Lenovo ThinkSystem 7450 MAX Mixed Use NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSDs User Guide

Lenovo ThinkSystem 7450 MAX Mixed Use NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSDs

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Lenovo Mixed Used SSDs like the 7450 MAX SSDs are suitable for mixed read- write and general-purpose data center workloads, however their NVMe PCIe interface means the drives also offer high performance. Overall, these SSDs provide outstanding IOPS/watt and cost/IOPS for enterprise solutions. Self- encrypting drives (SEDs) provide benefits by encrypting data on-the-fly at the drive level with no performance impact, by providing instant secure erasure thereby making the data no longer readable, and by enabling auto-locking to secure active data if a drive is misplaced or stolen from a system while in use. These features are essential for many businesses, especially those storing customer data.

Part number information

The following table lists the part numbers and feature codes for the 7450 MAX SSDs.
Part number information

The part numbers include the following items:

• One solid-state drive
• Hot swap drives include a hot-swap tray
• Documentation flyer

Features

Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) is PCIe high performance SSD technology that provides high I/O throughput and low latency. NVMe interfaces remove SAS/SATA bottlenecks and unleash all of the capabilities of contemporary NAND flash memory. Each NVMe PCI SSD has direct PCIe x4 connection, which provides at least 2x more bandwidth and 2x less latency than SATA/SAS-based SSD solutions. NVMe drives are also optimized for heavy multi-threaded workloads by using internal parallelism and many other improvements, such as enlarged I/O queues.
The ThinkSystem 7450 MAX Mixed Use NVMe SSDs have the following features:

• NVMe SSD with PCIe 4.0 performance and a U.3 interface

• Based on the Micron 7450 MAX family of SSDs

• Compliant with Trusted Computing Group Opal 2.01 Security Subsystem Class cryptographic standard (TCG Opal 2.01 SSC)

• Multiple form factors available:

  • 2.5-inch hot-swap drive tray
  • M.2 drives

• Micron 176-layer 3D TLC NAND

• Direct PCIe 4.0 x4 connection for each NVMe drive, resulting in up to 8 GBps overall throughput.

• Advanced ECC Engine and End-to-End Data Protection

• Protect data integrity from unexpected power loss with advanced power-loss protection architecture

• Adaptive Thermal Monitoring to monitor the internal temperature of the drive with power adjustment to ensure operation within thermal limits

• Supports Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T).

• Enterprise-level security features:

  • Secure Execution Environment – dedicated security processing hardware with physical isolation

  • Asymmetric Roots of Trust – Enables authenticated revocation of root keys

  • Strong Asymmetric Key Support – Uses standard, NIST-approved algorithms with 208- bit/3072-bit RSA keys

  • RSA Delegation Key Support – Enables customers to maintain ownership of RSA keys

  • Secure Boot – Helps ensure firmware integrity on running platform

  • Key-Based Firmware Update – Validates firmware using public key-based authentication prior to firmware update

  • Key-Based Privileged Access – Protects against unauthorized privileged SSD function execution with public key-based authorization

The key metric for solid state drives is their endurance (life expectancy). SSDs have a huge, but finite, number of program/erase (P/E) cycles, which determines how long the drives can perform write operations and thus their life expectancy. Write Intensive SSDs have better endurance than Mixed Use SSDs, which in turn have better endurance than Read Intensive SSDs. SSD write endurance is typically measured by the number of program/erase cycles that the drive can incur over its lifetime, which is listed as TBW in the device specification. The TBW value that is assigned to a solid-state device is the total bytes of written data that a drive can be guaranteed to complete. Reaching this limit does not cause the drive to immediately fail; the TBW simply denotes the maximum number of writes that can be guaranteed. A solid- state device does not fail upon reaching the specified TBW, but at some point after surpassing the TBW value (and based on manufacturing variance margins), the drive reaches the end-of-life point, at which time the drive goes into read-only mode. Because of such behavior, careful planning must be done to use SSDs in the application environments to ensure that the TBW of the drive is not exceeded before the required life expectancy. For example, the 7450 MAX 1.6 TB drive has an endurance of 8,700 TB of total bytes written (TBW). This means that for full operation over five years, write workload must be limited to no more than 4,767 GB of writes per day, which is equivalent to 3.0 full drive writes per day (DWPD). For the device to last three years, the drive write workload must be limited to no more than 7,945 GB of writes per day, which is equivalent to 5.0 full drive writes per day.

The benefits of drive encryption

All ThinkSystem 7450 MAX Mixed Use NVMe SSDs support drive encryption. Self- encrypting drives (SEDs) provide benefits in three main ways:

• By encrypting data on-the-fly at the drive level with no performance impact
• By providing instant secure erasure (cryptographic erasure, thereby making the data no longer readable)
• By enabling auto-locking to secure active data if a drive is misplaced or stolen from a system while in use

The following sections describe the benefits in more details.
Automatic encryption
It is vital that a company keep its data secure. With the threat of data loss due to physical theft or improper inventory practices, it is important that the data be encrypted. However, challenges with performance, scalability, and complexity have led IT departments to push back against security policies that require the use of encryption. In addition, encryption has been viewed as risky by those unfamiliar with key management, a process for ensuring a company can always decrypt its own data. Self-encrypting drives comprehensively resolve these issues, making encryption both easy and affordable. When the self-encrypting drive is in normal use, its owner need not maintain authentication keys (otherwise known as credentials or passwords) in order to access the data on the drive. The self-encrypting drive will encrypt data being written to the drive and decrypt data being read from it, all without requiring an authentication key from the owner.
Drive retirement and disposal
When hard drives are retired and moved outside the physically protected data center into the hands of others, the data on those drives is put at significant risk. IT departments retire drives for a variety of reasons, including:

• Returning drives for warranty, repair, or expired lease agreements
• Removal and disposal of drives
• Repurposing drives for other storage duties

Nearly all drives eventually leave the data center and their owner’s control. Corporate data resides on such drives, and when most leave the data center, the data they contain is still readable. Even data that has been striped across many drives in a RAID array is vulnerable to data theft because just a typical single stripe in today’s high-capacity arrays is large enough to expose for example, hundreds of names and bank account numbers. In an effort to avoid data breaches and the ensuing customer notifications required by data privacy laws, companies use different methods to erase the data on retired drives before they leave the premises and potentially fall into the wrong hands. Current retirement practices that are designed to make data unreadable rely on significant human involvement in the process, and are thus subject to both technical and human failure.
The drawbacks of today’s drive retirement practices include the following:

• Overwriting drive data is expensive, tying up valuable system resources for days. No notification of completion is generated by the drive, and overwriting won’t cover reallocated sectors, leaving that data exposed.
• Methods that include degaussing or physically shredding a drive are expensive. It is difficult to ensure the degauss strength is optimized for the drive type, potentially leaving readable data on the drive. Physically shredding the drive is environmentally hazardous, and neither practice allows the drive to be returned for warranty or expired lease.
• Some companies have concluded the only way to securely retire drives is to keep them in their control, storing them indefinitely in warehouses. But this is not truly secure because a large volume of drives coupled with human involvement inevitably leads to some drives being lost or stolen.
• Professional disposal services is an expensive option and includes the cost of reconciling the services as well as internal reports and auditing. Transporting of the drives also has the potential of putting the data at risk.

Self-encrypting drives eliminate the need to overwrite, destroy, or store retired drives. When the drive is to be retired, it can be cryptographically erased, a process that is nearly instantaneous regardless of the capacity of the drive.
Instant secure erase
The self-encrypting drive provides instant data encryption key destruction via cryptographic erasure. When it is time to retire or repurpose the drive, the owner sends a command to the drive to perform a cryptographic erasure. Cryptographic erasure simply replaces the encryption key inside the encrypted drive, making it impossible to ever decrypt the data encrypted with the deleted key. Self-encrypting drives reduce IT operating expenses by reducing asset control challenges and disposal costs. Data security with self- encrypting drives helps ensure compliance with privacy regulations without hindering IT efficiency. So called “Safe Harbor” clauses in government regulations allow companies to not have to notify customers of occurrences of data theft if that data was encrypted and therefore unreadable. Furthermore, self-encrypting drives simplify decommissioning and preserve hardware value for returns and repurposing by:

• Eliminating the need to overwrite or destroy the drive
• Securing warranty returns and expired lease returns
• Enabling drives to be repurposed securely

Auto-locking
Insider theft or misplacement is a growing concern for businesses of all sizes; in addition, managers of branch offices and small businesses without strong physical security face greater vulnerability to external theft. Self- encrypting drives include a feature called auto-lock mode to help secure active data against theft. Using a self-encrypting drive when auto-lock mode is enabled simply requires securing the drive with an authentication key. When secured in this manner, the drive’s data encryption key is locked whenever the drive is powered down. In other words, the moment the self-encrypting drive is switched off or unplugged, it automatically locks down the drive’s data. When the self-encrypting drive is then powered back on, it requires authentication before being able to unlock its encryption key and read any data on the drive, thus protecting against misplacement and theft. While using self-encrypting drives just for the instant secure erase is an extremely efficient and effective means to help securely retire a drive, using self-encrypting drives in auto-lock mode provides even more advantages. From the moment the drive or system is removed from the data center (with or without authorization), the drive is locked. No advance thought or action is required from the data center administrator to protect the data. This helps prevent a breach should the drive be mishandled and helps secure the data against the threat of insider or outside theft.

Technical specifications

The following tables present technical specifications for the ThinkSystem 7450 MAX Mixed Use NVMe SSDs.

• 2.5-inch drives with U.3 interface
• M.2 drives

Technical specifications for U.3 drives – 2.5-inch drive form factor

70,000 TB
Endurance (drive writes per day for 5 years)| 2.9 DWPD| 3.0 DWPD| 3.0 DWPD| 3.0 DWPD| 3.0 DWPD
Data reliability (UBER)| < 1 in 1017

bits read

| < 1 in 1017

bits read

| < 1 in 1017

bits read

| < 1 in 1017

bits read

| < 1 in 1017

bits read

MTBF| 2,000,000

hours

| 2,000,000

hours

| 2,000,000

hours

| 2,000,000

hours

| 2,000,000

hours

IOPS reads (4 KB blocks)| 530,000| 800,000| 1,000,000| 1,000,000| 1,000,000
IOPS writes (4 KB blocks)| 145,000| 250,000| 390,000| 400,000| 410,000
Sequential read rate (128 KB blocks)| 6800 MBps| 6800 MBps| 6800 MBps| 6800 MBps| 6800 MBps
Sequential write rate (128 KB blocks)| 1400 MBps| 2700 MBps| 5300 MBps| 5600 MBps| 5600 MBps
Latency (random R/W)| 80 µs / 15 µs| 80 µs / 15 µs| 80 µs / 15 µs| 80 µs / 15 µs| 80 µs / 15 µs
Typical power (R/W)| 10.0 / 9.1 W| 10.1 / 14 W| 10.5 / 15 W| 12.2 / 15 W| 12.2 / 17 W

Technical specifications for M.2 drives

Server support

The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
Server support (Part 1 of 2)Server support (Part 2 of 2)

Storage controller support

NVMe PCIe SSDs require a NVMe drive backplane and some form of PCIe connection to processors. PCIe connections can take the form of either an adapter (PCIe Interposer or PCIe extender) or simply a cable that connects to  an onboard NVMe connector.
Consult the relevant server product guide for details about required components for NVMe drive support.
Operating system support
The following tables list the supported operating systems:

• ThinkSystem 2.5″ U.3 7450 MAX 1.6TB Mixed Use NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4 HS SSD, 4XB7A13967
• ThinkSystem M.2 7450 MAX 800GB Mixed Use NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4 NHS SSD (with Heatsink), 4XB7A82676

Tip: These tables are automatically generated based on data from Lenovo Server Proven.
Operating system support for ThinkSystem 2.5″ U.3 7450 MAX 1.6TB Mixed Use NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4 HS SSD, 4XB7A13967 (Part 1 of 3)

Operating systems| SD630 V2| SN550 V2| SR630 V2| SR650 V2| SR670 V2| SR850 V2| SR860 V2| ST650 V2| SR635| SR645| SR655| SR665
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---
Microsoft Windows 10| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y 19| N
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Microsoft Windows Server 2016| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Microsoft Windows Server 2019| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Microsoft Windows Server 2022| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Microsoft Windows Server version 1709| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Microsoft Windows Server version 1803| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y 1| Y 13| Y 20| Y 24
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y 2| Y 14| Y 14| Y 14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y 3| Y 3| Y 3| Y 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y 4| Y 15| Y 15| Y 15
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y 5| N| Y 21| N
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y 6| Y 16| Y 16| Y 16
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y 7| Y 17| Y 17| Y 17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0| Y| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| N| Y| N| Y| N| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y 8| N| Y 8| N
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y 9| Y 9| Y 9| Y 9
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4| Y| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| N| Y| N| Y| N| Y
Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| N| N| Y| N| N| N| N
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS| N| N| Y| Y| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS| Y| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| N| Y| N| Y| N| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.0 U3| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 U1| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 U2| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 U3| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y 10| N| Y 22| N
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 U1| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 U2| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 U3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y 11| Y 18| Y 18| Y 18
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U1| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| N| Y 12| Y| Y 23| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U2| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 8.0| Y| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| N| Y| N| Y| N| Y

1. RHEL 7.6 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors.
2. RHEL7.7 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors.
3. RHEL7.8 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors
4. RHEL7.9 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors.
5. RHEL8.0 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors.
6. RHEL8.1 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors.
7. RHEL8.2 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors.
8. SLES12 SP4 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors
9. SLES15 SP1 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors
10. VMware 6.5 U3 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors.
11. VMware 7.0 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors.
12. VMware 7.0 U1 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors.
13. RHEL7.6 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors
14. RHEL7.7 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors
15. RHEL7.9 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors
16. RHEL8.1 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors
17. RHEL8.2 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors
18. VMware 7.0 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors
19. ISG will not sell/preload this OS, but compatibility and cert only.
20. RHEL 7.6 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors
21. RHEL8.0 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors
22. VMware 6.5 U3 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors
23. VMware 7.0 U1 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors
24. RHEL7.6 Not support with EPYC 7003 processors.

Operating system support for ThinkSystem 2.5″ U.3 7450 MAX 1.6TB Mixed Use NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4 HS SSD, 4XB7A13967 (Part 2 of 3)

**** Operating systems| SD530 (Gen 2)| SN550 (Gen 2)| SN850 (Gen 2)| SR570 (Gen 2)| SR590 (Gen 2)| SR630 (Gen 2)| SR650 (Gen 2)| SR850 (Gen 2)| SR850P| SR860 (Gen 2)| SR950 (Gen 2)
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---
Microsoft Windows 10| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Microsoft Windows Server 2016| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Microsoft Windows Server 2019| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Microsoft Windows Server 2022| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Microsoft Windows Server version 1709| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Microsoft Windows Server version 1803| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| N| N
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
| | | | | | | | | | |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.0 U3| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 U1| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 U2| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 U3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 U1| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 U2| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 U3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U1| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U2| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 8.0| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N

Operating system support for ThinkSystem 2.5″ U.3 7450 MAX 1.6TB Mixed Use NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4 HS SSD, 4XB7A13967 (Part 3 of 3)

Operating systems| SD530 (Gen 1)| SN550 (Gen 1)| SN850 (Gen 1)| SR570 (Gen 1)| SR590 (Gen 1)| SR630 (Gen 1)| SR650 (Gen 1)| SR850 (Gen 1)| SR860 (Gen 1)| SR950 (Gen 1)
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---
Microsoft Windows 10| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Microsoft Windows Server 2016| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Microsoft Windows Server 2019| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Microsoft Windows Server 2022| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Microsoft Windows Server version 1709| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Microsoft Windows Server version 1803| Y| Y| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2| Y| N| Y| N| N| Y| Y| Y| N| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.0 U3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5| Y| Y| Y| N| N| Y| Y| Y| N| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 U1| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 U2| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 U3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 U1| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 U2| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 U3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U1| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U2| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 8.0| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N

Operating system support for ThinkSystem M.2 7450 MAX 800GB Mixed Use NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4 NHS SSD (with Heatsink), 4XB7A82676

Operating systems

| SE350
---|---
Microsoft Windows Server 2016| Y
Microsoft Windows Server 2019| Y
Microsoft Windows Server 2022| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 U2| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 U2| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 U3| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U1| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U2| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U3| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 8.0| Y

IBM SKLM Key Management support

To effectively manage a large deployment of SEDs in Lenovo servers, IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager (SKLM) offers a centralized key management solution. Certain Lenovo servers support Features on Demand (FoD) license upgrades that enable SKLM support. The following table lists the part numbers and feature codes to enable SKLM support in the management processor of the server.
FoD upgrades for SKLM support

Security Key Lifecycle Manager – FoD (United States, Canada, Asia Pacific, and Japan)
00D9998| A5U1| SKLM for System x/ThinkSystem w/SEDs – FoD per Install w/1Yr S&S
00D9999| AS6C| SKLM for System x/ThinkSystem w/SEDs – FoD per Install w/3Yr S&S
Security Key Lifecycle Manager – FoD (Latin America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa)
00FP648| A5U1| SKLM for System x/ThinkSystem w/SEDs – FoD per Install w/1Yr S&S
00FP649| AS6C| SKLM for System x/ThinkSystem w/SEDs – FoD per Install w/3Yr S&S

The IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager software is available from Lenovo using the ordering information listed in the following table.
IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager licenses

SW Subscription & Support 12 Months
7S0A007HWW| IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager For Raw Decimal Terabyte Storage Resource Value Unit License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months
7S0A007KWW| IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager For Raw Decimal Petabyte Storage Resource Value Unit License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months
7S0A007MWW| IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager For Usable Decimal Terabyte Storage Resource Value Unit License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months
7S0A007PWW| IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager For Usable Decimal Petabyte Storage Resource Value Unit License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months

The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
IBM SKLM Key Management support (Part 1 of 2)IBM SKLM Key Management support (Part 2 of 2)

Warranty

The 7450 MAX SSDs carry a one-year, customer-replaceable unit (CRU) limited warranty. When the SSDs are installed in a supported server, these drives assume the system’s base warranty and any warranty upgrades. Solid State Memory cells have an intrinsic, finite number of program/erase cycles that each cell can incur. As a result, each solid state device has a maximum amount of program/erase cycles to which it can be subjected. The warranty for Lenovo solid state drives (SSDs) is limited to drives that have not reached the maximum guaranteed number of program/erase cycles, as documented in the Official Published Specifications for the SSD product. A drive that reaches this limit may fail to operate according to its Specifications.

Physical specifications

The 7450 MAX SSDs have the following physical specifications:
Dimensions and weight (approximate, without the drive tray):

• Height:
  • Capacities 3.2 TB and below: 7 mm (0.3 in.)
  • Capacities 6.4 TB and above: 15 mm (0.6 in.)
• Width: 70 mm (2.8 in.)
• Depth: 100 mm (4.0 in.)
• Weight: 70 g (2.5 oz)

Operating environment

The 7450 MAX SSDs are supported in the following environment:

• Temperature:
  • Operating: 0 to 70 °C (32 to 158 °F)
  • Non-operating: -40 to 85 °C (-40 to 185 °F)
• Relative humidity, Non-operating: 5 to 95% (noncondensing)
• Maximum altitude: 3,050 m (10,000 ft)
• Shock, non-operating: 1,500 G (Max) at 0.5 ms
• Vibration, non-operating: 20 GRMS (5-3000 Hz)

Agency approvals
The 7450 MAX SSDs conform to the following regulations:

• CE (Europe): EN55032, EN55024 Class B, RoHS
• FCC: CFR Title 47, Part 15, Class B
• UL/cUL: approval to UL-60950-1, 2nd Edition, IEC 60950-1:2005 (2nd Edition); EN 60950-1 (2006) + A11:2009+ A1:2010 + A12:2011 + A2:2013
• BSMI (Taiwan): approval to CNS 13438, Class B, CNS 15663
• RCM (Australia, New Zealand): AS/NZS CISPR32 Class B
• KC RRL (Korea): approval to KN32 Class B, KN 35 Class B
• W.E.E.E.: Compliance with EU WEEE directive 2012/19/EC.
• TUV (Germany): approval to IEC60950/EN60950
• VCCI (Japan): 2015-04 Class B
• IC (Canada): ICES-003 Class B
• Morocco: EN55032, EN55024 Class B
• UkrSEPRO (Ukraine): EN55032 Class B, IEC60950/EN60950, RoHS (Resolution 2017 No. 139)
• UKCA (UK): SI 2016/1091 Class B and SI 2012/3032 RoHS

Related publications and links
For more information, see the following documents:

• Lenovo ThinkSystem storage options product web page
  https://lenovopress.com/lp0761-storage-options-for-thinksystem-servers

• Micron 7450 product page
  https://www.micron.com/products/ssd/product-lines/7450

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

• Drives

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References

• Storage Options for ThinkSystem Servers > Lenovo Press
• ThinkSystem 7450 MAX Mixed Use NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSDs Product Guide > Lenovo Press
• Drives > Lenovo Press
• Copyright and Trademark Information | Lenovo US | Lenovo US
• Welcome | ServerProven
• Micron 7450 NVMe SSD | Micron Technology

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