A highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket SMP server, for application
serving in Web environments
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x3650 Specifications
27.5” (698mm)
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Operating systems supported
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Standard/Web/Enterprise Editions) 32/64-bit,
Windows 2000 Server (Standard/Enterprise Editions), RHEL 3/4 32/64-bit, SLES 9
32/64-bit, Novell Open Enterprise Server (NetWare 6.5), VMware ESX Server 2.5/3.0
Length of limited warranty
3 years (parts and labor)
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The Bottom Line
The x3650 is an extremely powerful system, building on the legacy of the x346 server by
incorporating leading-edge industry-standard features and adding IBM-unique innovations:
Price/Performance
•
High-throughput processors
—
1.6
to
3.16GHz
quad-core
or
1.6
to
3.0GHz
dual-core
Xeon processors; up to
8
(quad-core) or
4
(dual-core)
processor cores
per server
•
Energy-efficient low-voltage processors
—
50W quad-core
and
65W dual-core
Xeon
processors
•
Large cache
—
12MB, 8MB
,
6MB
or
4MB
of L2 processor cache
•
64-bit extensions
(EM64T)
•
Leading-edge front-side bus
—
1333MHz
or
1066MHz
FSB (model-specific)
•
Fast memory
—
Fully buffered
667MHz PC2-5300 DDR II
ECC memory standard with
two-
way
or
four-way interleaving
•
Fast disk technology
— Integrated
Serial-Attach SCSI (SAS)
controller and slotless
hardware-based
RAID-0
data striping and
RAID-10
striped/mirrored arrays, with
32MB
of
onboard
cache
•
Fast communications
— Integrated
dual Gigabit Ethernet
controllers, supporting
load-
balancing
,
failover
and
TOE
•
Fast I/O
—
PCI-E
x8
adapter slots
Flexibility
•
Large memory capacity
—
48GB
of
fully buffered memory
, using
12
DIMMs
•
A choice of
six 3.5-inch SAS
or
SATA
drives
or
eight 2.5-inch SAS
drives
•
High-capacity disk storage
— Up to
1.8TB
of internal
hot-swap
SAS
or
6TB
of
hot-swap
SATA
storage using
3.5-inch
drives; up to
1.17TB
of internal
hot-swap SAS
storage using
2.5-inch
drives
•
Support for an
optional half-height internal backup drive
(in place of two 3.5-inch HDDs, or
in addition
to eight 2.5-inch HDDs); choice of
removable disk cartridge
(GoVault EZ),
DDS-5
tape, or
VS160
tape
•
High-performance external expansion
—
Seven
480Mbps
USB 2.0
ports (two front, four
rear, one internal);
one
external
SAS
port
•
Hardware-based
RAID-0/1/10
support standard; optional slotless RAID support for
RAID-
1E/5/6
•
Four
available
adapter slots —
Four
x8
PCI-E
slots (4Gbps)
An optional riser card containing
two
133MHz PCI-X
slots can replace the riser card
containing two of the PCI-E slots
•
Integrated
DVD/CD-RW
combo drive
•
Two video ports
(one on the front and one on the back)
•
Optional
iSCSI HBA Adapter for IXA Connectivity
(to System i
™
/iSeries
™
servers)
Manageability, Serviceability and Availability
•
IBM
Director
systems management software, including:
IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager for x86
IBM Management Processor Assistant
IBM Rack Manager
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which this product is sold.