Three important computer design features are reliability,
availability, and serviceability (RAS). The RAS features help to ensure
the integrity of the data that is stored in the server, the availability
of the server when you need it, and the ease with which you can diagnose
and correct problems.
Your server has the following RAS features:
- 3-year parts and 3-year labor limited warranty (Machine Type 7160)
- 24-hour support center
- Automatic error retry and recovery
- Automatic restart on nonmaskable interrupt (NMI)
- Automatic restart after a power failure
- Backup basic input/output system switching under the control of
the integrated management module (IMM)
- Built-in monitoring for fan, power, temperature, voltage, and
power-supply redundancy
- Cable-presence detection on most connectors
- Chipkill memory protection
- Diagnostic support for ServeRAID and Ethernet adapters
- Error codes and messages
- Error correcting code (ECC) L3 cache and system memory
- Full Array Memory Mirroring (FAMM) redundancy
- Hot-swap hard disk drives
- Operator information and light path diagnostics LED panels
- Integrated Management Module (IMM)
- Light path diagnostics LEDs for memory DIMMs, microprocessors,
hard disk drives, power supplies, and fans
- Memory mirroring and memory sparing support
- Memory error correcting code and parity test
- Memory down sizing (non-mirrored memory). After a restart of the
server after the memory controller detected a non-mirrored uncorrectable
error and the memory controller cannot recover operationally, the
IMM logs the uncorrectable error and informs POST. POST logically
maps out the memory with the uncorrectable error, and the server restarts
with the remaining installed memory.
- Menu-driven setup, system configuration, and redundant array of
independent disks (RAID) configuration programs
- Microprocessor built-in self-test (BIST), internal error signal
monitoring, internal thermal trip signal monitoring, configuration
checking, and microprocessor and voltage regulator module failure
identification through light path diagnostics
- Nonmaskable interrupt (NMI) button
- Parity checking on the small computer system interface (SCSI)
bus and PCI-E buses
- Power management: Compliance with Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface (ACPI)
- Power-on self-test (POST)
- Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA)
alerts on memory, microprocessors, SAS/SATA hard disk drives or solid
state drives, fans, power supplies, and VRM
- Redundant
Ethernet capabilities with failover support
- Redundant
hot-swap power supplies
- Redundant network interface card (NIC) support
- Remind button to temporarily turn off the system-error LED on
the optional advanced operator information panel
- ROM-based diagnostics
- ROM checksums
- Serial Presence Detection (SPD) on memory, VPD on system board,
power supply, and hard disk drive or solid state drive backplanes,
microprocessor and memory expansion tray, and Ethernet cards
- Single-DIMM isolation of excessive correctable error or multi-bit
error by the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
- Standby voltage for system-management features and monitoring
- Startup (boot) from LAN through remote initial program load (RIPL)
or dynamic host configuration protocol/boot protocol (DHCP/BOOTP)
- System auto-configuring from the configuration menu
- System-error logging (POST and IMM)
- Systems-management monitoring through the Inter-Integrated Circuit
(I2C) protocol bus
- Uncorrectable error (UE) detection
- Upgradeable POST, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI),
diagnostics, IMM firmware, and read-only memory (ROM) resident code,
locally or over the LAN
- Vital product data (VPD) on microprocessors, system board, power
supplies, and SAS/SATA (hot-swap hard disk drive) backplane
- Wake on LAN capability