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Contents
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Safety statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
Chapter 1. The Lenovo System
x3850 X6 and x3950 X6 Type 6241
server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . 5
Server features and specifications . . . . . . . . 5
What your server offers . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Reliability, availability, and serviceability . . . . . 17
Server scalability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
FlexNode support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Lenovo XClarity Administrator . . . . . . . . . 20
Server components . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Front view of the server . . . . . . . . . . 24
Rear view of the server . . . . . . . . . . 31
Jumpers, switches, and buttons on standard
I/O book board . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Server power features . . . . . . . . . . 39
x3950 X6 4-socket to 8-socket upgrade kit . . . . 41
Chapter 2. Installing optional
devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Instructions for Business Partners. . . . . . . . 43
How to send DSA data . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . 45
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . 46
Installing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . 46
eXFlash DIMMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Memory mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Memory rank sparing . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Independent memory mode . . . . . . . . 53
Lockstep memory mode . . . . . . . . . 57
DIMM installation instructions . . . . . . . 59
Installing a compute book . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Installing drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Drive IDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Supported drive backplane configurations . . 69
Installing 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch hot-swap
drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Installing the half-length and full-length I/O
books. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Installing the half-length I/O book . . . . . . 79
Installing the full-length I/O book . . . . . . 80
Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Supported adapters and Features on Demand
software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Installing an adapter in the standard or half-
length I/O book . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Installing an adapter in the full-length I/O
book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Installing specific optional adapters . . . . . 93
Installing a RAID cache card . . . . . . . . . . 97
Installing a RAID adapter flash power module in
the storage book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Installing a RAID adapter flash power module in
the standard I/O book . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Installing power supplies . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Installing a 750-watt -48 volt to -60 volt dc
power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Installing a 1400-watt or 900-watt hot-swap
power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Installing a USB embedded hypervisor flash
device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Installing the drive backplanes . . . . . . . . . 111
Installing the 8x1.8-inch hot-swap drive
backplane assembly . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Installing the 4x2.5-inch hot-swap drive
backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Installing the 4x2.5-inch NVMe PCIe Gen3
solid state drive backplane. . . . . . . . . 115
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . 117
Updating the server configuration . . . . . . 117
Chapter 3. Configuration information
and instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Updating the firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Configuring the server . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation
DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Using the Setup utility . . . . . . . . . . 123
Using the Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . 129
Starting the backup server firmware . . . . . 130
The UpdateXpress System Pack Installer . . . 130
Configuring a multinode system. . . . . . . 131
Using the integrated management module . . 133
Setting power supply power policy and
system power configurations. . . . . . . . 137
Using the embedded hypervisor software . . . 138
Configuring the Ethernet controller . . . . . 139
Enabling Features on Demand Ethernet
software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Enabling Features on Demand RAID
software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Configuring RAID arrays. . . . . . . . . . 140
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