•Cable-presencedetectiononmostconnectors
•Chipkillmemoryprotection
•Double-devicedatacorrection(DDDC)forx4DRAMtechnologyDIMMs.Ensuresthatdataisavailable
onasinglex4DRAMDIMMafterahardfailureofuptotwoDRAMDIMMs.Onex4DRAMDIMMin
eachrankisreservedasaspacedevice.
•DiagnosticsupportforServeRAIDandEthernetadapters
•Errorcodesandmessages
•Errorcorrectingcode(ECC)L3cacheandsystemmemory
•FullArrayMemoryMirroring(FAMM)redundancy
•Hot-swapcoolingfanswithspeed-sensingcapability
•Hot-swapharddiskdrives
•LCDsysteminformationdisplaypanel(availableonsomemodels)andoperatorinformationpanel
•IntegratedManagementModule(IMM)
•LCDsysteminformationdisplaypanel(availableonsomemodels)formemoryDIMMs,microprocessors,
harddiskdrives,solidstatedrives,powersupplies,andfans
•Memorymirroringandmemorysparingsupport
•Memoryerrorcorrectingcodeandparitytest
•Memorydownsizing(non-mirroredmemory).Afterarestartoftheserverafterthememorycontroller
detectedanon-mirroreduncorrectableerrorandthememorycontrollercannotrecoveroperationally,
theIMMlogstheuncorrectableerrorandinformsPOST.POSTlogicallymapsoutthememorywiththe
uncorrectableerror,andtheserverrestartswiththeremaininginstalledmemory.
•Menu-drivensetup,systemconfiguration,andredundantarrayofindependentdisks(RAID)configuration
programs
•Microprocessorbuilt-inself-test(BIST),internalerrorsignalmonitoring,internalthermaltripsignal
monitoring,configurationchecking,andmicroprocessorandvoltageregulatormodulefailureidentification
throughLCDsysteminformationdisplaypanel(ifavailable).
•Nonmaskableinterrupt(NMI)button
•Paritycheckingonthesmallcomputersysteminterface(SCSI)busandPCI-EandPCIbuses
•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
•Remindbuttontotemporarilyturnoffthesystem-errorLED
•Remotesystemproblem-determinationsupport
•ROM-baseddiagnostics
•ROMchecksums
•SerialPresenceDetection(SPD)onmemory,VPDonsystemboard,powersupply,andharddiskdriveor
solidstatedrivebackplanes,microprocessorandmemoryexpansiontray,andEthernetcards
•Single-DIMMisolationofexcessivecorrectableerrorormulti-biterrorbytheUnifiedExtensibleFirmware
Interface(UEFI)
•Solidstatedrives
•Standbyvoltageforsystem-managementfeaturesandmonitoring
•Startup(boot)fromLANthroughremoteinitialprogramload(RIPL)ordynamichostconfiguration
protocol/bootprotocol(DHCP/BOOTP)
•Systemauto-configuringfromtheconfigurationmenu
•System-errorlogging(POSTandIMM)
•Systems-managementmonitoringthroughtheInter-IntegratedCircuit(IC)protocolbus
•Uncorrectableerror(UE)detection
•UpgradeablePOST,UnifiedExtensibleFirmwareInterface(UEFI),diagnostics,IMMfirmware,and
read-onlymemory(ROM)residentcode,locallyorovertheLAN
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