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Security, efficiency, reliability
The x240 M5 is part of the newly announced M5 portfolio of enterprise rack and tower servers, dense systems, and blade and integrated systems. Combining balanced reliability, efficient performance and flexibility,
the M5 portfolio is an excellent fit for small and medium businesses and large enterprises. It provides outstanding uptime to keep business-critical applications and cloud deployments running securely. Every M5 family
member is designed to help:
- Provide power savings using improved thermal and cooling design and more efficient components
- Boost cloud performance with greater VM density and low latency flash storage
- Reduce unplanned downtime by delivering industry-leading uptime
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- Safeguard enterprise data with built-in System x® Trusted Platform Assurance to mitigate attacks against boot firmware and management controllers
Versatile power for a wide variety of business-critical workloads
The new 2-socket IBM Flex System x240 M5 Compute Node delivers major advances in performance, capacity, management simplicity, and networking flexibility to help you keep operating costs down without sacrificing efficiency, reliability or security. For workloads that require a balance of memory, processor and I/O bandwidth, the variety of Flex System x240 M5 models gives you the flexibility to optimize each resource to adapt to meet your workload’s price/performance ratio target.
Benefit from next-generation technology today
The Flex System x240 M5 supports up to two Intel E5-2600 v3 series processors, available with as many as 18 cores, each running at up to 2133 MHz designed to deliver improved performance without sacrificing energy efficiency. This family of processors features up to 45 MB L3 cache per socket, inte-grated PCIe 3.0, Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, Hyper-Threading Technology and two QuickPath interconnects. Also new is TruDDR4 Memory support that requires only 1.2 V of power each, compared to 1.35 V and 1.5 V for previ-ous modules. In fact, each x240 M5 will be able to support up to 1.5 TB of memory1 in 24 DIMM slots running at up to 2133 MHz. The TruDDR4 Memory portfolio includes RDIMMs with advanced error correction for reliability, performance and maximum memory capacity. In addition, TruDDR4 Memory will support memory performance that exceeds industry standards. The x240 M5 also offers versatile high-performance storage options such as dual 2.5-inch PCIe flash storage and mirrored SD card for hypervisor.
Networking flexibility—choose protocols and speeds you need
To deliver the maximum choice of networking options, the x240 M5 allows you to select and use the two included mezza-nine card slots to meet your specific connectivity requirements. Depending on the model and number of processor sockets pop-ulated, you can choose from optional Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 10 GbE, 40 GbE, Fibre Channel over Ethernet and iSCSI cards to network your way.
