Key Prerequisites; Planned Availability Date; Description - IBM X3620 M3 Manual

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Three-year, customer replaceable unit (CRU) and on-site labor
warranty ; optional warranty service upgrades available
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The Microsoft TM Windows Preinstallation Environment software included as part of
ServerGuide software, may be used for boot, diagnostic, setup, restoration, installation,
configuration, test, or disaster recovery purposes only.
Note: The Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment software contains a security
feature that will cause an end-user customer's system to reboot without prior notification
to the end-user customer after 24 hours of continuous use of the Microsoft Windows
Preinstallation Environment. During routine usage of ServerGuide, which does not usually
require usage of the Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment software for such an
extended time period, this condition should not occur.
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You may be asked certain diagnostic questions before a technician is sent.
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reseller. Copies are available upon request.

Key prerequisites

• Monitor
• USB keyboard
• USB mouse
Note: PS/2 style keyboard and mouse are not supported.

Planned availability date

January 20, 2012

Description

System x3620 M3-related options
The System x3620 M3 servers feature an Intel Xeon multicore processor that
supports internal processing speeds of up to 2.40 GHz. They contain integrated, full-
speed 12 MB ECC L3 cache.
High-performance server subsystems
These servers are high-throughput network servers with excellent scalability when
adding memory and a second processor.
Two Intel Xeon connectors are standard on the system board to support installation
of a second processor. High-speed DDR3 SDRAM Registered DIMM memory is
optimized for 800 MHz, 1066 MHz, or 1333 MHz processor-to-memory subsystem
performance.
Additional features
• Powerful Intel multicore processor support
• System board containing twelve DIMM connectors, supporting 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB,
8 GB, or 16 GB (optional) DDR3 SDRAM Registered DIMM memory, with:
– Support for up to 192 GB of system memory
– Support for Chipkill memory
– Support two DIMMs Per Channel (2DPC) 1333 MHz for Intel Xeon E5600 and
X5600 Series processors
• SATA controller
• SATA drive support that employs high-speed (up to 3.0 Gbps) dual differential
pairs to communicate with simple-swap SATA HDDs
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