A cost-optimized storage-rich alternative to traditional enterprise 2U dual-socket servers
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Product Guide
May 2010
IBM
System x3620 M3
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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x3620 M3 Images
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x3620 M3 Specifications
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The Bottom Line
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Server Comparison
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For More Information
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Cost-effective 2U storage server packed with innovation
Suggested Uses:
Departmental and file/print servers, online gaming, messaging, video/photo
sharing, email, transaction processing, blog hosting, and search engines; for large enterprise,
mid-market, SMBs, and emerging markets.
In today’s tough economic environment, your challenge is to do more with less—serve more Web
pages, handle more secure connections, support more e-mail users, and do it all on a tight
budget. 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
x3620 M3
can
reduce your costs with its new energy-smart design and budget-conscious features. It can
improve service with reduced operational complexity and increased management functionality. It
can lower your IT risk with the resiliency that comes from hot-swap/redundant features. And like
all IBM servers, the x3620 M3 offers you the trust that comes from the IBM global reach, service
and support.
The x3620 M3 is a game-changing rack server that uses significantly less power than previous
generations, with unified systems management tools; high reliability, availability, and
serviceability features; and broad system flexibility, housed in a compact 2U mechanical
package.
The x3620 M3 features
Intel
®
Xeon
®
5600
Series
6-core
and
4-core
, and
5500
Series
4-core
processors, with up to
12MB
of shared
L3 cache
, to provide you with the computing power you
need to match your business needs and growth. The new line of Intel processors delivers
unprecedented intelligent performance with features like adaptive performance for applications
and environments, Turbo Boost Technology and Hyper-Threading Technology, and integrated
power gates and automated power management.
The x3620 M3 supports up to
12 DIMMs
/
96GB
of RDIMM
1333MHz
DDR3
memory and
provides
Chipkill
™
ECC
(Error Checking and Correcting) protection—for high performance and
reliability. For even higher levels of availability, the x3620 M3 also offers
memory mirroring
.
Two
integrated high-speed
Gigabit Ethernet
ports are included, as are
three
high-performance
PCIe
adapter slots. The x3620 M3 offers an optional
embedded hypervisor
to manage your
virtual workloads.
Some System x3620 M3 models support up to
8
hot-swap
3.5-inch Serial-Attached SCSI
(SAS)
or
Serial-Attached ATA (SATA)
HDDs with an internal storage capacity of
16TB
. Other
models support up to
4
simple-swap SATA drives
, with a storage capacity of up to
8TB
. The
server includes
firmware
RAID-0/1 standard, and offers a choice of several IBM ServeRAID
®
storage controllers that provide broad levels of
hardware
-based
RAID solutions
. To meet your
backup needs, the x3620 M3 supports a choice of internal
tape drives
, as well as the internal
RDX Removable Disk Backup System
.
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,
252
processor cores (and
504
threads), offering tremendous deployment flexibility.
Standard in the x3620 M3 is the
Integrated Management Module (IMM)
that enables the user to
manage and control the server easily—both locally and remotely.
The IMM offers a high level of
manageability that is designed to keep costs down and the system up—even when network
usage increases. The IMM helps maximize network availability by increasing uptime, as do
Active Memory
™
protection,
hot-swap/redundant SAS
or
SATA
HDDs, hot-swap/redundant
ultra-efficient
power supplies
and redundant
fan modules
; integrated
RAID
;
temperature-
controlled fans
;
IPMI 2.0
support, including
highly secure remote power control
and
Serial
over LAN
; as well as
text-console redirect over LAN
.
Another improvement with the new generation of X-Architecture is the replacement of old BIOS
with a new generation
United Extensible Firmware Interface
(
UEFI
). UEFI provides a more
intuitive user interface and understandable event logs and better management.
