A highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket SMP server, for application
serving in Web environments
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Selling Features
Price/Performance
The x3650 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce product and operating
costs:
•
Up to
two quad-
or
dual-core
Xeon processors with high-end
1333MHz
or
1066MHz
front
side bus and
4MB
to
12MB
(processor-specific) of integrated Level 2 cache per processor
offer superior performance capable of tackling the toughest jobs.
64-bit extensions
provide
the flexibility to run 32-bit and 64-bit applications concurrently.
•
Low-voltage processors
draw less power and produce less waste heat than high-voltage
processors, thus helping to reduce data center energy costs. Some
dual-core
Xeon
processors use only
65W
. This is half the wattage consumed by older 130W processors. The
50W
and
80W
quad-core
processors are even more economical, consuming only
12.5W
and
20W
(respectively) per core, vs. 32.5W per core for the 65W dual-core processors.
•
Ultra-fast
fully buffered
667MHz PC2-5300 DDR II
ECC memory with
Chipkill
protection
provides speed and high availability.
•
Four
high-speed PCI-E adapter slots
offer potential investment protection by supporting
high-performance adapters, such as 10Gb Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand cards,
none of which will run in older 33MHz and 66MHz conventional PCI slots.
•
Integrated
ServeRAID-8k-l
provides
RAID-0
/
1/10
support at no extra charge and without
consuming a valuable adapter slot. RAID-0 offers improved disk performance via data
striping; RAID-1 offers disk mirroring for high availability, and RAID-10 combines the benefits
of speed and availability.
•
Up to
six 3.5-inch
or
eight 2.5-inch
(depending on the model)
hot-swap SAS
or
six 3.5-
inch hot-swap SATA
hard disk drives offer high-performance with high availability. The SAS
controller provides full-duplex (2 x 300MBps) SAS data transfers, nearly double that of half-
duplex Ultra320 SCSI (1 x 320MBps), or half-duplex SATA transfers (1 x 300MBps).
2.5-
inch
drives consume approximately
half the power
of 3.5-inch drives.
•
The integrated
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
) feature offers higher performance for TCP/IP traffic, with less
overhead on the system processor.
•
A
high degree of device integration
, including SAS, RAID, dual Gigabit Ethernet, systems
management and video controllers, helps to lowers costs and frees up valuable adapter
slots.
Flexibility
The x3650 has the ability to grow with your application requirements, thanks to:
•
A choice of
quad-core
or
dual-core
processors with
1.6
to
3.16GHz
clock rates,
1333MHz
or
1066MHz
FSB, and
50W
to
120W
maximum power draw.
•
Up to
48GB
of high-speed fully-buffered DDR2 system memory.
•
Four
available
high-performance
PCI-E
adapter slots in all models. Optionally, if desired,
the riser card containing two of the PCI-E slots can be exchanged for a riser containing two
PCI-X/133
adapter slots.
•
Installing the slotless
ServeRAID-8k
option upgrades the integrated
ServeRAID-8k-l
controller with low-cost battery-backed cache to enable even higher-performance hardware
RAID support, and offering
six
RAID levels, including
RAID-1E
,
5
and
6
.
•
The
seven USB 2.0
ports (six external, one internal) are up to
40X
faster
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than older
USB
1.1
ports. This provides speedy access to external HDDs (non-arrayed), optical drives, tape
drives, and other USB devices. Two ports are on the front of the unit and four are on the
back. The internal port supports one tape or GoVault EZ backup drive.
•
An
integrated SATA II controller
provides support for SATA-based
internal backup
storage
•
A choice of up to
four
internal
3.5-inch HDDs and a backup
(internal tape or GoVault)
drive
,
six
3.5-inch HDDs
without
a backup drive, or
eight
internal
2.5-inch HDDs and a
backup drive
—depending on the model—offer a variety of
storage options. The
3.5-inch
models provide a maximum of
1.8TB
of internal
hot-swap
SAS
storage (
1.2TB
with an
internal backup drive installed) or
6TB
of internal
hot-swap
SATA
storage (
4TB
with internal
backup drive). The
2.5-inch
models support up to
1.17TB
of
hot-swap
SAS
storage
in
addition
to an internal backup drive.
•
Alternatively, iSCSI or Fibre Channel-attached storage can be attached using
IBM System
Storage
™
or
TotalStorage
®
servers.
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Data transfer rates may be less than the maximum possible.
