IBM System x3630 M3 Specification

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A cost-optimized storage-rich alternative to traditional enterprise 2U dual-socket serversPlease see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 1Product GuideFebruary 2011IBM System x3630 M3Product OverviewCONTENTSProduct Overview 1Selling Features 2Key Features 4Key Options 11x3630 M3 Images 13x3630 M3 Specifications 14The Bottom Line 17Server Comparison 18For More Information 19Legal Information 192U storage-rich server packed with innovationSuggested Uses: Web 2.0 applications like online gaming, video/photo sharing, mail serving,community, messaging, web search, file/print, backup, imagery, and transactional data server.In today’s tough economic environment, your challenge is to do more with less—serve more Webpages, handle more secure connections, support more e-mail users, and do it all on a tightbudget. You need to reduce the costs of doing business and improve the service you deliver toyour customers while lowering your overall risk. The dual-socket IBM® System x3630 M3 canreduce your costs by combining traditional enterprise server features with an energy-smartdesign, budget-conscious features, and huge storage capacity. It can improve service withreduced operational complexity and increased management functionality. It can lower your IT riskwith the resiliency that comes from hot-swap/redundant features. It offers abundant, high-performance local storage without the cost or complexity of going external, in only 2U of rackspace. And like all IBM servers, the x3630 M3 offers you the trust that comes from the IBM globalreach, service and support.The x3630 M3 is a game-changing rack storage server that uses significantly less power thanprevious generations, with unified systems management tools; high reliability, availability, andserviceability features; and broad system flexibility, housed in a compact 2U mechanicalpackage.The x3630 M3 features Intel® Xeon® 5600 series 6-core and 4-core, and 5500 series 4-core and2-core processors, with up to 12MB of shared L3 cache, to provide you with the computingpower you need to match your business needs and growth. The new line of Intel processorsdelivers unprecedented intelligent performance with features like adaptive performance forapplications and environments, Turbo Boost Technology and Hyper-Threading Technology, andintegrated power gates and automated power management.The x3630 M3 supports up to 12 DIMMs / 192GB of RDIMM 1333MHz DDR3 memory andprovides Chipkill™ ECC (Error Checking and Correcting) protection—for high performance andreliability. For even higher levels of availability, the x3630 M3 also offers memory mirroring.Two integrated high-speed Gigabit Ethernet ports are included, as are two high-performancePCIe adapter slots. The x3630 M3 offers an optional embedded hypervisor to manage yourvirtual workloads.Some System x3630 M3 models support up to 14 hot-swap 3.5-inch Serial-Attached SCSI(SAS) or Serial-Attached ATA (SATA) HDDs with an internal storage capacity of up to 28TB.Other models support up to 28 hot-swap 2.5-inch SAS (16.8TB) or SATA (14TB) drives. Theservers offer a choice of several IBM ServeRAID® storage controllers that provide broad levels ofhardware-based RAID solutions.The ultra-dense 2U form factor allows businesses to increase their computing power and spreadtheir workload without outgrowing their current data center. Up to 21 of these 2U servers can beinstalled in a single 42U rack, for a total of up to 42 processors, 252 processor cores (and 504threads), offering tremendous deployment flexibility.The x3630 M3 includes an Integrated Management Module (IMM) that enables the user tomanage and control the server easily—both locally and remotely. The IMM offers a high level ofmanageability that is designed to keep costs down and the system up—even when networkusage increases. The IMM helps maximize network availability by increasing uptime, as doActive Memory™ protection, hot-swap/redundant SAS or SATA HDDs, hot-swap/redundantultra-efficient power supplies and redundant fan modules; integrated RAID; temperature-controlled fans; IPMI 2.0 support, including highly secure remote power control and Serialover LAN; as well as text-console redirect over LAN.Another improvement with the new generation of X-Architecture is the replacement of old BIOSwith a new generation United Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). UEFI provides a moreintuitive user interface and understandable event logs and better management.With the inclusion of unique IBM service and support features such as the IMM, IBM Systems®