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High-Performance Adapter Slots
The x3650 M2 provides four
x8
(“by 8”)
8GBps
PCIe (PCI Express)
Gen 2
high performance I/O
slots that the double performance vs. the x3650 for added long-term investment protection (2 PCI
x16 Gen 2
slots optional via riser cards). Each is capable of supporting
x1/x4/x8
adapters at full
speed.
One slot is full height, half length. The other is low profile.
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Four
PCIe Gen 2
slots:
Two
x8-full-height, half-length
(convertible to one PCI-X/133 MHz with riser option)
One
x8 full height, half length
One
x8 low profile
(convertible to one PCI-X133 MHz with riser option)
•
All new
adapter development is on PCI Express
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Example: no 8GB fibre for PCI-X
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Good for digital media, 2D graphics environments
PCI Express
is a high-performance, low-latency, next-generation serial I/O bus that is rapidly
replacing the older parallel PCI and PCI-X buses. A
x16
PCIe adapter offers approximately eight
times
the maximum throughput of a 133MHz PCI-X adapter
7
. (A
x1
adapter offers throughput
similar to a
66MHz
PCI-X slot.)
There is a built-in riser card in the x3650 M2
that provides a PCIe connector (physical x8
connector wired with x4 lanes) for an internal ServeRAID card.
Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
The x3650 M2 includes
one dual-port
integrated
Broadcom 5709C
Gigabit Ethernet controller
standard, for up to 10X higher maximum throughput than a 10/100 Ethernet controller, as well as
support for
Jumbo Frames
and
TOE
(TCP Offload Engine).
Jumbo Frames
—those larger than the standard frame (packet) size of 1,500 bytes—can be
more efficient, dramatically increasing network performance and reducing server CPU overhead.
TOE
helps improve overall system performance by offloading TCP/IP protocol processing from
the system microprocessor to the onboard Ethernet TOE processor. There is no additional
charge for this capability.
It also supports highly secure remote power management using
IPMI
2.0
, plus
Wake on LAN
®
and
PXE
(Preboot Execution Environment) flash interface. Optional PCI adapters offering failover
and load balancing between adapters are available for added throughput and increased system
availability.
Integrated quad Gb Ethernet ports:
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Up to four (4) Gb Ethernet ports, ideal for virtualization and I/O-intensive workloads
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2 ports standard, plus two additional ports via optional daughtercard
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Improves system performance by offloading protocol processing from CPU to a separate TOE
engine
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Primary performance improvement for data copying (CPU) where CPU utilization is 90-100%
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The embedded NIC/TOE supports software iSCSI using a Microsoft iSCSI initiator
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Using a software initiator enables offloading the processing of TCP frames with the TOE
engine in the adapter card, but the processing of iSCSI packets themselves is not hardware-
offloaded at the Broadcom NIC
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Broadcom hardware-offloaded iSCSI (using TOE engine) of the iSCSI frames
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iSCSI and RDMA are
not
supported on this server
Two Broadcom 5709 Gigabit Ethernet controllers (one on-board and one on an
optional
daughter
card) provide four Gigabit ports supporting IEEE 802.3 for 1000Base-T, 100Base-TX, and
10Base-T applications (802.3, 802.3u, 802.3ab) through a RJ-45 connector to an Ethernet
network over a CAT 5 twisted-pair cable. This controller supports PXE 2.0 remote boot,
TOE
, and
jumbo frames (9KB). A license key is required to enable the iSCSI and RDMA features. TOE
support on Windows is available today, but requires the Windows Scalable Network Pack (SNP)
installed. Linux has no plan to support TOE at this time. Please refer to
TOE_RDMA_iSCSI.doc
for technology details
.
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is supported.
Ultra-Efficient Cooling
Strategically located fans, combined with efficient airflow paths, provide highly effective system
cooling for the x3650 M2, known as
Calibrated Vectored Cooling
. The base server with one
power supply includes three hot-swap fan modules, for redundant cooling. Each pack includes
two back-to-back fans with counter-rotating blades for a total of 3 fan modules. In addition, each
