A cost-optimized storage-rich alternative to traditional enterprise 2U dual-socket servers
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With the inclusion of unique IBM service and support features such as the IMM,
IBM Systems
Director 6.1
,
IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager
™
,
IBM ToolsCenter
,
IBM
ServerGuide
™
, and
support for the optional Virtual Media Key for remote presence capability, the
x3620 M3 is designed for superior uptime.
If you need highly manageable, dual-socket/multi-core computing power in a budget rack-dense
package, the x3620 M3 is the ideal system.
Selling Features
Price/Performance
The x3620 M3 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce costs:
•
Up to
two 6-core
or
4-core
Xeon 5600 Series or
4-core
Xeon 5500 Series processors and
12MB
or
4MB
of cache per processor, offer superior performance capable of tackling the
toughest jobs.
64-bit extensions
provide the flexibility to run 32-bit and 64-bit applications
concurrently. Xeon 5600 series processors offer up to
43%
better performance than the
previous-generation 5500 series processors (depending on workload).
•
Low-voltage processors
(available via the Configure To Order process) draw less energy
and produce less waste heat than high-voltage processors, thus helping to reduce data center
energy costs. Selected
4-core
Xeon 5600 Series processors use only
40W
and selected
6-
core
processors consume only
60W
. This is less than half the wattage consumed by 130W
processors.
•
Twelve
DIMMs of registered
1333MHz DDR3
ECC memory with
Chipkill
1
protection
(optional) provide speed, high availability, and a memory capacity of up
96GB
.
•
x3620 M3 servers using the
L5640
(via CTO) and
X56
xx processors support 2 DIMMs per
channel (2DPC) at 1333MHz (using 1.5V DIMMs).
•
Two x8
(“by 8”)
PCIe Gen 2
and
one x4 PCIe Gen 2 adapter slot
offer investment protection
by supporting high-performance adapters, such as 10Gb Ethernet, Fibre Channel and
InfiniBand cards, none of which will run in older 33MHz and 66MHz conventional PCI slots.
•
The optional integrated
3Gbps ServeRAID-BR10il
v2
controller, or the
6Gbps
ServeRAID-
M1015, ServeRAID-M5014
, or
ServeRAID-M5015
controller,
provide high-performance RAID
support for SAS/SATA drives.
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Up to
8 3.5-inch
hot-swap SAS/SATA
hard disk drives offer high-performance and high
capacity, with high availability. Up to
4 3.5-inch simple-swap SATA
drives offer high
capacity and quick servicing
•
The integrated
dual-port Gigabit Ethernet
controller with
IPMI 2.0
provide high-speed
network communications.
•
A
high degree of device integration
—including hot swap SAS/SATA HDDs, multiple
hardware-based ServeRAID options, Gigabit Ethernet ports, systems management and video
controllers—lowers costs and frees up valuable adapter slots.
Flexibility
The x3620 M3 has the ability to grow with your application requirements, thanks to
•
A choice of
4-core
or
6-core
processors with
2.13
to
2.66GHz
clock rates, up to
6.4
gigatransfers per second
, and
80W
or
95W
maximum power draw. (Two additional choices,
40W
and
60W
, are available via CTO.)
•
A choice of either standard
1.5V
DIMMs, or
1.35V
DIMMs
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that consume
20%
less energy.
•
Up to
96GB
of high-speed registered
DDR3
system memory.
•
Three
available
high-performance
PCIe
adapter slots in all models.
•
Upgrading to one of several
ServeRAID
controllers provides up to
512MB
of battery-backed
cache to enable higher-performance hardware RAID support, and allows the x3620 M3 to
offer
five
RAID levels standard:
RAID-0/1/10/5
/
50
(and optionally
6/60
with
Self-Encrypting
Disk
).
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The
five USB 2.0
ports (two front, two rear, one internal) are up to
40X
faster
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than older
USB
1.1
ports. This provides speedy access to external HDDs (non-arrayed), optical drives, tape
drives, and other USB devices. Two ports are on the front of the unit and two are on the back.
The internal port supports an internal tape or IBM RDX Removable Disk Backup System, and
a flash drive with embedded hypervisor can be support via another internal USB port.
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A choice of up to
eight
3.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA
HDDs
or
four
3.5-inch simple-swap
SATA
drives and
one
internal tape drive or RDX Removable Disk Backup System, offer a
variety of
storage options. The
SATA
models provide a maximum of
16.0TB
of internal
storage, while the
SAS
models support up to
4.8TB
.
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All models require Chipkill-enabled DIMMs (provided standard) for Chipkill protection.
