Highlights
Helps reduce the cost of meeting general purpose and storage-intensive demands
Offers more innovative design and flexible configurations for affordable growth
Helps deliver enhanced reliability with simplified management backed by IBM service and support
One server, two uses
With support for the latest Intel Xeon processor technology, the IBM System x3630 M4 offers cost-optimized performance and memory with better energy efficiency. The x3630 M4 helps give growing businesses and branch offices a simpler, more affordable alternative to traditional enterprise offerings without sacrificing performance. For more storage-intensive workloads, the x3630 M4 can provide up to 42 TB of internal storage capacity.
Flexible options, more affordable growth
The x3630 M4 offers added flexibility and an innovative design to help you more easily and cost effectively add new features as your requirements change. Depending on the model you select, these can include graphic card support, advanced RAID and light path diagnostics, hot-swap hard disk drives, rich remote-management capabilities and a shared or dedicated port for system management. Expandable PCIe slots and NIC ports let you pay for the capabilities as you need them.
Form factor/height |
2U Rack |
Processor (max) |
2-, 4-, 6-, 8-core Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 product family, up to 1600 MHz memory access speed |
Number of processors (std/max) |
1/2 |
Cache (max) |
Up to 12 MB L3 |
Memory (max) |
Up to 192 GB DDR-3 RDIMM memory via 12 DIMM slots |
Expansion slots |
2 - 4 x8 PCIe slots +x4 slotless RAID |
Disk bays (total/ hot-swap) |
4, 8 x 3.5" simple-swap SATA HDDs or 8 x 3.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs +tape (value model), 12+2x 3.5” hot-swap (storage-rich model) |
Maximum internal storage |
Up to 24 TB disk (value model), up to 42 TB (storage-rich model) |
Network interface |
Intel Ethernet Controller I350 Dual 1Gb on board + Intel I-350 Embedded Dual Port GbE Activation for IBM System x Feature on Demand (FoD) |
Power supply (std/max) Hot-swap components |
Up to two 550 W/750 W 80 PLUS® certified PSU Power supplies, hard disk drives |
RAID support |
Integrated 3 Gbps software RAID-0, -1, -10 for value entry model; optional hardware RAID-0, -1, -10 or RAID-5, -50 or -6, -60 |
Systems management |
IBM Systems Director, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™, IMM (Integrated Management Module) with IPMI 2.0 support, UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), IBM ToolsCenter, status LEDs |
Operating systems supported |
Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, VMware |
Warranty |
3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty, next business day 9x5, service upgrades available |