Selling Features - IBM 7947E5U Product Manual

Leadership enterprise server with significantly lower cost of ownership in a highly available and
expandable, rack-dense, 2U dual-socket server

Selling Features

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All models require Chipkill-enabled DIMMs (provided standard) for Chipkill protection.
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Vectored Cooling ; IPMI 2.0 support, including highly secure remote power control and
Serial over LAN; as well as text-console redirect over LAN.
Another improvement with the new generation of X-Architecture is the replacement of old BIOS
with a new generation United Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). UEFI provides a more
intuitive user interface and understandable event logs and better management.
With the inclusion of unique IBM service and support features such as the IMM, light path
diagnostics, IBM Systems Director 6.1, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager
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ServerGuide and support for the optional Virtual Media Key for remote presence capability, the
x3650 M2 is designed for superior uptime.
If you need highly manageable, dual-socket/multi-core computing power in a rack-dense
package, the x3650 M2 is the ideal system.
Price/Performance
The x3650 M2 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce costs:
• Up to two 4-core Xeon 5500 Series processors and 8MB or 4MB of 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. Xeon 5500 series processors
offer up to 225% better performance than the previous-generation 5400 series processors and
up to 900% better performance than the single-core processors of a few years ago that you
may still be using.
• Low-voltage processors draw less energy and produce less waste heat than high-voltage
processors, thus helping to reduce data center energy costs. Some 4-core Xeon 5500 Series
processors use only 60W. This is less than half the wattage consumed by older 130W
processors.
• Sixteen DIMMs of ultra-fast registered 1333MHz (or 1066MHz or 800MHz) DDR3 ECC
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memory with Chipkill protection (optional) provides speed, high availability, and a memory
capacity of up 128GB.
• Optional 50GB solid-state drives (SSD) use only 2W of power per drive, vs. 9-10W for 2.5-
inch HDDs. This is as much as 80% less power than a 2.5 inch HDD would use (with a
corresponding reduction in heat output).
• The x3650 M2 is a leader in server resiliency. With hot-swap power supplies, fan modules,
and storage, the x3650 M2 has no single point of failure.
• An altimeter works in conjunction with IMM to govern fan rotation based on the readings
which it delivers to save money under normal conditions because the fans do not have to
spin at high speed.
• Four high-speed x8 ("by 8") PCIe Gen 2 adapter slots offer 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-M5015 (on selected models) provides RAID-0/1/10/5/50 (optional 6/60
with Self-Encrypting Disk (SED)) without consuming a valuable adapter slot. It also offers
higher performance 512MB battery-backed cache.
• Up to twelve 2.5-inch hot-swap SAS hard disk drives offer high-performance with high
availability. The SAS controller provides full-duplex (bidirectional 300MBps) data transfers
for SAS drives.
• The integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet controllers with IPMI 2.0 provide high-speed network
communications. Jumbo Frames offer higher efficiency transfers for large data packets. Two
more NICS can be supported on the planar with an additional Dual Port Gb Ethernet
daughtercard. 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 hot swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSD drives,
multiple hardware based ServeRAID options, Gigabit Ethernet ports, systems management
and video controllers—lowers costs and frees up valuable adapter slots.
Flexibility
The x3650 M2 has the ability to grow with your application requirements, thanks to
• A choice of four-core or two-core processors with 1.86 to 2.93GHz clock rates, up to 6.4
gigatransfers per second, and 60W to 95W maximum power draw.
• Up to 128GB of high-speed registered DDR3 system memory.
• Four available high-performance PCIe x8 adapter slots in all models. Optionally, riser cards
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