IBM 7945D2U User Manual - Page 3

Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server Flexibility The x3650 M3 has the ability to grow with your application requirements, thanks to • A choice of 4-core or 6-core processors with 1.6 to 3.6GHz clock rates, up to 6.4 gigatransfers per second, and 40W to 130W maximum power draw. • Up to 192GB of high-speed registered DDR3 system memory. • A choice of either 1.5V DIMMs, or 1.35V DIMMs that consume 20% less energy. • A choice of power supplies including 460W, 675W AC or DC, or energy-efficient 675W. • Four available high-performance PCIe x8 adapter slots in all models. Optionally, riser cards supporting PCI-X/133 or PCIe x16 adapters can be exchanged for the PCIe x8 slots. • Upgrading to the ServeRAID-M5015 controller provides 512MB of battery-backed cache to enable higher-performance hardware RAID support, and allows the x3650 M3 to offer five RAID levels standard: RAID-0/1/10/5/50 (and optionally 6/60 with SED). • The five or six USB 2.0 ports (two front, two rear, one internal, plus one additional internal port when the optional Tape Enablement Kit is installed) are up to 40X faster3 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 two are on the back. The internal port supports a flash drive with embedded hypervisor or an internal tape or IBM RDX removable disk storage drive. • A choice of up to sixteen 2.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or solid-state drives, or eight 2.5-inch drives and one internal tape drive, offer a variety of storage options. The SAS and SATA HDD models provide a maximum of 16TB of internal hot-swap storage. The x3650 M3 supports a mix of hot-swap SAS, SATA and SSD drives. • Alternatively, direct-attach, network-attached storage (NAS), or iSCSI or Fibre Channelattached storage can be attached using IBM System Storage™ servers. Manageability / Security Powerful systems management features simplify local and remote management of the x3650 M3: • The x3650 M3 includes an Integrated Management Module (IMM) to monitor server availability, perform Predictive Failure Analysis, etc., and trigger IBM Systems Director alerts. The IMM performs the functions of both the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) of earlier systems and the Remote Supervisor Adapter II and is upgradeable to remote presence/cKVM. • An optional Virtual Media Key provides additional systems management capabilities, including Web-based out-of-band control; virtual floppy and optical drive support; Windows "blue screen" error capture; LDAP and SSL support; and remote redirection of keyboard, PCI video and text, and mouse (cKVM). And it does all this without consuming a valuable adapter slot. • Text Console Redirection support allows the administrator to remotely view x3650 M3 text messages over Serial or LAN. • Integrated industry-standard Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) next-generation BIOS. New capabilities include: - Human readable event logs - no more beep codes - Complete out-of-band coverage by the Advance Settings Utility to simplify remote setup - A complete setup solution, allowing adapter configuration functions to be moved into UEFI - Consistent firmware management across an entire product line • Integrated Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 support. • Industry-standard AES NI support for faster, stronger encryption (in 5600 series processors only). • Integrated IPMI 2.0 support alerts IBM Systems Director to anomalous environmental factors, such as voltage and thermal conditions. It also supports highly secure remote power control using data encryption. • IBM Systems Director is included for proactive systems management. IBM Systems Director comes with a portfolio of tools, including IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager, IBM Service and Support Manager, and others. In addition, IBM Systems Director offers extended systems management tools for additional server management and increased availability. When a problem is encountered, IBM Systems Director can issue administrator alerts via e-mail, pager, and other methods. • IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager, an IBM-exclusive, is designed to take 3 Data transfer rates may be less than the maximum possible. 3 Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information.