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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w ith extreme availabili ty features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 1 Product G uide April 2011 IBM Sy stem x3850 X5 / x3950 X5 Architecture Ov erview CONTE NTS Architecture Overv iew 1 Key Highlig hts 2 Key Featur es 3 Key Optio [...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w ith extreme availabili ty features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 2 and high availability. Th ey supp ort the lat e st te n-, eight -, six- , and fo ur-core I ntel ® Xeon ® E7 family and 7500 s e ries pr ocess o rs, up to 1066[...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 3 memor y in 5 U ; two cha ssis with t wo MAX5 units supp ort up to 6T B in 10U. • Alternativel y, with 9 6 DIMM slots t he ser ve r an d MAX5 c an be pop ulat[...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 4 1066M H z memor y a c c e s s, du al int eg r ated memor y control le rs, 24MB of s hared L3 c ache, and Int el VT, HT , and T urbo B oo s t tec hnology • 10[...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 5 process o r m odel and m emory us ed. In proc e s s o rs impl ementin g Hyper-Thr ea d ing technol ogy , each core has t wo thr ea ds capable o f run ning an i[...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 6 enhanc e d CRC prot e ction , data retr y on error de t ect and buf fer regist ers for impr ove d f ault is o l ation. An imp o r t an t gu ideline is to popul[...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 7 system. Up to f o ur QPI c ables c onne c t th e MAX5 to the h o st x3 850/x3950 X5 at sp eed s up to 6.4Gbp s (process o r-spec ific), pr oviding excep tional[...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 8 • IBM 320G B H igh IOPS S S Class SSD PCI e Adapter ( x 4 Ge n 1 —100K IOPS, 750MB ps) • IBM 320G B H igh IOPS M S Class SSD PCIe A dapter ( x4 G en 1 ?[...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 9 a st onishin g 937,600 IOPS for a s ingl e two-node s e r ver. Each cust omer-instal lable eXFlas h option incl ud e s a dri ve c age, SSD backpl ane , and two[...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 10 Offload; R e c eive Sid e Scaling (RSS); IPV4 T CP Chimn ey O ff lo ad • VLAN ins ertion an d e xtra ct ion • Jumbo fr ame s up to 900 0 Bytes • Preboot[...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 11 panel w ill p op out and dr op down f o r ea s y viewin g without th e need t o open the serv er cover or remove the s e r ver fr om the rack. T he light pat [...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 12 includin g: • Monitorin g o f s ystem and batter y voltage, s y st em temp e r atur e , f ans, power su pplies, process o r and DIMM s tatus • Fan sp ee d[...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 13 system t ex t mess a g es an d g r aphics over s erial or LAN . Predictive Failure Anal ys is ( P FA) is d esigned to allow t he eX5 s e r vers t o detect imp[...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 14 Additional servic e s includ e hard wa r e warr anty upgr ade s and f a ct ory - inst a l led Produ ct Customiz ation Serv ices (PCS), s uch as a ss et taggin[...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 15 Support ed S AS/SATA R AID contr ollers includ e the IBM S erveRAID- M 1015 ( x8 PCIe, RAID- 0/1/10), IB M ServeR AID-M50 14 (x8 PCIe, 2 56 M B cach e , RAID-[...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 16 Rear View Interior V iew 7 Adap t er Slots 8 Me m o r y Card S lots Hot - Swap Fans HDD Bay s Processo rs 2 Hot - Swap Pow er Suppli es Memory Card Sockets Ho[...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 17 MA X5 Interior Vie w x3850 X5 / x3950 X5 Specifications M achi ne ty pe x3850 X 5 7143-B1x /B2x/B3x/B 5x/B6x/ B7 x, C1x/C2 x 7145-1Rx , 2Rx/2S x, 3Rx, 4Rx/4Sx[...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 18 Chipset Intel 7500 & IBM eX5 Scalability p orts 4 QPI P o rts per chassis; 3 EXA ports ( with t wo MAX5 uni ts) # of interc onnected no des (chassis) m ax[...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 19 # of 5.25" bays total / a va ilable 1 / 1 (opti onal optic al d r ive with SAT A interf a c e ) M axim um HDD/SS D ca pacity 2.5-inch S AS 4.8TB (8 x 600[...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 20 Gen 2 slot s (8G B ps) # of P CIe p hysical x 8/electrical x 4 Gen 2 slot s (4G B ps) 1 full-hei ght/ full -len gth per chass is/node # of vide o ports 1 Vide[...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 21 VMwar e vSpher e Hyper visor 4.1 U pdate 1 Length of l imited wa rr anty 3 years (p arts and lab or) 13 ( 7143 / 71 45 ) 4 years (p arts and lab or) ( 714 6 )[...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 22 M anag eability , Servic eability and Availability • IBM Syste ms Direct or systems managemen t softw are , i ncluding: • IBM S y s tems Dir e c tor Acti [...]
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Ultrascalabi lity com bined w i th extreme availabi lity features and industry-l eading performanc e Please see the Le gal In format ion se ction for impor tant n otice s and informat ion. 23 For Mo re I nformation IBM S y s tem x Servers http:// i bm. com /syst e m s/ x IBM S y s tems Dir e c tor S e r vice and Supp o rt M anager http:// ibm.com /[...]