Standard Specifications - IBM System x3690 X5 At-A-Glance Manual

Standard specifications

Table 1 lists the standard specifications.
Table 1. Standard specifications
Components Specification
Form Rack/2U per chassis; MAX5 adds 1U
factor/height
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 1 or 2 standard (model dependent), 2 maximum
processors
Cache (max) Machine type 7147: up to 30 MB
Machine type 7148: up to 24 MB
Memory DIMM Up to 64 DIMM sockets:
sockets 16 on the system planar
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32 total with optional memory mezzanine
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64 total with optional MAX5 and memory mezzanine
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Memory Up to 1TB of RAM using all 16GB DIMMs:
maximums 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 9.6 TB per chassis (using 600 GB 2.5-inch SAS drives)
internal storage
Network 2x 1 Gb Ethernet ports
interface 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 1 / 4 - 675 W 220 V
(std/max)
Hot-swap Power supplies, fans, hard disk drives
components
RAID support Most models: ServeRAID M1015 controller standard supporting RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, and 50.
Systems Alert on LAN 2, automatic server restart, IBM Director, IBM ServerGuide, IMM, light path
management diagnostics (independently powered), predictive failure analysis on hard disk drives, processors,
VRMs, fans and memory, Wake on LAN, dynamic system analysis
Operating Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 (Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter editions 64-bit), 64-bit
systems Red Hat Enterprise Linux® and SUSE Enterprise Linux, (Server and Advanced Server), VMware
supported vSphere
Limited warranty 3-year customer replaceable unit and on-site limited warranty
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