IBM X3620 M3 - Manual

A cost-optimized storage-rich alternative to traditional enterprise 2U dual-socket servers

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Product Guide

May 2010

IBM

System x3620 M3

Product Overview

CONTENTS

Product Overview

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Selling Features

2

Key Features

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Key Options

11

x3620 M3 Images

13

x3620 M3 Specifications

14

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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Cost-effective 2U storage server packed with innovation

Suggested Uses:

Departmental and file/print servers, online gaming, messaging, video/photo

sharing, email, transaction processing, blog hosting, and search engines; for large enterprise,
mid-market, SMBs, and emerging markets.

In today’s tough economic environment, your challenge is to do more with less—serve more Web
pages, handle more secure connections, support more e-mail users, and do it all on a tight
budget. 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

x3620 M3

can

reduce your costs with its new energy-smart design and budget-conscious features. It can
improve service with reduced operational complexity and increased management functionality. It
can lower your IT risk with the resiliency that comes from hot-swap/redundant features. And like
all IBM servers, the x3620 M3 offers you the trust that comes from the IBM global reach, service
and support.

The x3620 M3 is a game-changing rack server that uses significantly less power than previous
generations, with unified systems management tools; high reliability, availability, and
serviceability features; and broad system flexibility, housed in a compact 2U mechanical
package.

The x3620 M3 features

Intel

®

Xeon

®

5600

Series

6-core

and

4-core

, and

5500

Series

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 x3620 M3 supports up to

12 DIMMs

/

96GB

of RDIMM

1333MHz

DDR3

memory and

provides

Chipkill

™

ECC

(Error Checking and Correcting) protection—for high performance and

reliability. For even higher levels of availability, the x3620 M3 also offers

memory mirroring

.

Two

integrated high-speed

Gigabit Ethernet

ports are included, as are

three

high-performance

PCIe

adapter slots. The x3620 M3 offers an optional

embedded hypervisor

to manage your

virtual workloads.

Some System x3620 M3 models support up to

8

hot-swap

3.5-inch Serial-Attached SCSI

(SAS)

or

Serial-Attached ATA (SATA)

HDDs with an internal storage capacity of

16TB

. Other

models support up to

4

simple-swap SATA drives

, with a storage capacity of up to

8TB

. The

server includes

firmware

RAID-0/1 standard, and offers a choice of several IBM ServeRAID

®

storage controllers that provide broad levels of

hardware

-based

RAID solutions

. To meet your

backup needs, the x3620 M3 supports a choice of internal

tape drives

, as well as the internal

RDX Removable Disk Backup System

.

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,

252

processor cores (and

504

threads), offering tremendous deployment flexibility.

Standard in the x3620 M3 is the

Integrated Management Module (IMM)

that enables the user to

manage and control the server easily—both locally and remotely.

The IMM offers a high level of

manageability that is designed to keep costs down and the system up—even when network
usage increases. The IMM helps maximize network availability by increasing uptime, as do

Active Memory

™

protection,

hot-swap/redundant SAS

or

SATA

HDDs, hot-swap/redundant

ultra-efficient

power supplies

and redundant

fan modules

; integrated

RAID

;

temperature-

controlled fans

;

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.