IBM x3650 M3 Product Guide

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Internal storage
IBM System x3650 M3 server supports the following internal storage configurations:
Four SATA 2.5" SFF Simple-Swap drive bays (only available in CTO)
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Four SAS/SATA 2.5" SFF hot-swap drive bays
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Eight SAS/SATA 2.5" SFF hot-swap drive bays
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Sixteen SAS/SATA 2.5" SFF hot-swap drive bays
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Eight SAS/SATA 2.5" SFF hot-swap drive bays and internal tape drive
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Figure 5 shows these configurations.
Figure 5. Internal drive configurations
Standard models of x3650 M3 ship with four (model A2x) or eight (all models except A2x) SAS/SATA 2.5"
SFF hot-swap hard drive bays. The following table shows internal storage expansion options available for
x3650 M3 server.
Table 7. Internal storage expansion options
Part
number
Feature
code
Name Maximum
supported
69Y4236 4174 IBM System x3650 M3 Hot-Swap SAS/SATA 4 Pac HDD Upgrade Option 1
59Y3825 1747 Hot-swap SAS SATA 8 Pack HDD Enablement Option (with 6 Gb/sec
expander)
1
69Y5034 5720 Hot-swap SAS SATA 8 Pack HDD Enablement Kit (with two ServeRAID M5015
adapters)
1
59Y3806 4181 IBM System x3650 M3 Tape Enablement Kit 1

IBM x3650 M3 Specifications

General

Memory	Up to 192 GB DDR3
Memory Slots	18 DIMM slots
Form Factor	2U Rack
Processor	Intel Xeon 5600 series
Storage	SAS/SATA drives
Network Interface	Gigabit Ethernet ports
Operating System Support	Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware ESXi
RAID Support	IBM ServeRAID options available