Intel SBX44 - Server Compute Blade, Installation And User Manual

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Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44: Installation and User’s Guide
occurs. If this happens, you can look at the LEDs on the system board to locate the source of the
problem.
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Integrated network environment support
Your blade server comes with four integrated Gigabit Ethernet controllers. Each Ethernet
controller has an interface for connecting to 10/100/1000-Mbps networks through an Ethernet
switch module in the system chassis. Each controller provides full-duplex (FDX) capability,
which enables simultaneous transmission and reception of data on the Ethernet local area
network (LAN). The controllers support Wake on LAN
®
technology.
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I/O expansion
Your blade server comes with two connectors on the system board for I/O expansion options,
such as the Intel
®
Fibre Channel Expansion Card, for adding more network communication
capabilities to the blade server.
Reliability, availability, and serviceability features
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 stored on your blade server; that
your blade server is available when you want to use it; and that should a failure occur, you can easily
diagnose and repair the failure with minimal inconvenience.
The following is a list of some of the RAS features that your blade server supports:
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Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
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Automatic server restart
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Built-in monitoring for temperature, voltage, and hard disk drives
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Chipkill memory
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Customer-upgradeable basic input/output system (BIOS) code
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Diagnostic support of Ethernet controllers
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Error codes and messages
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Error correcting code (ECC) protection on the L2 cache
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ECC memory
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Failover Ethernet support
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Hot-swap drives on optional SCSI storage expansion unit
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Light Path Diagnostics feature
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Power-on self-test (POST)
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Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) alerts
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Service processor that communicates with the system chassis management module to enable
remote blade server management
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SDRAM with serial presence detect (SPD) and vital product data (VPD)
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System error logging
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Vital product data (VPD) (includes information stored in nonvolatile memory for easier remote
viewing)
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Wake on LAN capability