Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and
expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server
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Product Guide
December 2009
IBM
System x3650 M2
Product Overview
CONTENTS
Product Overview
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Selling Features
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Key Features
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Key Options
12
x3650 M2 Images
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x3650 M2 Specifications
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The Bottom Line
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Server Comparison
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Legal Information
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Flagship 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, database, and enterprise resource planning applications.
Your challenge is to do more with less—serve more Web pages, handle more secure
connections, support more e-mail users. You need to reduce the costs of doing business and
improve the service you deliver to your customers while lowering your overall risk. The
dual-
socket
IBM
®
System
x3650 M2
can reduce your costs with its new energy smart design. It can
improve service with reduced operational complexity and increased management functionality. It
will lower your IT risk with the resiliency that comes from no single point of failure. And like all
IBM servers, the x3650 M2 offers you the trust that comes from the IBM global reach, service and
support.
The x3650 M2 is not simply an upgrade to a previous server. It is one of our new generation of X-
Architecture servers. It is a game-changing, completely redesigned rack server using significantly
less power with unified systems management tools, leadership reliability, availability,
serviceability features and broad system flexibility, housed in a compact 2U mechanical package.
The x3650 M2 features
Intel
®
Xeon
®
5500
Series
4-core
and
2-core
processors, and either
8MB
or
4MB
of
shared cache
, to help provide you with the computing power you need to match your
business needs and growth. This new line of Intel processors delivers unprecedented intelligent
performance with features like adaptive performance for applications and environments, turbo
boost and hyper-threading technology, and integrated power gates and automated power
management.
The x3650M2 uses up to
16 DIMMs
with
128GB
of
registered
1333MHz
DDR3
memory with
Chipkill
™
ECC
(Error Checking and Correcting) protection—for high performance and reliability.
For even higher levels of availability, the x3650M2 also offers online memory mirroring. Up to
4
integrated high-speed
Gigabit Ethernet
controllers with
TOE
(TCP Offload Engine) and
Jumbo
Frame
support are available, as are four high-performance adapter slots (
PCIe x8
). The
x3650M2 offers an optional
embedded hypervisor
to manage your virtual workloads.
The System x3650 M2 offers a choice of up to twelve high-performance hot-swap hard disk
drives with an internal storage capacity of
6.0TB
(
twelve 2.5-inch hot-swap Serial-Attached
SCSI
(SAS)
or
Serial-Attached ATA (SATA)
HDDs).
Twelve
optional
solid-state drives (SSDs)
are also available to keep power low, improve resiliency, and offer up to
600GB
of storage.
Alternatively, up to
eight
HDDs or SSDs and
one
internal tape drive can be used. The server
supports a choice of four IBM ServeRAID
®
storage controllers which provide broad levels of
hardware
-based
RAID solutions
. The ultra-dense
2U
form factor allows businesses to increase
their computing power and spread their workload without outgrowing their current data center. Up
to 21 of these
2U
servers can be installed in a single 42U rack, for a total of up to
42
processors
and
168
processor cores, offering tremendous deployment flexibility. Optional Advanced
Connectivity Technology (
ACT)
interconnect cabling reduces cable clutter and cost and
minimizes installation time when interconnecting many rack-mounted servers.
Standard in the x3650 M2 is the Integrated Management Module (IMM) that enables the user to
manage and control the server easily—both locally and remotely. In conjunction with the IMM, the
x3650 M2 comes with a Bosch BMP085
altitude sensor (altimeter)
that
governs fan rotation
based on altitude, to help lower your energy consumption. The IMM offers a high level of
manageability that is designed to keep costs down and the system up—even when network
usage increases. IBM’s innovative pop-out/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 solid-state
drives;
hot-
swap/redundant SAS
or SATA HDDs, redundant ultra-efficient
power supplies
and
fan
modules
;
Active Memory
™
; integrated
RAID
;
temperature-controlled fans
with
Calibrated
