Blade Servers

Innovative design with flexibility, performance and outstanding uptime Optimised for cost and performance, supports business-critical applications and cloud deployments Excellent RAS and outstanding uptime for an improved business environment Easy to deploy, integrate, service and manage Comprehensive systems management tools help increase uptime, reduce costs and improve productivity with advanced server management capabilities Support for GPUs, high-IOPS SSDs and 10 GbE for different types of workloads

Allows you to do more now in the data centre you own through outstanding performance, flexible networking and simple management Integrated tools such as IBM Systems Director Active Energy Managerâ„¢ and Blue Path Cooling blade design deliver outstanding power management Optional embedded hypervisor enables instant virtualisation IBM Integrated Management Module provides around-the-clock remote management capabilities Unified Extensible Firmware Interface delivers improved interface for more efficient boot of operating systems Predictive Failure Analysis and light path diagnostics help maximise availability by detecting component failure before the failure occurs

Form Factor: Standard width blade for Flex System Chassis Processor: Up to 2 second-generation Intel Xeon Processor Scalable family up to 165W Memory: Up to 3TB in 24x slots, using 128GB DIMMs; 2666MHz / 2933MHz TruDDR4; supports Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Expansion Slots: Up to 2x PCIe x16 mezzanine adapters Internal Storage: Up to 2x 2.5 bays supporting SAS/SATA HDDs/SSDs, or NVMe/U.2 SSDs; plus 1x or 2x (mirrored) M.2 (SATA) fixed boot drives (optional RAID 1) Network Interface: 4x 10GbE LOM with fabric connector; or 2x 10GbE, 4x 10GbE, converged network mezzanine adapters, or 4x 25GbE or 2x 50GbE network mezzanine adapters Power Supply: Contained in the chassis Security and Availability Features: Lenovo ThinkShield, hot-swap 2.5" SAS/SATA/U.2 drives; operating temperature up to 40°C (with limitations) RAID Support: SW RAID standard. (6Gbps SATA); optional HW basic RAID (12Gbps SAS/SATA); optional HW advanced RAID (12Gbps SAS/SATA 2GB flash-backed cache) Systems Management: XClarity Controller, XClarity Administrator, XClarity Integrator plugins, and XClarity Energy Manager OSes Supported: Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat, SUSE, VMware vSphere. Visit lenovopress.com/osig for details. Limited Warranty: 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite service, next business day 9x5; optional service upgrades

Lenovo blade server Double-wide blade for Flex System Enterprise Chassis 2x or 4x Intel Xeon Platinum processors up to 165W Up to 4x PCIe x16 mezzanine adapters 4x 10GbE LOM with fabric connector Contained in the chassis 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite service