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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
TheserversupportsuptotwoIntelXeonE5-2600v3seriesmulti-coremicroprocessors.Theserver
comeswithaminimumofonemicroprocessor.
•PCIadaptercapabilities
TheserverhastwoPCIinterfaceslots.See“Replacinganadapter”onpage178
fordetailedinformation.
•Redundantconnection
TheadditionoftheoptionalEthernetadapterprovidesfailovercapabilitytoaredundantEthernet
connectionwiththeapplicableapplicationinstalled.IfaproblemoccurswiththeprimaryEthernet
connectionandtheoptionalEthernetadapterisinstalledontheserver,allEthernettrafficthatis
associatedwiththeprimaryconnectionisautomaticallyswitchedtotheoptionalredundantEthernet
adapterconnection.Iftheapplicabledevicedriversareinstalled,thisswitchingoccurswithoutdataloss
andwithoutuserintervention.
•Redundantcoolingandoptionalpowercapabilities
Theserversupportsamaximumoftwo550-watt,750-watt,900-wattor1500-watthot-swappower
suppliesandsevenoreightdual-motorhot-swapfans,whichprovideredundancyandhot-swap
capabilityforatypicalconfiguration.Theredundantcoolingbythefansintheserverenablescontinued
operationifoneofthefansfails.Theservercomeswiththeminimumofone550-watt,750-watt,900-watt
or1500-watthot-swappowersupplyandfiveorsixfans.
Youmustinstallthesixthandeighthfanswhenyouinstallthesecondmicroprocessorintheserver.You
canorderthesecondoptionalpowersupplyforpowerredundancy.
Note:Youcannotmixpowersuppliesthathavedifferentwattagesintheserver.
•ServeRAIDsupport
TheServeRAIDadapterprovideshardwareredundantarrayofindependentdisks(RAID)supportto
createconfigurations.ThestandardRAIDadapterprovidesRAIDlevels0,1,and10.AnoptionalRAID
adapterisavailableforpurchase.
•SDadapter
AraidcontrollerforSecureDigital(SD)media.Ithastwoupstreamconnections,aUSBconnectiontothe
serverchipset,andanMMCconnectiontotheintegratedmanagementmodule(IMM2.1).
•Systems-managementcapabilities
TheservercomeswithanIntegratedmanagementmodule2.1(IMM2.1).WhentheIMMisusedwiththe
systems-managementsoftwarethatcomeswiththeserver,youcanmanagethefunctionsoftheserver
locallyandremotely.TheIMMalsoprovidessystemmonitoring,eventrecording,andnetworkalert
capability.Thesystems-managementconnectorontherearoftheserverisdedicatedtotheIMM.The
dedicatedsystems-managementconnectorprovidesadditionalsecuritybyphysicallyseparatingthe
managementnetworktrafficfromtheproductionnetwork.YoucanusetheSetuputilitytoconfigurethe
servertouseadedicatedsystems-managementnetworkorasharednetwork.
•UEFI-compliantserverfirmware
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