IBM X3850 X6 User Manual

xii IBM System x3850 X6 and x3950 X6 Planning and Implementation Guide
Authors
This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at the
International Technical Support Organization, Raleigh Center.
Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:
IBM System x marketing:
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David Watts is a Consulting IT Specialist at the IBM ITSO
Center in Raleigh. He manages residencies and produces
IBM Redbooks publications on hardware and software topics
related to IBM Flex System®, IBM System x®, and IBM
BladeCenter® servers. He has authored over 250 books,
papers, and Product Guides. He holds a Bachelor of
Engineering degree from the University of Queensland
(Australia), and has worked for IBM in both the United States
and Australia since 1989. David is an IBM Certified IT
Specialist, and a member of the IT Specialist Certification
Review Board.
Rani Doughty is a hardware specialist and data center
consultant with a background in System x, BladeCenter, and
Flex System. She currently works with the world-wide Data
Center Services (DCS) team in IBM Lab Services as a
developer of the IBM Power Configurator. She has 10 years
of technical experience in the x86 field. She holds an honors
degree in IT from the University of Ballarat (Australia). She
has written and presented world-wide extensively on IBM
Systems Director, pre and post sale tools, and infrastructure
planning.
Ilya Solovyev is a Technical Consultant for IBM STG Lab
Services based in Moscow. He currently provides technical
consulting services for System x, Flex System, BladeCenter,
IBM System Storage®, and Systems Software. His areas of
expertise also include Linux systems, virtualization and cloud
solutions, IBM Systems solution for SAP HANA. Ilya is a
certified Red Hat Engineer and has a Bachelor degree in
Math from the Volgograd State University.

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