IBM eServer x3650 M3

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, 40 W 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 3.46 GHz six-core (3.60 GHz four-core) Intel Xeon 5600 series processors with QuickPath Interconnect technology, up to 1333 MHz memory access speed. - Up to 192 GB RDIMMs or 48 GB UDIMMs high-performance, new-generation DDR-3 memory. - Internal storage flexibility with up to sixteen 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs. - Up to four PCIe slots. - Low 675 W design and up to 94% efficient power supplies, six cooling fan modules, new UEFI BIOS, altimeter monitored by Integrated Management Module and IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™. - NEBS 1/ETSI equivalent compliance for both AC and DC power supplies (model dependent). - Compliance with 80-PLUS® and ENERGY STAR® energy-efficiency standards (model dependent). - VMware ESXi embedded hypervisor support with optional 2 GB USB key for virtualization.