IBM X3850 X6 User Manual

86 IBM System x3850 X6 and x3950 X6 Planning and Implementation Guide
The Primary I/O Book also contains core logic:
򐂰 Integrated Management Module II (IMM2)
򐂰 Two Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs)
򐂰 Two hot-swap fan modules
򐂰 Internal USB port for an embedded hypervisor
򐂰 Dedicated 1 Gigabit Ethernet port dedicated for IMM2 connectivity
򐂰 Four USB 2.0 ports
򐂰 VGA port
򐂰 Serial port
Figure 3-24 shows the Primary I/O Book location and its components.
Figure 3-24 Primary I/O Book location and ports
Rather than a fixed network controller integrated on the system planar, the x3850 X6 and
x3950 X6 offer a dedicated ML2 (mezzanine LOM 2) adapter slot where you can select either
4-port Gigabit networking or 2-port 10Gb networking controllers from a variety of networking
vendors, as listed in Table 3-21 on page 93. This slot also supports out-of-band connectivity
to the IMM2 management controller.
The Storage Book has three PCIe 3.0 slots for optional PCIe adapters. All three ports have
PCIe x16 physical form-factor, but only PCIe slots 7 and 9 have 16 PCIe 3.0 lines, PCIe slot 8
works as PCIe 3.0 x8. All PCIe ports in the Primary I/O Book support only half-length
full-height PCIe adapters. Maximum power consumption for each PCIe slot is 75W.
Three PCIe 3.0 slots
Two fan modules
ML2 slot for Ethernet
adapters
IMM2 Gb
Ethernet port
Serial port
Four USB 2.0 ports
Video port

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