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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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 For terms and conditions or copies of the IBM Statement of Limited Warranty, call 800-772-2227 in the U.S. In Canada call 800-

426-2255. IBM makes no representation or warranty regarding third-party products or services including those designated as 
ServerProven or ClusterProven. Telephone support may be subject to additional charges. For warranties including onsite labor, a 
technician is sent after IBM attempts to resolve the problem remotely. International warranty service is available in any country in 
which this product is sold. 

Summary of Contents for x3650 - System M2 - 7947

Page 1: ...al 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 8TB1 or up to six 3 5 inch Serial ATA SATA hot swap drives...

Page 2: ...d dual Gigabit Ethernet controllers with IPMI 2 0 support provide high speed network communications Jumbo Frames offer higher efficiency transfers for large data packets The TCP Offload Engine TOE fea...

Page 3: ...s can help reduce downtime caused by memory errors Fully buffered DIMMs provide additional availability features including CRC cyclic redundancy check monitoring The x3650 offers selectable online hot...

Page 4: ...ame speed Xeon processor with a single core Likewise quad core processors offer considerably higher performance than a same speed Xeon processor with dual cores Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology EM6...

Page 5: ...x8 adapters Slot 1 is full length full height and Slot 2 is half length full height Electrically they are x8 slots as well meaning that they operate at full x8 4GBps speeds Slots 3 and 4 are low profi...

Page 6: ...128MB battery backed cache 133MHz PCI X 2 ports for external SCSI RAID storage The ServeRAID 6M controllers support external SCSI expansion via the IBM EXP400 Storage Expansion Unit For external stor...

Page 7: ...reds in a data center and it can make a big difference In addition the server uses hexagonal ventilation holes in the chassis Hexagonal holes can be grouped more densely than round holes providing gre...

Page 8: ...es exiting each server which then connect to a KVM switch The cables exiting a series of KVM switches must then be aggregated via additional KVM switches and PDUs which only increases the number and c...

Page 9: ...a highly secure electronic dialogue between your systems and IBM It monitors networked servers for hardware errors and it can perform hardware and software inventories and report inventory changes to...

Page 10: ...unable to reset the hardware timer If the timer is not reset within five minutes it automatically triggers the ASR hardware which immediately restarts the server and logs an ASR event with IBM Directo...

Page 11: ...are available Power Supply The optional second power supply for the x3650 enables redundancy for hot swap power and adds five additional fans for increased cooling capacity and redundancy Remote Super...

Page 12: ...ntralize your Microsoft Windows and System i5 or iSeries storage and consolidate the operations and backup of your System x xSeries System i5 and iSeries systems into a single infrastructure It enable...

Page 13: ...JAX JAY 1 86GHz L5320 JBX JBY Dual core Xeon 51xx 1 6GHz E5110 2xX 2xY 2 0GHz E5130 4xX 4xY 2 33GHz E5140 5xX 5xY 3 0GHz E5160 7xX 7xY Maximum processor power draw 50W JxX JxY LxX LxY 65W 2xX 2xY 4xX...

Page 14: ...0GB hot swap SAS with internal backup drive installed x1X x1Y L2X L2Y x3X x3Y x4X x4Y x7X x7Y x9X x9Y 2 5 inch SAS 1 17TB 8 x 146 8GB hot swap SAS with or without internal backup drive xAX xAY xBX xBY...

Page 15: ...one USB attached of keyboard ports None USB attached of USB 2 0 ports 6 external 2 front 4 rear ports plus 1 internal USB connector Integrated systems management controller Yes BMC Optional systems ma...

Page 16: ...apacity 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...

Page 17: ...memory protection and either Online hot spare memory or Memory mirroring Slotless hardware based RAID 1 disk mirroring and RAID 10 striped mirrored arrays standard optional slotless RAID 1E 5 6 highl...

Page 18: ...ble in all countries in which IBM operates IBM PROVIDES THIS PUBLICATION AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FO...

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