Features
Features
The following table summarizes the features of the Netfinity 5500 M20.
Microprocessor
- Intel® Pentium® III Xeon™ microprocessor with MMX™ technology
- 32 KB of level-1 cache
- 512 KB of level-2 cache (min.)
- Expandable to four microprocessors
Memory
- Eight dual inline memory-module (DIMM) sockets
- Standard: 256 MB (min.), expandable to 4 GB
- 100 MHz registered, error correcting code (ECC), synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM)
Diskette Drive
- Standard: One 3.5-inch, 1.44 MB
Hard Disk Drives
- Up to six hot-swappable hard disk drives supported
CD-ROM Drive
Keyboard and Auxiliary Device (standard only on tower models)
Expansion Bays
- Six slim (1-inch) or three half-high (1.6-inch) hot-swap drive bays
- Three 5.25-inch removable-media bays (one used by CD-ROM drive)
- The IBM Netfinity NetBAY3 (tower models only)
enables installation of options that provide extra expansion bays
Expansion Slots
Up to six adapters can be installed:
- Four 32-bit hot-plug PCI slots
- One standard (non-hot-plug) 32-bit PCI slot (for short card only)
- One 16-bit ISA slot Upgradable Microcode
- BIOS, diagnostics, Netfinity Advanced System Management Processor, and
ServeRAID upgrades (when available) can update EEPROMs on the system board
Security Features
- Door and top cover lock (tower models only)
- NetBAY3 bezel lock
- Power-on and administrator passwords
- Selectable drive-startup
- Keyboard password
- Systems management security
- User log-in password
- Read-only or read/write access
- Dial back
Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) Alerts
- Power supplies
- Fans
- Memory
- Hard disk drives
- Microprocessors
- Voltage regulator modules (VRMs)
Integrated Functions
- Two serial ports
- Two universal serial bus (USB) ports
- One parallel port
- Mouse port
- Keyboard port
- Video port
- IBM ServeRAID controller (two channels) on system board
- 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX Ethernet port (controller on system board)
- Redundant Ethernet capability, through the use of an optional network interface card (NIC)
- Netfinity Advanced System Management Processor on system board
- Dedicated Advanced System Management I/O port
- Video controller (with 1MB video memory) compatible with:
- Super video graphics array (SVGA)
- Video graphics adapter (VGA)
- RS-485 port
- External SCSI port
Power Supply
- 500 W (115-230 V ac)
- Automatic voltage range selection
- Built-in overload and surge protection
- Automatic restart after a loss of power
- For redundant power, an optional 500 W power supply is available
Redundant Cooling
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