Thursday, May 16, 2013

IBM System X3620 M3 Product Review

Form factor/height Rack/2U
Processor (max) Up to two 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon 5600 series processors with QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) technology. Also supports select Intel Xeon 5500 series processors
Number of processors (std/max) One/two
Cache (max) Up to 12 MB Level 3 (L3)
Memory (max) Up to 96 GB in 12 slots, using Registered Dual Inline Memory Modules (RDIMMs)1
Expansion slots Two x8 PCle Gen II slots and one x4 PCle Gen II buried slot
Disk bays (total/hot swap) Up to four 3.5"simple-swap Serial advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) HDDs or up to eight 3.5"hot-swap Serial Advanced SCSI (SAS)/SATA HDDs
Maximum internal storage Up to 16.0 TB hot-swap SAS or SATA
Network interface Integrated two ports
Power supply (std/max) One/two, 675 W each
Hot-swap components  power supplies, HDDs
RAID support Embedded software RAID-0, -1 or hardware RAID-0, -1E or RAID-0, -1,-10 (optional -5 with SED function) or RAID-0,-1,-10,-5,-50 (optional -6.-60 with SED function and optional battery). model dependent
Systems  management IBM IMM with Virtual Media Key, Predictive Failure Analysis, Integrated Service Processor, light path diagnostics panel,Automatic Server Restart, IBM Systems Director and Active Energy Manager, IBM ServerGuide
Operating systems Supported Microsoft Window Server 2008 R2, 2008, 2003 R2, 2003 SBS R2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and VMware ESXi 4.0 embedded hypervisor