IBM X3850 X6 Product Guide

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In order for an I/O Book to be hot-swappable, all adapters that are installed in the book must support
hot-swap and the operating system must also support hot-swap. These operating systems support
hot-swap:
Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2012 R2

The adapters listed in the following table support hot-swap.
Table 11. Adapters that support hot swap
Part number Feature code Description
00D8540 A4XH Emulex Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ VFA IIIr for IBM System x*
49Y7960 A2EC Intel X520 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapter for IBM System x
49Y7970 A2ED Intel X540-T2 Dual Port 10GBaseT Adapter for IBM System x
49Y4230 5767 Intel Ethernet Dual Port Server Adapter I340-T2 for IBM System x
49Y4240 5768 Intel Ethernet Quad Port Server Adapter I340-T4 for IBM System x
* Hot-swap is only supported when the adapter is in pNIC mode. Hot-swap is not supported in either vNIC mode
(IBM Virtual Fabric mode or Switch Independent mode).
The usage of these Optional I/O Books requires all four processors to be installed.
The following table shows the ordering information for the optional I/O Books.
Table 12. I/O Book options
Part
number
Feature
code
Description Maximum
supported
x3850 X6
44X4049 A4A2 X6 Half-Length I/O Book 2
44X4051 A4A3* X6 Full-Length I/O Book 2
* The Full-length I/O Book can be ordered only as an option. It is not available through CTO because the Full-length
I/O Book cannot be shipped installed in the server

IBM X3850 X6 Specifications

General

Chipset	Intel C602J
Network Controller	Integrated quad-port Gigabit Ethernet
Processor	Up to four Intel Xeon E7-4800 v2 series processors or Intel Xeon E7-8800 v2 series processors
Memory	Up to 6 TB of DDR3 ECC Registered DIMMs (RDIMMs) or Load-Reduced DIMMs (LRDIMMs)
Form Factor	4U rack server
Storage	Up to 24x 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs
Expansion Slots	Up to 11 PCIe 3.0 slots
Power Supply	Up to four 1400W or 900W hot-swap power supplies
Memory Type	DDR3 RDIMM/LRDIMM
Storage Controller	ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA controller
RAID Support	RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
Operating System Support	Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware