Lenovo System x3250 M5 Product Manual

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System x3250 M5 1System x3250 M5Lenovo Press Product GuideThe System x3250 M5 single-socket 1U rack server is designed for small businesses and first-time serverbuyers looking for a solution to improve business efficiency. It delivers several innovative features in acompact 1U form factor with a competitive price. The System x3250 M5 provides next-generationperformance in an innovative and compact design with flexible configuration options, built-in security, andsystems management capabilities. It leverages the next-generation quad-core Intel Xeon processorE3-1200 v3 product family technology.Suggested use: Small-to-medium businesses looking for file and printer servers, web serving, and smallbusiness infrastructure.The following figure shows the System x3250 M5.Figure 1. The System x3250 M5Did you knowThe x3250 M5 offers a flexible and scalable design and a simple upgrade path to eight HDDs plus anoptical drive at the same time. The flexible onboard Ethernet solution provides two standard integratedGigabit Ethernet ports and two additional integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports with an optional softwarefeature for an on-demand upgrade without a need to buy additional hardware. Comprehensive systemsmanagement tools with the next-generation Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) make it easy todeploy, integrate, service, and manage.The x3250 M5 includes features not typically seen in this class of system, such as standard RAID-0, 1,and 10 with the ServeRAID C100 for simple-swap SATA models, remote control capabilities even whenthe machine is powered off, and basic light path diagnostics on processor, memory, and hard drives. Thisflexible 1U rack-mountable server is also highly upgradable and expandable, scaling from low-cost,fixed-function models to feature-rich, highly available models.