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LightpathdiagnosticsprovidesLEDstohelpyoudiagnoseproblems.Formoreinformationaboutlight
pathdiagnosticsandtheLEDs,see“Lightpathdiagnostics”onpage121
and“Lightpathdiagnostics
LEDs”onpage124.
•MobileaccesstoServiceInformationwebsite
TheserverprovidesaQRcodeonthesystemservicelabel,whichisonthecoveroftheserver,thatyou
canscanusingaQRcodereaderandscannerwithamobiledevicetogetquickaccesstotheService
Informationwebsite.TheServiceInformationwebsiteprovidesadditionalinformationforpartsinstallation
andreplacementvideos,anderrorcodesforserversupport.FortheQRcode,seeQRcodeinformation
onpageChapter1“TheSystemx3550M4server”onpage1
.
•Multi-coreprocessing
Theserversupportsuptotwomulti-coremicroprocessors.Theservercomeswithaminimumofone
microprocessor.
•PCIadaptercapabilities
TheserverhastwoPCIinterfaceslots(onesupportslow-profilecards,andonesupportshalf-length,
full-heightcards).Slot2cansupportPCIExpressorPCI-XadaptersthroughanoptionalPCIrisercard.
See“Replacinganadapter”onpage226fordetailedinformation.
•Redundantconnection
TheadditionoftheoptionalEthernetadapterprovidesfailovercapabilitytoaredundantEthernet
connectionwiththeapplicableapplicationinstalled.IfaproblemoccurswiththeprimaryEthernet
connectionandtheoptionalEthernetadapterisinstalledontheserver,allEthernettrafficthatis
associatedwiththeprimaryconnectionisautomaticallyswitchedtotheoptionalredundantEthernet
adapterconnection.Iftheapplicabledevicedriversareinstalled,thisswitchingoccurswithoutdataloss
andwithoutuserintervention.
•Redundantcoolingandoptionalpowercapabilities
Theserversupportsamaximumoftwo550-wattor750-watthot-swappowersuppliesandsixdual-motor
hot-swapfans,whichprovideredundancyandhot-swapcapabilityforatypicalconfiguration.The
redundantcoolingbythefansintheserverenablescontinuedoperationifoneofthefansfails.Theserver
comeswiththeminimumofone550-wattor750-watthot-swappowersupplyandfourfans.
Youmustinstallthefourthandsixthfanswhenyouinstallthesecondmicroprocessorintheserver.You
canorderthesecondoptionalpowersupplyforpowerredundancy.
Note:Youcannotmix550-wattand750-wattpowersuppliesintheserver.
•ServeRAIDsupport
TheServeRAIDadapterprovideshardwareredundantarrayofindependentdisks(RAID)supportto
createconfigurations.ThestandardRAIDadapterprovidesRAIDlevels0,1,and10.AnoptionalRAID
adapterisavailableforpurchase.
•Systems-managementcapabilities
TheservercomeswithanintegratedmanagementmoduleII(IMM2).WhentheIMMisusedwiththe
systems-managementsoftwarethatcomeswiththeserver,youcanmanagethefunctionsoftheserver
locallyandremotely.TheIMMalsoprovidessystemmonitoring,eventrecording,andnetworkalert
capability.Thesystems-managementconnectorontherearoftheserverisdedicatedtotheIMM.The
dedicatedsystems-managementconnectorprovidesadditionalsecuritybyphysicallyseparatingthe
managementnetworktrafficfromtheproductionnetwork.YoucanusetheSetuputilitytoconfigurethe
servertouseadedicatedsystems-managementnetworkorasharednetwork.
•UEFI-compliantserverfirmware
SystemxServerFirmware(serverfirmware)offersseveralfeatures,includingUnifiedExtensibleFirmware
Interface(UEFI)2.1compliance;ActiveEnergyManagertechnology;enhancedreliability,availability,
andserviceability(RAS)capabilities;andbasicinput/outputsystem(BIOS)compatibilitysupport.UEFI
replacestheBIOSanddefinesastandardinterfacebetweentheoperatingsystem,platformfirmware,and
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