IBM System x3800 88654TU User Manual
Product codes
88654TU
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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 currently 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 bytes and
TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Accessible
capacity is less.
3
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and resolve the problem remotely before
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x3800 at a glance
Form factor
Tower or 7U rack
Processor
Intel Xeon Processor MP up to 3.66 GHz (single-core) and
3.0 GHz (dual-core)/667 MHz front-side bus, both support Intel
Extended Memory 64 Technology
Number of processors
(std/max)
(std/max)
1/4
Cache (max)
1MB L2 per processor (single-core) and 2x2MB L2 (dual-core)
Memory
1
(max)
1GB or 2GB/64GB PC2-3200 DDR II SDRAM
Disk bays (total/hot-swap)
12/12 3.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Maximum internal storage
1, 2
3.6TB SAS (supports 300GB SAS HDDs)
I/O slots (total/hot-swap)
6/6 Active PCI-X 2.0, all slots supporting up to 266 MHz
Network interface
Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet
Power supply (std/max)
775W 2/3 hot-swap (N+1)
Hot-swap components
Power supplies, fans, memory, hard disk drives and PCI-X
adapters
RAID support
RAID-0, -1, -5 optional (ServeRAID™-8i)
Systems management
Alert on LAN™ 2, Automatic Server Restart, IBM Director, IBM
ServerGuide™, Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine optional,
light path diagnostics (independently powered), Predictive
Failure Analysis on processors, VRMs, fans, power supplies and
memory, Wake on LAN®
Operating systems supported
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Standard and Enterprise
editions 32-bit and x64), 32- and 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise
Linux® and SUSE Enterprise Linux, VMware ESX Server
Limited warranty
3
3-year onsite limited warranty