Reliability,Availability,andServiceability
Threeimportantcomputerdesignfeaturesarereliability,availability,andserviceability(RAS).TheRAS
featureshelptoensuretheintegrityofthedatathatisstoredontheserver,theavailabilityoftheserverwhen
youneedit,andtheeasewithwhichyoucandiagnoseandcorrectproblems.
YourserverhasthefollowingRASfeatures:
•3-yearpartsand3-yearlaborlimitedwarranty(MachineType3633)
•1-yearpartsand1-yearlaborlimitedwarranty(MachineType3943)
•Backupbasicinput/outputsystemswitchingunderthecontroloftheIntegratedManagementModuleII
(IMM2)
•24-hoursupportcenter
•CallHomeService
•FirstFailureDataCapture(FFDC)fordeterminingfailurerootcause
•ExtendedErrorHandling(EEH)forPCIehostandrootcomplex,PCIelink,andPCIeadapterfailures
•Power-supplyerrordetection
•VRDFaultDetection
•I/OFaultHandling
•MicroprocessorInternalErrorDetection
•MicroprocessorInternalThermalTrip
•Errorcorrectingcode(ECC)L2cacheandsystemmemory
•Redundanthot-swappowersupplies
•Hot-swapharddiskdrives
•Advancedmemoryfeatures:
–Single-bitmemoryerrordetection
–Single-bitmemoryerrorhardwarecorrection
–Multisingle-bitmemoryerrordetection
•MicroprocessorThrottling
•MemoryThermalThrottling
•PredictiveFailureAnalysis(PFA)alerts
•Integratedmanagementmodule(IMM)
•system-managementmonitoringthroughtheInter-IntegratedCircuit(IC)protocolbus
•Standbyvoltageforsystem-managementfeaturesandmonitoring
•PowermanagedandAdvancedConfigurationandPowerInterface(ACPI)compliant
•Power-onself-test(POST)
•System-errorlogging(POSTandIMM)
•Errorcodesandmessages
•InformationandlightpathdiagnosticsLEDpanels
•MemorySPDandTruDDR4Initiative
•NICFailoverSupport
•Automaticrestartonnonmaskableinterrupt(NMI)
•ForceO/S-dump(NMIButton)
•BootfromUSBDevice
•RemoteSystemReboot
•Automaticerrorretryandrecovery
•ExcessiveTemperatureRecovery
•RestoredefaultCMOSsettingsbutton
•Vitalproductdata(VPD)uniqueidentifiersonbladeserverandallmajorelectroniccomponentswith
informationstoredinnonvolatilememoryforremoteviewing
•AmbientTemperaturemonitorsandalerts
•MemoryTemperaturemonitorsandalerts
•ProcessorTemperaturemonitorsandalerts
•UpgradeablePOST,UnifiedExtensibleFirmwareInterface(UEFI),diagnostics,IMMfirmware,and
read-onlymemory(ROM)residentcode,locallyorovertheLAN
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