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

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Product Guide

February 2011

IBM System x3630 M3

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2U storage-rich server packed with innovation

Suggested Uses: Web 2.0 applications like online gaming, video/photo sharing, mail serving,

community, messaging, web search, file/print, backup, imagery, and transactional data server.

In today’s tough economic environment, your challenge is to do more with less—serve more Web

pages, handle more secure connections, support more e-mail users, and do it all on a tight

budget. You need to reduce the costs of doing business and improve the service you deliver to

your customers while lowering your overall risk. The dual-socket IBM

System x3630 M3 can

reduce your costs by combining traditional enterprise server features with an energy-smart

design, budget-conscious features, and huge storage capacity. It can improve service with

reduced operational complexity and increased management functionality. It can lower your IT risk

with the resiliency that comes from hot-swap/redundant features. It offers abundant, high-

performance local storage without the cost or complexity of going external, in only 2U of rack

space. And like all IBM servers, the x3630 M3 offers you the trust that comes from the IBM global

reach, service and support.

The x3630 M3 is a game-changing rack storage server that uses significantly less power than

previous generations, with unified systems management tools; high reliability, availability, and

serviceability features; and broad system flexibility, housed in a compact 2U mechanical

package.

The x3630 M3 features Intel

Xeon

5600 series 6-core and 4-core, and 5500 series 4-core and

2-core processors, with up to 12MB of shared L3 cache, to provide you with the computing

power you need to match your business needs and growth. The new line of Intel processors

delivers unprecedented intelligent performance with features like adaptive performance for

applications and environments, Turbo Boost Technology and Hyper-Threading Technology, and

integrated power gates and automated power management.

The x3630 M3 supports up to 12 DIMMs / 192GB of RDIMM 1333MHz DDR3 memory and

provides Chipkill

™

ECC (Error Checking and Correcting) protection—for high performance and

reliability. For even higher levels of availability, the x3630 M3 also offers memory mirroring.

Two integrated high-speed Gigabit Ethernet ports are included, as are two high-performance

PCIe adapter slots. The x3630 M3 offers an optional embedded hypervisor to manage your

virtual workloads.

Some System x3630 M3 models support up to 14 hot-swap 3.5-inch Serial-Attached SCSI

(SAS) or Serial-Attached ATA (SATA) HDDs with an internal storage capacity of up to 28TB.

Other models support up to 28 hot-swap 2.5-inch SAS (16.8TB) or SATA (14TB) drives. The

servers offer a choice of several IBM ServeRAID

storage controllers that provide broad levels of

hardware-based RAID solutions.

The ultra-dense 2U form factor allows businesses to increase their computing power and spread

their workload without outgrowing their current data center. Up to 21 of these 2U servers can be

installed in a single 42U rack, for a total of up to 42 processors, 252 processor cores (and 504

threads), offering tremendous deployment flexibility.

The x3630 M3 includes an Integrated Management Module (IMM) that enables the user to

manage and control the server easily—both locally and remotely. The IMM offers a high level of

manageability that is designed to keep costs down and the system up—even when network

usage increases. The IMM helps maximize network availability by increasing uptime, as do

Active Memory

™

protection, hot-swap/redundant SAS or SATA HDDs, hot-swap/redundant

ultra-efficient power supplies and redundant fan modules; integrated RAID; temperature-

controlled fans; 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, IBM Systems

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