Key Prerequisites; Planned Availability Date; Description - IBM System x3650 M2 At-A-Glance Manual

• Integrated SAS controller supporting up to twelve 2.5-inch hot-swap HDD bays (8
standard, 4-bay kit optional) with 4 RAID alternatives, helping to safeguard your
data at no additional cost
• Memory mirroring, configurable using UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)
setup
• Integrated Management Module systems management processor (IMM)
• Monitoring and control of operating status and key server components
• Predictive Failure Analysis® (PFA) on selected components that warns of problems
before they occur
• Fast and easy servicing: Innovative light path diagnostics, improved onboard
diagnostics, and LED diagnostic panel
• Optional IBM Virtual Media Key to enable remote presence and blue-screen
capture features.
Ultimate fault tolerant protection
• Hot-swap, redundant fans with calibrated vectored cooling, to keep components
cool, and simplified fan replacement
• Optional hot-swap, redundant power supplies to help reduce downtime
• IBM Director and Web support
• Three-year, customer replaceable unit (CRU) and on-site labor
optional warranty service upgrades available
You may be asked certain diagnostic questions before a technician is sent.
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Key prerequisites

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

Planned availability date

April 30, 2009

Description

System x3650 M2 server
The System x3650 M2 server features an Intel Xeon dual- or quad-core processor
that supports internal processing speeds of up to 2.93 GHz, and processing
operations to memory and the PCI bus at 133 MHz. They contain integrated, full-
speed 4 MB or 8 MB ECC L2 cache.
High-performance server subsystems
These servers are high-throughput, network servers with excellent scalability when
you add memory and a second processor. Data transfer across the system bus is at
a 4X rate (four data transfers per clock) for an effective data transfer rate of up to
1333 MHz.
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
IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Hardware Announcement ZG09-0169
, limited warranty
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