IBM System x3650 M3 Product Manual

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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available andexpandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket serverPlease see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 1Product GuideMarch 2010IBM System x3650 M3Product OverviewCONTENTSProduct Overview 1Selling Features 2Key Features 4Key Options 14x3650 M3 Images 15x3650 M3 Specifications 16The Bottom Line 19Server Comparison 20For More Information 21Legal Information 21Business-critical 2U server packed with innovationSuggested Uses: All sectors requiring highly available, energy-efficient, rack-optimized solutionfor physical and virtual intensive commercial environments like eBusiness/eCommerce,collaboration, virtualization, database, and enterprise resource planning applications.Your challenge is to do more with less—serve more Web pages, handle more secureconnections, support more e-mail users. You need to reduce the costs of doing business andimprove the service you deliver to your customers while lowering your overall risk. The dual-socket IBM® System x3650 M3 can reduce your costs with its new energy-smart design. It canimprove service with reduced operational complexity and increased management functionality. Itwill lower your IT risk with the resiliency that comes from no single point of failure. And like allIBM servers, the x3650 M3 offers you the trust that comes from the IBM global reach, service andsupport.The x3650 M3 is a game-changing rack server that uses significantly less power than previousgenerations, with unified systems management tools, leadership reliability, availability,serviceability features and broad system flexibility, housed in a compact 2U mechanical package.The x3650 M3 features Intel® Xeon® 5600 Series 6-core and 4-core, and 5500 Series 4-coreand 2-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 x3650 M3 supports up to 18 DIMMs / 192GB1 of RDIMM 1333MHz DDR3 memory (or up to12 DIMMs / 48GB of UDIMM memory) and provides Chipkill™ ECC (Error Checking andCorrecting) protection—for high performance and reliability. For even higher levels of availability,the x3650 M3 also offers memory mirroring. Up to 4 integrated high-speed Gigabit Ethernetcontrollers are available (offering TOE (TCP Offload Engine) support on Microsoft® Windows®),as are four high-performance adapter slots (PCIe x8). The x3650 M3 offers an optionalembedded hypervisor to manage your virtual workloads.The System x3650 M3 supports up to 16 high-performance hot-swap HDDs with an internalstorage capacity of 8.0TB (2.5-inch hot-swap Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial-AttachedATA (SATA) drives). Alternatively, up to 16 solid-state drives (SSDs) are also available to keeppower low, improve resiliency, and offer up to 800GB of storage. To address your backup needs,up to eight HDDs or SSDs and one internal tape drive or removable disk cartridge drive can beused. The server includes a choice of several IBM ServeRAID® storage controllers that providebroad levels of hardware-based RAID solutions. The ultra-dense 2U form factor allowsbusinesses to increase their computing power and spread their workload without outgrowing theircurrent data center. Up to 21 of these 2U servers can be installed in a single 42U rack, for a totalof up to 42 processors and 252 processor cores, offering tremendous deployment flexibility.Standard in the x3650 M3 is the Integrated Management Module (IMM) that enables the user tomanage and control the server easily—both locally and remotely. In conjunction with the IMM, thex3650 M3 comes with a Bosch BMP085 altitude sensor (altimeter) that governs fan rotationbased on altitude, to help lower your energy consumption. The IMM offers a high level ofmanageability that is designed to keep costs down and the system up—even when networkusage increases. IBM’s innovative pop-out/drop-down light path diagnostics panel enablesquick servicing of the system if a problem develops. These advanced features help maximizenetwork availability by increasing uptime, as do hot-swap solid-state drives; hot-swap/redundant SAS or SATA HDDs, redundant ultra-efficient power supplies and fanmodules; Active Memory™; integrated RAID; temperature-controlled fans with CalibratedVectored Cooling™; IPMI 2.0 support, including highly secure remote power control and1 192GB of RDIMM or 48GB of UDIMM memory supported when 16GB RDIMMs and 4GB UDIMMs are available in 2Q/2010.