Lenovo System x3950 x6

Supports Faster Analytics Engines

The System x3950 x6 enables fast application performance. Its agile design is easy to upgrade. The resilient platform maximizes uptime. The server easily integrates into a virtual environment and offers maximum memory availability.

System x3950 x6

The unique modular “book” design of the x3950 X6 accommodates multiple generations of processor and memory technology in the same chassis, delivering seamless scalability and maximum performance.

Future-proof Your Storage

• Fast application performance means immediate access to actionable information.
• Agile system design provides the ability to upgrade processor and memory technology to the next generation, reducing acquisition cost significantly.
• Resilient platforms maximize application uptime and promote easy integration in virtual environments.

Mission Critical

As businesses continue to expand into mobile and cloud arenas, mission-critical applications—and data center infrastructure—must do more. Superior IT solutions must easily scale up for better performance, manage large masses of data, and make crucial actionable insight available in real time. It's a given that the volume of data you manage continues to grow, yet you remain constrained by a finite set of capital and operational resources. The Lenovo System x3950 X6, based on the sixth generation of Enterprise X-Architecture technology, helps you efficiently deliver better, more timely business results.

Fast Performance

X6 platforms combined with Intel® Xeon® processors E7-8800 v4 series can produce up to 26% faster compute performance than the last generation of X6 systems with last-generation processors.* The X6 portfolio delivers large application virtualization and decreases infrastructure costs and complexity. Now you can design faster analytics engines, rein in IT sprawl, and deliver information with high reliability. X6 mission-critical servers are fast, agile, and resilient.

* 26% improvement based on Intel preliminary projections in confidential documents.

Tech Specs

Form Factor/Height: Rack/8U

Processor (Max): Up to eight Intel® Xeon® processors E7-8800 v4 series, up to 3.2 GHz, up to 1866 MHz DDR4 memory access, 24 cores per processor

Memory (Max): Up to 12TB, 192 DIMM slots supporting 64 GB LRDIMMs

Expansion Slots: Up to 22 PCIe; Gen3 (up to 22), Gen 2 (up to 4), up to ten x16 slots; up to 12 full-length, full-height

Disk Bays (Total/Hot-Swap): Up to sixteen 2.5-inch Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives (HDDs) or SAS solid state drives (SSDs); or up to thirty-two 1.8-inch eXFlash SSDs or up to eight NVMe PCIe SSDs

Maximum Internal Storage: Up to 16 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA hard disk drives (HDDs) or up to 16 x 2.5-inch SSDs or up to 32 x 1.8-inch eXFlash SSDs or up to eight x 2.5-inch NVMe PCIe SSDs

Network Interface: Two ML2 sockets; ML2 card choices include: 4 x 1GbE copper or 2 x 10GbE SFP+ or 2 x 10GbE 10BaseT; 4 x 10GbE; 2 x 40GbE/FDR VPI adapter; Two dedicated 1GbE on-board management ports

Power Supply (Std/Max): Up to eight common 1400W or 900W AC or 8 x 750W DC

Hot-Swap Components: Half-Length I/O Books, Full-Length I/O Books, power supplies, fans, hard disk drives, SSDs

RAID Support: RAID 0, 1, 10 standard; optional RAID 5, 6, 50, 60

Systems Management: Lenovo XClarity, Alert on LAN 2, automatic server restart, ServerGuide, IMM2, light path diagnostics (independently powered), Wake on LAN, Dynamic System Analysis, Predictive Failure Analysis on storage, processors, adapter slots, VRMs, fans, power supplies and memory

Operating Systems Supported: Microsoft Windows Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, VMware vSphere Hypervisor

Limited Warranty: 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite service, next business day 9x5, service upgrades available