IBM X3850 X6 User Manual

18 IBM System x3850 X6 and x3950 X6 Planning and Implementation Guide
These I/O Books are accessible from the rear of the server. Figure 2-10 shows the two I/O
Books.
Figure 2-10 Additional I/O Books
The x3850 X6 server supports up to two additional I/O Books of any type; the x3950 X6
server supports up to four additional I/O Books.
For more information about the additional I/O Books, see 3.13.1, “Half-length I/O Book” on
page 89 and 3.13.2, “Full-length I/O Book” on page 89.
2.1.5 Power supplies
The x3850 X6 has also up to four hot-swap redundant power supplies of several types:
1400W AC, 900W AC, and 750W -48V DC. The x3950 X6 has up to eight power supplies,
900W AC or 1400W AC. Figure 2-11 shows a 1400W AC power supply.
Figure 2-11 1400W power supply
Half-length I/O Book
Full-length I/O Book

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