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•Integratednetworksupport
Theservercomeswithanintegrateddual-portIntelGigabitEthernetcontroller,whichsupportsconnection
toa10Mbps,100Mbps,or1000Mbpsnetwork.Formoreinformation,see“ConfiguringtheEthernet
controller”onpage75
.
•IntegratedTrustedPlatformModule(TPM)
Thisintegratedsecuritychipperformscryptographicfunctionsandstoresprivateandpublicsecure
keys.ItprovidesthehardwaresupportfortheTrustedComputingGroup(TCG)specification.You
candownloadthesoftwaretosupporttheTCGspecification,whenthesoftwareisavailable.See
http://www.ibm.com/systems/x/hardware/enterprise/index.htmlfordetailsabouttheTPMimplementation.
YoucanenableTPMsupportthroughtheSetuputilityundertheSystemSecuritymenuoption(see
“UsingtheSetuputility”onpage64
).
•Largedata-storagecapacityandhot-swapcapability
Theserversupportsamaximumofeight2.5-inchhot-swaporsimple-swapSerialAttachedSCSI(SAS)
orSerialATA(SATA)harddiskdrivesorfour3.5-inchhot-swaporsimple-swapSATAharddiskdrives,
dependingontheservermodel.
•Largesystem-memorycapacity
Theserversupportsupto32GBifunbufferedDIMMsareinstalled.Thememorycontrollersupports
errorcorrectingcode(ECC)forupto4industry-standardPC3L-12800(DDR3-1600orDDR3-1333),
DDR3(third-generationdouble-data-rate),unbufferedorsynchronousdynamicrandomaccessmemory
(SDRAM)dualinlinememorymodules(DIMMs).
•MobileaccesstoIBMServiceInformationwebsite
TheserverprovidesaQRcodeonthesystemservicelabel,whichisonthecoveroftheserver,thatyou
canscanusingaQRcodereaderandscannerwithamobiledevicetogetquickaccesstotheIBM
ServiceInformationwebsite.TheIBMServiceInformationwebsiteprovidesadditionalinformationfor
partsinstallationandreplacementvideos,anderrorcodesforserversupport.FortheQRcode,seeQR
codeinformationonpageChapter1“TheLenovoSystemx3250M4Type2583server”onpage1
.
•Multi-coreprocessing
TheserversupportsIntelCelecon™andXeon™E3-1200seriesmulti-coremicroprocessors.Theserver
comeswithonemicroprocessorinstalled.
•PCIadaptercapabilities
TheserverhastwoPCIinterfaceslots.BothslotscansupportPCIExpressorPCI-Xadaptersthroughan
optionalPCI-Xinterposercard.See“Replacinganadapter”onpage139
fordetailedinformation.
•Redundantconnection
TheadditionoftheoptionalEthernetadapterprovidesfailovercapabilitytoaredundantEthernet
connectionwiththeapplicableapplicationinstalled.IfaproblemoccurswiththeprimaryEthernet
connectionandtheoptionalEthernetadapterisinstalledontheserver,allEthernettrafficthatis
associatedwiththeprimaryconnectionisautomaticallyswitchedtotheoptionalredundantEthernet
adapterconnection.Iftheapplicabledevicedriversareinstalled,thisswitchingoccurswithoutdataloss
andwithoutuserintervention.
•Redundantcoolingandoptionalpowercapabilities
Theserversupportsamaximumoftwo460-watthot-swappowersuppliesand5fans,whichprovide
redundancyandhot-swapcapabilityforatypicalconfiguration.Theredundantcoolingbythefansin
theserverenablescontinuedoperationifoneofthefansfails.Theservercomeswiththeminimumof
one460-watthot-swappowersupplyandfourfans.Youcanorderthesecondoptionalpowersupply
forpowerredundancy.
•ServeRAIDsupport
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