Input/Output(I/O)features
•FourUSB2.0connectors(twoonthefrontpanelandtwoontherearpanel)
•FourUSB3.0connectorsontherearpanel
•OneDisplayPort
®
connectorontherearpanel
•Oneserialconnectorontherearpanel
•Onevideographicsarray(VGA)connectorontherearpanel
•ThreeRJ-45Ethernetconnectors(oneontherearpanelforsystemmanagementandtwoontheEthernet
card)
Forthelocationinformationabouttheconnectors,refertotherelatedtopicsin“Locations”onpage11.
Videosubsystem
IntegratedgraphicsforaVGAconnectorandaDisplayPortconnector
Ethernetconnectivity
TherearethreeRJ-45Ethernetconnectorsontherearpanelwith10megabitspersecond(Mbps),100
Mbps,or1000Mbpsnetworkconnectivity.Formoreinformation,see“Rearviewoftheserver”onpage14.
Reliability,availability,andserviceability
Reliability,availability,andserviceability(hereinafterreferredtoasRAS)arethreeimportantserverdesign
features.TheRASfeatureshelpyoutoensuretheintegrityofthedatastoredontheserver,theavailabilityof
theserverwhenyouneedit,andtheeasewithwhichyoucandiagnoseandcorrectproblems.
YourserverhasthefollowingRASfeatures:
•Securityfeatures
–Administratorpasswordanduserpasswordtohelpyouprotectunauthorizedaccesstotheserver
(see“Usingpasswords”onpage41)
–ThinkServerTrustedPlatformModule(TPM),whichisasecuritychip,tohelpenhanceserversecurity
Note:TheTPMisonlyavailableinsomemodels.
–RedundantArrayofIndependentDisks(RAID)configurationforimprovingdatastoragereliabilityand
faulttolerance(see“ConfiguringRAID”onpage47)
–Remotemonitoringorcontrolbyanadministratortoprovideprotectionorhelp
•Basicsystemmanagementfeatures
–Abilitytostorethepower-onself-test(POST)hardwaretestresults
–BIOSSetupUtilityprogram
TheBIOSSetupUtilityprogramhelpsyouviewtheserverinformationandconfiguretheserverinthe
pre-operatingsystemenvironment.See“UsingtheSetupUtilityprogram”onpage37
.
–PrebootExecutionEnvironment(PXE)
TheIntelPXEtechnologyenablesyoutostartyourcomputers,loadanoperatingsystem,ordeploy
executableimagesfromaremoteserverbyusinganetworkinterface.Theoperationcanbedone
independentlyoflocaldatastoragedevices(suchasharddiskdrives)oroperatingsystems.
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