Reliability, Availability, And Serviceability; Ibm Systems Director - IBM 6380 User Manual

Reliability, availability, and serviceability

Three important hardware and software design features are reliability, availability,
and serviceability (RAS). The RAS features help to ensure the integrity of the data
that is stored in the hardware, the availability of the hardware and software when
you need it, and the ease with which you can diagnose and correct problems.
The dx360 M2 has the following RAS features:
v Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
v Advanced Desktop Management Interface (DMI) features
v Automatic error retry or recovery
v Automatic restart after a power failure, based on the UEFI setting
v Built in, menu-driven setup, system configuration, and redundant array of
v Built-in monitoring of fan, power, temperature, and voltage
v CD-based diagnostic programs
v Customer support center that is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
v Diagnostic support of ServeRAID adapters
v Error codes and messages
v Hot-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives (some configurations)
v Integrated Ethernet controller
v Integrated management module (IMM)
v Power-on self-test (POST) with error logging of POST failures
v Power management
v Read-only memory (ROM) checksums
v Redundant Ethernet capabilities with failover support
v Remote system problem-determination support
v Simple-swap Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) hard disk drives
v Simple-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives (some configurations)
v Standby voltage for systems-management features and monitoring
v Startup from backup UEFI page
v System-error LED on the front bezel
v System-error logging
v Upgradeable IMM firmware
v Upgradeable microcode for POST, UEFI code, and ROM resident code, locally or
v Vital product data (VPD); includes firmware revision numbers, stored in

IBM Systems Director

IBM Systems Director is a platform-management foundation that streamlines the
way you manage physical and virtual systems in a heterogeneous environment. By
using industry standards, IBM Systems Director supports multiple operating systems
and virtualization technologies in IBM and non-IBM x86 platforms.
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System x iDataPlex dx360 M2: User's Guide
independent disks (RAID) configuration (depending on server configuration)
(some configurations)
over a LAN
nonvolatile memory, for easier remote maintenance
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