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IBM System x3200 M3

Security, simplicity, efficiency and reliability—
delivered at the right price

The IBM® System x3200 M3 offers enhanced performance to help

Highlights you take on the dynamic challenges of running IT with an emphasis on
security, simplicity, efficiency and reliability—delivered at the right
● Boost productivity with new high- price in a single-socket tower server.
performance capabilities, vast memory
and expanded storage capacity
High-performance capabilities
● Save on energy costs with integrated
power management tools The x3200 M3 supports the latest Intel® Xeon® quad-core and
Celeron®, Pentium® and Core™ i3 dual-core processors for excep-
● Improve manageability and security
tional performance. Because your organization must manage growing
with powerful built-in features
volumes of data while maintaining high performance, the x3200 M3
offers vast memory capacity and disk storage.

Efficient power management

To enable energy savings, the x3200 M3 provides high-efficiency
power supplies (model dependent) and support for IBM Systems
Director Active Energy Manager™, an energy usage monitoring tool.

Superior manageability and security

Managing your IT environment and addressing security concerns don’t
have to be difficult, resource-intensive tasks. The x3200 M3 offers
enhanced manageability and security to help you streamline processes
with features such as the Integrated Management Module (IMM) and
Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2.

Select configurations of the x3200 M3 are part of the IBM Express

Advantage™ Portfolio, designed and priced to meet the needs of mid-
sized businesses. Easy to manage, Express™ models/configurations
vary by country.
System x3200 M3 at a glance

Processor (CPU GHz/L3 Intel Xeon 3400 Series (quad-core) up to

cache/front-side bus MHz max) 2.93 GHz/8 MB/1333 MHz or Intel Celeron,
Pentium or Core i3 (dual-core) up to
3.06 GHz/4 MB/1333 MHz
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Number of processors 1/1
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Memory (max) Up to 32 GB DDR-3 1066/1333 MHz ECC
memory, 1, 2 and 4 GB UDIMMs; 1, 2, Produced in the United States of America
4 and 8 GB RDIMMs January 2010
All Rights Reserved
Expansion slots Two PCIe x8 Gen2, one PCIe x4, two PCI
(32-bit/33 MHz), one dedicated PCIe x4 for IBM, the IBM logo, ibm.com and System x are trademarks
RAID-0, -1 controller or registered trademarks of IBM Corporation in the
United States, other countries or both. If these and other
Disk bays (total/hot-swap) Four 3.5" simple-swap or hot-swap SATA IBM trademarked terms are marked on their first occurrence
hard disk drives (HDDs). Eight 2.5" hot-swap in this information with a trademark symbol (® or ™),
SAS HDDs (special bid only) these symbols indicate U.S. registered or common law
trademarks owned by IBM at the time this information was
Maximum internal storage Up to 4.0 TB SAS or SATA HDDs published. Such trademarks may also be registered or
common law trademarks in other countries. A current list of
Network interface Dual Gigabit Ethernet
IBM trademarks is on the Web at ibm.com/legal/
Power supply (std/max) 401 W fixed 1/1 or 430 W hot-swap copytrade.shtml.
redundant 2/2 Intel, Celeron, Pentium and Intel Xeon are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries
Hot-swap components Four 3.5" SATA/SAS HDDs,
in the United States, other countries or both.
eight 2.5" SAS HDDs
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the
RAID support Hot-swap hardware RAID-0, -1 (standard), United States, other countries or both.
simple-swap hardware RAID-0, -1 (optional);
upgrade to RAID-5 optional Microsoft and Windows are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States,
Ports 7 USB (2 front/4 rear/1 internal), 2 Ethernet, other countries or both.
1 serial and video
Other company, product and service names may be
Systems management Integrated Management Module with trademarks or service marks of others.
IPMI 2.0 and Serial over LAN, IBM Systems
Director, IBM ServerGuide, optional Virtual
Media Key for remote presence, Trusted Please Recycle
Platform Module 1.2

Operating systems Microsoft® Windows Server 2008 STD,

supported EE, R2/Microsoft Windows Server 2008
x64 STD, EE, DC/Windows® Small Business
Server 2008, Red Hat Linux®, SUSE Linux

Limited warranty 1- or 3-year customer replaceable unit/onsite

limited warranty

For more information

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U.S. ibm.com/systems/x/
Canada ibm.com/ca/en/systems/x

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