Highlights
- Get higher performance per watt for greater cost efficiency.
- Simplify management and serviceability with flexible design.
- Maintain availability and lower risk through a resilient architecture.

Innovative technology in slim package
The IBM System x3550 M3 builds on the latest Intel ® Xeon® processor technology with extreme processing power and superior energy-management and cooling features. With twice the performance of previous generations and a flexible, energy-smart design that integrates low-wattage components, the x3550 M3 can help you meet demanding workloads at a lower cost per watt.

Simplifying management and serviceability
The x3550 M3 offers a flexible, scalable design and simple upgrade path from four to eight hard disk drives. Comprehensive systems management tools such as advanced diagnostics and the ability to control resources from a single point make it easy to deploy, integrate, service and manage.

Product features
- Power-optimized performance that leverages the speed of new Intel processors with more capacity and memory.
- Innovative, energy-smart 1U design to help lower operational costs.
- Energy-efficient design with UDIMMs, 40 W processing and UEFI BIOS.
- Better serviceability with a highly scalable, flexible design that is easy to deploy, integrate, service and manage.
- Easier risk management with resilient architectures and virtualized environments.

Hardware summary
- 1U chassis.
- Up to two 3.46 GHz six-core (3.60 GHz four-core) Intel Xeon 5600 series processors with QuickPath Interconnect technology, up to 1333 MHz memory access speed.
- Up to 192 GB RDIMMs or 48 GB UDIMMs high-performance, new generation DDR-3 memory.
- Internal storage flexibility with up to eight 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs.
- Up to 2 PCIe slots.
- Low 675 W design and up to 94% efficient power supplies, six cooling fan modules, new UEFI BIOS, altimeter monitored by Integrated Management Module and IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™.
- NEBS 1/ETSI equivalent compliance for both AC and DC power supply (model dependent).
- Compliant with 80-PLUS® and ENERGY STAR® energy-efficiency standards (model dependent).
- VMware ESXi embedded hypervisor support with optional 2 GB USB key for virtualization.

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OEM products. Must be purchased with a Server. No Microsoft Office products are available for this computer at this time.