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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Vectored Cooling
™
;
IPMI 2.0
support, including
highly secure remote power control
and
Serial over LAN
; as well as
text-console redirect over LAN
.
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 6.1
,
IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager
™
,
IBM
ServerGuide
™
and
support for the optional Virtual Media Key for remote presence capability, the
x3650 M2 is designed for superior uptime.
If you need highly manageable, dual-socket/multi-core computing power in a rack-dense
package, the x3650 M2 is the ideal system.
Selling Features
Price/Performance
The x3650 M2 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce costs:
•
Up to
two 4-core
Xeon 5500 Series processors and
8MB
or
4MB
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 5500 series processors
offer up to 225% better performance than the previous-generation 5400 series processors and
up to 900% better performance than the single-core processors of a few years ago that you
may still be using.
•
Low-voltage processors
draw less energy and produce less waste heat than high-voltage
processors, thus helping to reduce data center energy costs. Some
4-core
Xeon 5500 Series
processors use only
60W
. This is less than half the wattage consumed by older 130W
processors.
•
Sixteen DIMMs of ultra-fast registered
1333MHz
(or
1066MHz
or
800MHz
)
DDR3
ECC
memory with
Chipkill
1
protection (optional) provides speed, high availability, and a memory
capacity of up
128GB
.
•
Optional
50GB solid-state drives (SSD)
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).
•
The x3650 M2 is a leader in server resiliency. With hot-swap power supplies, fan modules,
and storage, the x3650 M2 has
no single point of failure
.
•
An altimeter works in conjunction with 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.
•
Integrated
ServeRAID
-
M5015
(on selected models) provides
RAID-0
/
1/10/5/50
(optional
6/60
with
Self-Encrypting Disk (SED))
without consuming a valuable adapter slot. It also offers
higher performance
512MB battery-backed cache
.
•
Up to
twelve 2.5-inch
hot-swap SAS
hard disk drives offer high-performance with high
availability. The SAS controller provides full-duplex (
bidirectional 300MBps
) data transfers
for SAS drives.
•
The integrated
dual Gigabit Ethernet
controllers with
IPMI 2.0
provide high-speed network
communications.
Jumbo Frames
offer higher efficiency transfers for large data packets. Two
more NICS can be supported on 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.
Flexibility
The x3650 M2 has the ability to grow with your application requirements, thanks to
•
A choice of
four-core
or
two-core
processors with
1.86
to
2.93GHz
clock rates, up to
6.4
gigatransfers per second
, and
60W
to
95W
maximum power draw.
•
Up to
128GB
of high-speed registered
DDR3
system memory.
•
Four
available
high-performance
PCIe x8
adapter slots in all models. Optionally, riser cards
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All models require Chipkill-enabled DIMMs (provided standard) for Chipkill protection.
