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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server Product Guide February 2011 IBM System x3650 M3 Product Overview CONTENTS Product Overview 1 Selling Features 2 Key Features 4 Key Options 13 x3650 M3 Images 15 x3650 M3 Specifications 16 The Bottom Line 19 Server Comparison 20 For More Information 21 Legal Information 21 Business-critical 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 M3 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 M3 offers you the trust that comes from the IBM global reach, service and support. The x3650 M3 is a game-changing rack server that uses significantly less power than previous generations, with unified systems management tools, leadership reliability, availability, serviceability features and broad system flexibility, housed in a compact 2U mechanical package. The x3650 M3 features Intel® Xeon® 5600 series 6-core and 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 x3650 M3 supports up to 18 DIMMs / 192GB of RDIMM 1333MHz DDR3 memory (or up to 12 DIMMs / 48GB of UDIMM memory) and provides Chipkill™ ECC (Error Checking and Correcting) protection-for high performance and reliability. For even higher levels of availability, the x3650 M3 also offers memory mirroring. Up to 4 integrated high-speed Gigabit Ethernet controllers are available (offering TOE (TCP Offload Engine) support on Microsoft® Windows®), as are four high-performance adapter slots (PCIe x8). The x3650 M3 offers an optional embedded hypervisor to manage your virtual workloads. The System x3650 M3 supports up to 16 high-performance hot-swap HDDs with an internal storage capacity of 16TB1 (2.5-inch hot-swap Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial-Attached ATA (SATA) drives). Alternatively, up to 16 solid-state drives (SSDs) are also available to keep power low, improve resiliency, and offer up to 800GB of storage. To address your backup needs, up to eight HDDs or SSDs and one internal tape drive or removable disk cartridge drive can be used. The server includes a choice of several IBM ServeRAID® storage controllers that 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 252 processor cores, offering tremendous deployment flexibility. Standard in the x3650 M3 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 M3 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 Vectored Cooling™; IPMI 2.0 support, including highly secure remote power control and Serial over LAN; as well as textconsole redirect over LAN. 1 Available 2Q/2011. 1 Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information.