IBM System x3650 M2 At-A-Glance Manual page 23

• To ensure proper air flow for cooling, the System x3650 M2 server requires a rack
with a perforated door, such as the NetBAY42 SR or NetBAY25 SR. An alternative
is to remove the front door of rack cabinets where the door panel is of solid
construction.
• Microprocessor upgrades must be of the same type and clock speed. Mixing
microprocessors of different speeds or cache size is not supported.
Note: Refer to the
Planning information
Customer responsibilities
The System x3650 M2 server is designated as customer setup. Customer setup
instructions are shipped with each system.
Configuration information
Bay configuration
The x3650 M2 Express Model contains 8 bays for 2.5-inch HDDs. The lower right bay
on the system contains the slim-high CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive. Eight hot-swap bays
on the server are ready for various supported hot-swap HDD or SSD drive options
installation.
The 8x-24x CD-R/CD-RW DVD drive is connected to the planar through a combined
power and signal cable.
Cabling - Standard non-RAID configurations
The System x3650 M2 server hot-swap model contains two DASD backplanes
supporting up to 8 hot-swap, SAS-compliant drive bays. Two backplanes are
connected to an SAS RAID controller through two cables.
Cabling - Simple-swap non-RAID configuration contains cables supporting up to four
simple-swap non-RAID SATA drives. It does not contains any backplane.
Rack installations
System x3650 M2 server 2U rack-drawer models are designed to be installed in a
19-inch rack cabinet designed for 28-inch deep devices, such as the NetBAY42U ER
and NetBAY42U SR. Installation into some of the older Netfinity® racks (9306900,
9306910, 9306200) requires a rack extension kit.
If a System x3650 M2 is mounted in a non-IBM rack, the rack must satisfy the
following specifications:
• The rack must meet EIA-310-D standards for mounting flanges and hole locations.
• The front to rear distance of the mounting flanges must be between 698.5 mm
and 762 mm (27.5 in and 30 in).
• The thickness of the mounting flanges must be between 1.9 mm and 3.3 mm.
• The mounting flanges must have either 7.1-mm (.28-in) diameter holes or 9.6-
mm (.38-in) square holes on the standard EIA hole spacing.
• The rack must have a minimum depth of 70 mm (2.76 in) between the front
mounting flange and inside of the front door for appropriate cooling.
• The rack must have a minimum depth of 157 mm (6.2 in) between the rear
mounting flange and inside of the rear door to install the server and make space
for cable management.
• The minimum side-to-side clearance in the rack between the front and rear
mounting flanges must be 467 mm (18.2 in) to accommodate the width of the
server and the slide mounting brackets.
• The minimum side-to-side clearance in the rack between each door and the
mounting flanges must be 484 mm (19.1 in) to accommodate the slide mounting
brackets.
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