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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and
expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server
Product Guide
March 2010
IBM System x3650 M3
Product Overview
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
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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server 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. With the inclusion of unique IB
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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server • A choice of either standard 1.5V DIMMs, or 1.35V DIMMs that consume 10% less energy. • Four available high-performance PCIe x8 adapter slots in all models. Optionally, riser cards supporting PCI-X/133 or PCIe x16 adapters can be exchanged for the PCIe x8 slots. • Upgrading to the ServeRAID-M5015 controller provides 512MB of battery-backed cache to
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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server memory is up to 16X better than standard ECC memory at correcting memory errors. This can help reduce downtime caused by memory errors. • The x3650 M3 offers memory mirroring for redundancy in the event of a non-correctable memory failure • Toolless cover removal provides easy access to upgrades and serviceable parts. Similarly, the Virtua
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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server Also available, via configure-to-order (CTO): • 130W 4-core Xeon 5600 model X5677 running at 3.46GHz, with impressive performance (32.5W per core; 6.4GTps QPI speed), 12MB of L3 processor cache, 1333MHz memory access, 2 threads per core, and Intel Turbo Boost technology • 95W 4-core Xeon 5600 model X5667 running at 3.06GHz, with reduced draw and im
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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server slots (192GB in 12 slots, as of 2Q/2010), or up to 24GB of UDIMM (unbuffered DIMM) memory in 12 slots (48GB in 12 slots, as of 2Q/2010). The x3650 M3 also supports either standard 1.5V DIMMs, or 1.35V DIMMs that consume 10% less energy. Redesign in the architecture of the Xeon 5500 and 5600 series processors bring radical changes in the way memory w
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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server with six 2GB single-rank DIMMs by 7% for SPECjbb2005. Dual-rank DIMMs are also better than quad-rank DIMMs because quad-rank DIMMs will cause the memory speed to be down- clocked. Another important guideline is to populate equivalent ranks per channel. For instance, mixing one single-rank DIMM and one dual-rank DIMM in a channel should be avoided.
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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server updated/patched much like firmware. Licensing works the same as for “standard” ESX. Disk Controllers All x3650 M3 models include a ServeRAID-BR10il v2, ServerRAID-M1015, ServeRAID-M5014, or ServeRAID-M5015 SAS/SATA controller standard (model-dependent) to enhance system availability and data protection without using a PCI slot. 6 The 3Gbps (x4 P
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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server Superior Uptime – 3X the availability of mechanical disk drives – No moving parts to fail – Enterprise wear-leveling to extend life even further Full OS Support – Supports all ServerProven OSes 2-5-inch HDDs not only require less space than 3.5-inch drives, they weigh less, consume half the power, produce less noise, seek faster, and offer i
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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server capability for future upgrades to Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI protocol offloads. By using a common infrastructure for Ethernet and storage networks, data centers can reduce capital expense (CapEx) for adapters, switches and cables, and operational expense (OpEx) for power, cooling and IT administration. End-to-end data protection w
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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server components, including: • Redundant memory protection (with Chipkill protection, and memory mirroring enabled) • Hot-swap, redundant hard disk drives and solid-state drives (with RAID protection) • Hot-swap, redundant power supplies • Hot-swap, redundant cooling fan modules Other Features • Five USB 2.0 ports — Provides flexibility to add high-s
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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server and operating systems personalization. IBM offers extensive technical support by phone and via the Web. Support options include links to forums/newsgroups, problem submission, online shopping support, service offerings, device drivers for all IBM product lines, software downloads and even upcoming technical seminar worldwide schedules and registrat
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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server the ability to add more tools to the bootable image and to automatically download the bootable environment if needed. Bootable Media Creator allows you to create bootable CDs, DVD, and USB keys for updates customized to your systems. IBM developed IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager to put control of system power- saving features at the finge
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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server processor. Hard Disk Drives — IBM hard disk drives help you improve the transaction and cost performance of your System x servers. The choice of hard disk drives can be a critical aspect of maximizing the I/O throughput of the system. 2.5-inch SAS hard disk drives are available for the x3650 M3 with capacities of 500GB at 7,200 RPMs, up to 300GB at
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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server IBM System x3650 M3 Images Front View Hexagonal Empty Hot-Swap Pop-Out/Drop-Down Light Video Port USB 2.0 Ventilation 2.5” HDD Bays Path Diagnostics Panel Ports Holes Light Path Diagnostics Panel Eject Button Hot-Swap 2.5” Empty HDD Power Status Light Path Optical Drive HDDs Fillers Button Lights Diagnostics Panel Eject Button Inside V
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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server IBM System x3650 M3 Specifications Machine type 7945-A2x, B2x, C2x, D2x, F2x, G2x, H2x, J2x, L2x, M2x, N2x Form factor 2U 6-Core Xeon 4-Core Xeon (L56xx/X56xx) (E56xx/L56xx) 2.26GHz L5640 4-Core Xeon 2.13GHz L5630 (H2x), 2.66GHz (E55xx) (C2x), 2.4GHz 2-Core Xeon X5650 (J2x), 2.13GHz E5506 (E55xx) E5620 (D2x), 2.8GHz X5660 (A2
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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server (* When available in 2Q/2010) 1333MHz RDIMM 1333MHz UDIMM 1066MHz RDIMM 2GB single-rank x4, 2GB dual-rank x8 1.5V; *8GB dual-rank x4 1.35V; 1.5V; *4GB dual-rank x8 1.35V *16GB quad-rank x4 1.5V 2GB single-rank x8 1.5V; 2GB dual-rank x8 1.5V; 2GB dual-rank x8 1.35V; 4GB dual-rank x4 1.5V; 4GB dual-rank x4 1.35V; 8GB dual-rank x4 1.5V; *8GB dua
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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server # of 33MHz legacy PCI slots None # of video ports 2 (one front, one rear) Matrox G200eV (in IMM) standard Video controller (NVIDIA FX580, 1800, or 3800 available for CTO and special-bid models) Video memory 16MB DDR2 SDRAM Maximum video resolutions 1280x1024 at 60Hz (32 bits) 1600x1200 at 85Hz (16 bits) Gigabit Ethernet controller Broadcom BCM
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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server The IBM System x3650 M3 is an extremely energy efficient, powerful system, incorporating The Bottom Line significantly redesigned management tools and abundant IBM-unique innovations: Price/Performance • High-throughput processors — Up to two 2.66 to 3.33GHz 6-core, 2.40GHz to 3.46GHz 4- core, or 1.86GHz to 2.13GHz low-voltage 4-core or 2.26GHz l
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x3950 X5 x3850 X5 x3755 x3690 X5 x3650 M3 x3550 M3 x3250 M3 Distributed Deployment Security Systems Management High Availability Density I/O and Storage Integer Performance Memory Throughput Floating Point Performance Scalability Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server Advanced Chipkill ECC memory protection suppo
