Intel® Server System R2000WF Product Family Technical Product Specification
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Appendix A.
Integration and Usage Tips
This section provides a list of useful information that is unique to the Intel® Server System R2000WF product
family and should be kept in mind while configuring your server system.
When adding or removing components or peripherals, power cords must be disconnected from the
server. With power applied to the server, standby voltages are still present even though the server board
is powered off.
This server system supports the Intel® Xeon® processor Scalable family with a thermal design power
(TDP) of up to and including 145 Watts. Previous generations of the Intel® Xeon® processors are not
supported.
Processors must be installed in order. CPU 1 must be populated for the server board to operate.
The riser card slots are specifically designed to support riser cards only. Attempting to install a PCIe*
add-in card directly into a riser card slot on the server board may damage the server board, the add-in
card, or both.
This server board only supports DDR4 ECC RDIMM – Registered (Buffered) DIMMS and DDR4 ECC
LRDIMM – Load Reduced DIMMs.
For the best performance, the number of DDR4 DIMMs installed should be balanced across both
processor sockets and memory channels.
On the back edge of the server board are eight diagnostic LEDs that display a sequence of amber POST
codes during the boot process. If the server board hangs during POST, the LEDs display the last POST
event run before the hang.
The system status LED is set to solid amber for all fatal errors that are detected during processor
initialization. A solid amber system status LED indicates that an unrecoverable system failure condition
has occurred.
RAID partitions created using either embedded software RAID option, Intel® RSTe or Intel® Embedded
Server RAID Technology 2, cannot span across the two embedded SATA controllers. Only drives
attached to a common SATA controller can be included in a RAID partition.
The FRUSDR utility must be run as part of the initial platform integration process before it is deployed
into a live operating environment. Once the initial FRU and SDR data is loaded on to the system, all
subsequent system configuration changes automatically update SDR data using the BMC auto
configuration feature, without having to run the FRUSDR utility again. However, to ensure the latest
sensor data is installed, the SDR data should be updated to the latest available as part of a planned
system software update.
Make sure the latest system software is loaded on the server. This includes system BIOS, BMC firmware,
Intel® ME firmware and FRUSDR. The latest system software can be downloaded from
