Selling Features - IBM System x3620 M3 Product Manual

A cost-optimized storage-rich alternative to traditional enterprise 2U dual-socket servers

Selling Features

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All models require Chipkill-enabled DIMMs (provided standard) for Chipkill protection.
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With the inclusion of unique IBM service and support features such as the IMM, 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
x3620 M3 is designed for superior uptime.
If you need highly manageable, dual-socket/multi-core computing power in a budget rack-dense
package, the x3620 M3 is the ideal system.
Price/Performance
The x3620 M3 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce costs:
• Up to two 6-core or 4-core Xeon 5600 Series or 4-core Xeon 5500 Series processors and
12MB 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 5600 series processors offer up to 43% better performance than the
previous-generation 5500 series processors (depending on workload).
• Low-voltage processors (available via the Configure To Order process) draw less energy
and produce less waste heat than high-voltage processors, thus helping to reduce data center
energy costs. Selected 4-core Xeon 5600 Series processors use only 40W and selected 6-
core processors consume only 60W. This is less than half the wattage consumed by 130W
processors.
• Twelve DIMMs of registered 1333MHz DDR3 ECC memory with Chipkill
(optional) provide speed, high availability, and a memory capacity of up 96GB.
• x3620 M3 servers using the L5640 (via CTO) and X56xx processors support 2 DIMMs per
channel (2DPC) at 1333MHz (using 1.5V DIMMs).
• Two x8 ("by 8") PCIe Gen 2 and one x4 PCIe Gen 2 adapter slot 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.
• The optional integrated 3Gbps ServeRAID-BR10il v2 controller, or the 6Gbps ServeRAID-
M1015, ServeRAID-M5014, or ServeRAID-M5015 controller, provide high-performance RAID
support for SAS/SATA drives.
• Up to 8 3.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA hard disk drives offer high-performance and high
capacity, with high availability. Up to 4 3.5-inch simple-swap SATA drives offer high
capacity and quick servicing
• The integrated dual-port Gigabit Ethernet controller with IPMI 2.0 provide high-speed
network communications.
• A high degree of device integration—including hot swap SAS/SATA HDDs, multiple
hardware-based ServeRAID options, Gigabit Ethernet ports, systems management and video
controllers—lowers costs and frees up valuable adapter slots.
Flexibility
The x3620 M3 has the ability to grow with your application requirements, thanks to
• A choice of 4-core or 6-core processors with 2.13 to 2.66GHz clock rates, up to 6.4
gigatransfers per second, and 80W or 95W maximum power draw. (Two additional choices,
40W and 60W, are available via CTO.)
• A choice of either standard 1.5V DIMMs, or 1.35V DIMMs
• Up to 96GB of high-speed registered DDR3 system memory.
• Three available high-performance PCIe adapter slots in all models.
• Upgrading to one of several ServeRAID controllers provides up to 512MB of battery-backed
cache to enable higher-performance hardware RAID support, and allows the x3620 M3 to
offer five RAID levels standard: RAID-0/1/10/5/50 (and optionally 6/60 with Self-Encrypting
Disk).
• The five USB 2.0 ports (two front, two rear, one internal) are up to 40X faster
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 two are on the back.
The internal port supports an internal tape or IBM RDX Removable Disk Backup System, and
a flash drive with embedded hypervisor can be support via another internal USB port.
• A choice of up to eight 3.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or four 3.5-inch simple-swap
SATA drives and one internal tape drive or RDX Removable Disk Backup System, offer a
variety of storage options. The SATA models provide a maximum of 16.0TB of internal
storage, while the SAS models support up to 4.8TB.
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