System x3650 M3: Overview

Highlights:

Improve cost-effectiveness with higher performance per watt
Simplify management and serviceability with flexible design
Manage risk with resilient architectures and virtualized environments

Packed with innovation

The IBM System x3650 M3 provides outstanding performance for your mission-critical applications. Its energy-efficient design supports more cores, memory and data capacity in a scalable 2U package that’s easy to service and manage. With more computing power per watt and the latest Intel® Xeon® processors, you can reduce costs while maintaining speed and availability.

Simplify management and serviceability

The x3650 M3 offers a flexible, scalable design and simple upgrade path to 16 HDDs or SSDs, and 192 GB of memory. Comprehensive systems management tools such as advanced diagnostics, a cable management arm and the ability to control resources from a single point make it easy to deploy, integrate, service and manage.

Product features

Power-optimized performance that leverages the speed of new Intel processors with more capacity and memory
Innovative, energy-smart 2U design to help lower operational costs
Energy-efficient design with UDIMMs, 40W processing and UEFI BIOS
Better serviceability with a highly scalable, flexible design that is easy to deploy, integrate, service and manage
Easier risk management with resilient architectures and virtualized environments

Hardware summary

2U chassis
Up to two 3.33 GHz six-core (3.46 GHz four-core) Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors with QuickPath Interconnect technology, up to 1333 MHz memory access speed.
Up to 192 GB RDIMMs¹ or 48 GB UDIMMs¹ high-performance, new-generation DDR-3 memory
Internal storage flexibility with up to 16 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs
Up to 4 PCIe slots
Optional 2 GB USB key for virtualization, containing VMware ESXi 4.0 embedded hypervisor