IBM System x3850 X5 Implementation Guide

Chapter 4. IBM System x3690 X5 119
Figure 4-1 IBM System x3690 X5
Figure 4-1 shows the x3690 X5 server with 16 hot-swap 2.5-inch SAS disk drives installed.
The x3690 server has these physical specifications:
򐂰 Height: 86 mm (3.5 inches, 2U)
򐂰 Depth: 698 mm (27.4 inches)
򐂰 Width: 429 mm (16.8 inches)
򐂰 Maximum weight: 31.3 kg (69 lb) when fully configured
Each disk drive has an orange-colored bar. This color denotes that these disks are
hot-swappable. The color coding that is used throughout the system is orange for
hot-swappable and blue for non-hot-swappable. The only hot-swappable parts in this server
are the HDDs, fans, and power supplies. All other parts require that the server is powered off
before removing that component.
4.1.1 System components
Figure 4-2 shows the components on the front of the system.
Figure 4-2 Front view of x3690 X5
Figure 4-3 on page 120 shows the rear of the system.
Rack
release
latch
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Drive bays
Video
connector
USB 1
connector
USB 2
connector
Operator information
panel release latch
Rack
release
latch
Operator
information
panel
Power-on
button
and LED
Optical drive
activity LED
Optical drive
eject button
Drive activity
LED (green)
Drive status
LED (amber)
Scalability
LED

IBM System x3850 X5 Specifications

General

Processor Cores	Up to 10 cores per processor
Chipset	Intel 7500
Hard Drive Interface	SAS/SATA
Processor	Intel Xeon E7-4800 series, Intel Xeon E7-8800 series
Memory Slots	64 DIMM slots
Storage	Up to 16 x 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs
RAID Support	RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10
Network Interface	Integrated Gigabit Ethernet
Operating System Support	Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware vSphere
Form Factor	4U Rack