Reliability, Availability, And Serviceability Features - Intel SBXD62 - Server Compute Blade Installation And User Manual

Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability Features

Three of the most important features in server design are reliability, availability, and
serviceability (RAS). These RAS features help to ensure the integrity of the data that is
stored in the blade server, the availability of the blade server when you need it, and the
ease with which you can diagnose and correct problems.
The blade server has the following RAS features:
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Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
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Automatic error retry or recovery
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Automatic server restart
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Built-in monitoring for temperature, voltage, hard disk drives, and flash drives
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x4 SDDC memory for DIMMs with a capacity of 512 MB or greater
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Customer-upgradeable basic input/output system (BIOS) code
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Customer support center 24 hours per day, 7 days a week2
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Diagnostic support of Ethernet controllers
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Error codes and messages
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ECC protection on the L2 cache
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ECC memory
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Failover Ethernet support
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Hot-swap drives on optional small computer system interface (SCSI) storage
expansion unit
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Light path diagnostics feature
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Power-on self-test (POST)
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Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) alerts
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Processor serial number access
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Service processor that communicates with the management module to enable remote
blade server management
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SDRAM with serial presence detect (SPD) and vital product data (VPD)
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System error logging
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Wake on LAN capability
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