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SomeofthefeaturesthatareuniquetotheIMMareenhancedperformance,higher-resolutionremote
video,expandedsecurityoptions,andFeatureonDemandenablementforhardwareandfirmwareoptions.
Foradditionalinformation,see“Usingtheintegratedmanagementmodule”
onpage41
andtheIntegratedManagementModuleIIUser’sGuideat
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systemx/documentation/topic/com.lenovo.sysx.imm2.doc/
product_page.html.
•EnterpriseX-Architecturetechnology
X-Architecturetechnologycombinesproven,innovativedesignstomakeyourIntel-processor-based
serverpowerful,scalable,andreliable.
•Integratednetworksupport
Theservercomeswithanintegratedquad-portBroadcomGigabitEthernetcontroller,whichsupports
connectiontoa10Mbps,100Mbps,or1000Mbpsnetwork.Formoreinformation,see“Configuring
theEthernetcontroller”onpage45
.
•IntegratedTrustedPlatformModule(TPM)
Thisintegratedsecuritychipperformscryptographicfunctionsandstoresprivateandpublicsecurekeys.
ItprovidesthehardwaresupportfortheTrustedComputingGroup(TCG)specification.Youcandownload
thesoftwaretosupporttheTCGspecification,whenthesoftwareisavailable.YoucanenableTPM
supportthroughtheSetupUtilityundertheSystemSecuritymenuoption.
•Largedata-storagecapacityandhot-swapcapability
Thehot-swapservermodelssupportamaximumoftwelve2.5-inch(twolocatedattherear)orfour
3.5-inchhot-swapSerialAttachedSCSI(SAS)harddiskdrivesorhot-swapSerialATA(SATA)hard
diskdrives.Thesimple-swapservermodelssupportamaximumofeight2.5-inchorfour3.5-inch
simple-swapSATAharddiskdrives.
Withthehot-swapfeature,youcanadd,remove,orreplaceharddiskdriveswithoutturningofftheserver.
•Largesystem-memorycapacity
Theservercansupportupto1.5TBofsystemmemory.Theserverprovides24dualinlinememory
module(DIMM)connectors.Theservermemorycontrollersupportserrorcorrectingcode(ECC)for
PC4-12800(DDR4-1600),PC4-14900(DDR4-1866),orPC4-17000(DDR4-2133),DDR4(fourth-generation
double-data-rate),synchronousdynamicrandomaccessmemory(SDRAM)DIMMs.
•Lightpathdiagnostics
LightpathdiagnosticsprovidesLEDstohelpyoudiagnoseproblems.Formoreinformationaboutlight
pathdiagnosticsandtheLEDs,see“Operatorinformationpanel”onpage19
or“LCDoperatingpanel
assembly”onpage19.
•MobileaccesstoLenovoServiceInformationWebsite
TheserverprovidesaQRcodeonthesystemservicelabel,whichisonthecoveroftheserver,thatyou
canscanusingaQRcodereaderandscannerwithamobiledevicetogetquickaccesstotheLenovo
ServiceInformationWebsite.TheLenovoServiceInformationWebsiteprovidesadditionalinformation
forpartsinstallationandreplacementvideos,anderrorcodesforserversupport.FortheQRcode,see
Chapter1“TheLenovoSystemx3550M5server”onpage1
.
•Multi-coreprocessing
TheserversupportsuptotwoIntelXeonmulti-coremicroprocessors.Theservercomeswithaminimum
ofonemicroprocessor.
•PCIadaptercapabilities
TheserverhastwoPCIinterfaceslots.See“Replacinganadapter”onpage178fordetailedinformation.
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