Key features
The increasing demand for cloud-computing and analytics workloads by enterprises to meet social,
mobile, and Big Data requirements drives innovation to find new ways to build informational systems.
Clients are looking for cost-optimized fit-for-purpose IT solutions that manage large amounts of data,
easily scale performance, and provide enterprise class reliability.
Built on decades of innovation, Lenovo introduces the sixth generation of Enterprise X-Architecture
technology, Lenovo X6 servers. Lenovo X6 servers are fast, agile, and resilient:
Fast application performance means immediate access to actionable information.
Agile system design helps to reduce acquisition costs and provide the ability to upgrade processor
and memory technology at each refresh within the same chassis.
Resilient platforms maximize application uptime and promote easy integration in virtual
environments.
Lenovo X6 servers continue to lead the way as the shift toward mission-critical scalable databases,
business analytics, virtualization, enterprise applications, and cloud-computing applications accelerates.
Fast application performance
The server offers numerous features to boost performance:
Based on the Intel Xeon E7 family of processors:
Models based on E7-4800 v4 and E7-8800 v4 processors
Supports up to four E7 v4 processors with a total of 96 cores and 192 threads to maximize
the concurrent running of multi-threaded applications.
Improves productivity by offering superior system performance with processors up to 24
cores, core frequencies up to 3.2 GHz core speeds, L3 cache of up to 60 MB, and three QPI
interconnect links at up to 9.6 GTps.
Supports DDR4 memory at speeds up to 1866 MHz, or DDR3 memory at speeds up to 1600 MHz
Supports up to 96 DIMM sockets, with 24 DIMMs per processor.
Intelligent and adaptive system performance with Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 allows
processor cores to run at maximum speeds during peak workloads by temporarily going beyond
processor thermal design power (TDP).
Intel Hyper-Threading Technology boosts performance for multi-threaded applications by enabling
simultaneous multi-threading within each processor core, up to two threads per core.
Intel Virtualization Technology integrates hardware-level virtualization hooks that allow operating
system vendors to better use the hardware for virtualization workloads.
Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) improves floating-point performance for compute-intensive
technical and scientific applications.
Supports a 12 Gbps SAS RAID portfolio.
The usage of solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of, or along with, traditional spinning drives (HDDs)
can improve I/O performance. An SSD can support up to 100 times more I/O operations per second
(IOPS) than a typical HDD.
Optional support for high-performance PCIe-attached NVMe Flash Storage solid-state drives
(SSDs) can significantly improve I/O performance.
PCI Express 3.0 I/O adapter slots that improve the theoretical maximum bandwidth by almost
100% (8 GTps per link using 128b/130b encoding) compared to the previous generation of PCI
Express 2.0 (5 GTps per link using 8b/10b encoding).
With Intel Integrated I/O Technology, the PCI Express 3.0 controller is integrated into the Intel Xeon
processor. This integration helps reduce I/O latency and increase overall system performance.
Support for up to two graphics processing units (GPUs) and co-processors to maximize computing
Lenovo System x3850 X6 (6241)
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