Lenovo System x3850 X6 and x3950 X6 Planning and Implementation Guide

The increasing demand for cloud computing and business analytical workloads by enterprises to meet business needs drives innovation to find new ways to build informational systems. Clients are looking for cost-optimized fit-for-purpose IT solutions that manage large amounts of data, easily scale performance, and provide reliable real-time access to actionable information.

This book describes the four-socket Lenovo System x3850 X6 and eight-socket Lenovo System x3950 X6. These servers provide the computing power to drive mission-critical scalable databases, business analytics, virtualization, enterprise applications, and cloud applications.

This Lenovo Press book covers product information as well as planning and implementation information. In the first few chapters, we provide detailed technical information about the X6 servers. This information is most useful in designing, configuring, and planning to order a server solution. In the later chapters of the book, we provide detailed configuration and setup information to get your server operational.

This book is aimed at clients, Lenovo Business Partners, and Lenovo employees that want to understand the features and capabilities of the X6 portfolio of servers and want to learn how to install and configure the servers for use in production.

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Technology
Chapter 3. Product information
Chapter 4. Infrastructure planning
Chapter 5. Preparing the hardware
Chapter 6. Operating system installation
Chapter 7. Management

Related product families

Product families related to this document are the following:

• 4-Socket Rack Servers
• 8-Socket Rack Servers
• Mission Critical Servers