Lenovo What’s New January 2019 User Guide

: June 12, 2024
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What’s New January 2019
ThinkSystem SR670 – New Options
ThinkSystem KVM Switch product guides
Notices
Trademarks
References
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What’s New January 2019

ThinkSystem SR650 – NVMe-rich configurations
The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 is a mainstream 2U 2-socket server with industry- leading reliability, management, and security features, and is designed to handle a wide range of workloads.

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Previously, the server supported up to 12 NVMe drives, however, this month, we announced new configurations with more NVMe drives:

16 NVMe drives + 8 SAS/SATA drives
20 NVMe drives
24 NVMe drives

Learn more about these configurations:

Paper, NVMe-Rich Configurations of the ThinkSystem SR650 https://lenovopress.com/LP0904
14-minute walkthrough video https://lenovopress.com/LP0905
SR650 Product Guide https://lenovopress.com/lp0644-lenovo-thinksystem-sr650-server

ThinkSystem SR670 – New Options

The SR670 is a 2-socket GPU-rich server supporting four double-wide high- performance GPUs. In January, Lenovo added support for SAS drive controllers, SAS drives, an additional GPU and support for Omni Path Architecture.

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New options we announced this month:

New support for an additional processor
o Intel Xeon Gold 6148 20C 150W 2.4GHz Processor
New support for Omni Path Architecture
o Intel OPA 100 Series Single-port PCIe 3.0 x16 HFA, 00WE027
New support for internal SAS HBAs and RAID controllers
o ThinkSystem SR670 RAID 930-8i 2GB Flash, 4Y37A16227
o ThinkSystem SR670 RAID 530-8i PCIe Adapter, 4Y37A16225
o ThinkSystem SR670 RAID 730-8i 1GB Cache Adapter, 4Y37A16226
o ThinkSystem SR670 430-8i SAS/SATA HBA, 4Y37A16228
New support for an external SAS HBA
o ThinkSystem 430-8e SAS/SATA 12Gb HBA, 7Y37A01090
New support for SAS HDDs and SSDs
o ThinkSystem 2.5″ 300GB 10K SAS 12Gb Not Swap 512n HDD, 7XB7A00024
o ThinkSystem 2.5″ 600GB 10K SAS 12Gb Not Swap 512n HDD, 7XB7A00025
o ThinkSystem 2.5″ 1.2TB 10K SAS 12Gb Not Swap 512n HDD, 7XB7A00027
o ThinkSystem 2.5″ HUSMM32 400GB Performance SAS 12Gb Hot Swap SSD, 7N47A00124
o ThinkSystem 2.5″ PM1645 800GB Mainstream SAS 12Gb Hot Swap SSD, 4XB7A13653
o ThinkSystem 2.5″ PM1645 1.6TB Mainstream SAS 12Gb Hot Swap SSD, 4XB7A13654
New support for GPUs
o ThinkSystem SR670 AMD

Radeon Instinct MI25 16Gb PCIe Passive GPU, 4C57A16224 Read about the new options in the SR670 product guide: https://lenovopress.com/p0923 -thlriksystem-sr670-server

ThinkSystem KVM Switch product guides

Although not new to Lenovo (they were announced July 2018), the ThinkSystem KVM console switches now have product guides to describe the products.
ThinkSystem Digital 2x1x16 KVM Switch Product Guide
https://lenovopress.com/lp1058-thinksystem-digital-2x1x16-kvm-switch
ThinkSystem Analog 1×8 KVM Switch Product Guide
https://lenovopress.com/lp1057-thinksystem-analog-1×8-kvm- switch

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Related product families
Product families related to this document are the following:

ThinkSystem SR670 Server
ThinkSystem SR650 Server

Notices

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