IBM X3620 M3 Server Comparison Chart, Requirements, Rack-OptimizedServers, Theme, Key Workloads

Models: X3620 M3

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Server Comparison Chart

Acost-optimized storage-rich alternative to traditional enterprise 2U dual-socket servers

Active Memory protection:

￿Advanced Chipkill ECC memory protection support

￿Memory mirroring

Integrated ServeRAID controller — enhances system availability and serviceability

A choice of hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or simple-swap SATA HDDs for quicker servicing than with fixed drives

Ultra-efficient cooling

Optional hot-swap/redundant power supplies

Front-panel status LEDs

Toolless chassis and toolless slide design

Server Comparison Chart

The following table shows the suggested uses for the respective IBM System x rack-optimized servers, including comparisons of the uses for which each server is best suited:

 

 

 

Important

Nice to Have

Can do without

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

￿ Best

 

￿ Better

￿ Good

 

 

 

 

 

Requirements

 

 

 

 

 

Rack-Optimized Servers

 

 

Theme

Key Workloads

Scalability

Density I/O and Storage Integer Performance Memory Throughput Floating Point Performance

High Availability

Systems Management

Security

Distributed Deployment

x3250 M3

x3550 M3

x3620 M3

x3650 M3

x3690 X5

x3755

x3850 X5

x3950 X5

 

Cluster / HPC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

HPC

Modeling & Simulation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

High Performance DB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Business Intelligence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

 

Search

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

Web 2.0 /

Content

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

Communities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

Web 3D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commerce

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collaboration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

 

ERP/SCM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

Business

CRM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

Hosted Client

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

￿

Applications

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Point of Sale

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Branch Office

￿

￿

￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿

￿

 

Virtualization

￿

￿

￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿

￿

 

Business Continuity

￿

￿

￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿

￿

Infrastructure

Database

￿

￿

￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿

￿

Applications

Email/Collaboration

￿

￿

￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿

￿

Security

￿

￿

￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿

￿

 

 

Web Serving

￿

￿

￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿

￿

 

File & Print

￿

￿

￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿

￿

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