IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Hardware
Announcement ZG10-0267
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Planning information
Customer responsibilities
x3690 X5 Virtualized System and MAX5 Server and Related Options
The x3690 X5 Virtualized System and MAX5 server is designated as customer setup.
Customer setup instructions are shipped with systems.
Configuration information
Bay configuration
The x3690 X5 Virtualized System and MAX5 server contains 16 customer-accessible
drive bays on the front of the server. A upper right bay is for the optional slim
combo drive.
The optional disk drive is cabled directly to the SATA port.
Internal SCSI cabling
Most models of the x3690 X5 Virtualized System and MAX5 server contains a DASD
backplane supporting four hot-swap, SCA-2-compliant drive bays. The x3690 X5
Virtualized System and MAX5 models with the SAS controller support RAID 0 , 1,
and 10 standard. The optional ServeRAID-M5015 SAS/SATA, ServeRAID-M1015, and
the ServeRAID-BR10i Controllers provide additional RAID 5 level.
There are no processor upgrade options supported:
• 7148-2Dx comes standard with two E6540 processors.
• Intel Xeon Processor E6540 - 2.00 GHz 18 MB L3 Cache 1066 MHz Intel Six
Core Processor Upgrade (60Y0320) supports internal processing speeds of 2.00
GHz and external processing operations to memory at 1066 MHz. It contains an
integrated, full-speed, 18 MB level 3 cache.
• Intel Xeon Processor X7550 - 2.00 GHz 18 MB L3 Cache 1066 MHz Intel Eight
Core Processor Upgrade (60Y0313) supports internal processing speeds of 2.00
GHz and external processing operations to memory at 1066 MHz. It contains an
integrated, full-speed, 18 MB level 3 cache.
• Intel Xeon Processor X7560 Turbo - 2.26 GHz 24 MB L3 Cache 1066 MHz Intel
Eight Core Processor Upgrade (60Y0311) supports internal processing speeds
of 2.26 GHz and external processing operations to memory at 1066 MHz. It
contains an integrated, full-speed, 24 MB level 3 cache.
Memory support
The following memory options are supported:
• 2 GB MAX5 (1x2GB, 1Rx8, 1.5V) PC3-10600 CL9 ECC DDR3 1333MHz LP RDIMM
(44T1592)
• 4 GB MAX5 (1x4GB, Dual Rankx8) PC3-10600 CL9 ECC DDR3 1333MHz LP
RDIMM (44T1599)
• 8 GB MAX5 (1x8GB, Quad Rankx8) PC3-8500 CL7 ECC DDR3 1066MHz LP RDIMM
(46C7482)
• 16 GB (1X16, Quadx4) PC3-8500 CL7 ECC DDR3 1066MHz LP RDIMM (46C7483)
Note:
Refer to details on Server Proven Plan for memory supported in x3690 and
memory supported in MAX5.
Memory DIMMs should be plugged in order of size. Largest size first, followed by
next size. When plug order moves to new DIMM numbers, start with memory card
with smallest total amount.
