Features
Highlights
- Helps reduce the cost of meeting general purpose and storage-intensive demands
- Offers more innovative design and flexible configurations for affordable growth
- Delivers enhanced reliability with simplified management backed by Lenovo service and support
One server, two uses
With support for the latest Intel Xeon E5-2400 v2 processor technology, the System x3630 M4 offers cost-optimized storage, performance and memory with energy efficiency. The x3630 M4 gives 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 56 TB of internal storage capacity.
Flexible options, 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.
Technical Specifications
| Description | Specifications |
|---|---|
| Form factor/height | 2U Rack |
| Processor | 2-, 4-, 6-, 8, 10-core Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 v2 product family, up to 1600 MHz memory access speed |
| Number of processors | 1/2 |
| Cache | Up to 20 MB L3 |
| Memory | Up to 384 GB DDR-3 LRDIMM 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-inch/SSD simple-swap SATA HDDs or 8 x 3.5-inch/SSD hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs +tape (value model), 12+2x 3.5-inch/SSD hot-swap (storage-rich model) |
| Maximum internal storage | Up to 32 TB disk (value model), up to 56 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 | Up to two 550 W/750 W/750 DC/900 W 80 PLUS certified PSU |
| Hot-swap components | 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 | 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 |