Lenovo x3650 M5 User Manual

Youcansolvesomeproblemsbycomparingtheconfigurationandsoftwaresetupsbetweenworkingand
nonworkingservers.Whenyoucompareserverstoeachotherfordiagnosticpurposes,considerthem
identicalonlyifallthefollowingfactorsareexactlythesameinalltheservers:
•Machinetypeandmodel
•UEFIfirmwarelevel
•IMMfirmwarelevel
•Adaptersandattachments,inthesamelocations
•Addressjumpers,terminators,andcabling
•Softwareversionsandlevels
•Diagnosticprogramtypeandversionlevel
•Configurationoptionsettings
•Operating-systemcontrol-filesetup
SeeAppendixD“Gettinghelpandtechnicalassistance”onpage1211
forinformationaboutcallingLenovo
forservice.
Recoveringtheserverfirmware(UEFIupdatefailure)
Usethisinformationtorecovertheserverfirmware.
Important:Someclustersolutionsrequirespecificcodelevelsorcoordinatedcodeupdates.Ifthedevice
ispartofaclustersolution,verifythatthelatestlevelofcodeissupportedfortheclustersolutionbefore
youupdatethecode.
Iftheserverfirmwarehasbecomecorrupted,suchasfromapowerfailureduringanupdate,youcan
recovertheserverfirmwareinthefollowingway:
•In-bandmethod:Recoverserverfirmware,usingeitherthebootblockjumper(AutomatedBoot
Recovery)andaserverFirmwareUpdatePackageServicePack.
•Out-of-bandmethod:UsetheIMMwebinterfacetoupdatethefirmware,usingthelatestserver
firmwareupdatepackage.
Note:Youcanobtainaserverupdatepackagefromoneofthefollowingsources:
•DownloadtheserverfirmwareupdatefromtheWorldWideWeb.
•Contactyourservicerepresentative.
TodownloadtheserverfirmwareupdatepackagefromtheWorldWideWeb,goto
http://www.lenovo.com/support.
Theflashmemoryoftheserverconsistsofaprimarybankandabackupbank.Youmustmaintaina
bootableUEFIfirmwareimageinthebackupbank.Iftheserverfirmwareintheprimarybankbecomes
corrupted,youcaneithermanuallybootthebackupbankwiththeUEFIbootbackupjumper(J15),orinthe
caseofimagecorruption,thiswilloccurautomaticallywiththeAutomatedBootRecoveryfunction.
In-bandmanualrecoverymethod
Thissectiondetailsthein-bandmanualrecoverymethod.
Torecovertheserverfirmwareandrestoretheserveroperationtotheprimarybank,completethefollowing
steps:
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Lenovo x3650 M5 Specifications

General

Form Factor	2U rack server
Expansion Slots	Up to 7 PCIe 3.0 slots
Operating System Support	Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware vSphere
Processor	Up to two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 processors
Memory	Up to 1.5 TB (24x DDR4 DIMMs)
RAID Support	RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
Power Supply	Up to two 900W hot-swap power supplies
Network Interface	4x 1GbE ports