Today Diablo Technologies announced that its Memory Channel Storage (MCS) would be integrated into the latest edition of Lenovo’s X6 Server. The MCS architecture that will be used in the Lenovo X6 servers is the eXFlash, not to be confused with the UltraDIMM that has been at the center of litigation between Diablo and Netlist. Lenovo’s X6 servers systems can support up to 32 400GB eXFlash DIMMs per system for a total capacity of 12.8TB.
Today Diablo Technologies announced that its Memory Channel Storage (MCS) would be integrated into the latest edition of Lenovo’s X6 Server. The MCS architecture that will be used in the Lenovo X6 servers is the eXFlash, not to be confused with the UltraDIMM that has been at the center of litigation between Diablo and Netlist. Lenovo’s X6 servers systems can support up to 32 400GB eXFlash DIMMs per system for a total capacity of 12.8TB.
Lenovo’s new X6 servers systems portfolio include two rackmount servers the x3850, a four-socket system, and the x3950, an eight-socket system. Lenovo also has a series of blade servers named the Flex System that includes x280, x480, and the x880. According to Diablo, these severs combined with eXFlash will deliver industry leading performance and value. The two technologies will seamlessly integrate to accelerate a wide range of workloads such as database, analytics, and virtualization.
x3850 X6 specifications:
- Form factor: 4U
- Processor (max): Up to four Intel Xeon processors E7-4800/8800 v3 series, up to 3.2 GHz, up to 1600 MHz memory access (DDR3) and up to 1866 MHz (DDR4) memory access, 18 cores per processor
- Memory (max): Up to 6 TB, 96 DIMM slots supporting 64 GB LRDIMMs
- Flash storage: Up to 12.8 TB, 32 x 400 GB eXFlash DIMMs
- Expansion slots:
- Up to 11 PCIe; Gen3 (up to 11), Gen 2 (up to 2)
- Up to five x16 slots
- Up to six full-length, full-height
- Disk bays (total/hot-swap):
- Up to eight 2.5-inch Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives (HDDs) or SAS solid state drives (SSDs)
- Or up to sixteen 1.8-inch eXFlash SSDs or up to 4 NVMe PCIe SSDs
- Maximum internal storage:
- Up to 8 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA HDDs
- Or up to 8 x 2.5-inch SSDs
- Or up to 16 x 1.8-inch eXFlash SSDs
- Or up to four x 2.5-inch NVMe PCIe SSDs
- Network interface:
- One ML2 socket; ML2 card choices include: 4 x 1 GbE copper
- Or 2 x 10 GbE SFP+
- Or 2 x 10 GbE 10BaseT
- Dedicated 1 GbE on-board management port
- Power supply (std/max): Up to four common 1400 W or 900 W AC or 4 x 750 W DC
- RAID support: RAID-0, -1, -10 standard; optional RAID-5, -6, -50, -60
x3950 X6 specifications:
- Form factor: 8U
- Processor (max): Up to eight Intel Xeon processors E7-4800/8800 v3 series, up to 3.2 GHz, up to 1600 MHz memory access (DDR3) and up to 1866 MHz (DDR4) memory access, 18 cores per processor
- Memory (max): Up to 6 TB, 96 DIMM slots supporting 64 GB LRDIMMs
- Flash storage: Up to 12.8 TB, 32 x 400 GB eXFlash DIMMs
- 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 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:
- One ML2 socket; ML2 card choices include: 4 x 1 GbE copper
- Or 2 x 10 GbE SFP+
- Or 2 x 10 GbE 10BaseT
- Dedicated 1 GbE on-board management port
- Power supply (std/max): Up to four common 1400 W or 900 W AC or 4 x 750 W DC
- RAID support: RAID-0, -1, -10 standard; optional RAID-5, -6, -50, -60
Flex System specifications:
- Models: x280 X6 | x480 X6 | x880 X6
- Processors (Max):
- x280: 2 Intel Xeon processors E7-2800 v2 series up to 2.8 GHz, up to 1600 MHz memory access, 15 cores per processor
- x480: 4 Intel Xeon processors E7-4800 v3 series up to 2.2 GHz, up to 1600 MHz memory access, 14 cores per processor
- x880: 8 Intel Xeon processors E7-8800 v3 series up to 3.2 GHz, up to 1600 MHz memory access, 18 cores per processor
- L3 Cache (Max): Up to 37.5 MB
- Memory (Max):
- x280: Up to 3 TB, 48 DIMM slots supporting 64 GB LRDIMMs
- x480: Up to 6 TB, 96 DIMM slots sup- porting 64 GB LRDIMMs
- x880: Up to 12 TB, 192 DIMM slots supporting 64 GB LRDIMMs
- Scalability:
- 2 processors max | Scalable to 4 processors max | Scalable to 8 processors max
- Ultra-low latency flash storage
- x280: Up to 4.7 TB, 12 x 400 GB eXFlash DIMMs
- x480: Up to 9.4 TB, 24 x 400 GB eXFlash DIMMs
- x880: Up to 9.4 TB, 24 x 400 GB eXFlash DIMMs
- Expansion slots
- x280: Up to 4 PCIe Gen 3; up to 2 x16 slots; up to 2 x8 slots
- x480: Up to 8 PCIe Gen 3; up to 4 x16 slots; up to 4 x8 slots
- x880: Up to 16 PCIe Gen 3; up to 8 x16 slots; up to 8 x8 slots
- Drive Bays (total/hot-swap):
- Up to 2 2.5-inch SAS HDDs or SAS SSDs | Up to 4 2.5-inch SAS HDDs or SAS SSDs | Up to 8 2.5-inch SAS HDDs or SAS SSDs
- Max internal storage:
- x280:
- Up to 2.4 TB (2 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA HDDs)
- Or up to 3.2 TB (2 x 2.5-inch SSDs)
- Or 6.25 TB (8 x 1.8-inch eXFlash SSDs)
- Plus up to 4.7 TB (12 eXFlash DIMMs)
- x480:
- Up to 4.8 TB (4 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA HDDs)
- Or up to 6.4 TB (4 x 2.5-inch SSDs)
- Or 12.5 TB (16 x 1.8-inch eXFlash SSDs)
- Plus up to 9.4 TB (24 eXFlash DIMMs)
- x880:
- Up to 9.6 TB (8 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA HDDs)
- Or up to 12.8 TB (8 x 2.5-inch SSDs)
- Or 25 TB (32 x 1.8-inch eXFlash SSDs)
- Plus up to 9.4 TB (24 eXFlash DIMMs)
- x280:
- Network interface:
- x280: Integrated 4 x10 GbE ports, optional 1/10/40 GbE, Fibre Channel and Infiniband adapters
- x480: Integrated 4 x10 GbE per compute node (up to 8 ports total), optional 1/10/40 GbE, Fibre Channel and Infiniband adapters
- x880: Integrated 4 x10 GbE per compute node (up to 16 ports total), optional 1/10/40 GbE, Fibre Channel and Infiniband adapters
- RAID support: RAID-0, RAID-1; optional RAID-5
