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    An afford able single-socket, quad-core server with high performance and data protection for small, medium, a nd large businesses Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 1 Product Guide January 2010 IBM System x3 200 M3 Product Overvie w CONTENT S Product Overvie w 1 Selling Features 2 Key Feat ures 3 Key Opt[...]

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    An afford able single-socket, quad-core server with high performance and data protection for small, medium, a nd large businesses Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 2 Selling Features Price/Performance The x320 0 M3 offers numerous featur es to boost perfor mance and red uce product and operating costs: [...]

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    An afford able single-socket, quad-core server with high performance and data protection for small, medium, a nd large businesses Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 3 • Integrated IPMI 2.0 suppor t alerts IBM Syste ms Director to ano malous environ mental factors, such as voltage and ther mal condition[...]

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    An afford able single-socket, quad-core server with high performance and data protection for small, medium, a nd large businesses Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 4 processors offer con siderably high er performance than a same-spee d Xeon pr ocessor with a single core. Likewise, four -core processo rs[...]

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    An afford able single-socket, quad-core server with high performance and data protection for small, medium, a nd large businesses Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 5 2.5-inch Hot-S wap SAS (3 Gbps or 6Gbps) • 15,000 RPMs — 73 .4 or 146.8GB ( 1.17TB maximum) • 10,000 RPMs —146 .8 or 300GB ( 2.4TB[...]

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    An afford able single-socket, quad-core server with high performance and data protection for small, medium, a nd large businesses Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 6 For extern al storage, the ServeRAID- MR10M controller enable s connection to up to four IBM System Storage EXP3000 SAS expa nsion units ([...]

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    An afford able single-socket, quad-core server with high performance and data protection for small, medium, a nd large businesses Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 7 time. Rack Cable Manageme nt and KVM Conso le Switching IBM Advanced Cab ling Technolog y ( ACT ) is an optional feature that o ffers many[...]

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    An afford able single-socket, quad-core server with high performance and data protection for small, medium, a nd large businesses Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 8 automated installat ion of the Micro soft ® Windows ® Server 2003 and 2008 operating syste ms, device drivers and other system componen [...]

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    An afford able single-socket, quad-core server with high performance and data protection for small, medium, a nd large businesses Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 9 • Graphical console redirectio n over LAN • Remote virtual floppy and CD- ROM • High-speed remote redire ction of PCI video, keyboar[...]

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    An afford able single-socket, quad-core server with high performance and data protection for small, medium, a nd large businesses Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 10 consisting of multiple physical har d disk drives to be tre ated as one l ogical drive. ServeRAID technolog y also allows data to be stor[...]

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    An afford able single-socket, quad-core server with high performance and data protection for small, medium, a nd large businesses Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 11 Interior View x3200 M3 Speci fications Machine ty pe 7327- C1x, C2x, 22x, 32x, 42x, 54x, 62x (1 y r. war.) 7328- C1x, C2x, 22x, 32x, 42x,[...]

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    An afford able single-socket, quad-core server with high performance and data protection for small, medium, a nd large businesses Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 12 x3200 M3 Speci fications Chipset Intel 3420 Standard / max imum memory 10 2G B (2 x 1GB) / 32GB RD IMM , 16GB UDIMM (C1x , C2x, 42x, 54x [...]

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    An afford able single-socket, quad-core server with high performance and data protection for small, medium, a nd large businesses Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 13 x3200 M3 Speci fications # of PCI-E x4/x4 Ge n 2 slots (4GBps) 1 full-heigh t/full-length (dedi c ated to Serve RAID controller) # of PCI[...]

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    An afford able single-socket, quad-core server with high performance and data protection for small, medium, a nd large businesses Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 14 x3200 M3 Speci fications 21.25” (539.8 mm) D 30.4” (772 mm) D (with redunda nt power) Operating sy stems supported Microsoft Wi ndows[...]

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    An afford able single-socket, quad-core server with high performance and data protection for small, medium, a nd large businesses Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 15  IBM Service and Support Manager • Integrated Manage m ent Module ( IMM):  IPMI 2.0 co mpliance, including hig hly secure re mote[...]

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    An afford able single-socket, quad-core server with high performance and data protection for small, medium, a nd large businesses Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 16 For More Information IBM System x Servers ht tp:// ibm.com /sy stems/x IBM Systems Direc tor Service and Support Manager http:// ibm .com[...]