High Quality Low Price Network Lenovo System X3850 X6 Rack Server

Machine type

6241

Firmware

Lenovo-signed firmware

Form factor

4U rack.

Processor

One, two or four Intel Xeon E7-4800 v4 or E7-8800 v4 processors, each in a Compute Book. Processor options have between 4 and 24 cores with core frequencies up to 3.2 GHz. Three QPI links up to 9.6 GT/s each. Compute Books have TruDDR4 memory up to 1866 MHz, but cannot be mixed. Up to 60 MB L3 cache. Intel C602J chipset.

Memory

Up to 96 DIMM sockets (24 DIMMs per processor, installed in the Compute Book). RDIMMs and LRDIMMs (Load Reduced DIMMs) are supported, but memory types cannot be intermixed. Memory is either TruDDR4 memory (up to 1866 MHz) or DDR3 memory (up to 1600 MHz), depending on the Compute Book selected.

Memory protection

ECC, Chipkill, RBS, memory mirroring, and memory rank sparing.

Disk drive bays

Up to 16 1.8" SSD bays, or up to 8 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA bays, or up to 4x 2.5” hot-swap PCIe NVMe SSD drive bays.

Maximum internal storage

Up to 61.44 TB with 8x 7.68 TB 2.5-inch SAS SSDs or
Up to 16 TB with 8x 2 TB 2.5-inch NL SAS HDDs, or
Up to 16 TB with 4x 4 TB 2.5-inch PCIe NVMe SSDs.

RAID support

12 Gb SAS/SATA RAID 0, 1, or 10 with ServeRAID M5210; optional upgrades to RAID 5 and 50 are available (zero-cache; 1 GB non-backed cache; 1 GB or 2 GB flash-backed cache). Upgrades to RAID 6 or 60 available for M5210 with 1 GB or 2 GB upgrades.

Optical and tape bays

No internal bays. 

Network interfaces

Mezzanine LOM (ML2) slot for dual-port 10 GbE cards with SFP+ or RJ-45 connectors or quad-port GbE cards with RJ-45 connectors. 

Ports

Front: Two USB 3.0, one USB 2.0, and one VGA video port. Rear: Four USB 2.0, one VGA video, one DB-9 serial, and one 1 GbE RJ-45 systems management. Internal: USB 2.0 port for embedded hypervisor.