IBM System x3650 M4

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Highlights

Innovative design, optimised for cost and performance, supports business-critical applications and cloud deployments
Excellent RAS and outstanding uptime for an improved business environment
Easy to deploy, integrate, service and manage

Optimised for cost and performance

The IBM® System x3650 M4 blends outstanding uptime, performance and I/O flexibility for cost efficiency and rock-solid reliability. The powerful server offers an energy-smart, affordable, and easy-to-use rack solution with a pay-as-you-grow design to help lower costs and manage risks. With more computing power per watt and the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 series processors, advanced memory support, and greater disk capacity for businesses requiring extreme storage, the x3650 M4 offers balanced performance and density.

Outstanding uptime

With redundant hot-swap fans, disks and power supplies, the x3650 M4 provides a resilient architecture ideal for business-critical applications. Predictive Failure Analysis and light path diagnostics provide advanced warning on power supplies, fans, VRMs, disks, processors and memory. Redundant hot-swap components make it easy to replace failures without taking your system down.

Select configurations of the x3650 M4 are part of the IBM Express Portfolio™ designed to meet the needs of small and midsized businesses. Easy to manage, Express models vary by country.

Product features

Innovative design with flexibility, performance and outstanding uptime
Optimised for cost and performance, supports business-critical applications and cloud deployments
Excellent RAS and outstanding uptime for an improved business environment
Easy to deploy, integrate, service and manage
Comprehensive systems management tools help increase uptime, reduce costs and improve productivity with advanced server management capabilities
Support for GPUs, high-IOPS SSDs and 10 GbE for different types of workloads

Hardware summary

2U rack server provides expandability and high performance in a dense form factor
Up to two Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 product family
Up to 768 GB memory and up to two DIMMs per channel at 1600 MHz memory speed
Integrated quad-port Gigabit Ethernet and optional embedded dual-port 10 GbE
Up to six PCIe 3.0 expansion slots; Up to four optional PCI-X slot is available
Up to 16 TB of 1.8-inch hot-swap SSDs or 16 TB of 2.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA/SSDs or 24 TB of 3.5-inch hot-swap or simple-swap SAS/SATA HDDs
Embedded 6 Gbps hardware RAID-0, -1, -10 and optional RAID-5, -50 or -6, -60
Hot-swap disk/fan/power supply, two fan zones with N+1 fans design, light path diagnostics and Predictive Failure Analysis, better thermal design, balanced efficiency, uptime and serviceability