Today’s businesses need to manage costs while meeting a myriad of demands. IBM eX5 four socket rack systems offer the performance applications need, the flexibility the market demands, and the availability customers expect—all at an affordable cost. eX5 systems feature exclusive IBM X-Architecture innovations that deliver unparalleled capability, while continuing to leveraging open, standards-based components for affordability, flexibility and choice.
Why choose System x3850 X5 or x3950 X5?
x3850 X5
Has the capability to scale from 4 to 8 sockets with memory, storage and processing capacity to meet the demands of your business now and into the future.
x3950 X5
Offers the same core features as the x3850 X5 and is workload optimized to deliver performance and rapid deployment of database applications, virtualized environments or SAP In-Memory Appliance, SAP HANA, depending on your business requirements.
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Key features
The x3850 X5 and x3950 X5 provide improved performance and enhanced features to improve integration and efficiency; featuring:
- Highly scalable memory capacity – up to 64 DIMMs standard and 96 DIMMs with the MAX5 memory expansion per 4-socket server
- Scalable performance capacity – up to 4 processors in a single node system, up to 8 processors in a dual node system
- Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family – exceptional scalable performance with advanced reliability for your most demanding applications
- eX5 scaling with FlexNode in a dual node plus MAX5 system, dynamically operating as two independent systems or as a single system
- Flexible hot-swap storage with up to 8 HDDs or up to 16 SSDs with eXFlash technology
- Available dual-port Emulex 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter in most models
- Workload optimized to deliver performance and rapid deployment for database and virtualization workloads and for SAP HANA™ in-memory computing
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- E-mail IBM
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