Lenovo System x3850 X5 Product Manual

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System x3850 X5 (7143)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 form asingle-system image with up to eight processors and up to 6 TB of RAM. This processing capacity is idealfor large-scale database or virtualization requirements. Figure 1 shows the System x3850 X5.Figure 1. The System x3850 X5Did you know?The x3850 X5 is an ideal server for enterprise database and virtualization workloads. The x3850 X5 held #1scores in five industry-standard benchmarks. This included a four-socket TPC-C (database benchmark)result of over 2.3 million transactions per minute (27% better than the closest HP result at the time) andworld record TPC-H (business intelligence) price performance result.System x3850 X5 (7143) 1