A highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket SMP server, for application serving in Web environments
Selling Features | Price/Performance |
The x3650 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce product and operating costs:
•Up to two quad- or dual-coreXeon processors with high-end 1333MHz or 1066MHz front side bus and 4MB to 12MB (processor-specific) of integrated Level 2 cache per processor offer superior performance capable of tackling the toughest jobs. 64-bit extensions provide the flexibility to run 32-bit and 64-bit applications concurrently.
•Low-voltage processors draw less power and produce less waste heat than high-voltage processors, thus helping to reduce data center energy costs. Some dual-coreXeon processors use only 65W. This is half the wattage consumed by older 130W processors. The 50W and 80W quad-coreprocessors are even more economical, consuming only 12.5W and 20W (respectively) per core, vs. 32.5W per core for the 65W dual-core processors.
•Ultra-fastfully buffered 667MHz PC2-5300 DDR II ECC memory with Chipkill protection provides speed and high availability.
•Four high-speedPCI-E adapter slots offer potential investment protection by supporting high-performance adapters, such as 10Gb Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand cards, none of which will run in older 33MHz and 66MHz conventional PCI slots.
•Integrated ServeRAID-8k-lprovides RAID-0/1/10support at no extra charge and without consuming a valuable adapter slot. RAID-0 offers improved disk performance via data striping; RAID-1 offers disk mirroring for high availability, and RAID-10 combines the benefits of speed and availability.
•Up to six 3.5-inch or eight 2.5-inch (depending on the model) hot-swap SAS or six 3.5- inch hot-swap SATA hard disk drives offer high-performance with high availability. The SAS controller provides full-duplex (2 x 300MBps) SAS data transfers, nearly double that of half- duplex Ultra320 SCSI (1 x 320MBps), or half-duplex SATA transfers (1 x 300MBps). 2.5- inch drives consume approximately half the power of 3.5-inch drives.
•The integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet controllers with IPMI 2.0 support provide high-speed network communications. Jumbo Frames offer higher efficiency transfers for large data packets.
•The TCP Offload Engine (TOE) feature offers higher performance for TCP/IP traffic, with less overhead on the system processor.
•A high degree of device integration, including SAS, RAID, dual Gigabit Ethernet, systems management and video controllers, helps to lowers costs and frees up valuable adapter slots.
Flexibility
The x3650 has the ability to grow with your application requirements, thanks to:
•A choice of quad-coreor dual-coreprocessors with 1.86 to 3.33GHz clock rates, 1333MHz or 1066MHz FSB, and 50W to 120W maximum power draw.
•Up to 48GB of high-speed fully-buffered DDR2 system memory.
•Four available high-performancePCI-Eadapter slots in all models. Optionally, if desired, the riser card containing two of the PCI-E slots can be exchanged for a riser containing two PCI-X/133adapter slots.
•Installing the slotless ServeRAID-8koption upgrades the integrated ServeRAID-8k-lcontroller with low-cost battery-backed cache to enable even higher-performance hardware RAID support, and offering six RAID levels, including RAID-1E, 5 and 6.
•The seven USB 2.0 ports (six external, one internal) are up to 40X faster2 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 four are on the back. The internal port supports one tape or GoVault EZ backup drive.
•An integrated SATA II controller provides support for SATA-basedinternal backup storage
•A choice of up to four internal 3.5-inch HDDs and a backup (internal tape or GoVault) drive, six 3.5-inch HDDs without a backup drive, or eight internal 2.5-inch HDDs and a backup drive—depending on the model—offer a variety of storage options. The 3.5-inchmodels provide a maximum of 1.8TB of internal hot-swapSAS storage (1.2TB with an internal backup drive installed) or 6TB of internal hot-swapSATA storage (4TB with internal backup drive). The 2.5-inchmodels support up to 1.17TB of hot-swapSAS storage in addition to an internal backup drive.
•Alternatively, iSCSI or Fibre Channel-attached storage can be attached using IBM System Storage™ or TotalStorage® servers.
2Data transfer rates may be less than the maximum possible.
