Reliability, Availability, And Serviceability Features - IBM eServer 200 xSeries User Reference Manual

Reliability, availability, and serviceability features

Three of the most important considerations in server design are reliability, availability,
and serviceability (RAS). The RAS features help to ensure the integrity of the data
that is stored on your server; that your server is available when you want to use it; and
that should a failure occur, you can easily diagnose and repair the failure with minimal
inconvenience.
The following is an abbreviated list of the RAS features that your server supports.
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Reliability features
— Boot block recovery
— Cooling fans with speed-sensing capability
— Customer-upgradable basic input/output system (BIOS)
— ECC front-side buses (FSBs)
— ECC L2 cache
— ECC memory
— Parity checking on the small computer system interface (SCSI) bus
— Advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI)
— Power-on self-test (POST)
— SDRAM with serial presence detect (SPD)
Availability features
— Advanced desktop management interface (DMI) features
— Auto-restart initial program load (IPL) power supply
— Automatic error retry or recovery
— Automatic server restart
— Automatic restart after power failure
— Built-in, menu-driven configuration programs
— Built-in, menu-driven SCSI configuration programs (some models)
— Built-in, menu-driven setup programs
— Failover Ethernet support
— Menu-driven diagnostic programs on CD-ROM
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— Microsoft Windows NT
— Monitoring support for temperature, voltage, and fan speed
— Server management
— ServeRAID™ adapter support
— Wake on LAN capability
Serviceability features
— 24 hours a day, seven days a week customer support
— Adaptec 29160 built-in self-test (BIST)
— Alert on LAN 2
— CD-ROM-based diagnostics
— Diagnostic support of Ethernet adapters
— Error codes and messages
— Processor serial number access
— Read-only memory (ROM) checksums
— Vital product data (VPD) (includes serial number information and replacement
part numbers, stored in nonvolatile memory, for easier remote maintenance)
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failover support
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