IBM System x3650 M3 7
Standard specificatio ns

The following table lists the standard specifications.

Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)

Componen ts Specifi cation
Form factor 2U Rack.
Processor Up to two six-core (up to 3.46 GHz) or quad-core (up to 3.6 GHz) Intel Xeon 5600 series
processors with QuickPath Interconnect technology up to 6.4 GT/s, and up to 1333 MHz
memory speed. Also supports the Intel Xeon X5698 4.4 GHz dual-core processor. Supports
specific Quad-core and Dual-core Intel Xeon 5500 series processors via Configure-To-Order
(CTO).
Memory cache Up to 12 MB L3 for Xeon 5600 processors. Up to 8 MB L3 for Xeon 5500 processors.
Chipset Intel 5520.
Memory Up to 18 DIMM sockets (9 DIMMs per processor). Up to 288 GB with 16 GB DDR3 RDIMMs and
18 populated DIMM slots (up to 144 GB with 9 DIMMs per processor), or up to 48 GB with 4 GB
DDR3 UDIMMs and 12 populated DIMM slots (up to 24 GB with 6 DIMMs per processor).
Memory
protection ECC, ChipKill (for x4-based memory DIMMs), mem ory mirroring, and memory sparing.
Disk drive bays Up to 16 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or solid-state drives.
Maximum
internal storage Up to 14.4 TB with 900 GB SAS HDDs, or up to 16.0 TB with 1 TB SATA HDDs, or up to 3.2 TB
with 200 GB SSD HDDs. Intermix of SAS/SATA/SSD is supported.
RAID support RAID 0, 1, 1E with ServeRAID-BR10il v2 or M1015; RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 with M5014 or M5015.
Optional upgrade to RAID 5 is available for M1015. Optional upgrade to RAID 6, 60 is available
for M5014/M5015.
Optical drive
bays One, support for DVD-ROM or Multiburner. Separate bay.
Tape drive bays Optional Tape Enablement Kit is available to support one DDS5, DDS6, or RDX internal tape
drive. If used, the maximum number of HDD bays is limi ted to 8.
Network
interfaces Integrated 2 ports, plus 2 ports on optional Gigabit Ethernet with Ethernet Daughter Card (does
not consume PCIe slot).
PCI Expansion
slots Up to 5 (up to 4 available, one slot is dedicated to RAID controller), dependant on the riser cards
used (three different riser cards are available: 2x PCI-E x8 Gen 2, 1x PCI-E x16 Gen 2, and 2x
PCI-X 64 bit/133 MHz). Up to two riser cards are supported.
External ports Two USB 2.0 and one DB-15 video on front. Two USB 2.0, one DB-15 video, one DB-9 serial,
one RJ-45 systems management, up to 4 RJ-45 network ports (2 standard, 2 optional) on rear.
One internal USB port for embedded hypervisor.
Cooling IBM Calibrated Vectored Cooling™ with 3 counter-rotating hot swap fans with N+1 redundancy.
Altimeter is to control fan speed based on atmospheric pressure.
Power supply Up to 2 redundant hot-swap 460 W AC or 675 W AC or 675 W high-efficiency (HE) AC power
supplies with 90%+ efficiency. 675 W -48 V DC models are available via CTO.
Hot-swap
components Hard drives, power supplies, fans.