IBM System x3650 M3 4255 User Manual

4. Remove the two 4-drive filler panels that are to the right of drive bay 8,
beneath the IDs8-15onthefront bezel.
5. To obtain more working room, remove fans 2 and 3 (see “Removing a
hot-swap fan” on page 115).
6. Pull the hard disk drives or fillers out of the server slightly to disengage them
from the backplanes. For more information, see“Removing a hard disk drive”
on page 60.
7. Disconnect the SAS signal cables from the SAS controller, which is connected
to the SAS riser-card. Leave the other end of the SAS signal cables connected
to the hard disk drive backplanes.
8. Remove the SAS controller assembly from the server; then, remove the SAS
controller from the SAS riser-card. See “Removing a ServeRAID SAS
controller from the SAS riser-card” on page 121 for instructions.
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IBM System x3650 M3 4255 Specifications

General

Form Factor	2U Rack
Chipset	Intel 5520
Max Processors	2
Processor	Intel Xeon 5600 series
Memory	Up to 192GB DDR3
Network Interface	Dual-port Gigabit Ethernet
Hard Drive Bays	Up to 16 x 2.5" or 6 x 3.5"
RAID Support	RAID 0, 1, 10
Memory Slots	18 DIMM slots
Operating System Support	Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware