IBM X3850 X6 User Manual

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Figure 2-9 shows the internals of the Primary I/O Book, as viewed from the front of the server.
The black air baffle is raised to show internal components.
Figure 2-9 The Primary I/O Book internals
The x3850 X6 has one Primary I/O Book. The x3950 X6 has two Primary I/O Books. For more
information about the Primary I/O Book, see 3.12, “Primary I/O Book” on page 85.
2.1.4 Additional I/O Books
Additional I/O Books provide additional I/O capabilities, each with 3 PCIe slots. There are two
types of additional I/O Books:
򐂰 Half-length I/O Book, supporting three half-length adapters
򐂰 Full-length I/O Book, supporting either full-length or half-length adapters.
The Full-length I/O Book is designed to accept GPU adapters and co-processors, including
double-wide adapters that require up to 300W of power. The Full-length I/O Book includes
two auxiliary power connectors, 150W and 75W, as well as power cables.

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