Product guide

A cost-optimized storage-rich alternative to traditional enterprise 2U dual-socket servers
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x3620 M3 is designed for superior uptime.
If you need highly manageable, dual-socket/multi-core computing power in a budget rack-dense
package, the x3620 M3 is the ideal system.
Selling Features
Price/Performance
The x3620 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. withd 12MB, 8MB, or 4MB of cache per processor, offer superior 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.
• x3620 M3 servers using the 1333MHz 5600 series processors support 2 DIMMs per channel
(2DPC) at 1333MHz (using 1.5V DIMMs or 1.35V-capable DIMMs running at 1.5V).
• Two x8 (“by 8”) PCIe Gen 2 and one x4 PCIe Gen 2 adapter slot offer investment protection by
supporting high-performance adapters, such as 10Gb Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand
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cards, none of which will run in older legacy PCI slots.
• The optional integrated 3Gbps ServeRAID-BR10il v2 controller, or the 6Gbps ServeRAID-
M1015, ServeRAID-M5014, or ServeRAID-M5015 controller, provide high-performance RAID
support for SAS/SATA drives.
• Up to 8 3.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA hard disk drives offer high-performance and high capacity,
with high availability. Up to 4 3.5-inch simple-swap SATA drives offer high capacity and quick
servicing
• 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 x3620 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 6.4 gigatransfers
per second, and 40W to 95W maximum power draw.
• A choice of either 1.5V DIMMs, or 1.35V DIMMs that consume 20% less energy.
• Up to 192GB of high-speed registered DDR3 system memory.
• Three available high-performance PCIe adapter slots in all models.
• Upgrading to one of several ServeRAID controllers provides up to 512MB of battery-backed
cache to enable higher-performance hardware RAID support, and allows the x3620 M3 to offer
five RAID levels standard: RAID-0/1/10/5/50 (and optionally 6/60 with Self-Encrypting Disk).
• 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), 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 tape or IBM RDX Removable Disk Backup System, and a flash
drive with embedded hypervisor can be support via another internal USB port.
• A choice of up to eight 3.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or four 3.5-inch simple-swap
SATA drives and one internal tape drive or RDX Removable Disk Backup System, offer a variety
of storage options. The SATA models provide a maximum of 16.0TB of internal storage, while the
SAS models support up to 4.8TB.
• Alternatively, direct-attach, network-attached storage (NAS), or iSCSI or Fibre Channel-attached
storage can be attached using IBM System Storage
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servers.
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All models require Chipkill-enabled DIMMs (provided standard) for Chipkill protection.
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Data transfer rates may be less than the maximum possible.