Standard specifications
The following table lists the standard specifications.
Table 1. Standard specifications
Components
Specification
Machine type
5464
Form factor
Tower or 5U Rack.
Processor
Up to two Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family CPUs with 18 cores (2.8 GHz core
speeds), or 16 cores (2.3 GHz), or 14 cores (2.6 GHz), 12 cores (up to 2.6 GHz), 10 cores (2.3
GHz), 8 cores (up to 3.2 GHz), 6 cores (up to 3.4 GHz), 4 cores (up to 3.5 GHz)
Two QPI links up to 9.6 GT/s each. Up to 2133 MHz memory speed. Up to 45 MB L3 cache.
Chipset
Intel C612.
Memory
Up to 24 DIMM sockets (12 DIMMs per processor). RDIMMs and LRDIMMs are supported.
Memory types cannot be intermixed. Memory speed up to 2133 MHz.
Memory
maximums
With RDIMMs: Up to 768 GB with 24x 32 GB RDIMMs and two processors
With LRDIMMs: Up to 1.5 TB with 24x 64 GB LRDIMMs and two processors
Memory
protection
ECC, Chipkill (for x4-based memory DIMMs), memory mirroring, and memory rank sparing
Disk drive bays
Available configurations:
Up to 32x 2.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs
Up to 12x 3.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs
Up to 6x 3.5-inch hot-swap HDDs + 16x 2.5-inch hot-swap drives HDDs/SSDs
Up to 6x 3.5-inch simple-swap SATA HDDs
Additional drive bays for the above configurations:
Two 5.25-inch drive bays for optical drives
Maximum
internal storage
122.9 TB with 32x 3.84TB 2.5-inch SAS hot-swap SSDs
96 TB with 12x 8TB 3.5-inch NL SAS or NL SATA hot-swap HDDs
38.4 TB with 32x 1.2TB 2.5-inch SAS hot-swap HDDs
36 TB with 6x 6TB 3.5-inch NL SAS or NL SATA simple-swap HDDs
Intermix of SAS and SATA is supported.
Storage
controller
Onboard 6 Gb SATA: no RAID support
12 Gb SAS/SATA RAID: RAID 0, 1, 10 with M1215 or M5210. Optional upgrade to RAID
5, 50 is available for M1215. Optional upgrade to RAID 5, 50 is available for M5210
(zero-cache; 1 GB non-backed cache; 1 GB, 2 GB or 4 GB flash-backed cache).
Optional upgrade to RAID 6, 60 is available for M5210 with memory cache upgrades.
12 Gb SAS/SATA non-RAID: N2215 HBA
Optical drive
bays
Two half-height 5.25-inch bays for optical or tape drives. Supports DVD-ROM or Multiburner.
Tape drive bays
Two half-height 5.25-inch bays for optical or tape drives. Support for one RDX internal USB
tape drive.
Network
interfaces
Four integrated Gigabit Ethernet 1000BASE-T ports (RJ-45) based on Broadcom BCM5719
controller
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