IBM 7945D2U User Manual - Page 2

Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server Selling Features 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. With the inclusion of unique IBM service and support features such as the IMM, light path diagnostics, IBM Systems Director, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™, IBM ServerGuide™ and support for the optional Virtual Media Key for remote presence capability, the x3650 M3 is designed for superior uptime. The x3650 M3 passed the NEBS 1/ETSI equivalent compliance for both AC and DC power supplies and compliance with 80 PLUS® and ENERGY STAR® standards (model dependent). For more information about IBM's ENERGY STAR compliance, visit http://ibm.com/systems/greendc/green_technology/energy_star/index.html. If you need highly manageable, dual-socket/multi-core computing power in a rack-dense package, the x3650 M3 is the ideal system. Price/Performance The x3650 M3 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce costs: • Up to two 6-core or 4-core Xeon 5600 series processors and up to 12MB of 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. Xeon 5600 series processors offer up to 54% better performance than the previous-generation 5500 series processors (depending on workload). • Low-voltage processors draw less energy and produce less waste heat than high-voltage processors, thus helping to reduce data center energy costs. Selected 4-core Xeon 5600 series processors use only 40W (available via CTO) and selected 6-core processors consume only 60W. This is less than half the wattage consumed by 130W processors. • Eighteen DIMMs of registered 1333MHz DDR3 ECC memory with Chipkill2 protection (optional) provide speed, high availability, and a memory capacity of up 192GB. • x3650 M3 servers using the L5640, E5645, E5649 and 1333MHz X56xx processors support 2 DIMMs per channel (2DPC) at 1333MHz (running at 1.5V). • Optional 50GB solid-state drives (SSDs) use only 2W of power per drive, vs. 9-10W for 2.5inch HDDs. This is as much as 80% less power than a 2.5 inch HDD would use (with a corresponding reduction in heat output). • An altimeter works in conjunction with the IMM to govern fan rotation based on the readings which it delivers to save money under normal conditions because the fans do not have to spin at high speed. • Four high-speed x8 ("by 8") PCIe Gen 2 adapter slots offer 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. • The integrated ServeRAID-BR10il v2 controller (model-specific) provides RAID-0/1/1E and full-duplex (bidirectional 3Gbps) data transfers for SAS/SATA/SSD drives without consuming a valuable adapter slot. Other server models include the 6Gbps ServeRAID-M1015 (RAID0/1/10, optional 5/50 with Self-Encrypting Disk, or SED) or the 6Gbps ServeRAID-M5014 controller, which provide RAID-0/1/10/5/50 with 256MB cache and optionally 6/60 with SED .and optional battery backup, or the 6Gbps ServeRAID-M5015 controller, which provides RAID-0/1/10/5/50 with 512MB of battery-backed cache (except CTO models) and optionally 6/60 with SED.. • Up to 16 2.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA hard disk drives offer high-performance with high availability. SSDs offer even higher availability, with extremely high IOPS rates. • The integrated dual-port Gigabit Ethernet controller with IPMI 2.0 provide high-speed network communications. Two more NICs can be added to the planar with an additional dual-port Gb Ethernet daughtercard. 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 hot swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSD drives, multiple hardware-based ServeRAID options, Gigabit Ethernet ports, systems management and video controllers-lowers costs and frees up valuable adapter slots. • Energy-efficient components, including DDR3 memory, low-voltage transistors and voltage regulator modules, and power supplies that are up to 90% efficient (model-specific), help keep your energy bills down. 2 All models require Chipkill-enabled DIMMs (provided standard) for Chipkill protection. 2 Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information.