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Product Guide

February 2011

IBM System x3620 M3

Product Overview

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Cost-effective 2U storage server packed with innovation

Suggested Uses: Departmental and file/print servers, online gaming, messaging, video/photo

sharing, email, transaction processing, blog hosting, and search engines; for large enterprise, mid-

market, SMBs, and emerging markets.

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 x3620 M3 can reduce

your costs with its new energy-smart design and budget-conscious features. 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. And like all IBM servers, the

x3620 M3 offers you the trust that comes from the IBM global reach, service and support.

The x3620 M3 is a game-changing rack 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 x3620 M3 features Intel

Xeon

5600 series 6-core and 4-core, and 5500 series 4-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 x3620 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 x3620 M3 also offers memory mirroring. Two integrated high-

speed Gigabit Ethernet ports are included, as are three high-performance PCIe adapter slots. The

x3620 M3 offers an optional embedded hypervisor to manage your virtual workloads.

Some System x3620 M3 models support up to 8 hot-swap 3.5-inch Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) or

Serial-Attached ATA (SATA) HDDs with an internal storage capacity of 16TB. Other models

support up to 4 simple-swap SATA drives, with a storage capacity of up to 8TB. The server

includes firmware RAID-0/1 standard, and offers a choice of several IBM ServeRAID

storage

controllers that provide broad levels of hardware-based RAID solutions. To meet your backup

needs, the x3620 M3 supports a choice of internal tape drives, as well as the internal RDX

Removable Disk Backup System.

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.

Standard in the x3620 M3 is the 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

Director 6.1, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager

™

, IBM ToolsCenter, IBM

ServerGuide

™

, and

support for the optional Virtual Media Key for remote presence capability, the

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