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Chapter 2
General Description
This chapter provides information that you should be familiar with before using the server. It includes names and functions of
the components and features of the server.
OVERVIEW
Your server is a modular, multiprocessing server based on the Intel
®
Xeon
®
microprocessor. It is a solid performer and offers
the latest technology. The combination of compute performance, memory capacity, and integrated I/O provides a high
performance environment for many server market applications. These range from large corporations supporting remote offices
to small companies looking to obtain basic connectivity capability such as file and print services, e-mail, web access, web site
server, etc.
Your server is housed and available as a rack-mount system. Your server conveniently installs into a standard EIA 19-inch rack
assembly.
Your server includes a optical disk drive, six hot-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drive bays, and a removable
media device bay. The hot-swap SAS hard disk drive bays support up to six 1.0-inch SAS hard disk drives that can be swapped
in or out of the system without powering it down, if RAID functionality is configured in the system.
The removable media drive bay may be used for installation of a high-speed tape drive.
As application requirements increase, you can expand your server with an additional processor, additional memory, add-in
boards, and hard disk drives.