Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and
expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server
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Another improvement with the new generation of X-Architecture is the replacement of old BIOS
with a new generation
United Extensible Firmware Interface
(
UEFI
). UEFI provides a more
intuitive user interface and understandable event logs and better management.
With the inclusion of unique IBM service and support features such as the IMM, light path
diagnostics,
IBM Systems Director
,
IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager
™
,
IBM
ServerGuide
™
and
support for the optional Virtual Media Key for remote presence capability, the
x3650 M3 is designed for superior uptime.
The x3650 M3 passed the NEBS 1/ETSI equivalent compliance for both AC and DC power
supplies and compliance with 80 PLUS
®
and ENERGY STAR
®
standards (model dependent). For
more information about IBM’s ENERGY STAR compliance, visit
http://
ibm.com
/systems/greendc/green_technology/energy_star/index.html.
If you need highly manageable, dual-socket/multi-core computing power in a rack-dense package,
the x3650 M3 is the ideal system.
Selling Features
Price/Performance
The x3650 M3 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce costs:
•
Up to
two 6-core
or
4-core
Xeon 5600 series processors and up to
12MB
of cache per
processor, offer superior performance capable of tackling the toughest jobs.
64-bit extensions
provide the flexibility to run 32-bit and 64-bit applications concurrently. Xeon 5600 series
processors offer up to
54%
better performance than the previous-generation 5500 series
processors (depending on workload).
•
Low-voltage processors
draw less energy and produce less waste heat than high-voltage
processors, thus helping to reduce data center energy costs. Selected
4-core
Xeon 5600
series processors use only
40W
(available via CTO)
and selected
6-core
processors consume
only
60W
. This is less than half the wattage consumed by 130W processors.
•
Eighteen
DIMMs of registered
1333MHz DDR3
ECC memory with
Chipkill
2
protection
(optional) provide speed, high availability, and a memory capacity of up
192GB
.
•
x3650 M3 servers using the
L5640, E5645, E5649
and 1333MHz
X56
xx processors support 2
DIMMs per channel (2DPC) at 1333MHz (running at 1.5V).
•
Optional
50GB solid-state drives
(
SSDs
)
use only
2W
of power per drive, vs.
9-10W
for 2.5-
inch HDDs. This is as much as
80%
less power than a 2.5 inch HDD would use (with a
corresponding reduction in heat output).
•
An altimeter works in conjunction with the IMM to
govern fan rotation
based on the readings
which it delivers to
save money under normal conditions
because the fans do not have to
spin at high speed.
•
Four high-speed x8
(“by 8”)
PCIe Gen 2 adapter slots
offer investment protection by
supporting high-performance adapters, such as 10Gb Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand
cards, none of which will run in older 33MHz and 66MHz conventional PCI slots.
•
The integrated
ServeRAID-BR10il v2
controller (model-specific) provides
RAID-0/1/1E
and
full-duplex (
bidirectional 3Gbps
) data transfers for SAS/SATA/SSD drives without consuming
a valuable adapter slot. Other server models include the
6Gbps
ServeRAID-M1015 (RAID-
0/1/10,
optional
5/50
with
Self-Encrypting Disk
, or
SED
) or the
6Gbps
ServeRAID-M5014
controller, which provide
RAID-0
/
1/10/5/50
with
256MB
cache and optionally
6/60
with
SED
.and optional
battery backup
, or the
6Gbps
ServeRAID-M5015
controller, which provides
RAID-0
/
1/10/5/50
with
512MB
of battery-backed cache (except CTO models) and optionally
6/60
with
SED
..
•
Up to
16 2.5-inch
hot-swap SAS/SATA
hard disk drives offer high-performance with high
availability.
SSDs
offer even higher availability, with extremely high IOPS rates.
•
The integrated
dual-port Gigabit Ethernet
controller with
IPMI 2.0
provide high-speed network
communications. Two more NICs can be added to the planar with an additional dual-port Gb
Ethernet daughtercard. The TCP Offload Engine (
TOE
) feature offers higher performance for
TCP/IP traffic, with less overhead on the system processor.
•
A
high degree of device integration
—including hot swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSD drives,
multiple hardware-based ServeRAID options, Gigabit Ethernet ports, systems management
and video controllers—lowers costs and frees up valuable adapter slots.
•
Energy-efficient components, including DDR3 memory, low-voltage transistors and voltage
regulator modules, and power supplies that are up to
90%
efficient (model-specific), help keep
your energy bills down.
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All models require Chipkill-enabled DIMMs (provided standard) for Chipkill protection.
