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IBM System x3650 M4

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Highlights

  • Innovative design, optimized 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

Optimized 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.


Feature Benefits
2U rack
  • Provides expandability and high performance in a dense form factor
High-performance, energy-smart Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family with up to 20 MB L3 cache per processor socket, integrated PCIe 3.0, Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, Hyper-Threading Technology and two QuickPath interconnect
  • Boosts performance with the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 series 8-core processors
  • Integrated PCIe 3.0 into the processor for lower latency and power while growing total capacity and bandwidth
  • Maximizing turbo mode duration and speed by the new improved technology with improved power and thermal management
Ultra-fast, two DIMMs per channel at 1600 MHz, with 24 DIMM sockets of DDR3 RDIMM/UDIMM/LRDIMM*/HCDIMM memory
  • Memory scalability ideal for compute-intensive, general-business applications and virtualized environments
  • A new generation of high-performance memory matches the speed of the Intel Xeon E5-2600 series processors to optimize throughput
  • Improved application performance with interleaved memory
  • Fast memory bandwidth with ability to run two DIMMs per channel at 1600 MHz with supported RDIMM
  • 1.5 V memory operates at 17% lower energy than the previous generation memory’s thermal design. Save up to an additional 10% on your memory power budget with 1.35 V memory
  • Up to 768 GB* of memory capacity with the new load reduction memory DIMM (LRDIMM*)
Support for up to 16 small form factor (SFF) 2.5" hot-swap or 6 large form factor (LFF) 3.5" hot-swap or simple-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) hard disk drives (model dependent), sixteen 2.5” or thirty-two 1.8” simple-swap or hot-swap solid state drives (SSDs)
  • Reduce cost with large-capacity 3.5" SATA drives and increase performance with 2.5" SAS/SATA drives
  • Up to 18 TB of storage capacity on 3.5" HDD models or 16.0 TB of storage capacity on 2.5" HDD models
  • Easy field upgrade flexibility to increase the number of drives from 8 to 16 with easy-to-install optional HDDs without slot required
  • Consolidate server design optimized for storage-intensive workloads
  • Enhanced performance and reliability storage with support for sixteen 2.5" or thirty-two 1.8" High IOPS solid state drives* (SSDs)
  • Supports optional DVD and tape drive
Integrated 6 Gbps hardware RAID on the motherboard
  • High-speed 6 Gbps interface RAID support for improved performance
  • Advanced RAID protection delivers advanced high availability to your HDDs efficiently without sacrificing performance
  • The new Flash technology extends the useful life to nearly seven years versus a typical one-year replacement for batteries
  • Support up to 1 GB flashback or 512 MB cache
  • Common RAID management tool across System x® portfolio
  • FoD helps you upgrade RAID-5, -50 or -6, -60 without opening the chassis
Up to six next-generation PCIe 3.0 I/O slots for system expansion.
  • Extensive I/O bandwidth for greater performance and productivity
  • Deliver double the bandwidth of PCIe 2.0 with lower latency
  • Scale up to more I/O slots as needed by upgrading to a second processor
  • Supports up to 2 x16 + 2 x8 slots or 1 x16 + 4 x8 or 6 x8 slots
Optional PCI-X slots (CTO) and double-width PCIe 3.0 slots* (by special bid)
  • Enables you to continue using legacy PCI-X adapters while you transition to the PCIe standard, Supports up to 4 PCI-X + 2 x16 PCIe 3.0 slots
  • Supports up to 2 double-width x16 + 2 x8 PCIe 3.0 slots*
Integrated quad-port Gigabit Ethernet and optional embedded dual-port 10 GbE
  • Provides double the network throughput with features that reduce processor workload
  • Lower power consumption and improved reliable network with smart management tools built in
  • Embedded two 10 GbE ports without slot required
Optional hot-swap, redundant power and hot-swap cooling
  • Increases system and application uptime by eliminating another potential point of failure with a second hot-swap power supply; allows the server to continue operating even with a fan failure
  • Choice of one of the following high-efficiency power supplies (model dependent): 550 W ac, 750 W ac, 900 W ac, or 750 W dc*
  • Hot-swap dual-motor cooling fans help maintain a healthy system by keeping internal components cool, and help keep your business-critical applications running safely
Drop-down light path diagnostics panel
  • Gives information about a failing component without having to open the chassis and without interrupting system operation
  • Expedites hardware repairs to dramatically reduce service time
  • Provides a lighted path to the failing component inside the system
NEBS 1/ETSI compliance
  • Equivalent compliance* for both ac and dc* power supplies (model dependent)
Energy-efficiency compliance
  • Compliant with 80 PLUS® Platinum for ac power supplies
  • ENERGY STAR® energy-efficiency standards* (model dependent)
IBM Integrated Management Module 2 (IMM2)
  • Increases server availability by continuously monitoring your system and notifying you of potential system failures or changes
  • Remote presence provides for around-the-clock remote management capabilities (FoD optional); gives information about a failing component without interrupting system operation
IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™
  • Provides comprehensive systems management tools
  • Helps increase uptime, reduce costs and improve productivity with advanced server management capabilities
  • Allows continuous real-time monitoring, measuring and management of power consumption
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
  • Common across all IBM next-generation servers, this new BIOS is easy to configure and deploy
  • Provides more functionality than legacy BIOS and facilitates greater manageability through a common infrastructure for managing all machines
  • Server efficiency is improved by a faster boot, and restart of OS Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 enables advanced cryptographic functionality, such as digital signatures and remote attestation
  • CRTM for secure boot
Support for the VMware vSphere and USB keys (optional)
  • Innovative, thin hypervisor architecture is operating system-independent and designed to optimize virtualization performance
  • Integrated into server hardware to help provide compatible, pre-tested and optimized hardware configurations
  • Optimized for remote management tools and industry-standard protocols such as CIM
Security capabilities
  • Offers ServeRAID with leadership disk encryption to help protect your data
  • Trusted platform module technology
IBM ServerGuide software
  • Assists with the installation of operating systems and drivers
  • Gets your server up and running faster
  • Simplifies installation and configuration of your System x® servers
3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty, next business day 9x5, service upgrades available
  • Provides peace of mind for an extended period of time

* Available later in 2012.


Form factor/height 2U Rack
Processor (max) Up to two 8-core Intel Xeon E5-2600 series processors
Number of sockets 2
Cache (max) 20 MB per processor
Memory (std/max) Up to 768 GB* via 24 slots (UDIMM/RDIMM/LRDIMM*/HCDIMM)
Media bays Optional DVD and tape drive bay
Disk bays Sixteen 2.5" or six 3.5" HDDs or thirty-two 1.8" SSDs*
RAID support IBM ServeRAID M5110e RAID on motherboard, integrated 6 Gbps hardware RAID-0, -1, -10, and optional RAID-5, -50 or -6, -60
Power supply (std/max) 1/2 redundant 550 W ac, 750 W ac, 900 W ac, or 750 W dc* (model dependent)
Hot-swap components Power supplies, fan modules and hard disk drives
Network interface controller (NIC)
Trusted platform module (TPM)		 4 × 1 GbE (std.), 2 × 10 GbE Embedded Adapter (slotless opt.)/TPM
PCIe 3.0 Expansion slots (x16/x8) 4 - 6 PCIe ports or 4 PCI-X (CTO) or 2 double-width PCIe (for GPU* by special bid)
USB ports 2 front/4 back/2 internal
VGA ports 1 front/1 back
Maximum internal storage Up to sixteen 2.5" or six 3.5" HDDs or thirty-two 1.8” SSDs
NEBS 1/ETSI and energy-efficiency compliance Equivalent compliance for both ac and dc* power supply, compliant with 80 PLUS® Platinum and ENERGY STAR®* (model dependent)
Systems management IBM IMM2 with optional FoD remote presence, Predictive Failure Analysis, Diagnostic LEDs, light path diagnostics panel, Automatic Server Restart, IBM Systems Director and Active Energy Manager™
Operating systems supported Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware vSphere
Limited warranty 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty, next business day 9x5, service upgrades available

* Available later in 2012.

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