IBM System X Enterprise Servers – x3690 X5

Features & benefits

Feature	Benefits
Industry-leading enterprise X-Architecture® performance, now available in a 2-processor system	Greater performance in a denser form factor for a lower purchase price and total cost of ownership Ample flexibility to meet changing requirements
Fifth-generation IBM X-Architecture chipset design combined with next-generation Intel® Xeon® processor E7 product line	Increased productivity for your investment with higher utilization and greater throughput and bandwidth Optimized for databases, enterprise applications and virtualized server workloads Deploy more virtual machines than ever in a 2-processor system and double the number of virtual machines on that system with MAX5 Higher database transactions processed per minute1
IBM Systems Director	Increased uptime, reduced costs and improved productivity via advanced server management capabilities Simplified management including around-the-clock remote management capability Helps improve physical and virtual server availability by continuously monitoring your system and notifying you of potential system failures or changes
IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™	Advanced power notification, control and monitoring to help achieve lower heat output and cooling costs
Balanced, energy-smart design	Promotes greater energy savings in the data center
Hot-swap, redundant, rear-access power supplies	Increase system and application uptime by eliminating another single point of failure with a second hot-swap power supply Improved usability with rear chassis accessibility, allowing you to remove the power supplies without having to pull the system from the rack
Light path diagnostics	Provides information on failing components without interrupting system operations Provides a lighted path to failing components inside the system Speeds hardware repairs to reduce service time
Predictive Failure Analysis	Detects when components or hard drives are operating outside of set thresholds or are approaching historical failure thresholds Helps you increase uptime by enabling you to receive proactive alerts in advance of failure via IBM Systems Director
RAID-0, -1 and -1E (optional RAID-5, -6 with battery-backed cache)	Enhanced system availability and data protection by supporting solid-state drives with advanced RAID capabilities
Optional embedded hypervisor	Embedded hypervisor technology to simplify adoption and deployment of industry-leading third-party virtualization solutions New, system-friendly thin hypervisor architecture can help optimize virtualization performance Integrated into server hardware, the hypervisor can provide compatible, pretested and optimized hardware configurations
Hot-swap redundant components	Allow the server to continue operating in case of fan, power supply or disk drive failure Replace components without taking your server offline or out of the rack
Memory reliability features through IBM Active Memory™	Enhanced error recovery with Chipkill error correction, memory scrubbing, Memory ProteXion and memory mirroring to help maintain data integrity
Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet	Provides increased network throughput and redundancy with efficient slot-saving integration Optional Emulex 10 GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter
OS flexibility	Choice of Microsoft Windows 64-bit, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Enterprise Linux, (Server and Advanced Server), VMware vSphere Hypervisor
3-year onsite limited warranty for parts and labor	Provides peace of mind for an extended period of time

1 Based on IBM comparison between a two-processor IBM System x3690 X5 without MAX5 and a two-processor x3690 X5 with MAX5.

Specifications

Form factor/height	Rack/2U per chassis
Processor (max)	Intel® Xeon® up to 2.4 GHz (10-core)/1066 MHz memory access
Number of processors(std/max)	1/2
Cache (max)	Up to 30 MB
Memory (std/max)	8 GB/1 TB PC3-10600 DDR3 or DDR3L, up to 2.0 TB with 32 GB DIMM and MAX5
Expansion slots	5 total PCIe Gen 2
Disk bays (total/hot swap)	16/16 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or 24/24 1.8" SAS SSD internal storage
Maximum internal storage	9.6 TB SAS per chassis (supports 73.4 GB, 146.8 GB, 300 GB, 500 GB and 600 GB hard disk drives, 50 GB and 200 GB SSD)
Network interface	Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet with TCP-IP off-load engine, optional Emulex 10 GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter
Power supply (std/max)	675 W 220 V 1/4
Hot-swap components	Power supplies, fans, hard disk drives
RAID support	Integrated RAID-0, -1, optional RAID-5, -6
Systems management	Alert on LAN 2, automatic server restart, IBM Systems Director, IBM ServerGuide, IMM, light path diagnostics (independently powered), predictive failure analysis on hard disk drives, processors, VRMs, fans and memory, Wake on LAN, dynamic system analysis
Operating systems supported	Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter editions 64-bit), 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Enterprise Linux, VMware vSphere Hypervisor
Limited warranty	3-year customer replaceable unit and on-site limited warranty