Reliability, availability, and serviceability 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.
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:
- Customer upgrade of Flash ROM-resident code and diagnostics
- Power Policy 24-hour support center
- VPD on Memory
- Processor presence detect
- Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
- Automatic server restart (ASR)
- Built-in monitoring for temperature, voltage, and hard disk drives
- Customer support center 24 hours per day, 7 days a week.1
- Customer-upgradeable Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) code
and diagnostics
- Diagnostic support of Ethernet controllers
- ECC protection on the L2 cache
- Error codes and messages
- Hot-swap SAS storage drives
- Integrated Management Module (IMM)
- Light path diagnostics feature
- Memory parity testing
- Registered ECC DDR3 memory
- Microprocessor built-in self-test (BIST) during power-on self-test (POST)
- Microprocessor serial number access
- PCI PMI 2.2
- PCI Express 1.0a
- POST
- ROM resident diagnostics
- Service processor that communicates with the Advanced Management Module
to enable remote blade server management
- System error logging
- Wake
on LAN capability
- Wake on PCI (PME) capability
- Wake on USB 2.0 capability