IBM X3650 - Manual

A highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket SMP server, for application
serving in Web environments
Product Guide
September 2008
IBM System x3650
Product Overview
CONTENTS
Product Overview 1
Selling Features 2
Key Features 4
Key Options 11
x3650 Images 12
x3650 Specifications 13
The Bottom Line 16
For More Information 18
L egal Information 18
Outstanding performance, availability and capacity in a
2U rack-dense package
Suggested uses: Medium to large enterprises with demanding applications in data-dense
environments.
Whether you are a small business or a global industry, your mission-critical applications and
data must be protected. From a simple application to the most complex solution, the dual-
socket IBM
® System x3650, incorporating IBM X-Architecture ™ features, is designed to
protect your data with high performance, high reliability and high availability. The x3650
supports the latest quad- and dual-core Intel
® Xeon ™ processors (including 50W low-voltage
quad-core Xeon processors), designed with up to a leading-edge 1333MHz front-side bus
(FSB), 64-bit extensions (EM64T), and either 6MB or 4MB (dual-core) or 8MB or 12MB
(quad-core) of L2 cache, to help provide you with the computing power you need to match your
business needs and growth. In addition, the x3650 uses industry-standard fully buffered
667MHz memory with Chipkill
™ ECC (Error Checking and Correcting) protection—for high
performance and reliability. For even higher levels of availability, the x3650 also offers a choice
of optional online hot-spare memory or memory mirroring. Dual integrated high-speed Gigabit
Ethernet controllers with TOE (TCP Offload Engine) and Jumbo Frame support are standard,
as are high-performance adapter slots (PCI-E x8 and optional PCI-X/133).
All models offer impressive scalability, including dual-processor support, up to 48GB of memory
and a variety of high-performance internal hard disk and backup drive configurations: up to six
3.5-inch Serial-Attach SCSI (SAS) hot-swap drives with an internal storage capacity of
1.8TB
1 , or up to six 3.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA) hot-swap drives (6TB), or eight 2.5-inch SAS
hot-swap drives (1.17TB). Hardware-based RAID-0/1/10 support is standard. An optional IBM
ServeRAID-8k SAS RAID controller adds 256MB of battery-backed cache to the onboard
controller to provide three additional RAID levels, including RAID-1E/5/6. The slim 2U size of
the x3650 helps you maximize your rack investments. Up to 21 of these servers can be installed
in a single 42U rack, for a total of up to 42 processors, offering the ideal balance of
performance, storage and I/O slots per rack. Optional Advanced Connectivity Technology (ACT)
interconnect cabling helps reduce cable clutter and cost and minimizes installation time when
interconnecting many rack-mounted servers.
Standard in the x3650 is a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) that enables the user to
manage and control the server easily—both locally and remotely. This high level of
manageability is designed to help keep management costs down and the system up. The 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/redundant HDDs, power and fans; Active Memory
™ ; temperature-controlled
fans with Calibrated Vectored Cooling ™ ; IPMI 2.0 support, including highly secure remote
power control and Serial over LAN; as well as text-console redirect over LAN.
With the inclusion of unique IBM service and support features such as light path diagnostics,
IBM Systems Director, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager for x86 (formerly
known as PowerExecutive), IBM ServerGuide
™ and support for the optional Remote
Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine, the x3650 is designed for maximum uptime.
If you need a balance of high-performance dual-socket processing and large internal storage in
a rack-dense environment, the x3650 is the ideal system.
1 TB equals 1,000,000,000,000 bytes when referring to hard disk drive capacity. Accessible capacity may be less.
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