Intel® Server Platform SR6850HW4 TPSTable of Contents

Table of Contents

1.

Product Overview.................................................................................................................

1

 

2.

System Overview..................................................................................................................

3

 

 

2.1

System Feature Overview........................................................................................

3

 

2.2

Introduction ..............................................................................................................

4

 

2.3

External Chassis Features - Front ...........................................................................

8

 

2.3.1

Front Control Panel..................................................................................................

8

 

2.3.2

Hot-swap Hard Disk Drive and Peripheral Device Bays ..........................................

9

 

 

2.4

External Chassis Features - Rear..........................................................................

10

 

 

2.5

Internal Chassis Features......................................................................................

11

 

2.5.1

Server Board Set SE8500HW4 Mainboard............................................................

11

 

 

2.5.2

Server Board Set SE8500HW4 Memory Board .....................................................

12

 

 

2.5.3

Power Distribution Board .......................................................................................

12

 

2.5.4

SCSI Backplane Board Board ...............................................................................

12

 

2.5.5

Front Panel I/O Board............................................................................................

13

 

2.5.6

Front Panel Control Board .....................................................................................

13

 

2.5.7

SATA-to-IDE Converter Board...............................................................................

13

 

2.5.8

Intel® Management Module...................................................................................

13

 

2.5.9

Fibre Channel Module ...........................................................................................

14

 

2.5.10

RAID On Motherboard (ROMB) .............................................................................

14

 

2.5.11

Power Supply Module............................................................................................

14

 

2.5.12

Cooling Subsystem................................................................................................

16

 

2.6

New Platform Features ..........................................................................................

16

 

2.6.1

Advanced Memory Performance and Protection ...................................................

16

 

 

2.6.2

Rolling BIOS ..........................................................................................................

17

 

2.7

Server Management ..............................................................................................

17

 

2.7.1

Intel Management Module (IMM)...........................................................................

17

 

2.7.2

Hot Swap Controller...............................................................................................

19

 

2.8

Reliability, Availability, Serviceability, Usability, Manageability (RASUM) .............

19

 

 

2.9

Expansion Support ................................................................................................

20

 

2.10

Specifications.........................................................................................................

21

 

2.10.1

Environmental Specifications Summary ................................................................

21

 

2.10.2

Physical Specifications ..........................................................................................

22

 

 

 

 

 

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