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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)
  • Built-in diagnostics using DSA Preboot, which is stored in integrated USB memory
  • Built-in monitoring for temperature, voltage, and hard disk drives
  • Customer support center 24 hours per day, 7 days a week1
  • Customer upgrade of Flash ROM-resident code and diagnostics
  • Customer-upgradeable Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) code and diagnostics
  • ECC protected DDR3 memory
  • ECC protection on the L2 cache
  • Error codes and messages
  • Hot-swap SAS storage drives
  • Integrated Management Module (IMM)
  • Light path diagnostics
  • Memory parity testing
  • Microprocessor built-in self-test (BIST) during power-on self-test (POST)
  • Microprocessor serial number access
  • PCI PMI 2.2
  • POST
  • Power policy 24-hour support center
  • Processor presence detect
  • ROM resident diagnostics
  • Service processor that communicates with the Advanced Management Module to enable remote blade server management
  • System error logging
  • Vital product data (VPD) on memory
  • 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.