System x3650 M3: Overview
Highlights:
- Improve cost-effectiveness with higher performance per watt
- Simplify management and serviceability with flexible design
- Manage risk with resilient architectures and virtualized environments
Packed with innovation
The IBM System x3650 M3 provides outstanding performance for your mission-critical applications. Its energy-efficient design supports more cores, memory and data capacity in a scalable 2U package that’s easy to service and manage. With more computing power per watt and the latest Intel® Xeon® processors, you can reduce costs while maintaining speed and availability.
Simplify management and serviceability
The x3650 M3 offers a flexible, scalable design and simple upgrade path to 16 HDDs or SSDs, and 192 GB of memory. Comprehensive systems management tools such as advanced diagnostics, a cable management arm and the ability to control resources from a single point make it easy to deploy, integrate, service and manage.
Product features
- Power-optimized performance that leverages the speed of new Intel processors with more capacity and memory
- Innovative, energy-smart 2U design to help lower operational costs
- Energy-efficient design with UDIMMs, 40W processing and UEFI BIOS
- Better serviceability with a highly scalable, flexible design that is easy to deploy, integrate, service and manage
- Easier risk management with resilient architectures and virtualized environments
Hardware summary
- 2U chassis
- Up to two 3.33 GHz six-core (3.46 GHz four-core) Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors with QuickPath Interconnect technology, up to 1333 MHz memory access speed.
- Up to 192 GB RDIMMs1 or 48 GB UDIMMs1 high-performance, new-generation DDR-3 memory
- Internal storage flexibility with up to 16 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs
- Up to 4 PCIe slots
- Optional 2 GB USB key for virtualization, containing VMware ESXi 4.0 embedded hypervisor
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