IBM System x3850 M2 72336RU User Manual

Processor (max) 

Intel® Xeon® Series 7200 and 7300 up to 2.93 GHz (quad­

core)/1066 MHz front-side bus 

Number of processors (std/max) 

2/4 per chassis (optional 2, 3, 4 chassis support) 

Cache (max) 

Up to 8 MB (2x4 MB) 

4 GB or 8 GB/256 GB max PC2-5300 DDR II 

7 total PCI-Express half length, (2 hot-plug) 

Disk bays (total/hot-swap) 

4/4 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 

587 GB SAS per chassis (supports 73.4 GB and 146.8 GB 

hard disk drives) 

Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet w/TCP-IP off-load engine 

1440W 220V 2/2 

Power supplies, fans, memory, hard disk drives and 

PCI-Express adapters 

Integrated RAID-0, -1, optional RAID-5 

Alert on LAN® 2, Automatic Server Restart, IBM Director, 

IBM ServerGuide™, Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine, 

light path diagnostics (independently powered), Predictive 

Failure Analysis® on hard disk drives, processors, VRMs, fans 

and memory, Wake on LAN®, Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) 

Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 (Standard, Enterprise and 

Datacenter editions 32-bit and 64-bit), 32- and 64-bit Red Hat 

Enterprise Linux® and SUSE Enterprise Linux, (Server and 

Advanced Server), VMware ESX Server 

Rack/4U per chassis 

3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty

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1

Maximum internal hard disk and memory 

capacities may require the replacement of any 

standard hard drives and/or memory and the 

population of all hard disk bays and memory 

slots with the largest capacity supported drives 

available. When referring to variable speed 

CD-ROMs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs and DVDs, actual 

playback speed will vary and is often less than 

the maximum possible 

2 

When referring to storage capacity, GB = 

1,000,000,000 and TB = 1,000,000,000,000 

bytes. Accessible capacity is less. 

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