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v Integrated Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
v Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) 2.0
v Large data-storage capacity and hot-swap capability
v Light path diagnostics
v Memory mirroring
v Memory sparing
v PCI-32 adapter capabilities
v PCI Express x8 adapter capabilities
v PCI Express x16 adapter capabilities
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IBM System x3500 M3 Type 7380: Installation and User's Guide
The server comes with one integrated Broadcom 5709C series Gigabit Ethernet
controller, which supports connection to a 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, or 1000 Mbps
network. For more information, see "Enabling the Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet
Utility program" on page 122.
This integrated security chip performs cryptographic functions and stores private
and public secure keys. It provides the hardware support for the Trusted
Computing Group (TCG) specification. You can download the software to support
the TCG specification, when the software is available. See http://www.ibm.com/
servers/eserver/xseries/scalable_family.html for details about the TPM
implementation. You can enable TPM support through the Setup utility under the
System Security menu option. See Table 3 on page 24 for more information.
Note: The physical presence requires manual setting on the server to change
the TPM configuration. The TPM is enabled and physical presence is not
asserted by default. The physical presence needs to be asserted to activate,
deactivate, clear or change ownership of the TPM.
IPMI 2.0 support providing secure remote power-on/power-off and several
standard alerts for components such as fans, voltage, and temperature.
The server supports up to twenty-four (depending on your model) 2.5-inch or
eight 3.5-inch hard disk drives in the hot-swap bays. With the hot-swap feature,
you can add, remove, or replace hard disk drives without turning off the server.
Note:
– SAS expander card does not support 3 GB RAID adapters.
– When using ServeRAID adapter M1015 to support more than sixteen 2.5-inch
hard disk drives, the maximum number of RAID supported drives is 16. All the
other drives will remain JBOD (the drives are presented to the operating
system without a RAID configuration).
Light path diagnostics provides LEDs to help you diagnose problems. For more
information, see the section about light path diagnostics in the Problem
Determination and Service Guide on the IBM Documentation CD.
Memory mirroring improves the availability of memory by writing information to
the main memory and redundant locations in a mirrored pair of DIMMs.
2 channels operating independently, 3rd channel is spare, errors occurring in the
normal system memory are tracked, when an error threshold is crossed, the data
at the "failing" memory location is copied into the spare memory.
Note: Memory sparing is only available for Intel Xeon 5600 series
microprocessor.
The server has one slot for a PCI-32 adapter.
The server has five slots for PCI Express x8 adapters. Three of these slots
accept x8 adapters, but the adapters will operate as x4 adapters.
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