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Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and expandable,
Superior Uptime
–3X the availability of mechanical disk drives
–No moving parts to fail
–Enterprise
Full OS Support
–Supports all ServerProven OSes
The
High-Performance Adapter Slots
The x3650 M3 provides four x8 (“by 8”) 8GBps PCIe (PCI Express) Gen 2 I/O slots for
•Four PCIe Gen 2 slots are available:
Two
One x8 full height,
One x8 low profile
There is also a dedicated riser card in the x3650 M3 that provides a x8 PCIe connector wired with x4 lanes for an internal ServeRAID card.
Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
The x3650 M3 includes one
TOE helps improve overall system performance by offloading TCP/IP protocol processing from the system microprocessor to the onboard Ethernet TOE processor.
It also supports highly secure remote power management using IPMI 2.0, plus Wake on LAN® and PXE (Preboot Execution Environment) flash interface. Optional PCI adapters offering failover and load balancing between adapters are available for added throughput and increased system availability.
Integrated quad Gb Ethernet ports:
•Up to four Gb Ethernet ports, ideal for virtualization and
•2 ports standard, plus two additional ports via optional daughtercard
•Improves system performance by offloading protocol processing from CPU to a separate TOE engine
•Primary performance improvement for data copying (CPU) where CPU utilization is
Two Broadcom 5709S Gigabit Ethernet controllers (one
10 Gigabit Ethernet Integrated Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM
The Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter for x3650 M3 (part number 49Y4200 with special riser card, support by CTO) is an
The Emulex 10Gb/s Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM System x3650 M3 is based on the Emulex
OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapter (UCNA) platform that also includes the
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