IBM x3650 M3 Product Manual

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IBM System x3650 M3 2Key featuresThe challenge of a high-performance business is to do more with less—serve more Web pages, handlemore secure connections, support more email 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 IBMSystem x3650 M3 can reduce your costs with its new energy-smart design. It can improve service withreduced operational complexity and increased management functionality. It will lower your IT risk with theresiliency that comes from having no single point of failure. And like all IBM servers, the x3650 M3 offersyou the trust that comes from IBM global reach, service, and support.The x3650 M3 is a high-performance rack server that uses significantly less power than previousgenerations, with unified systems management tools, leading reliability, availability, and serviceabilityfeatures, and broad system flexibility, housed in a compact 2U mechanical package.PerformanceThe x3650 M3 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce costs:Up to two 6-core Xeon 5600 series processors offering superior performance. Xeon 5600 seriesprocessors offer up to 54% better performance than the previous generation 5500 series processors(workload dependent).Eighteen DIMMs of registered 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC memory provide speed, high availability, and amemory capacity of up to 288 GB.High-performance 6 Gbps SAS RAID controllers and 15K RPM 6 Gbps SAS disk drives in a variety ofcapacities to suit your local storage requirements.The use of solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of or along with traditional spinning drives (HDDs) cansignificantly improve I/O performance. An SSD can support 20,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS)whereas a typical HDD handles fewer than 500 IOPS.Flexibility and scalabilityThe x3650 M3 has the ability to grow with your application requirements with these features:A choice of 4-core or 6-core processors with clock rates from 1.6 GHz to 3.6 GHz.18 DIMM sockets allowing memory expansion of up to 288 GB.A choice of power supplies including 460 W, 675 W AC or DC, or energy-efficient 675 W.Five or six USB 2.0 ports available - two front, two rear, one internal for an embedded hypervisor,plus one additional internal port when the optional Tape Enablement Kit is installed.Storage bay flexibility: Up to 16 hot-swap 2.5" drive bays for SAS or SATA HDDs, or solid-state drives(intermixing supported); or eight 2.5" bays plus an internal tape drive bay.Direct-attach SAS storage with the EXP2512, EXP2524, and EXP3000 storage enclosures issupported. IBM System Storage servers, including network-attached storage (NAS), and iSCSI orFibre Channel-attached storage, can also be attached.The x3650 M3 provides four PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 x8 I/O slots for increased network or storageconnectivity.Manageability and securityPowerful systems management features simplify local and remote management of the x3650 M3:The x3650 M3 includes an Integrated Management Module (IMM) to monitor server availability,perform Predictive Failure Analysis, and trigger IBM Systems Director alerts.