IBM X3650 M3 - Manual

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

March 2010

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

, and

5500

Series

4-core

and

2-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

1

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

8.0TB

(

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

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192GB of RDIMM or 48GB of UDIMM memory supported when 16GB RDIMMs and 4GB UDIMMs are available in 2Q/2010.