Lenovo x3100 M5 Product Manual

System x3100 M5
Lenovo Press Product Guide
The System x3100 M5 single-socket tower server is designed for small businesses and first-time server
buyers looking for a solution to improve business efficiency. It delivers several innovative features with a
competitive price, either in a compact mini-tower form factor, or standard tower form factor with hot-swap
power supplies and disk drives. The System x3100 M5 provides next-generation performance in an
innovative and compact design with flexible configuration options, built-in security, and systems
management capabilities. It leverages the next-generation dual-core and quad-core Intel Xeon processor
technology.
Suggested uses: Retail/kiosks, and SMBs, looking for file and printer servers, web serving, small
business infrastructure, and virtual desktops for small workgroups.
Figure 1. The System x3100 M5 (compact mini-tower shown)
Did you know?
The System x3100 M5 server is a compact, cost-effective, single-processor tower or rack-mountable
server that has been optimized to provide outstanding availability, manageability, and performance
features to small-to-medium-sized businesses, retail stores, or distributed enterprises. It supports the
Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 "Haswell" family of processors for applications that require performance and
stability, and Core i3, Pentium, and Celeron processors for applications that require lower cost.
The system includes features that are not typically seen in this class of system, such as standard,
embedded RAID 0 and RAID 1, remote control capabilities even when the machine is powered off, and
Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) on processor and memory. Some models also support hot-swap
redundant power supplies and hot-swap disk drives.
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