Components Specification
Expansion
Eight slots total:
slots
Seven PCIe 2.0 slots (one used by 10 Gb Ethernet card, if included).
One PCIe 2.0 slot for supported RAID card.
Disk bays
Eight 2.5" hot-swap SAS or sixteen 1.8" solid-state drives (SSD).
Maximum
Using NL SAS HDDs: 8 TB per chassis with eight 1 TB drives
internal
Using 2. 5-inch SSDs: 12.8 TB per chassis with eight 1.6 TB drives
storage
Using eXFlash solid-state drives: 8 TB per chassis with 16x 512 GB SSDs
Network
Two 1 Gb Ethernet ports. Broadcom 5709C controller.
interface
Emulex 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter standard on most models with two 10 Gb Ethernet ports
Power supply
Up to two hot-swap redundant 1975 W power supplies
(std/max)
Hot-swap
Power supplies, fans, hard disk drives, and solid-state-drives.
components
RAID support 7143: Integrated RAID-0, RAID-1 with ServeRAID M1015 in dedicated PCIe slot
Optional RAID-5, 6, 10, 50, 60
External
Rear: Four scalability ports , one Ethernet for systems management, one serial port, four USB 2.0,
ports
one VGA, two Gb Ethernet
Front: Two USB 2.0
Internal: One USB 2.0 port for Embedded Hypervisor
Systems
Alert on LAN 2, Automatic Server Restart, IBM Systems Director, ServerGuide, Integrated
management
Management Module (IMM), light path diagnostics (independently powered), Predictive Failure
Analysis on hard disk drives, processors, VRMs, fans and memory, Wake on LAN, Dynamic
System Analysis, QPI Faildown.
Operating
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 (Standard, Enterprise and Data Center Editions 64-bit), 64-bit
systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, 64-bit SUSE Enterprise Linux, (Server and Advanced Server), VMware
supported
vSphere Hypervisor
Limited
Three-year customer-replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty.
warranty
Dimensions
Width: 440 mm (17.3 inches), depth: 712 mm (28.0 inches), height: 173 mm (6.8 inches) or 4 rack
units (4U)
Weight
Minimum configuration: 35.4 kg (78 lb), maximum configuration: 49.9 kg (110 lb)
The x3850 X5 servers are shipped with the following items:
Rack rails and hardware
Cable management hardware
Country kit carton
Two 2.8 m 220 V intra-rack cables
On/off switch cover
Documentation CD
Standard models
System x3850 X5 (7143)
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