IBM System x3850 M2 at a glance
Form factor/height
Rack/4U per chassis
Processor
(max)
Intel
®
Xeon
®
Series 7200 and 7300 up to 2.93 GHz (quad
core)/1066 MHz front-side bus
Number of processors
(std/max)
2/4 per chassis (optional 2, 3, 4 chassis support)
Cache
(max)
Up to 8 MB (2x4 MB)
Memory
1
(max)
4 GB or 8 GB/256 GB max PC2-5300 DDR II
Expansion slots
7 total PCI-Express half length, (2 Active Memory)
Disk bays
(total/hot-swap)
4/4 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Maximum internal storage
1, 2
587 GB SAS per chassis (supports 73.4 GB and 146.8 GB
hard disk drives)
Network interface
Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet w/TCP-IP off-load engine
Power supply (std/max)
1440W 220V 2/2
Hot-swap components
Power supplies, fans, memory, hard disk drives and
PCI-Express adapters
RAID support
Integrated RAID-0, -1, optional RAID-5
Systems management
Alert on LAN
®
2, Automatic Server Restart, IBM Director,
IBM ServerGuide™, Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine,
light path diagnostics (independently powered), Predictive
Failure Analysis
®
on hard disk drives, processors, VRMs, fans
and memory, Wake on LAN
®
, Dynamic System Analysis (DSA)
Operating systems supported
Microsoft
®
Windows Server
®
2003 (Standard, Enterprise and
Datacenter editions 32-bit and 64-bit), 32- and 64-bit Red Hat
Enterprise Linux
®
and SUSE Enterprise Linux, (Server and
Advanced Server), VMware ESX Server
Limited warranty
3
3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty
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US
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1
Maximum internal hard disk and memory
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