Key Features - Lenovo ThinkSystem SR550 Product Manual

Key features

The SR550 server offers a balance of processing power, storage capacity, and cost for small and medium
businesses up to the large enterprise. Ease of use and comprehensive systems management tools help
make deployment easier and efficient design improves your business environment and helps save
operational costs.
Scalability and performance
The SR550 server offers numerous features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs:
Improves productivity by offering superior system performance with the Intel Xeon Processor
Scalable Family with up to 20-core processors, up to 27.5 MB of last level cache (LLC), up to
2666 MHz memory speeds, and up to 10.4 GT/s Ultra Path Interconnect (UPI) links.
Support for up to two processors, 40 cores, and 80 threads allows to maximize the
concurrent execution of multithreaded applications.
Intelligent and adaptive system performance with energy efficient Intel Turbo Boost 2.0
Technology allows CPU cores to run at maximum speeds during peak workloads by
temporarily going beyond processor thermal design power (TDP).
Intel Hyper-Threading Technology boosts performance for multithreaded applications by
enabling simultaneous multithreading within each processor core, up to two threads per core.
Intel Virtualization Technology integrates hardware-level virtualization hooks that allow
operating system vendors to better utilize the hardware for virtualization workloads.
Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX-512) enable acceleration of enterprise-class and
high performance computing (HPC) workloads.
Helps maximize system performance for data intensive applications with up to 2666 MHz memory
speeds and up to 768 GB of memory capacity.
Offers flexible and scalable internal storage in a 2U rack form factor with up to 16x 2.5-inch drives for
performance-optimized configurations or up to 12x 3.5-inch drives for capacity-optimized
configurations, providing a wide selection of SAS/SATA HDDs/SSDs.
Provides I/O scalability with the LOM slot and up to six PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 I/O expansion slots in
a 2U rack form factor.
Reduces I/O latency and increases overall system performance with Intel Integrated I/O Technology
that embeds the PCI Express 3.0 controller into the Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family.
Availability and serviceability
The SR550 server provides many features to simplify serviceability and increase system uptime:
Offers protection in the event of a non-correctable memory failure with Single Device Data
Correction (SDDC, also known as Chipkill, requires x4-based DIMMs), Adaptive Double Device Data
Correction (ADDDC, also known as Redundant Bit Steering [RBS], requires x4-based DIMMs and
Intel Xeon Gold or Platinum processors), memory mirroring, and memory rank sparing.
Provides easy access to upgrades and serviceable parts (such as processors, memory DIMMs, and
adapter cards) with tool-less cover removal.
Offers affordable data protection with software RAID and Simple Swap drives and advanced
hardware RAID data redundancy with hot-swap drives.
Provides availability for applications with redundant hot-swap power supplies and redundant non-
hot-swap fans.
Allows preventive actions in advance of possible failure, thereby increasing server uptime and
application availability with Proactive Platform Alerts (including PFA and SMART alerts) for
processors, voltage regulators, memory, internal storage (SAS/SATA HDDs and SSDs, M.2 storage),
fans, power supplies, RAID controllers, and server ambient and sub-component temperatures.
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