Highlights
Innovative design, optimized for cost and performance, supports business-critical applications and cloud deployments
Excellent RAS and outstanding uptime for an improved business environment
Easy to deploy, integrate, service and manage
Optimized for cost and performance
The IBM® System x3650 M4 blends outstanding uptime, performance and I/O flexibility for cost efficiency and rock-solid reliability. The powerful server offers an energy-smart, affordable, and easy-to-use rack solution with a pay-as-you-grow design to help lower costs and manage risks. With more computing power per watt and the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 series processors, advanced memory support, and greater disk capacity for businesses requiring extreme storage, the x3650 M4 offers balanced performance and density.
Outstanding uptime
With redundant hot-swap fans, disks and power supplies, the x3650 M4 provides a resilient architecture ideal for business-critical applications. Predictive Failure Analysis and light path diagnostics provide advanced warning on power supplies, fans, VRMs, disks, processors and memory. Redundant hot-swap components make it easy to replace failures without taking your system down.
Select configurations of the x3650 M4 are part of the IBM Express Portfolio™ designed to meet the needs of small and midsized businesses. Easy to manage, Express models vary by country.
Form factor/height |
2U Rack |
Processor (max) |
Up to two 8-core Intel Xeon E5-2600 series processors |
Cache (max) |
20 MB per processor |
Memory (max) |
Up to 768 GB* via 24 slots (UDIMM/RDIMM/ LRDIMM/HCDIMM) |
Media bays |
Optional DVD and tape drive bay |
Disk bays |
Sixteen 2.5" or six 3.5" HDDs or thirty-two 1.8" SSDs* |
RAID support |
IBM ServeRAID M5110e RAID on motherboard, integrated 6 Gbps hardware RAID-0, -1, -10, and optional RAID-5, -50 or -6, -60 |
Power supply (std/max) |
1/2 redundant 550 W ac, 750 W ac, 900 W ac, or 750 W dc* (model dependent) |
Hot-swap components Network interface |
Power supplies, fan modules and hard disk drives 4 × 1 GbE (std.), 2 × 10 GbE embedded adapter (slotless opt.)/Trusted Platform Module |
Expansion slots |
4 - 6 PCIe 3.0 ports, optional 4 PCI-X or 2 double-width PCIe (for GPU* by special bid) |
USB ports |
2 front/4 back/2 internal |
VGA ports |
1 front/1 back |
Maximum internal storage |
Up to 16 TB (2.5" model) or 18 TB (3.5" model) SAS/SATA |
Energy-efficiency compliance |
Equivalent NEBS 1/ETSI compliance* for both ac and dc* power supply, compliant with 80 PLUS® Platinum and ENERGY STAR®* (model dependent) |
Systems management |
IBM IMM2 with optional FoD remote presence, Predictive Failure Analysis, Diagnostic LEDs, light path diagnostics panel, Automatic Server Restart, IBM Systems Director and Active Energy Manager™ |
Operating systems supported |
Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware vSphere |
Limited warranty |
3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty, next business day 9x5, service upgrades available |