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Reliability, availability, and serviceability features

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:

  • Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
  • Automatic BIOS recovery (ABR)
  • Automatic server restart (ASR)
  • Built-in monitoring for temperature, voltage, hard disk drives.
  • Customer support center 24 hours per day, 7 days a week. 1
  • Customer-upgradeable basic input/output system (BIOS) code and diagnostics
  • Diagnostic support of Ethernet controllers
  • ECC protection on the L2 cache
  • Error codes and messages
  • Hot-swap SAS or solid state storage drives, fixed SATA or solid state storage drives
  • Light path diagnostics feature
  • Memory parity testing
  • Microprocessor built-in self-test (BIST) during power-on self-test (POST)
  • Microprocessor serial number access
  • PCI PMI 2.2
  • PCI-X 1.0a
  • PCI Express 1.0a
  • POST
  • ROM resident diagnostics
  • Registered ECC DDR2 667 memory
  • Service processor that communicates with the 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
1 Service availability will vary by country. Response time will vary depending on the number and nature of incoming calls.