Lenovo System x3250 M5 - Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability; Systems Director

AnoptionalUSBflashdevicewithVMwareESXiembeddedhypervisorsoftwareisavailableforpurchase.
Hypervisorisvirtualizationsoftwarethatenablesmultipleoperatingsystemstorunonahostsystemat
thesametime.See“Usingtheembeddedhypervisor”onpage99
foradditionalinformation.
Reliability,availability,andserviceability
Threeimportantcomputerdesignfeaturesarereliability,availability,andserviceability(RAS).TheRAS
featureshelptoensuretheintegrityofthedatathatisstoredintheserver,theavailabilityoftheserverwhen
youneedit,andtheeasewithwhichyoucandiagnoseandcorrectproblems.
YourserverhasthefollowingRASfeatures:
•3-yearpartsand3-yearlaborlimitedwarranty(MachineType5458)
•Backupbasicinput/outputsystemswitchingunderthecontroloftheIntegratedManagementModuleII
(IMM2)
•Built-inmonitoringforfan,power,temperature,voltage,andpower-supplyredundancy
•Chipkillmemoryprotection
•DiagnosticsupportforServeRAIDandEthernetadapters
•Errorcodesandmessages
•Errorcorrectingcode(ECC)L3cacheandsystemmemory
•Coolingfanswithspeed-sensingcapability
•Hot-swapharddiskdrives
•Hot-swappowersupplies
•InformationandlightpathdiagnosticsLEDpanels
•LightpathdiagnosticsLEDsforDIMMs,microprocessors,andpowersupplies
•Memoryerrorcorrectingcodeandparitytest
•Microprocessorbuilt-inself-test(BIST),internalerrorsignalmonitoring,internalthermaltripsignal
monitoring,configurationchecking,andmicroprocessorandvoltageregulatormodulefailureidentification
throughlightpathdiagnostics
•Nonmaskableinterrupt(NMI)button
•ParitycheckingonthePCIebuses
•Powermanagement:compliancewithAdvancedConfigurationandPowerInterface(ACPI)
•Power-onself-test(POST)
•Redundanthot-swappowersupplies
•SerialPresenceDetection(SPD)onmemory,VPDonsystemboard,powersupply,andharddiskdriveor
solidstatedrivebackplanes,microprocessorandmemoryexpansiontray,andEthernetadapters
•Single-DIMMisolationofexcessivecorrectableerrorormulti-biterrorbytheUnifiedExtensibleFirmware
Interface(UEFI)
•UpgradeablePOST,UnifiedExtensibleFirmwareInterface(UEFI),diagnostics,IMM2firmware,and
read-onlymemory(ROM)residentcode,locallyorovertheLAN
SystemsDirector
SystemsDirectorisaplatform-managementfoundationthatstreamlinesthewayyoumanagephysical
andvirtualsystemssupportsmultipleoperatingsystemsandvirtualizationtechnologiesinLenovoand
non-Lenovox86platforms.
Throughasingleuserinterface,SystemsDirectorprovidesconsistentviewsforviewingmanagedsystems,
determininghowthesesystemsrelatetooneother,andidentifyingtheirstatuses,helpingtocorrelate
technicalresourceswithbusinessneeds.AsetofcommontasksthatareincludedwithSystemsDirector
providesmanyofthecorecapabilitiesthatarerequiredforbasicmanagement,whichmeansinstant
out-of-the-boxbusinessvalue.Thecommontasksinclude:
•Discovery
•Inventory
•Configuration
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