IBM System x3850 X5 Implementation Guide

Chapter 6. IBM System x3850 X5 and x3950 X5 287
13.Wait approximately 10 minutes to power on the x3850 X5. There must be no LEDs lit on
the light path diagnostics panel. The System Health Status in the IMM web interface looks
like Figure 6-75.
Figure 6-75 IMM System Health Summary
14.Power on the x3850 X5.
15.At the UEFI panel, press F1 for the UEFI menu.
16.Select System Settings  Memory and change the MAX5 Memory Scaling Affinity to
Non-Pooled, as shown in Figure 6-76.
Figure 6-76 UEFI setting for MAX5 Memory Scaling Affinity
17.Press Esc two times to go back to the Main page. Select Save Settings and press Enter
to save the UEFI settings.
18.Exit the UEFI and boot the system to ESXi.
Figure 6-77 ESXi 4.1 Installable NUMA error
Important: If you forgot to select VMkernel.Boot.allowInterleavedNUMAnodes under
VMkernel, Figure 6-77 shows the error that will appear during boot.

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