IBM X3850 X6 User Manual

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Figure 3-3 shows the front view of the x3950 X6 server.
Figure 3-3 Front view of the x3950 X6
As shown in Figure 3-3, the x3950 X6 is the equivalent of two x3850 X6 servers. It can have
up to eight Compute Books (four Compute Books minimum), and two Storage Books, each of
which can have up to 8 2.5-inch drives or up to 16 1.8-inch SSD drives.
We describe the Compute Book in detail in 3.6, “Compute Book” on page 64. We describe the
Storage Book in 3.10, “Storage subsystem” on page 75.
Figure 3-4 shows the rear of the x3850 X6 server.
Figure 3-4 The x3850 X6 rear view
Storage Books Compute Books
Primary I/O Book
Additional I/O Books
Power supplies

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