for upgrades in the field inventory, and faster fulfillment of options

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IBM Mobile Systems Remote

Apple App Store (Posted March 3, 2011)
>2000 App Downloads

Web Site http://ibmremote.com

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IBM® Systems Director platform
Quality
management
IBM Systems Director can help save 34% in administrative costs

Configure Deploy Track Power Monitor
Configure
Chassis Usage Notify on HW
Access Problem
Push OS Record
Image* Performance

Check
Compliance
Update Download Remote Control
Migrate VM
Updates Console
Push
Firmware and Cap Power*
Drivers PR/SM

* Fee based plug-in required

Learn More © 2012 IBM Corporation
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IBM Systems Director Service and Support
Quality
Manager

 IBM Systems Director Service and Support Manager is a no-charge
“call-home” plug-in to automatically report hardware problems and
collect system service information for monitored systems (Electronic
Service Agent tool)
 SSM can monitor, track, and capture system hardware errors and
service information and report them directly to IBM support

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A Complete Solution

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10GbE/40GbE

Oct 11
Market leadership

IBM RackSwitch G8316 (40GbE)
IBM BNT RackSwitch G8264 (10 / 40GbE)
1st cost efficient 40Gb Ethernet Aggregation Switch
Optimized for High-Performance Computing
10GbE

Juniper Networks EX4500 Ethernet Switch IBM BNT RackSwitch G8124E
Bringing Virtual Fabric to System x rack servers
10GbE Data Center and Aggregation switch

Market trend / future proofing
1GbE/10GbE

IBM Ethernet Switch J48E (Juniper 1 / 10GbE) IBM BNT RackSwitch G8000 & G8052 (1/ 10Gbe)
High speed Virtual Chassis Upgradeable entry switch

Extend Coverage in market sweet spot
1GbE

Campus Networking and Entry Datacenter
Juniper EX2200 (1GbE)
Cost effective 1GbE Top of Rack Switch

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System x is a complete infrastructure solution
Rack System
Enclosure Networking
KVM Console
Optimized Full top of rack switch Switches
equipment mounting portfolio, providing open
in a secure standard end-to-end Highly-scalable
packaged solution. network solutions. KVM switch allows
administrators
complete control of
systems at the rack
Console or across the globe.

Sleek design and
innovative features,
such as the built-in DVD Power
Drive and USB, allow Distribution
administrators to do Unit (PDU)
more right from the
console tray. Efficiently distributes
power and flexible
design allows for
easy mounting.
Uninterruptible
Power Supplies
(UPS)
Deliver superior
power protection and
battery backup for
continuous operation.
Extended
Software tools Battery Module
(EBM)
Interfaces provide complete
monitoring, measurement and Prolongs UPS
management of installed servers battery run time.
and power devices
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Broad OS portfolio and support delivers customer choice,
convenience and confidence

Key Features Benefits
 System x and BladeCenter offer  Broadens the application offerings available, increasing the ways
a wide choice of operating clients can put System x servers to work.
systems.
 Operating systems available for  Purchasing the OS is as convenient as purchasing any other
purchase with new hardware. System x option, such as hard drives, memory or network and
storage adapters.
 Each OS includes a native type  Creates a highly flexible, cost effective infrastructure that can quickly
1 hypervisor for virtualization and easily adapt to business changes.
and may also be used as a
guest with other OS hypervisors.

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