Lenovo ThinkServer TS440 - Features

Expansionslots
Theserverhasfourexpansionslotsonthesystemboard.Fordetailedinformation,see“Systemboard
components”onpage37.
Input/Output(I/O)features
•OneVideoGraphicsArray(VGA)DB-15connectorontherearpanel
•EightUSBconnectors(twoUSB3.0connectorsonthefrontpanel;fourUSB3.0andtwoUSB2.0
connectorsontherearpanel)
•OneRJ-45Ethernetconnectorontherearpanel
•Oneserialconnectorontherearpanel
Forthelocationinformationabouttheconnectors,refertotherelatedtopicsin“Locations”onpage11
.
Ethernetconnectivity
TheservercomeswithanintegratedIntelGigabitEthernetcontrolleraswellasanEthernetphysicallayer
(PHY)oftheOpenSystemsInterconnectionmodel(OSImodel).Theyprovidetheserverwiththeabilityto
supporttheEthernetconnectorontherearpanelwith10megabitspersecond(Mbps),100Mbps,or1000
Mbpsnetworkconnectivity.Formoreinformation,see“Rearviewoftheserver”onpage16.
Reliability,availability,andserviceability
Reliability,availability,andserviceability(hereinafterreferredtoasRAS)arethreeimportantserverdesign
features.TheRASfeatureshelpyoutoensuretheintegrityofthedatastoredontheserver,theavailabilityof
theserverwhenyouneedit,andtheeasewithwhichyoucandiagnoseandcorrectproblems.
YourserverhasthefollowingRASfeatures:
•Securityfeatures
–Serverlocks(see“Serverlocks”onpage19
)
–Administratorpasswordandpower-onpasswordtohelpprotectunauthorizedaccesstotheserver
(see“Usingpasswords”onpage49)
–ThinkServerTrustedPlatformModule(TPM),whichisasecuritychip,tohelpenhanceserversecurity
–Hot-swapredundantpowersuppliestohelpavoidsignicantinterruptiontotheoperationofthe
systemwhenapowersupplyfails(availableinsomemodels)
•Basicsystemmanagementfeatures
–Abilitytostorethepower-onself-test(POST)hardwaretestresults
–BIOSSetupUtilityprogram
TheBIOSSetupUtilityprogramhelpsyouviewtheserverinformationandconguretheserverinthe
pre-operatingsystemenvironment.See“UsingtheSetupUtilityprogram”onpage45
.
–Hot-swapfeature
Somemodelssupporthot-swapharddiskdrivesandhot-swapredundantpowersupplies.With
thehot-swapfeature,youcaninstall,remove,orreplaceharddiskdrivesorafailingpowersupply
withoutturningofftheserver.
–PrebootExecutionEnvironment(PXE)
TheIntelPXEtechnologyenablesyoutostartyourcomputers,loadanoperatingsystem,ordeploy
executableimagesfromaremoteserverbyusinganetworkinterface.Theoperationcanbedone
independentlyoflocaldatastoragedevices(suchasharddiskdrives)orinstalledoperatingsystems.
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