Product guide

A cost-optimized storage-rich alternative to traditional enterprise 2U dual-socket servers
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, and support for the optional Virtual Media Key for remote presence capability, the
x3630 M3 is designed for superior uptime.
If you need highly manageable, dual-socket/multi-core computing power in a storage-rich
package, the x3630 M3 is the ideal system.
Selling Features
Price/Performance
The x3630 M3 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce costs:
• Up to two 2.26 to 3.06GHz 6-core or 1.6GHz to 3.2GHz 4-core Xeon 5600 series processors;
or two 2.13GHz to 2.26GHz 4-core or 2.0GHz 2-core Xeon 5500 series processors, standard
or via CTO with 12MB, 8MB or 4MB of cache per processor, offer superior price/performance
capable of tackling the toughest jobs.. Xeon 5600 series processors offer up to 54% better
performance than the previous-generation 5500 series processors (depending on workload).
• Low-voltage processors (available via the Configure to Order process) draw less energy
and produce less waste heat than high-voltage processors, thus helping to reduce data center
energy costs. Selected 4-core Xeon 5600 series processors use only 40W and selected 6-
core processors consume only 60W. This is less than half the wattage consumed by 130W
processors.
• Twelve DIMMs of registered 1333MHz DDR3 ECC memory with Chipkill
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protection
(optional) provide speed, high availability, and a memory capacity of up 192GB.
• x3630 M3 servers using the L5640 (via CTO) and X56xx processors support 2 DIMMs
(running at 1.5V) per channel (2DPC) at 1333MHz.
• Two high-speed PCIe Gen 2 slots offer investment protection by supporting high-
performance adapters, such as 10Gb Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand cards, none of
which will run in older 33MHz and 66MHz conventional PCI slots.
• The integrated 6Gbps ServeRAID-M1015, ServeRAID-M5014, or ServeRAID-M5015
controllers (model-specific), in the x8/x8 PCIe Gen 2 slot, provide high-performance RAID
support for SAS/SATA drives.
• Up to 14 3.5-inch or 28 2.5-inch internal hot-swap SAS/SATA hard disk drives offer high-
performance/high capacity, with high availability
• Up to 28TB of internal storage, without the cost or extra rack space of external storage
solutions.
• The integrated dual-port Gigabit Ethernet controller with IPMI 2.0 provide high-speed
network communications.
• A high degree of device integration—including hot swap SAS/SATA HDDs, multiple
hardware-based ServeRAID options, Gigabit Ethernet ports, systems management and video
controllers—lowers costs and frees up valuable adapter slots.
Flexibility
The x3630 M3 has the ability to grow with your application requirements, thanks to
• A choice of 4-core or 6-core processors with 1.6 to 3.2GHz clock rates, up to 4.8 to 6.4
gigatransfers per second, and 80W or 95W maximum power draw. (Additionally, 40W 4-
core and 60W 6-core processors are available via CTO.)
• A choice of either standard 1.5V DIMMs or 1.35V DIMMs that consume 19% less energy.
• Up to 192GB of high-speed registered DDR3 system memory.
• One available high-performance x16/x8 PCIe Gen 2 slot in all models.
• ServeRAID controllers provides up to 512MB of battery-backed cache to enable higher-
performance hardware RAID support, and allows the x3630 M3 to offer five RAID levels
standard: RAID-0/1/10/5/50 (and optionally 6/60 with Self-Encrypting Drives, or SED).
• The five USB 2.0 ports (two front, two rear, one internal) are up to 40X faster
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than older USB
1.1 ports. This provides speedy access to external HDDs (non-arrayed), floppy drives, optical
drives, tape drives, and other USB devices. Two ports are on the front of the unit and two are
on the back. The internal port supports an internal flash drive with embedded hypervisor.
• A choice of 12 3.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or 24 2.5-inch hot-swap SATA drives
standard, or optionally up to 14 3.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or 28 2.5-inch hot-swap
SATA. The 3.5-inch models provide a maximum of 28.0TB of internal storage, while the 2.5-
inch models support up to 16.8TB, in only 2U of rack space. The x3630 M3 supports a
combination of SAS and SATA drives in the same server.
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All models require Chipkill-enabled DIMMs (provided standard or available optionally, model-dependent) for Chipkill protection.
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Data transfer rates may be less than the maximum possible.