IBM X3650 - Manual

IBM X3650

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Table of Contents:

  • Page 2 – Selling Features; Flexibility
  • Page 4 – Key Features; High-Performance Xeon Processors
  • Page 8 – Toolless chassis; Rack Cable Management and KVM Console Switching; ACT; Extensive System Support Features; ServerProven; Directly; Via Secondary
  • Page 9 – Advanced Systems Management Capabilities
  • Page 11 – Key Options
  • Page 12 – Front View; SAS HDDs; Video Port; Bays
  • Page 13 – Interior View; 2 DIMM Slots; HDD Bays
  • Page 16 – The Bottom Line
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A highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket SMP server, for application
serving in Web environments





Product Guide

September 2008


IBM

System x3650

Product Overview




CONTENTS

Product Overview

1

Selling Features

2

Key Features

4

Key Options

11

x3650 Images

12

x3650 Specifications

13

The Bottom Line

16

For More Information

18

L

egal Information

18

Outstanding performance, availability and capacity in a
2U rack-dense package

Suggested uses:

Medium to large enterprises with demanding applications in data-dense

environments.

Whether you are a small business or a global industry, your mission-critical applications and
data must be protected. From a simple application to the most complex solution, the

dual-

socket

IBM

®

System

x3650

, incorporating IBM

X-Architecture

features, is designed to

protect your data with high performance, high reliability and high availability. The x3650
supports the latest

quad-

and

dual-core

Intel

®

Xeon

processors (including

50W low-voltage

quad-core

Xeon processors), designed with up to a leading-edge

1333MHz

front-side bus

(FSB),

64-bit extensions

(

EM64T

), and either

6MB

or

4MB

(dual-core) or

8MB

or

12MB

(quad-core) of L2 cache, to help provide you with the computing power you need to match your
business needs and growth. In addition, the x3650 uses industry-standard

fully buffered

667MHz

memory with

Chipkill

ECC

(Error Checking and Correcting) protection—for high

performance and reliability. For even higher levels of availability, the x3650 also offers a choice
of optional online hot-spare memory or memory mirroring.

Dual

integrated high-speed

Gigabit

Ethernet

controllers with

TOE

(TCP Offload Engine) and

Jumbo Frame

support are standard,

as are high-performance adapter slots (

PCI-E x8

and optional

PCI-X/133

).

All models offer impressive scalability, including dual-processor support, up to

48GB

of memory

and a variety of high-performance internal hard disk and backup drive configurations: up to

six

3.5-inch

Serial-Attach

SCSI

(SAS)

hot-swap

drives with an internal storage capacity of

1.8TB

1

, or up to

six 3.5-inch

Serial ATA

(SATA)

hot-swap

drives (

6TB

), or

eight 2.5-inch SAS

hot-swap

drives (

1.17TB

). Hardware-based

RAID-0/1/10

support is standard. An optional IBM

ServeRAID-8k

SAS RAID controller adds

256MB

of battery-backed cache to the onboard

controller to provide

three additional

RAID levels, including

RAID-1E/5/6

. The slim

2U

size of

the x3650 helps you maximize your rack investments. Up to

21

of these servers can be installed

in a single 42U rack, for a total of up to

42

processors, offering the ideal balance of

performance, storage and I/O slots per rack. Optional Advanced Connectivity Technology (

ACT)

interconnect cabling helps reduce cable clutter and cost and minimizes installation time when
interconnecting many rack-mounted servers.

Standard in the x3650 is a

Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)

that enables the user to

manage and control the server easily—both locally and remotely. This high level of
manageability is designed to help keep management costs down and the system up. The 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/redundant

HDDs

,

power

and

fans

;

Active Memory

;

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

.

With the inclusion of unique IBM service and support features such as

light path diagnostics

,

IBM Systems

Director

,

IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager for x86

(formerly

known as PowerExecutive),

IBM ServerGuide

and

support for the optional

Remote

Supervisor Adapter

II

SlimLine

, the x3650 is designed for maximum uptime.

If you need a balance of high-performance dual-socket processing and large internal storage in
a rack-dense environment, the x3650 is the ideal system.

1

TB equals 1,000,000,000,000 bytes when referring to hard disk drive capacity. Accessible capacity may be less.

Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information.

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Summary

Page 2 - Selling Features; Flexibility

A highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket SMP server, for application serving in Web environments Selling Features Price/Performance The x3650 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce product and operating costs: • Up to two quad- or dual-core Xeon processors with...

Page 4 - Key Features; High-Performance Xeon Processors

A highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket SMP server, for application serving in Web environments greater investment protection than a one-year warranty does. Key Features High-Performance Xeon Processors The x3650 supports up to two high-performance Intel Xeon processors, allowi...

Page 8 - Toolless chassis; Rack Cable Management and KVM Console Switching; ACT; Extensive System Support Features; ServerProven; Directly; Via Secondary

A highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket SMP server, for application serving in Web environments • Toolless chassis — The cover can be opened without tools, and many components can be removed and replaced without tools, including the CD-RW/DVD combo drive, hot-swap HDDs, plus PC...

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