Lenovo ThinkSystem SN550 V2
A standard-width Flex System compute node (blade server) for the Flex System Enterprise Chassis, supporting up to two 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake) processors for virtualization, database, and enterprise-application workloads.
Memory
- Slots
- 16 DIMM (8 per processor, 1 DIMM per channel)
- Max
- 2 TB using 16 × 128 GB 3DS RDIMM
- Type
- Lenovo TruDDR4 RDIMM/3DS RDIMM, up to 3200 MHz
- Persistent memory
- Up to 8 × Intel Optane PMem 200 Series modules (4 per processor), installed alongside system-memory DIMMs
- Protection
- ECC, SDDC (x4 DIMMs), ADDDC/RBS (x4 DIMMs, requires Gold or Platinum CPU), memory mirroring
Storage
- Bays
- 2 × 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA/NVMe, or 6 × EDSFF E1.S hot-swap NVMe (requires both processors installed)
- Controllers
- Onboard SATA (Intel VROC SATA RAID); onboard NVMe (Intel VROC NVMe RAID); optional RAID 530-4i (cacheless) or RAID 930-4i (2 GB flash-backed cache) for SAS/SATA, both RAID 0/1
- M.2
- 1–2 M.2 SATA and/or NVMe drives via M.2 RAID Enablement Kit (SATA-only, NVMe-only, or SATA/NVMe with VROC)
- Max capacity
- 61.44 TB using 2 × 30.72 TB 2.5" SAS/SATA SSD; 30.72 TB using 2 × 15.36 TB 2.5" NVMe SSD; 4.8 TB using 2 × 2.4 TB 2.5" HDD; 46.08 TB using 6 × 7.68 TB EDSFF NVMe SSD
Expansion
- I/O slots
- 2 × 216-pin high-density I/O expansion connector, each PCIe 4.0 x16 host interface
- Note
- No integrated Ethernet controller and no Fabric Connector support — a network or Fibre Channel mezzanine adapter is required in each I/O slot to reach the chassis switch bays
Networking
- 10 GbE
- Flex System CN4052S 2-port and CN4054S 4-port Virtual Fabric Adapters (standard and Advanced)
- 25 GbE
- ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx 2-port Mezz; QLogic QL45214 Flex 4-port
- 50 GbE
- QLogic QL45212 Flex 2-port; QL45262 Flex 2-port with iSCSI/FCoE
- Fibre Channel
- 16 Gb HBAs: Emulex LPm16002B-L (2-port) and LPm16004B-L (4-port) Mezz; QLogic QML2692 (2-port) Mezz
Power
- Supply
- None on the node — power is drawn from the Flex System Enterprise Chassis power supplies
- Note
- Chassis must have Artesyn (not Delta) power supplies installed for processors of 135 W TDP or higher, or the chassis will cap them at 125 W
Ports
- Front
- 1 × USB 3.0 port (via XClarity Controller); 1 × console breakout cable port (supplied breakout cable adds 1 video, 1 serial, 2 × USB 2.0); 1 × USB-enable button; power button/LED
Physical
- Dimensions
- 218 × 56 × 507 mm (8.5 × 2.2 × 20.0 in), W × H × D
- Weight
- 6.6 kg (14 lb) maximum
- Form factor
- Standard-width Flex System compute node; requires a Flex System Enterprise Chassis with CMM2 (up to 14 nodes per chassis)
Management
- Service processor
- XClarity Controller (XCC) with Pilot4 XE401 BMC, dual-core ARM Cortex A9; XCC Enterprise standard (remote KVM, remote media mount, boot capture, power capping)
- Tools
- UEFI-based Lenovo XClarity Provisioning Manager (F1 at boot); Lenovo XClarity Administrator; Lenovo XClarity Energy Manager
- Security
- TPM 2.0; Trusted Cryptographic Module (China only); Secure Boot; power-on and administrator passwords; Intel TXT; AES-NI
- Video
- Matrox G200 graphics integrated into the XClarity Controller, 16 MB memory, max 1920×1200 32bpp @ 60Hz
Operating systems
- Supported
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016/2019/2022; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9, 8.2–8.10, 9.0–9.7; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (+Xen), 15 SP2–SP7 (+Xen); Ubuntu 18.04/22.04/24.04 LTS; VMware ESXi 6.7 U3, 7.0 U2/U3, 8.0/U1/U2/U3
Processors
- Intel Xeon Silver 4309Y
- Intel Xeon Silver 4310
- Intel Xeon Silver 4314
- Intel Xeon Silver 4316
- Intel Xeon Gold 5315Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 5317
- Intel Xeon Gold 5318N
- Intel Xeon Gold 5318Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 5320
- Intel Xeon Gold 6326
- Intel Xeon Gold 6330
- Intel Xeon Gold 6330N
- Intel Xeon Gold 6334
- Intel Xeon Gold 6336Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 6338
- Intel Xeon Gold 6338N
- Intel Xeon Gold 6342
- Intel Xeon Gold 6346
- Intel Xeon Gold 6354
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8352M
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8352V
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8352Y