IBM Redbooks x3850 X5 Product Manual

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IBM System x3850 X5 1I B M ®IBM System x3850 X5IBM Redbooks Product GuideThe x3850 X5 server is the fifth generation of the Enterprise X-Architecture, delivering innovation withenhanced reliability and availability features to enable optimal performance for databases, enterpriseapplications, and virtualized environments. Environments that run around the clock to supply informationworld-wide require dependable servers with features that can tolerate a component failure without totalshutdown.The x3850 X5 server packs numerous fault-tolerant and high-availability features into a high-density,rack-optimized package that helps to significantly reduce the space needed to support massive networkcomputing operations. A single x3850 X5 supports up to four of the new Intel Xeon E7 high-performance10-core processors and up to 3 TB of memory. Two x3850 X5 servers can be connected together to forma single-system image with up to eight processors and up to 6 TB of RAM. This processing capacity isideal for large-scale database or virtualization requirements. Figure 1 shows the IBM® System x3850 X5.Figure 1. The IBM System x3850 X5Did you knowThe x3850 X5 is an ideal server for enterprise database and virtualization workloads. The x3850 X5currently holds the #1 scores in five industry-standard benchmarks. This includes a four-socket TPC-C(database benchmark) result of over 2.3 million transactions per minute (27% better than the closest HPresult) and world record TPC-H (business intelligence) price performance result.