IBM X3850 X6 User Manual

156 IBM System x3850 X6 and x3950 X6 Planning and Implementation Guide
12.Select the Save Configuration option and confirm your intentions to create your RAID
array as seen in Figure 5-30.
Figure 5-30 Warning and confirmation of RAID array creation
13.Select the Confirm option to mark an X in the box and then select Yes. After you confirm
your array creation, you are presented with a Success message as seen in Figure 5-31.
Figure 5-31 Successful RAID array creation
14.Select OK, and press Esc to return to the main menu. Your array is now active.
There are additional utilities for configuring and managing your disks in the x3850 X6 and
x3950 X6 server. See 6.2, “IBM ServerGuide” on page 189 and 7.7, “MegaRAID Storage
Manager” on page 224 for additional information.
5.4 PCIe adapter placement advice
The x3850 X6 server supports up to 12 PCIe slots (including the dedicated ML2 slot) with up
to three I/O Books and one Storage Book installed in the 4-socket chassis. The x3950 X6
offers up to 24 PCIe slots (including two ML2 slots) with up to six I/O Books and two Storage
Books installed in the 8-socket chassis.
This section describes considerations to remember for determining how to use your PCIe
slots, depending on the type of I/O Books and adapters that you have installed.

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