Lenovo ThinkSystem ST250
Lenovo's mainstream single-socket tower server (machine types 7Y45/7Y46) for Intel Xeon E-2100/E-2200, Core i3 and Pentium processors, with four ECC UDIMM slots (up to 128 GB), up to 16 SFF or 8 LFF drives plus two 5.25-inch media bays, and four PCIe 3.0 slots. Aimed at small businesses, retail and branch offices; it can also be rack-mounted (5U with the kit).
Memory
- Slots
- 4 DIMM (2 channels, 2 DIMMs per channel)
- Types
- Lenovo TruDDR4 ECC UDIMM only: 8 GB (1Rx8), 16 GB (2Rx8), 32 GB (2Rx8), 2666 MHz, 1.2 V
- Speed
- 2666 MHz; all DIMMs run at 2400 MHz with Core i3 / Pentium processors
- Max
- 128 GB (4 × 32 GB) with Xeon E; 64 GB (4 × 16 GB) with Core i3 / Pentium
- Rules
- All DIMMs must be identical; with two DIMMs, put one in each channel
- Protection
- ECC
Storage
- Drive bay options
- 8 or 16 × 2.5" SAS/SATA hot-swap; 4 or 8 × 3.5" SAS/SATA hot-swap; 4 × 3.5" + 8 × 2.5" hot-swap; or 8 × 3.5" SATA simple-swap (two drive cages, 4 × 3.5" or 8 × 2.5" each)
- NVMe
- Not supported in any configuration
- Max capacity
- 122.88 TB (16 × 7.68 TB 2.5" SSD) or 160 TB (8 × 20 TB 3.5" HDD)
- Onboard controller
- Intel C246 6 Gb SATA, AHCI or Intel RSTe software RAID 0/1/10/5/50; drives connect via one Mini-SAS HD (4 ports) and four single SATA connectors
- RAID adapters
- RAID 530-8i, 540-8i, 730-8i 1GB / 2GB Flash, 930-8i 2GB, 930-16i 4GB, 940-8i 4GB, 940-16i 4GB (slots 2, 3, 4); 12- and 16-bay builds use a 16i adapter (or two 8-port adapters for field upgrades)
- HBAs
- 430-8i, 430-16i, 440-8i, 440-16i SAS/SATA 12Gb
- M.2
- 1 × M.2 SATA SSD on the system board (32 GB to 960 GB options); the M.2 mirroring / enablement kits of other ThinkSystem servers are not supported
- Media bays
- 2 × 5.25" half-height: SATA DVD-ROM or DVD-RW (up to 2; only 1 with an M.2 drive), 1 × LTO7/LTO8 SAS tape (needs a 430 HBA) or 1 × RDX USB 3.0 dock
- SATA port sharing
- SATA ports 6 and 7 are shared by drive bays 6-7, the two optical bays and the M.2 slot: with onboard SATA plus an M.2 or optical drive only 6 drives can be used
Graphics
- Onboard
- Matrox G200 (16 MB) in the XClarity Controller, max 1920×1200 at 60 Hz, 32 bpp
- GPU adapters
- 1 × NVIDIA Quadro P2200 5GB, Quadro P2000 or Quadro P620 2GB, slot 2 only; needs the 550 W hot-swap PSUs (all later withdrawn from marketing)
Expansion
- Slot 1
- PCIe 3.0 x1, full-height, half-length (x1 connector, closed)
- Slot 2
- PCIe 3.0 x16, full-height, half-length (x16 connector, closed)
- Slot 3
- PCIe 3.0 x4, full-height, half-length (x4 connector, open-ended)
- Slot 4
- PCIe 3.0 x4, full-height, half-length (x8 connector, closed)
Networking
- Onboard
- 2 × 1 GbE RJ-45 (Broadcom BCM5720); one can be shared with the XCC
- Management
- 1 × dedicated 1 GbE RJ-45 XClarity Controller port
- Adapters
- 1 GbE (Broadcom 5719/5720, Intel I350), 10 GbE SFP+ / 10GBASE-T (Emulex VFA5.2, Intel X710, X550), 25 GbE (Broadcom 57412, Intel XXV710), 16 Gb Fibre Channel (Emulex)
Power
- PSU options
- 1 × 250 W fixed (80 PLUS Platinum, CTO only) or 1-2 × 550 W hot-swap (80 PLUS Platinum, Energy Star 3.0; 240 V DC in China)
- Redundancy
- Two 550 W hot-swap PSUs form a redundant pair
- Input
- 100-127 V or 200-240 V AC auto-sensing; 550 W: 6.2 A / 3.0 A
- 250 W limits
- CPU up to 80 W, up to 4 × 3.5" or 8 × 2.5" drives, 1 media device, 1-2 adapters up to x8, no GPU
- Input kVA
- 0.16 kVA minimum, 0.722 kVA maximum
- Cooling
- 1 or 2 front fans (one per drive cage), 1 rear fan, CPU heatsink fan and PSU fans; all fixed (non-hot-swap)
Ports
- Front
- 1 × USB 3.1 Gen 1, 1 × USB 2.0 (XClarity Mobile management)
- Rear
- 2 × USB 3.1 Gen 2, 2 × USB 3.1 Gen 1, 1 × VGA, 1 × serial, 2 × 1 GbE RJ-45, 1 × XCC RJ-45
- Internal
- 1 × USB 3.0 (for the RDX dock)
Physical
- Form factor
- Tower (4U wide); 5U in a rack with the ST50/ST250 Rack Mount Kit 4M17A12785
- Dimensions
- 176 mm W × 444 mm H (with feet) × 578 mm D (6.9 × 17.5 × 22.8 in); 595 mm deep including PSU handles
- Weight
- 23.56 kg (51.94 lb) fully configured
- Environment
- ASHRAE A2 (10-35 °C); A3 (5-40 °C) with a CPU up to 80 W, up to 8 × 2.5" drives and adapters up to 10 W
- Acoustics
- Idle 3.8 bels, operating 4.0 bels (typical sound power)
Management
- BMC
- Lenovo XClarity Controller (Pilot4 XE401), Standard; Advanced (remote KVM) and Enterprise (virtual media, power capping) upgrades
- Interfaces
- IPMI 2.0 (IPMI over LAN disabled by default), SNMPv3, CIM-XML, REST / Redfish, HTML5 web UI
- Tools
- XClarity Provisioning Manager (F1), XClarity Administrator, Integrators, Essentials (OneCLI, UpdateXpress), Energy Manager
- Security
- TPM 1.2/2.0 (Nationz TPM 2.0 in China), padlock loop, Kensington slot, optional lockable front door and chassis intrusion switch; NIST SP 800-147B
Operating systems
- Windows
- Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022
- Linux
- RHEL 7.5 (E-2100 only), 7.7-7.9, 8.0 (E-2100 only), 8.1-8.9, 9.0-9.3; SLES 12 SP3 (E-2100 only), 12 SP5, 15 (E-2100 only), 15 SP1-SP5; Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- VMware
- ESXi 6.5 U2 (E-2100 only), 6.5 U3, 6.7 / 6.7 U2 (E-2100 only), 6.7 U3, 7.0 to 7.0 U3, 8.0 to 8.0 U2
Processors
- Intel Xeon E-2288G
- Intel Xeon E-2286G
- Intel Xeon E-2278G
- Intel Xeon E-2276G
- Intel Xeon E-2274G
- Intel Xeon E-2246G
- Intel Xeon E-2244G
- Intel Xeon E-2236
- Intel Xeon E-2234
- Intel Xeon E-2226G
- Intel Xeon E-2224G
- Intel Xeon E-2224
- Intel Xeon E-2186G
- Intel Xeon E-2176G
- Intel Xeon E-2174G
- Intel Xeon E-2146G
- Intel Xeon E-2144G
- Intel Xeon E-2136
- Intel Xeon E-2134
- Intel Xeon E-2126G
- Intel Xeon E-2124G
- Intel Xeon E-2124
- Intel Xeon E-2104G
- Intel Core i3-9320
- Intel Core i3-9300
- Intel Core i3-9300T
- Intel Core i3-9100
- Intel Core i3-9100T
- Intel Core i3-8350K
- Intel Core i3-8300
- Intel Core i3-8300T
- Intel Core i3-8100
- Intel Core i3-8100T
- Intel Pentium Gold G5620
- Intel Pentium Gold G5600T
- Intel Pentium Gold G5600
- Intel Pentium Gold G5500
- Intel Pentium Gold G5500T
- Intel Pentium Gold G5420
- Intel Pentium Gold G5420T
- Intel Pentium Gold G5400
- Intel Pentium Gold G5400T