IBM X3850 X6 Product Guide

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Warranty options
The IBM System x3850 X6 has a three-year onsite warranty with 9x5/next business day terms. IBM offers
the warranty service upgrades through IBM ServicePac offerings. IBM ServicePac is a series of
prepackaged warranty maintenance upgrades and post-warranty maintenance agreements with a
well-defined scope of services, including service hours, response time, term of service, and service
agreement terms and conditions.
IBM ServicePac offerings are country-specific, that is, each country might have its own service types,
service levels, response times, and terms and conditions. Not all covered types of ServicePac offerings
might be available in a particular country. For more information about the IBM ServicePac offerings that
are available in your country, visit the IBM ServicePac Product Selector at the following address:
https://www-304.ibm.com/sales/gss/download/spst/servicepac
The following table explains the warranty service definitions in more detail.
Table 20. Warranty service definitions
Term Description
IBM onsite
repair (IOR)
A service technician comes to the server's location for equipment repair.
24x7x2 hour A service technician is scheduled to arrive at your customer’s location within two hours after
remote problem determination is complete. We provide service around the clock, every day,
including IBM holidays.
24x7x4 hour A service technician is scheduled to arrive at your customer’s location within four hours after
remote problem determination is complete. We provide service around the clock, every day,
including IBM holidays.
9x5x4 hour A service technician is scheduled to arrive at your customer’s location within four business hours
after remote problem determination is completed. We provide service from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
in the customer's local time zone, Monday through Friday, excluding IBM holidays. If after 1:00
p.m. it is determined that onsite service is required, the customer can expect the service technician
to arrive the morning of the following business day. For noncritical service requests, a service
technician arrives by the end of the following business day.
9x5 next
business day
A service technician is scheduled to arrive at your customer’s location on the business day after we
receive your call, following remote problem determination. We provide service from 8:00 a.m. to
5:00 p.m. in the customer's local time zone, Monday through Friday, excluding IBM holidays.
In general, the types of IBM ServicePac offerings are as follows:
Warranty and maintenance service upgrades:
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One, 2, 3, 4, or 5 years of 9x5 or 24x7 service coverage
o
Onsite repair from next business day to 4 or 2 hours
o
One or two years of warranty extension
o
Remote technical support services:
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One or three years with 24x7 coverage (severity 1) or 9x5/next business day for all severities
o
Installation and start-up support for System x servers
o
Remote technical support for System x servers
o
Software support - Support Line:
o
Microsoft or Linux software
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VMware
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IBM Systems Director
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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