Key Features - Lenovo System x3650 M4 Product Manual

Key features

The x3650 M4 is an outstanding 2U two-socket business-critical server, offering improved performance
and pay-as-you grow flexibility along with new features that improve server management capability. This
powerful system is designed for your most important business applications and cloud deployments.
Combining balanced performance and flexibility, the x3650 M4 is a great choice for small and medium
businesses up to the large enterprise. It can provide outstanding uptime to keep business-critical
applications and cloud deployments running safely. Ease of use and comprehensive systems management
tools make it easy to deploy. Outstanding RAS and high-efficiency design improve your business
environment and help save operational costs.
Scalability and performance
The x3650 M4 offers numerous features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs:
Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family
Improves productivity by offering superior system performance with up to 12-core
processors, up to 30 MB of L3 cache, and up to two 8 GT/s QPI interconnect links.
Supports up to two processors, 24 cores, and 48 threads maximize the concurrent execution
of multi-threaded applications.
Supports up to 1866 MHz memory speeds.
Supports up to 768 GB memory with 32 GB LRDIMMs or HCDIMMs.
Intelligent and adaptive system performance with Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 allows CPU
cores to run at maximum speeds during peak workloads by temporarily going beyond processor
TDP.
Intel Hyper-Threading Technology boosts performance for multi-threaded applications by enabling
simultaneous multi-threading within each processor core, up to two threads per core.
Intel Virtualization Technology integrates hardware-level virtualization hooks that allow operating
system vendors to better utilize the hardware for virtualization workloads.
Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) significantly improve floating-point performance for
compute-intensive technical and scientific applications.
12 Gbps SAS internal storage connectivity doubles the data transfer rate compared to 6 Gb SAS
solutions to maximize performance of storage I/O-intensive applications.
The use of solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of, or along with, traditional spinning drives (HDDs) can
significantly improve I/O performance. An SSD can support up to 100 times more I/O operations per
second (IOPS) than a typical HDD.
Up to 32 1.8-inch SSD bays, or up to 16 2.5-inch bays, or up to 6 3.5-inch bays, together with
internal backup and an optical drive at the same time, provide a flexible and scalable all-in-one
platform to meet your increasing demands.
The server has four integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports and two optional 10 Gb Ethernet ports with
mezzanine cards that do not consume PICe slots.
The server offers PCI Express 3.0 I/O expansion capabilities that improve the theoretical maximum
bandwidth by almost 100% (8 GTps per link using 128b/130b encoding) compared to the previous
generation of PCI Express 2.0 (5 GTps per link using 8b/10b encoding).
With Intel Integrated I/O Technology, the PCI Express 3.0 controller is integrated into the Intel Xeon
processor E5 family. This integration helps to dramatically reduce I/O latency and increase overall
system performance.
Support for NVIDIA Quadro graphics processing units (GPUs) to maximize computing power
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