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Reliability, availability, and serviceability

Three important computer design features are reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS). The RAS features help to ensure the integrity of the data that is stored in the server, the availability of the server when you need it, and the ease with which you can diagnose and correct problems.

Your server has the following RAS features:
  • Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
  • Advanced Desktop Management Interface (DMI) features
  • Automatic BIOS recovery to a backup image
  • Automatic error retry or recovery
  • Automatic memory downsizing on error detection
  • Automatic restart on nonmaskable interrupt (NMI)
  • Automatic Server Restart (ASR) logic supporting a system restart when the operating system becomes unresponsive
  • Automatic server restart after a power failure, based on the UEFI setting
  • Availability of microcode level
  • Boot-block recovery
  • Built-in, menu-driven setup, system configuration, and redundant array of independent disks (RAID) configuration
  • Built-in monitoring for fan, power, temperature, and voltage
  • Cooling fans with speed-sensing capability
  • Customer support center that is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week1
  • Diagnostic support of ServeRAID adapters
  • Error codes and messages
  • Error correcting code (ECC) double-data-rate 3 (DDR3) synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM) with serial presence detect (SPD)
  • Error logging of POST failures
  • Simple-swap Serial ATA (SATA) hard disk drives
  • Integrated Ethernet controller
  • Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
  • Key-lock support for physical security
  • Memory change messages posted to the error log
  • Integrated management module II (IMM2)
  • Power management
  • Power-on self-test (POST)
  • Read-only memory (ROM) checksums
  • Redundant Ethernet capabilities (requires an optional Ethernet adapter) with failover support
  • ROM-based diagnostic programs
  • Simple-swap Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) hard disk drives
  • Standby voltage for system-management features and monitoring
  • System auto-configuring from the configuration menu
  • System-error LED on the front bezel and diagnostic LEDs on the system board
  • System-error logging (POST and IMM2)
  • Upgradeable integrated management module II (IMM2) firmware
  • Upgradeable microcode for POST, server firmware, and read-only memory (ROM) resident code, locally or over a LAN
  • Vital product data (VPD); includes serial-number information and replacement part numbers, stored in nonvolatile memory, for easier remote maintenance
  • Wake on LAN capability
1 Service availability will vary by country. Response time varies; may exclude holidays.