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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Flexibility
The x3650 M3 has the ability to grow with your application requirements, thanks to
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A choice of
4-core
or
6-core
processors with
1.6
to
3.6GHz
clock rates, up to
6.4
gigatransfers per second
, and
40W
to
130W
maximum power draw.
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Up to
192GB
of high-speed registered
DDR3
system memory.
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A choice of either
1.5V
DIMMs, or
1.35V
DIMMs that consume
20%
less energy.
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A choice of power supplies including
460W
,
675W AC
or
DC
, or
energy-efficient 675W
.
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Four
available
high-performance
PCIe x8
adapter slots in all models. Optionally, riser cards
supporting PCI-X/133 or PCIe x16 adapters can be exchanged for the PCIe x8 slots.
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Upgrading to the
ServeRAID-M5015
controller provides
512MB
of battery-backed cache to
enable higher-performance hardware RAID support, and allows the x3650 M3 to offer
five
RAID levels standard:
RAID-0/1/10/5
/
50
(and optionally
6/60
with
SED
).
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The
five
or
six USB 2.0
ports (two front, two rear, one internal, plus one additional internal port
when the optional Tape Enablement Kit is installed) are up to
40X
faster
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than older
USB 1.1
ports. This provides speedy access to external HDDs (non-arrayed), optical drives, tape drives,
and other USB devices. Two ports are on the front of the unit and two are on the back. The
internal port supports a flash drive with embedded hypervisor or an internal tape or IBM RDX
removable disk storage drive.
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A choice of up to
sixteen
2.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA
HDDs
or
solid-state drives
, or
eight
2.5-inch drives and
one
internal tape drive, offer a variety of
storage options. The SAS and
SATA HDD models provide a maximum of
16TB
of internal
hot-swap
storage. The x3650 M3
supports a mix of hot-swap SAS, SATA and SSD drives.
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Alternatively, direct-attach, network-attached storage (NAS), or iSCSI or Fibre Channel-
attached storage can be attached using IBM
System Storage
™ servers.
Manageability / Security
Powerful systems management features simplify local and remote management of the x3650 M3:
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The x3650 M3 includes an
Integrated
Management Module
(
IMM
) to monitor server
availability, perform Predictive Failure Analysis, etc., and trigger IBM
Systems Director
alerts.
The IMM performs the functions of both the Baseboard Management Controller (
BMC
) of
earlier systems and the
Remote Supervisor Adapter II
and is upgradeable to
remote
presence/cKVM.
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An optional
Virtual Media Key
provides additional systems management capabilities, including
Web-based out-of-band control; virtual floppy and optical drive support; Windows “blue screen”
error capture; LDAP and SSL support; and remote redirection of keyboard, PCI video and text,
and mouse (cKVM). And it does all this without consuming a valuable adapter slot.
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Text Console Redirection
support allows the administrator to remotely view x3650 M3 text
messages over Serial or LAN.
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Integrated industry-standard Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (
UEFI
) next-generation
BIOS. New capabilities include:
– Human readable event logs — no more beep codes
– Complete out-of-band coverage by the Advance Settings Utility to simplify remote setup
– A complete setup solution, allowing adapter configuration functions to be moved into UEFI
– Consistent firmware management across an entire product line
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Integrated
Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2
support.
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Industry-standard
AES NI
support for faster, stronger encryption (in 5600 series processors
only).
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Integrated
IPMI 2.0
support alerts IBM Systems Director to anomalous environmental factors,
such as voltage and thermal conditions. It also supports
highly secure remote power control
using data encryption.
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IBM
Systems
Director
is included for proactive systems management. IBM Systems Director
comes with a portfolio of tools, including
IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager
, IBM
Service and Support Manager
, and others. In addition, IBM Systems Director offers extended
systems management tools for additional server management and increased availability. When
a problem is encountered, IBM Systems Director can issue administrator alerts via e-mail,
pager, and other methods.
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IBM
Systems Director Active Energy Manager
, an IBM-exclusive, is designed to take
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Data transfer rates may be less than the maximum possible.
