Lenovo Thinkserver GEN5 Server new product release

"Tenkine Server channel September 22 News" in the theme for the new cloud power Lenovo enterprise-class business strategy and Thinkserver GEN5 Conference, Lenovo officially released Thinkserver rack-type server new products. Thinkserver RD550 and RD650 have up to 18 cores that support up to 768GB of DDR4 memory and can achieve up to 50% bandwidth and 50% energy efficiency improvements compared to the previous generation of DDR3 memory; Standard built-in ECC memory, hot-swappable hard drive, and solid-state hard drive features, As well as redundant power and cooling functions, greatly improve system reliability.

Lenovo Enterprise-class business strategy and Thinkserver GEN5 Conference

Thinkserver Fifth generation products adopt innovative Anybay, Anyfabric and Anyraid technologies. With the help of Lenovo's anyfabric design, RD550 can provide 2U system performance and capacity under 1U model. RD550 can support many IO technology combinations, including up to four 10GB Ethernet ports and four fibre Channel ports, without having to occupy any PCIe slots, making three PCIe slots configured for other purposes. On top of that, RD550 can provide huge network bandwidth in a single 1U server.

Lenovo's Anybay design pioneered the industry, allowing for the use of multiple storage types in the same drive tray, from SAS and SATA drives to PCIe solid-state drives that can be serviced at the front (the PCIe SSD drive, which can be overhauled for the first part, will be available in November 2014). Thinkserver Anyraid adapters can also be used to provide advanced data protection and performance enhancements without the need to occupy PCIe slots.

The Thinkserver RD650 and RD550 adopt smaller drive trays, chassis, and system boards that provide customers with industry-leading storage densities and more I/O connections in standard 2U and 1U profiles. 2U Rd 650 accommodates up to 26 drive pallets and achieves up to 74.4TB (based on the 3.5-inch 6TB drive to be launched in November 2014), which is ideal for databases, data analysis clusters, and video streaming applications that require large amounts of storage. The 1U RD550 can accommodate up to 12 drive trays in the industry, An internal storage space of up to 26.4TB (based on the 3.5-inch 6TB drive to be launched in November 2014) provides the performance and capacity of a comparable 2U system in the 1U profile and is the perfect choice for line-of-business applications and compute-intensive workloads.

On this basis, Lenovo services can provide customers with the required level of protection to maintain the normal operation of the enterprise. Lenovo also offers optional upgrade services to help maximize uptime and productivity. For maximum flexibility and scalability, these two rack servers support a hybrid chassis configuration that allows for a combination of 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drives for creating a tiered storage environment.

Thinkserver Fifth generation has a whole new set of intuitive lifecycle tools. Server embedded tools for configuration and deployment, energy management, and power planning to quickly implement diskless deployments, fully remotely monitor and manage Data Center server operations, power consumption, and real-time troubleshooting, and seamlessly connect to Microsoft System Center and VMware vcenter, such as virtualization management software, optimize system management efficiency while reducing system energy consumption, fully meet the management requirements of large-scale cloud data center.

At the same time, in the press conference, Lenovo double Tower server thinkserver TD350 new product officially released. The TD350 can be configured with 32 hard drives, up to 90TB of storage space and 512GB DDR4 memory, and can be selected in 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch drive configurations. Delivers faster file transfer and IOPS performance while providing approximately three times times the memory capacity and twice times the storage capacity of the previous generation of servers.

Dual-tower Server TD350 the industry's highest 90TB storage capacity and significantly lower than the cost of a rack-like infrastructure, becoming the ideal solution for growth-oriented businesses that run Business Analytics, large databases, and collaborative applications.

When the server needs to upgrade or replacement parts, in TD350 all by the customer's own replacement parts, 95% can be achieved without tool disassembly, so that maintenance, upgrades are very easy. The user can expand to 32 hot-swappable hard drives, hardware RAID, and multiple 10GB network interface cards from 5 non-hot-swappable SATA hard drives and 2 built-in NIC interfaces.

Editorial reviews: Through Lenovo Thinkserver GEN5 Server New products we can see that the current enterprise-level market for the characteristics of the server, how to face the cloud Computing data Center environment Server design has become the focus of server manufacturers. High-density, storage Io, manageable deployments are the selling points of server vendors. Lenovo's new next-generation Thinkserver system is the evolution of Lenovo's expanding data centers. These servers are based on the Intel Xeon E5 2600 V3 processor, providing the best combination of performance and efficiency for data center solutions.