Highlights

- Offers more flexible configuration options and an easier upgrade path
- Balances energy-efficient performance with more affordable entry price and reduced total cost of ownership
- Helps deliver easier system management with industry-leading quality and reliability backed by IBM service and support

Upgrade with more ease

Designed for optimum flexibility and growth, the IBM System x3530 M4 offers a wide range of configuration options to help meet general business requirements today and tomorrow. Start with the combination of hard disk drive size, networking and computing power you need now, then scale up through an easy upgrade path. The IBM Integrated Management Module II with optional remote upgrade via Feature on Demand (FoD) helps simplify the deployment process.

Optimized for performance

The x3530 M4 delivers dual-socket performance in a compact 1U footprint and features the latest Intel Xeon E5-2400 series technology with greater processing, memory and I/O capabilities. Built with a focus on reduced total cost of ownership, the x3530 M4 provides 80-PLUS® power supply certification to help enable energy savings. With a better balance between cost and system features, the x3530 M4 is an ideal platform for general business workloads.

Product features

- Better performance and more generous storage capacity in a smaller footprint help support a wider range of general business workloads
- More flexible design helps provide extensive configuration options and allow customers to upgrade to more robust features as needs change over time
- Built-in reliability and availability features help ensure application uptime
- Hot-swappable hard disk drives and power supplies help improve system serviceability
- A robust portfolio of systems management tools help simplify management tasks

Hardware summary

- 1U chassis
- Dual-socket server supporting up to 8-core Intel Xeon series processors, up to 2.4 GHz
- Up to 192 GB high-performance, new-generation DDR-3 memory with 12 DIMM slots, up to 1600 MHz memory access speed
- Internal storage flexibility with support for up to eight 2.5” hot-swap SAS/SATA hard disk drives, or up to four 3.5” hot-swap SAS/SATA or simple-swap SATA hard disk drives
- 3 PCIe slots (model dependent)
- Shared or dedicated port for system management