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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supporting two PCI-X/133 adapters can be exchanged for the PCIe slots.
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Installing the
ServeRAID-M5015
option upgrades the basic
ServeRAID
controller with
512MB
of cache (optional battery) to enable higher-performance hardware RAID support, and allows
the x3650 M2 to offer
five
RAID levels standard:
RAID-0/1/10/5
/
50
(optionally
6/60 with
SED)
. The optional
ServeRAID MR10M
controller supports up to
four
IBM System Storage
™
EXP3000
expansion units containing up to
48
SAS HDDs and
14.4TB
of external storage.
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The
five USB 2.0
ports (two front, two rear, one internal) are up to
40X
faster
2
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
twelve
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 models provide a maximum of
6.0TB
of internal
hot-swap
storage.
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Alternatively, iSCSI or Fibre Channel-attached storage can be attached using IBM
System
Storage™
servers.
Manageability
Powerful systems management features simplify local and remote management of the x3650 M2:
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The x3650 M2 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 PCI video, text,
keyboard and mouse (cKVM). And it does all this without consuming a valuable adapter slot.
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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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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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Text Console Redirection
support allows the administrator to remotely view x3650 M2 text
messages over Serial or LAN.
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The completely redesigned
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
advantage of new system power management features, by providing actual realtime energy
monitoring and reporting features.
Availability and Serviceability
The System x3650 M2 provides many features to simplify serviceability and increase system
uptime:
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x3650 M2 servers offer
Chipkill
ECC memory protection
3
(when using x4 DIMMs). Chipkill
memory is up to
16X
better than standard ECC memory at correcting memory errors. This can
help reduce downtime caused by memory errors.
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The x3650 M2 offers
memory mirroring
for redundancy in the event of a non-correctable
memory failure
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Data transfer rates may be less than the maximum possible.
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Chipkill protection is supported with x4 DDR-3 DIMMs, but not x8 DIMMs.
