Product guide

IBM System x3650 M4 6
Standard specifications
The following table lists the standard specifications.
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Components Specification
Form factor 2U Rack.
Processor Up to two Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family CPUs with eight cores (up to 2.9 GHz) or
six cores (up to 2.9 GHz) or quad-cores (up to 3.3 GHz). Two QPI links up to 8.0 GT/s each. Up
to 1600 MHz memory speed. Up to 20 MB L3 cache.
Chipset Intel C602J.
Memory Up to 24 DIMM sockets (12 DIMMs per processor). RDIMMs, UDIMMs, HyperCloud DIMMs, and
LRDIMMs (Load Reduced DIMMs) supported, but memory types cannot be intermixed. Memory
speed up to 1600 MHz.
Memory
maximums
With RDIMMs: Up to 384 GB with 24x 16 GB RDIMMs and two processors
With UDIMMs: Up to 64 GB with 16x 4 GB UDIMMs and two processors
With HyperCloud DIMMs: Up to 768 GB with 24x 32 GB HyperCloud DIMMs and two processors
With LRDIMMs: Up to 768 GB with 24x 32 GB LRDIMMs and two processors
Memory
protection
ECC, Chipkill, memory mirroring, and memory rank sparing.
Disk drive bays Up to 32 1.8" SSD bays, or 16 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA bays, or up to six 3.5" hot-swap
SAS/SATA bays, or up to eight 2.5" Simple Swap SATA bays, or up to six 3.5" Simple Swap
SATA bays.
Maximum
internal storage
Up to 14.4 TB with 900 GB 2.5" SAS HDDs, up to 16 TB with 1 TB 2.5" NL SAS/SATA HDDs, or
up to 18 TB with 3 TB 3.5" NL SAS/SATA HDDs. Intermix of SAS/SATA is supported.
RAID support RAID 0, 1, 10 with integrated ServeRAID M5110e; optional upgrades to RAID 5, 50 are available
(zero-cache; 512 MB battery-backed cache; 512 MB or 1 GB flash-backed cache). Optional
upgrade to RAID 6, 60 is available for 512 MB or 1 GB cache.
Optical drive
bays
One bay for optional DVD-ROM or Multiburner drive.
Tape drive bays Optional Tape Enablement Kit is available to support one DDS5, DDS6, or RDX internal USB
tape drive.
Network
interfaces
Four integrated Gigabit Ethernet 1000BASE-T ports (RJ-45); two embedded 10 Gb Ethernet
ports (10GBASE-T RJ-45 or 10GBASE-SR SFP+ based) on optional 10 Gb Ethernet mezzanine
card (does not consume PCIe slot).
PCI Expansion
slots
Up to six slots depending on the riser cards installed. The slots are as follows:
Slot 1: PCIe 3.0 x8; full-height, full-length
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Slot 2: PCIe 3.0 x8; full-height, half-length
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Slot 3: PCIe 3.0 x8; full-height, half-length
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Slot 4: Optional, requires second processor and second riser card
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Slot 5: Optional, requires second processor and second riser card
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Slot 6: Optional, requires second processor and second riser card
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Optional riser cards available with PCIe x8 or PCIe x16 or PCI-X slots.
Ports Two USB 2.0 and one DB-15 video on front. Four USB 2.0, one DB-15 video, one DB-9 serial,
one RJ-45 systems management, four RJ-45 GbE network ports, two optional RJ-45 or SFP+
10 GbE network ports on rear. Two internal USB ports (for embedded hypervisor and internal
tape drive).