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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Product Guide
February 2011
IBM
System x3650 M3
Product Overview
CONTENTS
Product Overview
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Selling Features
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Key Features
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Key Options
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x3650 M3 Images
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x3650 M3 Specifications
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The Bottom Line
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Server Comparison
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For More Information
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Legal Information
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Business-critical 2U server packed with innovation
Suggested Uses:
All sectors requiring highly available, energy-efficient, rack-optimized solution
for physical and virtual intensive commercial environments like eBusiness/eCommerce,
collaboration, virtualization, database, and enterprise resource planning applications.
Your challenge is to do more with less—serve more Web pages, handle more secure connections,
support more e-mail users. You need to reduce the costs of doing business and improve the
service you deliver to your customers while lowering your overall risk. The
dual-socket
IBM
®
System
x3650 M3
can reduce your costs with its new energy-smart design. It can improve service
with reduced operational complexity and increased management functionality. It will lower your IT
risk with the resiliency that comes from no single point of failure. And like all IBM servers, the
x3650 M3 offers you the trust that comes from the IBM global reach, service and support.
The x3650 M3 is a game-changing rack server that uses significantly less power than previous
generations, with unified systems management tools, leadership reliability, availability,
serviceability features and broad system flexibility, housed in a compact 2U mechanical package.
The x3650 M3 features
Intel
®
Xeon
®
5600
series
6-core
and
4-core
processors, with up to
12MB
of shared
L3 cache
, to provide you with the computing power you need to match your business
needs and growth. The new line of Intel processors delivers unprecedented intelligent
performance with features like adaptive performance for applications and environments, Turbo
Boost Technology and Hyper-Threading Technology, and integrated power gates and automated
power management.
The x3650 M3 supports up to
18 DIMMs
/
192GB
of RDIMM
1333MHz
DDR3
memory (or up to
12
DIMMs /
48GB
of UDIMM memory) and provides
Chipkill
™
ECC
(Error Checking and Correcting)
protection—for high performance and reliability. For even higher levels of availability, the x3650
M3 also offers
memory mirroring
. Up to
4
integrated high-speed
Gigabit Ethernet
controllers
are available (offering
TOE
(TCP Offload Engine) support on Microsoft
®
Windows
®
), as are four
high-performance adapter slots (
PCIe x8
). The x3650 M3 offers an optional
embedded
hypervisor
to manage your virtual workloads.
The System x3650 M3 supports up to
16
high-performance hot-swap HDDs with an internal
storage capacity of
16TB
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(
2.5-inch hot-swap Serial-Attached SCSI
(SAS)
or
Serial-Attached
ATA (SATA)
drives). Alternatively, up to
16
solid-state drives (SSDs)
are also available to keep
power low, improve resiliency, and offer up to
800GB
of storage. To address your backup needs,
up to
eight
HDDs or SSDs and
one
internal tape drive or removable disk cartridge drive can be
used. The server includes a choice of several IBM ServeRAID
®
storage controllers that provide
broad levels of
hardware
-based
RAID solutions
. The ultra-dense
2U
form factor allows
businesses to increase their computing power and spread their workload without outgrowing their
current data center. Up to 21 of these
2U
servers can be installed in a single 42U rack, for a total
of up to
42
processors and
252
processor cores, offering tremendous deployment flexibility.
Standard in the x3650 M3 is the Integrated Management Module (IMM) that enables the user to
manage and control the server easily—both locally and remotely. In conjunction with the IMM, the
x3650 M3 comes with a Bosch BMP085
altitude sensor (altimeter)
that
governs fan rotation
based on altitude, to help lower your energy consumption. The IMM offers a high level of
manageability that is designed to keep costs down and the system up—even when network usage
increases. IBM’s innovative pop-out/drop-down
light path diagnostics
panel enables quick
servicing of the system if a problem develops. These advanced features help maximize network
availability by increasing uptime, as do
hot-swap solid-state
drives;
hot-swap/redundant SAS
or
SATA
HDDs, redundant ultra-efficient
power supplies
and
fan modules
;
Active Memory
™
;
integrated
RAID
;
temperature-controlled fans
with
Calibrated Vectored Cooling
™
;
IPMI 2.0
support, including
highly secure remote power control
and
Serial over LAN
; as well as
text-
console redirect over LAN
.
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Available 2Q/2011.
