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Select this choice to view the system-board identifier, the revision level or issue date of the firmware,
the integrated management module and diagnostics code, and the version and date.
This choice is on the full Setup utility menu only.
• System Settings
Select this choice to view or change the server component settings.
– Adapters and UEFI Drivers
Select this choice to view information about the adapters and device drivers installed in the server
that are compliant with UEFI 1.10 and UEFI 2.0.
– Processors
Select this choice to view or change the processor settings.
– Memory
Select this choice to view or change the memory settings. To configure memory mirroring, select
System Settings ® Memory ® Memory Mode ® Mirrored.
– Devices and I/O Ports
Select this choice to view or change assignments for devices and input/output (I/O) ports. You can
configure the serial ports; configure remote console redirection; enable or disable integrated Ethernet
controllers, the SAS/SATA adapter, SATA optical drive channels, and PCI slots; and view the system
Ethernet MAC addresses. If you disable a device, it cannot be configured, and the operating system
will not be able to detect it (this is equivalent to disconnecting the device).
– Power
Select this choice to view or change power capping to control consumption, processors, and
performance states.
– Active Energy Manager
Select this choice to enable or disable power capping. If you enable power capping, the Active
Energy Manager program will limit the maximum power that is consumed by the server.
Note: It is available only when System Settings ® Processors ® Processor Performance States
is enabled.
– Power/Performance Bias
Select this choice to determine how the power management of the microprocessor is controlled.
You can choose either Platform Controlled (system) or OS Controlled (operating system) to control
the setting. Not all operating systems support this feature.
– Platform Controlled Type
Select this choice to determine how to balance between performance and power consumption.
Choosing Maximum Performance will disable power management functions and allow the most
aggressive use of turbo. Choosing Minimal Power will maximizes the use of power management
features for least power consumption and disable turbo.
Note: It is available only when System Settings ® Power ® Power/Performance Bias ®
Platform Controlled is enabled.
– Workload Configuration
Select this choice to determine how to balance between I/O bandwidth and balanced workload.
Choosing I/O sensitive will get higher I/O bandwidth while expansion cards are used. Choosing
Balanced will allow enough frequency for workload while the microprocessor cores are idle.
– Operating Modes
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