ThinkSystem SR550 Kuwait

ThinkSystem SR550 Kuwait

The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR550 Kuwait is a high-performance dual-socket 2U rack server designed to provide exceptional reliability, scalability, and efficiency for modern business environments.

Description

ThinkSystem SR550 Kuwait

The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR550 Kuwait is a high-performance dual-socket 2U rack server designed to provide exceptional reliability, scalability, and efficiency for modern business environments. Whether for data-intensive applications, virtualization, or mission-critical workloads, this powerful server ensures seamless performance with Intel Xeon Scalable processors and up to 1TB DDR4 memory.

Flexible Storage for Diverse Business Needs

Built with adaptability in mind, the ThinkSystem SR550 supports a variety of storage configurations, allowing businesses to scale their IT infrastructure effortlessly. The server Lenovo accommodates up to:

  • 16x 2.5-inch or 12x 3.5-inch drive bays
  • SAS/SATA SSDs and HDDs for high-speed data access and enhanced storage flexibility

This makes it an excellent choice for businesses handling large datasets, transactional systems, and complex analytics.

Cost-Effective Performance and Energy Efficiency

Designed to balance performance, capacity, and affordability, the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR550 is ideal for small, medium, and large enterprises. Equipped with redundant 80 PLUS Titanium and Platinum power supplies, it offers up to 96% energy efficiency, significantly reducing power consumption and operational costs.

Advanced Management and Security

The Lenovo XClarity Controller provides centralized, automated hardware, software, and firmware management, streamlining IT operations. This next-generation management suite enhances system monitoring, simplifies updates, and boosts security, ensuring that businesses in Kuwait have a reliable and future-ready IT infrastructure.

Designed for Harsh Environmental Conditions

The ThinkSystem SR550 Kuwait meets ASHRAE A4 standards, allowing it to operate in temperatures up to 45°C (113°F) without performance degradation. This makes it a perfect fit for local and remote site deployments, delivering unmatched resilience even in demanding conditions.

Why Choose the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR550 in Kuwait?

  • Enterprise-grade reliability with cutting-edge Intel Xeon Scalable processors
  • Scalable memory and storage for business-critical workloads
  • Energy-efficient power supplies to minimize operational costs
  • Enhanced management tools for simplified IT administration
  • Optimized for high-temperature environments, ensuring long-term stability

For businesses seeking a robust, high-performance, and cost-effective rack server, the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR550 Kuwait is the ideal solution. Its powerful architecture, energy-efficient design, and advanced management features make it a future-proof investment for any growing enterprise.

Features:

Cost-efficient performance

The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR550 Kuwait features a balance of performance, capacity, and value in a 2U form factor. Essential performance components are delivered in a combination that is designed to elevate the cost efficiency of the system, allowing the SR550 to meet both the workload needs and the budgetary needs of the enterprise.

Workload optimized support

New second-generation Intel® Xeon® processor Scalable family CPUs offer increased performance of 36% over the previous generation*, support for faster 2933MHz TruDDR4 memory, and Intel’s Vector Neural Network Instruction (VNNI) which accelerates processor performance on Deep Learning and AI workloads. Up to 6% increases in per-core performance and hardware security mitigations round out the enhanced capabilities featured in this next-generation processor technology from Intel.*

Empowering IT management

Lenovo XClarity Controller is the embedded management engine in all ThinkSystem servers that is designed to standardize, simplify, and automate foundation server management tasks. Lenovo XClarity Administrator is a virtualized application that centrally manages ThinkSystem servers, storage, and networking, which can reduce provisioning time up to 95% versus manual operation. Running XClarity Integrator helps you streamline IT management, speed provisioning, and contain costs by seamlessly integrating XClarity into an existing IT environment.

Technical Specifications:

Form factor 2U rack-mount.
Processor Up to two Intel Xeon Gen 2 Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum processors:

  • Up to 22 cores (1.9 GHz core speeds)
  • Up to 3.8 GHz core speeds (4 cores)
  • Two UPI links up to 10.4 GT/s each
  • Up to 30.25 MB cache
  • Up to 2933 MHz memory speed

1st Gen Intel Xeon processors are also supported.

Chipset Intel C622.
Memory Up to 12 DIMM sockets (6 DIMMs per processor; six memory channels per processor with one DIMM per channel). Support for RDIMMs and LRDIMMs. Memory types cannot be intermixed. Memory speed up to 2933 MHz depending on the processor selected.
Memory protection Error correction code (ECC), SDDC (for x4-based memory DIMMs), ADDDC (for x4-based memory DIMMs, requires Intel Xeon Gold or Platinum processors), memory mirroring, memory rank sparing, patrol scrubbing, and demand scrubbing.
Memory capacity Up to 768 GB with 12x 64 GB RDIMMs (Up to 384 GB per processor).
Drive bays
  • 8 LFF SATA Simple Swap drive bays
  • 8 LFF SAS/SATA hot-swap drive bays
  • 12 LFF SAS/SATA hot-swap drive bays
  • Up to 16 SFF hot-swap drive bays: 8x 2.5″ SAS/SATA + 8x 2.5″ SAS/SATA
Internal storage capacity
  • 2.5-inch drives:
    • 491.52TB using 16x 30.72TB 2.5-inch SAS/SATA SSDs
    • 38.4TB using 16x 2.4TB 2.5-inch HDDs
  • 3.5-inch drives:
    • 240TB using 12x 20TB 3.5-inch HDDs
    • 184.32TB using 12x 15.36TB 3.5-inch SAS/SATA SSDs
Storage controller
  • 6 Gb Onboard SATA AHCI
  • 6 Gb Onboard SATA RAID (Intel RSTe)
  • 12 Gb SAS/SATA RAID adapters with up to 8GB flash-backed cache
  • 12 Gb SAS/SATA HBA (non-RAID)
Optical drive bays None. Support for an external USB DVD RW Optical Disk Drive.
Network interfaces
  • 2x Integrated 1 GbE RJ-45 ports (no 10/100 Mb support)
  • Onboard LOM slot for two additional 1/10 Gb Ethernet ports:
    • 2x 1 GbE RJ-45 ports (no 10/100 Mb support)
    • 2x 10 GbE RJ-45 ports (no 10/100 Mb support)
    • 2x 10 GbE SFP+ ports (no 10/100 Mb support)
  • Optional Mezzanine LOM (ML2) slot for dual-port 10 GbE cards with SFP+ or RJ-45 connectors.
  • 1x RJ-45 10/100/1000 Mb Ethernet systems management port.
I/O expansion slots Up to six slots. Slot 4 is the fixed slots on the system planar, and the remaining slots depend on the riser cards installed. The slots are as follows:

  • Slot 1: PCIe 3.0 x16 or PCIe 3.0 x8; full-height, half-length (PCIe x16 slot is double-wide)
  • Slot 2: PCIe 3.0 x8; full-height, half-length (not present if the slot 1 is PCIe x16)
  • Slot 3: PCIe 3.0 x8 or ML2 x8; full-height, half-length
  • Slot 4: PCIe 3.0 x8; low profile (vertical slot on system planar)
  • Slot 5: PCIe 3.0 x16; full-height, half-length
  • Slot 6: PCIe 3.0 x8; full-height, half-length

Slot 5 requires the second processor to be installed.

Ports
  • Front: 1x USB 2.0 port with XClarity Controller access and 1x USB 3.0 port; optional 1x VGA port.
  • Rear: 2x USB 3.0 ports and 1x VGA port; optional 1x DB-9 serial port.
Cooling Three (one processor) or four (two processors) non-hot-swap system fans with N+1 redundancy.
Power supply Up to two redundant hot-swap 550 W or 750 W (100 – 240 V) High Efficiency Platinum or 750 W (200 – 240 V) High Efficiency Titanium AC power supplies. HVDC support (PRC only).
Video Matrox G200 with 16 MB memory integrated into the XClarity Controller. Maximum resolution is 1920×1200 at 60 Hz with 32 bits per pixel.
Hot-swap parts Drives (select models) and power supplies.
Systems management XClarity Controller (XCC) Standard, Advanced, or Enterprise (Pilot 4 chip), proactive platform alerts, XClarity Provisioning Manager, XClarity Essentials, XClarity Administrator, XClarity Integrators for VMware vCenter and Microsoft System Center, XClarity Energy Manager, Capacity Planner.
Security features Power-on password, administrator’s password, secure firmware updates, Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 or 2.0 (configurable UEFI setting). Optional lockable front bezel. Optional Trusted Cryptographic Module (TCM) or Nationz TPM (available only in PRC). Optional Lenovo Business Vantage security software (available only in PRC).
Operating systems Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware ESXi.
Warranty One-year (7X03) or three-year (7X04) customer-replaceable unit (CRU) and onsite limited warranty with 9×5 Next Business Day Parts Delivered.
Service and support Optional service upgrades are available through Lenovo Services: 2-hour or 4-hour response time, 6-hour or 24-hour committed service repair (select areas), warranty extension up to 5 years, 1-year or 2-year post-warranty extensions, YourDrive Your Data, Enterprise Software Support, and Basic Hardware Installation Services.
Dimensions Width: 445 mm (17.5 in.), height: 87 mm (3.4 in.), depth: 764 mm (30.1 in.).
Weight Minimum configuration: 19 kg (41.9 lb), maximum: 26 kg (57.3 lb)