IBM eServer System x3650 M3 7945K1G manual

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 1 Product Guide March 2010 IBM System x 3650 M3 Product Overvie w CONTENT S Product Overvie w 1 Selling Features 2 Key [...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 2 Serial over LA N ; as well as text-console redirect over LA N . Another improv ement with the ne w genera tion of X-A[...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 3 • A choice of either standard 1.5V D IMMs, or 1.35V D IMMs that consume 10% less energy . • Four available high- [...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 4 memory is up to 16 X better than st andard ECC memory a t correcting me mory errors. This can help reduce dow ntime c[...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 5 Also available, via configure-to-orde r (CTO): • 130W 4-core X eon 5600 model X5 677 running at 3.46GH z, with impr[...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 6 slots ( 192GB in 12 slots, as of 2Q/ 2010), or up to 24GB of UDIMM (un buffered DIMM) memory in 12 slots ( 48GB in 12[...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 7 with six 2GB single - rank DIMM s by 7% for SPECjbb2 005. Dual-rank DIM Ms are also better than quad-ran k DIMMs beca[...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 8 updated/patched much like firmwar e. Licensing works the same as for “standard” ESX . Disk Controllers All x3650 [...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 9  Superior Uptime – 3X the availability of mechanical di sk drives – No moving part s to fail – Enterprise w [...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 10 capability for future up grades to Fi bre Channel ove r Ethernet (FCoE) an d iSCSI protocol of floads. By using a co[...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 11 components, in cluding: • Redundant me mory protect ion (with Chipkill protec tion, and memory mi rroring enabled)[...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 12 and operating sy stems personaliz ation. IBM offers ex tensive technical su pport by phone and via the W eb. Support[...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 13 the ability to add more tools to the bootable image and to automatical ly download the bootable environment if nee d[...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 14 processor. Hard Disk Drives — IBM hard disk drive s help you improv e the transaction and cost performance of you [...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 15 IBM System x3650 M3 Images Front View Inside View Rear View Hot-Swap Pow er Supplies USB Hypervisor Key Hot-Swap HDD[...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 16 IBM System x3650 M3 Specifications Machine ty pe 7945-A2x , B2x, C2x, D2x, F2x, G2 x, H2x, J2x, L2x, M2x , N2x Form [...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 17 (* When availab le in 2Q/2010) 1333MHz RDIMM 2GB single -ran k x4 , 1.5V; 2GB single-rank x 8 1.5V; 2GB dual-rank x [...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 18 # of 33MHz legacy PCI sl ots None # of video ports 2 (one front, one rea r) Video controller Matrox G200 eV (in IMM)[...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 19 The Bottom Line The IBM Syste m x3650 M3 is an extremely energy efficient, powerful syste m, incorporating significa[...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 20  Advanced Chipki ll ECC memory protection support  Memory mirroring • Integrated ServeRA ID controller — e[...]

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    Leadership en terprise server with significantly lower co st of own ership in a h ighly available a nd expandab le, rack-dense, 2 U dual-socket server Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. 21 For More Information IBM System x Servers ht tp:// ibm.com /sy stems/x IBM Systems Direc tor Service and Support Man[...]