IBM System x3630 M3 Product Manual - page 2
IBM System x3630 M3
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Key features
The challenge of a high-performance business is to do more with less—serve more Web pages, handle
more secure connections, support more email users. 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 with its new energy-smart design. It can improve service with
reduced operational complexity and increased management functionality. It will lower your IT risk with the
resiliency that comes from having no single point of failure. And like all IBM servers, the x3630 M3 offers
you the trust that comes from IBM global reach, service, and support.
The x3630 M3 is a high-performance rack server that uses significantly less power than previous
generations, with unified systems management tools, leading reliability, availability, and serviceability
features, and broad system flexibility, housed in a compact 2U mechanical package.
Performance
The x3630 M3 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce costs:
Up to two 6-core Xeon 5600 series processors offering superior performance. Xeon 5600 series
processors offer up to 54% better performance than the previous generation 5500 series processors
(workload dependent).
12 DIMMs of registered 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC memory provide speed, high availability, and a
memory capacity of up to 192 GB with 16 GB DDR3 RDIMMs.
Support for 15K RPM SAS disk drives to maximize disk I/O performance and throughput.
High-performance 6 Gbps SAS RAID controllers and 15K RPM 6 Gbps SAS disk drives in a variety of
capacities to suit your local storage requirements.
Flexibility and scalability
The x3630 M3 has the ability to grow with your application requirements with these features:
A choice of 4-core or 6-core processors with clock rates from 1.6 GHz to 3.20 GHz.
12 DIMM sockets allowing memory expansion of up to 192 GB.
Five USB 2.0 ports available - two front, two rear, one internal for an embedded hypervisor.
Storage bay flexibility: Up to 14 hot-swap 3.5" drive bays for SAS or SATA HDDs (12 accessible from
the front and two accessible from the rear). Alternatively, up to 28 hot-swap 2.5" drive bays for HDDs
or SSDs (24 accessible from the front and four accessible from the rear)
Direct-attach SAS storage with the EXP2512, EXP2524, and EXP3000 storage enclosures is
supported. IBM System Storage servers, including network-attached storage (NAS), and iSCSI or
Fibre Channel-attached storage, can also be attached.
The x3630 M3 provides two PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 I/O slots for increased network or storage
connectivity.
Manageability and security
Powerful systems management features simplify local and remote management of the server:
The server includes an Integrated Management Module (IMM) to monitor server availability, perform
Predictive Failure Analysis, and trigger IBM Systems Director alerts.