IBM System x3690 X5, At-A-Glance Manual

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IBM System x3690 X5 4
Standard specifications
Table 1 lists the standard specifications.
Table 1. Standard specifications
Components Specification
Form
factor/height
Rack/2U per chassis; MAX5 adds 1U
Processor (max) Machine type 7147: Intel Xeon E7-2800, E7-4800 and E7-8800 families, up to 10 cores
Machine type 7148: Intel Xeon 7500 and 6500 families, up to 8-cores
Number of
processors
1 or 2 standard (model dependent), 2 maximum
Cache (max) Machine type 7147: up to 30 MB
Machine type 7148: up to 24 MB
Memory DIMM
sockets
Up to 64 DIMM sockets:
16 on the system planar
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32 total with optional memory mezzanine

64 total with optional MAX5 and memory mezzanine
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Memory
maximums
Up to 1TB of RAM using all 16GB DIMMs:
256 GB without the memory mezzanine
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512 GB total with the memory mezzanine populated
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1024 GB total with the memory mezzanine and MAX5 populated
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Expansion slots Up to 5 PCIe 2.0 slots depending on the riser cards used
Disk bays Up to 16x 2.5-inch SAS hot-swap bays; or
Up to 24x 1.8-inch SSD hot-swap bays
Optical drive Optional
Maximum
internal storage
9.6 TB per chassis (using 600 GB 2.5-inch SAS drives)
Network
interface
2x 1 Gb Ethernet ports
2x 10 Gb Ethernet ports (standard on some models, optional on the others)
1x Intel Ethernet Quad Port Server Adapter I340-T4 (standard on some workload-optimized
models)
Power supply
(std/max)
1 / 4 - 675 W 220 V
Hot-swap
components
Power supplies, fans, hard disk drives
RAID support Most models: ServeRAID M1015 controller standard supporting RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, and 50.
Systems
management
Alert on LAN 2, automatic server restart, IBM Director, IBM ServerGuide, IMM, light path
diagnostics (independently powered), predictive failure analysis on hard disk drives, processors,
VRMs, fans and memory, Wake on LAN, dynamic system analysis
Operating
systems
supported
Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 (Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter editions 64-bit), 64-bit
Red Hat Enterprise Linux® and SUSE Enterprise Linux, (Server and Advanced Server), VMware
vSphere
Limited warranty 3-year customer replaceable unit and on-site limited warranty