Front View Of The Server; Storage Book - IBM System x3850 X6 Installation And Service Manual

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Front view of the server

This information provides an overview of the components that are accessible from

the front of the server.

The storage book, LCD system information display panel, front operator panel,

front I/O panel, fan-packs 1 through 8, and the DDR3 compute books are in the

front of the server.

The following illustration shows the components in the front of the server.

Use this information for an overview of the controls, connectors, LEDs, and

components on the storage book.

The storage book houses the drives and drive backplanes, the front operator panel,

the LCD system information display panel, the front I/O panel (USB 3.0/Video

connectors), and the PCIe slots for the storage host bus adapters.

v Power to the storage book and the storage backplanes is provided by the

v The PCIe slots on storage book are dedicated storage host bus adapters slots. Do

v You must power-off the server and disconnect all power cords to remove or add

v Install internal RAID adapters and the adapter flash power modules in the

The storage book provides the following slots and connectors:

v Two x16 (8, 4, 1) PCIe Gen3 low profile slots (8 GT/s) for storage host bus

v One VGA connector

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Compute book 1 Compute book 2 Compute book 3 Compute book 4

standard I/O book.

not install any other adapters in these slots. Other adapters are not supported in

these slots.

adapters in the PCIe slots on the storage book. The PCIe slots are not

hot-swappable.

storage book component.

– PCIe slot 12 is the primary storage slot

– PCIe slot 11 is the secondary storage slot

Fan-pack 3 Fan-pack 5 Fan-pack 7

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