IBM System x3850 X5 Implementation Guide

Chapter 6. IBM System x3850 X5 and x3950 X5 281
Figure 6-63 Loading VMware Hypervisor boot command
13.Press Enter after the command has been entered. Press Enter again to continue to boot.
14.After the system boots, connect to it using the vSphere Client.
15.Select the Configuration tab of the host and click Advanced Settings under the
Software panel, as shown in Figure 6-64.
Figure 6-64 Advanced Settings in vSphere Client
16.Click VMkernel in the left pane and select
VMkernel.Boot.allowInterleavedNUMAnodes, as shown in Figure 6-65 on page 282.
Click OK when finished. This step concludes the installation process.

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