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With the I/O enclosure attached, the system-board tray can support up to two
3.5-inch simple-swap SATA hard disk drives, up to two 3.5-inch simple-swap SAS
hard disk drives (with optional SAS controller), or up to eight 2.5-inch hot-swap
SAS hard disk drives (with optional SAS controller).
When it is installed in a 3U chassis, the system-board tray can support up to
twelve 3.5-inch hot-swap SAS (with optional SAS controller) or SATA hard disk
drives. With the hot-swap feature, you can remove or replace hard disk drives
without turning off the dx360 M2 server.
v Large system-memory capacity
The dx360 M2 system-board tray supports up to 64 GB of system memory (as of
the date of this publication). The memory controller supports up to 16
industry-standard, registered ECC double-data-rate 3 (DDR3) -800, -1066, and
-1333 MHz DIMMs.
v Redundant connection
The addition of an optional network interface card (NIC) provides a failover
capability to a redundant Ethernet connection. If a problem occurs with the
primary Ethernet connection, all Ethernet traffic that is associated with the
primary connection is automatically switched to the redundant NIC. If the
applicable device drivers are installed, this switching occurs without data loss and
without user intervention.
v
Remote presence capability and blue-screen capture
The optional virtual media key is required to enable the remote presence and
blue-screen capture features. The remote presence feature provides the following
functions:
– Remotely viewing video with graphics resolutions up to 1280 x 1024 at 75 Hz,
regardless of the system state
– Remotely accessing the server, using the keyboard and mouse from a remote
client
– Mapping the CD or DVD drive, diskette drive, and USB flash drive on a
remote client, and mapping ISO and diskette image files as virtual drives that
are available for use by the server
– Uploading a diskette image to the IMM memory and mapping it to the server
as a virtual drive
The blue-screen capture feature captures the video display contents before the
IMM restarts the server when the IMM detects an operating-system hang
condition. A system administrator can use the blue-screen capture to assist in
determining the cause of the hang condition.
v
ServeRAID support
The dx360 M2 system-board tray supports ServeRAID adapters to create
redundant array of independent disks (RAID) configurations.
v
Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)
The dx360 M2 system-board tray comes with one or two Intel microprocessors. If
the system-board tray comes with only one microprocessor, a trained service
technician can add a second microprocessor.
v Systems-management capabilities
The dx360 M2 system-board tray supports IPMI version 2.0 over LAN
systems-management protocol. It supports an optional rack-level management
controller that uses industry-standard management tools.
Chapter 1. Introduction
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