X3950 M2: Scalable Hardware Components - IBM 88743BU - System x3950 E User Manual

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Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA) support in the BIOS
Trusted Platform Module support. The module is a highly secure start-up
process from power-on through to the startup of the operating system boot
loader. Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) support is
provided to allow ACPI-enabled operating systems to access the security
features of this module.
System ports and media access
Ports and media access features include:
Six USB 2.0 ports, two on the front panel, three on the rear panel, and one
internal for USB Flash Disk
The Hypervisor model of x3850 M2 includes an integrated hypervisor for
virtualization on a 4 GB USB Flash Disk with VMware ESXi pre-loaded. See
Figure 1-4 on page 5.
An ATI™ Radeon™ ES1000™ SVGA video controller (DB-15 video
connector on RSA II card as shown in Figure 1-3 on page 4) on the Remote
Supervisor Adapter II
Optical drive:
– On machine type 7141: One standard 24x/8x IDE CD-RW/DVD-ROM
combo drive
– One machine type 7233: SATA CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive
USB keyboard and mouse
System serial port
Three SMP expansion ports for use in scalable multinode complex.
Power
Two hot-swap redundant 1440 W power supplies are standard. At 220 V, one
power supply is redundant. At 110 V, the power supplies are non-redundant.

1.1.2 x3950 M2: scalable hardware components

The x3950 M2 includes the following additional scalable hardware components
as standard compared to the x3850 M2. The additional components enable the
x3950 M2 to scale up to a multinode complex comprising of up to a maximum
four x3950 M2s.
ScaleXpander chip (see Figure 1-5 on page 8)
One 3.08 m scalability cable (see Figure 1-6 on page 9)
Chapter 1. Technical overview
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