A highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket SMP server, for application
serving in Web environments
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Product Guide
March 2008
IBM
System x3650
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 Images
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x3650 Specifications
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The Bottom Line
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For More Information
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Legal Information
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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 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.
