IBM System x3655
Highlights
- Manage growth and complexity by using new integrated solutions to easily manage your resources
- Improve reliability and mitigate potential risk through optional redundant hardware solutions
- Go green and save through efficient power management, systems management and deployment
Business Performance Computing
The IBM System x3655 provides you the confidence to deploy business applications that can help you get to market faster, build better products and better understand your customers.
These applications require memory-intensive performance, and the x3655 delivers. With features such as quad-core processors, 16 available DIMMs with up to 64 GB of DDR II memory and robust I/O, customers can configure to meet their needs.
And IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ delivers advanced control to help monitor power usage and achieve decreased infrastructure power and cooling costs. Grow your compute power without growing your data center.
Keep it simple and protect your data with light path diagnostics, hot-swap and redundant components and the optional Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine.
With the x3655, leverage AMD Opteron™ processor performance and IBM reliability to help improve your competitiveness.
Select configurations of the x3655 are part of the IBM Express Portfolio™, designed and priced to meet the needs of mid-sized businesses. Reliable and easy to manage, Express models/configurations vary by country.
Product features
- Flexibility, capacity and performance with IBM eXtended I/O™
- Reduced power and cooling costs with IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager—data center level power management and control
- Superior performance with quad-core processing
- Ease of use with hot-swap features and light path diagnostics—allowing customers to quickly and simply diagnose and fix problems
Hardware summary
- 2U rack-optimized system
- Up to two Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors Model 2352 (2.1 GHz) or 2356 (2.3 GHz)
- Up to 64 GB DDR II memory 667 MHz via 16 DIMM slots
- Two PCI-Express x8 (low-profile) and 1 PCI-Express x4 (low-profile); 1 HTx (full-height/full-length) Riser, 1 PCI-X 133 MHz (full-height/full-length) or 1 PCI-Express x16 (full-height/full-length) Riser (optional)
- Integrated RAID-0, -1, -10 (RAID-5, -6, -10, -50, -60 and battery backup optional)
- Hot-swap redundant cooling, power and hard disk drives for high availability
Features & Benefits
| Feature |
Benefits |
| IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager |
- Allows use of actual power draw in the place of conservative
“label/spec power” estimates
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| IBM eXtended I/O |
- In addition to three standard PCI-Express slots, the x3655
offers choice of PCI-X, PCI-Express or HTx adapters for fourth
slot
- Deploy hardware RAID and the IBM RSA II SlimLine without using
one of your valuable slots
|
| 64 GB of maximum memory |
- Offers better performance for applications that require lots
of memory
- Allows customers to scale up memory using lower-priced DIMMs
|
| Standard TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) |
- Diverts and handles TCP/IP traffic from the processor, increasing
system performance
|
| RAID support |
- Integrated RAID (e.g., mirroring, striping) comes standard
- Slotless, optional full IBM ServeRAID™ with battery backup for data protection
- Optional tape and GoVault options
|
| DDR II memory |
- Has lower power requirements than fully-buffered DIMMs
- Provides better performance than DDR 1 memory
|
| Up to two Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors |
- Integrated memory controller provides maximum performance
for memory-intensive applications
|
| Hot-swap/redundant power and cooling |
- Reduces downtime by maintaining system performance if a fan/power
supply fails
|
| Light path diagnostics |
- Provides information about a failing component without interrupting
system operation
- Expedites hardware repairs to dramatically reduce service time
- Provides a lighted path to failing component inside the system
|
| Support for optional IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter
II SlimLine card |
- Works in concert with integrated system management processor
to provide even greater system control
- Decreases downtime by allowing you to remotely perform systems
management functions even when your server is powered down
- Activates dedicated system management Ethernet port
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| IBM Director |
- Represents comprehensive systems management tools that leverage
industry standards and help you better manage your assets—both
in and out of bound
- Helps increase uptime, reduce costs and improve productivity
via advanced server management capabilities
|
| Three-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited
warranty |
- Provides the peace of mind that comes with the world-class
service that IBM provides
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Specifications
| Form factor/height |
2U |
| Processor (max) |
Quad-Core AMD Opteron Model 2352 (2.1 GHz) or 2356 (2.3 GHz) |
| Number of processors (std/max) |
1/2 |
| Memory (std/max) |
64 GB DDR II 667 MHz via 16 DIMMs |
| Expansion slots |
Standard: 2 PCI-Express x8 (low-profile) and 1 PCI-Express x4
(low-profile);
Optional: 1 HTx (full-height/full-length) Riser, 1 PCI-X 133 MHz
(full-height/full-length) or 1 PCI-Express x16 (full-height/full-length)
Riser |
| Disk bays (total) |
Eight SFF (2.5") hot-swap SAS hard disk drives (HDDs) or
six 3.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs |
| Maximum internal storage |
1.8 TB hot-swap SAS or 4.5 TB hot-swap SATA |
| Network interface |
Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet with TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) |
| Power supply (std/max) |
835W 1/2 |
| Hot-swap components |
Power supply, hard disk drives, cooling fans |
| RAID support |
RAID-0, -1, -10 standard, RAID-5, -6, -10, -50, -60 and battery
backup optional |
| Systems management |
Baseboard Management Controller IPMI 2.0 standard, Remote Supervisor
Adapter II SlimLine optional |
| Operating systems supported |
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008, Microsoft Windows®
Small Business Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server, VMware ESX Server |
| Limited warranty |
3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty |
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