System x Reference

System x Reference (xREF)
including

IBM®

System x® & BladeCenter®

November 15, 2011

This document is available at
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/xref

IBM System x3100 M3
IBM Machine
Type Model

Proccessor

xREF by STG Field Skills and Education Team

L3
Speed1 /Core Cache Memory

Celeron® G1101 2.26GHz/2C
Pentium® G6950 2.8GHz/2C
Core™ i3-540
3.06GHz/2C
Xeon® X34302.4GHz/4C
Xeon X3450
2.66GHz/4C

4253 - 22x
4253 - 42x
4253 - 62x
4253 - B2x
4253 - D2x

Positioning
Processor(s)

2MB
3MB
4MB
8MB
8MB

1x1GB
1x1GB
1x2GB
1x2GB
1x2GB

Disk

Disk
controller

Maximum
Capacity

1x250GB SATA (embedded RAID)
2x250GB SATA (embedded RAID)
2x250GB SATA (embedded RAID)
1x250GB SATA (embedded RAID)
2x250GB SATA (hardware RAID)

4TB4TB
4TB
4TB
4TB

Optical

DVD-ROM
DVD-ROM
DVD-ROM
DVD-ROM
DVD-ROM

Slots
Hard
x bays disk bays

Ethernet

Available
date

4x6
4x6
4x6
4x6
4x6

Gigabit
Gigabit
Gigabit
Gigabit
Gigabit

Mar 2010
Mar 2010
Mar 2010
Apr 2010
Apr 2010

4 fixed
4 fixed
4 fixed
4 fixed
4 fixed

SMP support

Single socket, entry server engineered for small businesses
OneIntel® processor at up to 2.66GHz with 1333MHz FSB and 8MB L3 / up to 4 Core / Xeon and Core with
Intel Turbo Boost and Hyper-Threading / all Optimized for Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T)
8MB std on Xeon / 4MB std on Core / 3MB std on Pentium / 2MB std on Celeron
Systemboard contains one LGA-1156 socket, four DIMM sockets, four slots(1 PCI Express x16, 1 PCI Express x8,
1 PCI Express x4, and1 PCI), integrated SATA and Gigabit Ethernet.
No SMP support / no processor upgrade

Memory

1 or 2GB std / 16GB13 max / four 240-pin gold-plated DIMM sockets / PC3-10600 1333MHz ECC DDR3-SDRAM

SATA controller

Six channel SATA controller (3.0GB/sec) / integrated / supports up to four drives standard / RAID 0/1/
upgradeable to hardware RAID 0/1 via ServeRaid-BR10il option (std on D2x)Disk

One or two 250GB SATA HDD standard

Rack support
Bus slots (see below)

Support via tower-to-rack kit option
One PCI-E x16 slot / one PCI-E x8 slot / one PCI-E x4 slot / one 32-bit 33MHz 5v PCI 2.2 slot

Chipset

Intel 3420 chipset / Platform Controller Hub (PCH) for PCI 2.2, SATA, USB, Low Pin Count Interface / Firmware Hub

Ethernet

Gigabit Ethernet port / IntelWG82574L / fully integrated Gigabit Ethernet Media Access Control(MAC) and
Physical-Layer(PHY) capabilities / on planar / full-duplex / Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) / Wake on LAN

Optical / diskette
Ports

DVD-ROM, SATA / optional USB only
Front: two USB(2.0); Rear: one serial(9-pin), four USB(2.0), ethernet(RJ-45), video(DB-15)

Diagnostics

Diagnostic LEDs / error LEDs for fans andmemory / PC Doctor diagnostic program stored on IBM Diagnostics CD

Systems Management

Aspeed AST-2050 A3 BMC Contorller / IPMI 2.0 / SOL / upgradeable to Remote Presence via IBM Virtual Media Key

Graphics controller

SVGA / 8MB SDRAM std/max / integrated in BMC on systemboard

Security

Mechanical side panel key lock / power-on password / boot sequence control / operation withoutkybd/mouse

Keyboard / mouse

Optional / USB only

Cooling fans

Two variable speed fans (rear, power supply) /
not redundant / not hot-swap
350 watts / universal / manual switching /
Automatic Server Restart (ASR) / not hot-swap /
not redundant / cooling fan in power supply

L3 cache
Implementation

Power supply

1GB 1Rx8 PC3-10600 DDR3-1333 LP UDIMM
2GB 2Rx8 PC3-10600 DDR3-1333LP UDIMM
2GB 1Rx8 PC3-10600 DDR3-1333 LP UDIMM
4GB 2Rx8 PC3-10600 DDR3-1333 LP UDIMM
IBM 250GB SATA II (7.2K) simple-swap HDD
IBM 500GB SATA II (7.2K) simple-swap HDD
IBM Server 1TB 7200 SATA 3.5" SS HDD
IBM DDS Generation 5 USB Tape Drive
IBM DDS Generation 6 USB Tape Drive
IBM 400/800 GB HH LTO3 SAS Tape Drive
IBM Tower to rack conversion kit
IBM 3Gb SAS HBA v2
ServeRAID-BR10il...