•24-hoursupportcenter
•Automaticerrorretryandrecovery
•Automaticrestartonnonmaskableinterrupt(NMI)
•Automaticrestartafterapowerfailure
•Backupbasicinput/outputsystemswitchingunderthecontroloftheIntegratedManagementModuleII
(IMM2)
•Built-inmonitoringforfan,power,temperature,voltage,andpower-supplyredundancy
•Cable-presencedetectiononmostconnectors
•Chipkillmemoryprotection
•Single-devicedatacorrection(SDDC)forx4DRAMtechnologyDIMMs(availableon16GBDIMMsonly).
Ensuresthatdataisavailableonasinglex4DRAMDIMMafterahardfailureofuptotwoDRAMDIMMs.
Onex4DRAMDIMMineachrankisreservedasaspacedevice.
•DiagnosticsupportforServeRAIDandEthernetadapters
•Errorcodesandmessages
•Errorcorrectingcode(ECC)L3cacheandsystemmemory
•FullArrayMemoryMirroring(FAMM)redundancy
•Hot-swapcoolingfanswithspeed-sensingcapability
•Hot-swapharddiskdrives
•Hot-swappowersupplies
•InformationandlightpathdiagnosticsLEDpanels
•IntegratedManagementModuleII(IMM2)
•LightpathdiagnosticsLEDsforDIMMs,microprocessors,harddiskdrives,solidstatedrives,power
supplies,andfans
•Memorymirroringandmemorysparingsupport
•Memoryerrorcorrectingcodeandparitytest
•Memorydownsizing(non-mirroredmemory).Afterarestartoftheserverafterthememorycontroller
detectsanon-mirroreduncorrectableerrorandthememorycontrollercannotrecoveroperationally,the
IMM2.1logstheuncorrectableerrorandinformsPOST.POSTlogicallymapsoutthememorywiththe
uncorrectableerror,andtheserverrestartswiththeremaininginstalledmemory.
•Menu-drivensetup,systemconfiguration,andredundantarrayofindependentdisks(RAID)configuration
programs
•Microprocessorbuilt-inself-test(BIST),internalerrorsignalmonitoring,internalthermaltripsignal
monitoring,configurationchecking,andmicroprocessorandvoltageregulatormodulefailureidentification
throughlightpathdiagnostics
•Nonmaskableinterrupt(NMI)button
•ParitycheckingonthePCIebuses
•Powermanagement:compliancewithAdvancedConfigurationandPowerInterface(ACPI)
•Power-onself-test(POST)
•ProactivePlatformAlerts(includingPredictiveFailureAnalysisandSelf-Monitoring,Analysisand
ReportingTechnologyalerts):microprocessors,voltageregulators,memory,internalstorage(SAS/SATA
harddiskdrivesandsolid-statedrives,NVMesolid-statedrives,M.2storage,flashstorageadapters),
fans,powersupplies,RAIDcontrollers,andserverambientandsub-componenttemperatures
•RedundantEthernetcapabilitieswithfailoversupport
•Redundanthot-swappowersuppliesandredundanthot-swapfans
•Redundantnetworkinterfacecard(NIC)support
•Remotesystemproblem-determinationsupport
•ROM-baseddiagnostics
•ROMchecksums
•SerialPresenceDetection(SPD)onmemory,VPDonsystemboard,powersupply,andharddiskdriveor
solidstatedrivebackplanes,microprocessorandmemoryexpansiontray,andEthernetadapters
•Single-DIMMisolationofexcessivecorrectableerrorormulti-biterrorbytheUnifiedExtensibleFirmware
Interface(UEFI)
•Solid-statedrives
•Standbyvoltageforsystems-managementfeaturesandmonitoring
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