IBM System x3850 X5 User Manual

2. Turn off the server and peripheral devices, and disconnect the power cord and
all external cables.
3. Remove the server cover (see “Removing the top cover” on page 44).
4. If any hard disk drives or fillers are installed in the server, pull out the bottom
four just enough to disconnect them from the backplane, and completely
remove any fillers from the top four bays.
5. Remove the backplane carrier and the SAS power cable handle:
a. Lift the SAS power and configuration cable handle up to disconnect the
cables from the microprocessor board.
b. Slide the backplane carrier release tab forward and slightly lift the carrier.
c. Remove the backplane carrier and SAS power cable handle from the server
together.
SAS power and
configuration cables
Release tab
Backplane
carrier
Alignment
pins
6. Disconnect the power and configuration cables from the backplane. Do not
disconnect the SAS signal cable from the backplane.
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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