Lenovo x3650 M5 - Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability

Throughasingleuserinterface,SystemsDirectorprovidesconsistentviewsforviewingmanagedsystems,
determininghowthesesystemsrelatetooneother,andidentifyingtheirstatuses,helpingtocorrelate
technicalresourceswithbusinessneeds.AsetofcommontasksthatareincludedwithSystemsDirector
providesmanyofthecorecapabilitiesthatarerequiredforbasicmanagement,whichmeansinstant
out-of-the-boxbusinessvalue.Thecommontasksincludethefollowing:
•Discovery
•Inventory
•Configuration
•Systemhealth
•Monitoring
•Updates
•Eventnotification
•Automationformanagedsystems
TheSystemsDirectorWebandcommand-lineinterfacesprovideaconsistentinterfacethatisfocused
ondrivingthesecommontasksandcapabilities:
•Discovering,navigating,andvisualizingsystemsonthenetworkwiththedetailedinventoryand
relationshipstotheothernetworkresources
•Notifyingusersofproblemsthatoccuronsystemsandtheabilitytoisolatethesourcesoftheproblems
•Notifyinguserswhensystemsneedupdatesanddistributingandinstallingupdatesonaschedule
•Analyzingreal-timedataforsystemsandsettingcriticalthresholdsthatnotifytheadministratorof
emergingproblems
•Configuringsettingsofasinglesystemandcreatingaconfigurationplanthatcanapplythosesettingsto
multiplesystems
•Updatinginstalledplug-instoaddnewfeaturesandfunctionstothebasecapabilities
•Managingthelifecyclesofvirtualresources
FormoreinformationaboutSystemsDirector,seethedocumentationontheSystemsDirectorDVD
thatcomeswiththeserver,theSystemsDirectorInformationCenterathttp://pic.dhe.ibm.com/
infocenter/director/pubs/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.director.main.helps.doc%2Ffqm0_main.html,and
theSystemsManagementwebsiteathttp://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/systems/solutions/,whichpresentsan
overviewofSystemsManagementandSystemsDirector.
Reliability,availability,andserviceability
Threeimportantcomputerdesignfeaturesarereliability,availability,andserviceability(RAS).TheRAS
featureshelptoensuretheintegrityofthedatathatisstoredintheserver,theavailabilityoftheserverwhen
youneedit,andtheeasewithwhichyoucandiagnoseandcorrectproblems.
YourserverhasthefollowingRASfeatures:
•3-yearpartsand3-yearlaborlimitedwarranty(MachineType5462)
•24-hoursupportcenter
•Automaticerrorretryandrecovery
•Automaticrestartonnonmaskableinterrupt(NMI)
•Automaticrestartafterapowerfailure
•Backupbasicinput/outputsystemswitchingunderthecontroloftheintegratedmanagementmodule
(IMM)
•Built-inmonitoringforfan,power,temperature,voltage,andpower-supplyredundancy
•Cable-presencedetectiononmostconnectors
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