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IBM System x3850 X5 7
Standard specifications
The following table lists the standard specifications.
Table 1. Standard specifications (Part 1)
Components Specification
Form factor/height Rack/4U per chassis; MAX5 adds 1U.
Scalability Machine type 7143 can scale as follows:
One server (4U rack-mounted complex)
One server with MAX5 memory expansion unit (5U rack-mounted complex)
Two servers with two MAX5 memory expansion units (10U rack-mounted complex)
Processor type Machine type 7143: Intel Xeon E7-8800 and E7-4800 families, up to 10 cores.
Number of processors Most models: 2 standard (some 4 standard); 4 maximum.
Cache (max) Up to 30 MB L3 cache
Memory DIMM sockets Up to eight memory cards, each with eight DIMM sockets (64 DIMM sockets total).
MAX5 adds 32 DIMM sockets.
Memory maximums 2.0 TB using 32 GB DIMMs. Up to 3.0 TB with the addition of MAX5.
With two x3850 X5 servers and two MAX5 units, total capacity up to 6.0 TB
Expansion slots Eight slots total:
Seven PCIe 2.0 slots (one used by 10 Gb Ethernet card, if included).
One PCIe 2.0 slot for supported RAID card.
Disk bays Eight 2.5" hot-swap SAS or sixteen 1.8" solid-state drives (SSD).
Maximum internal
storage
Using NL SAS HDDs: 8 TB per chassis with eight 1 TB drives
Using 2. 5-inch SSDs: 12.8 TB per chassis with eight 1.6 TB drives
Using eXFlash solid-state drives: 8 TB per chassis with 16x 512 GB SSDs
Network interface Two 1 Gb Ethernet ports. Broadcom 5709C controller.
Emulex 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter standard on most models with two 10 Gb Ethernet
ports
Power supply (std/max) Up to two hot-swap redundant 1975 W power supplies
Hot-swap components Power supplies, fans, hard disk drives, and solid-state-drives.
RAID support 7143: Integrated RAID-0, RAID-1 with ServeRAID M1015 in dedicated PCIe slot
Optional RAID-5, 6, 10, 50, 60
External ports Rear: Four scalability ports , one Ethernet for systems management, one serial port,
four USB 2.0, one VGA, two Gb Ethernet
Front: Two USB 2.0
Internal: One USB 2.0 port for Embedded Hypervisor
Systems management Alert on LAN 2, Automatic Server Restart, IBM Systems Director, IBM ServerGuide,
Integrated Management Module (IMM), light path diagnostics (independently powered),
Predictive Failure Analysis on hard disk drives, processors, VRMs, fans and memory,
Wake on LAN, Dynamic System Analysis, QPI Faildown.
Operating systems
supported
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 (Standard, Enterprise and Data Center Editions
64-bit), 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, 64-bit SUSE Enterprise Linux, (Server and
Advanced Server), VMware vSphere Hypervisor

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IBM Redbooks x3850 X5 Specifications

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