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What your IBM xSeries 450 offers
Your server includes the following features and technologies:
v IBM Enterprise X-Architecture technology
v Light Path Diagnostics feature
v System-management capabilities
v Integrated network support
Reliability, availability, and serviceability features
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 your server, the availability of the computer when you need it, and the
ease with which you can diagnose and repair problems.
Your server has the following RAS features:
v Active Memory
v Active PCI-X (hot-plug) adapter slots
v Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
v Advanced Desktop Management Interface (DMI) features
v Advanced memory ECC, including the Memory ProteXion feature and multiple
v Automatic error retry or recovery
v Auto-ranging power supplies
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xSeries 450: User's Guide
Enterprise X-Architecture technology combines proven, innovative IBM designs to
make your Intel-processor-based server powerful, scalable, and reliable. For
more information, go to
http://www.ibm.com/pc/us/eserver/xseries/xarchitecture/enterprise/index.html
– Active Memory
The Active Memory feature improves the reliability of memory through memory
mirroring, memory scrubbing, and the Memory ProteXion
information, see "Active Memory" on page 5.
– Large system memory
The memory bus supports up to 40 GB of system memory. The memory
controller provides error code correcting (ECC) support for up to 28
industry-standard PC2100, 2.5 V, 184-pin, 133 megahertz (MHz), registered,
double data rate (DDR), synchronous dynamic random access memory
(SDRAM) dual inline memory modules (DIMMs).
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– XceL4
Server Accelerator Cache
The XceL4 Server Accelerator Cache provides 64 MB of external Level-4
cache, which increases effective memory bandwidth.
The Light Path Diagnostics feature provides LEDs to help you isolate problems.
For more information, see the section about the Light Path Diagnostics feature in
the Installation Guide.
The server comes with a Remote Supervisor Adapter installed in a dedicated
connector. This adapter, in conjunction with the system-management software
that comes with the server, enables you to manage the functions of the server
locally and remotely. The Remote Supervisor Adapter also provides system
monitoring, event recording, and dial-out alert capability.
Your server comes with an integrated Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet controller,
which supports connection to a 10-Mbps, 100-Mbps, or 1000-Mbps network. For
more information, see "Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controller" on page 30.
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