Lenovo ThinkServer RD550 Product Manual

Lenovo ThinkServer RD550 (E5-2600 v4)

Product Guide

The Lenovo ThinkServer RD550 is an enterprise class, dual-socket server that features Intel Xeon
processor E5-2600 v4 product family and supports up to 1.5 TB of DDR4 memory, 22 cores, and 44
threads per socket.
With the capability to support mix and match internal hard disk drive (HDD) and solid-state drive (SSD)
storage with up to 12x 2.5-inch front drive bays, up to five I/O slots with up to 140 GbE networking
capability, up to 8 hot-swap dual rotor fans, hot-swap redundant power supplies, and a dedicated Gigabit
Ethernet out-of-band management port, the ThinkServer RD550 provides leading features and capabilities
in a dense 1U rack-mount design.
The ThinkServer RD550 blends outstanding flexibility and expandability and is the ideal choice for server
consolidation/virtualization, heavy web traffic workloads, data analytics, and line-of-business applications.
The ThinkServer RD550 server is shown in the following figure.
Figure 1. Lenovo ThinkServer RD550
Did you know?
Lenovo's distinctive AnyFabric design provides a wide choice of powerful 1 Gb and 10 Gb Ethernet
adapters, 10 Gb converged network adapters (CNAs), and 8 Gb and 16 Gb Fibre Channel host bus
adapters (HBAs) to address growing network and storage connectivity bandwidth requirements without the
use of a PCIe slot.
This storage-rich server provides up to 44 TB of storage capacity and features an industry-unique Lenovo
AnyBay design that allows multiple storage types in the same drive bay. M.2 and SD card options are
available, which enable flexible boot drive choices.
The RD550 provides Lenovo AnyRAID technology, a midplane RAID adapter design that connects directly
to the drive backplane without using a PCIe slot. A comprehensive portfolio of AnyRAID controllers is
available for various applications, which include software RAID and RAID on Chip-based controllers.
The RD550 delivers impressive compute power per watt, featuring 80 PLUS Titanium and Platinum
redundant power supplies. This server is designed to meet ASHRAE A4 standards, which enable
customers to lower energy costs.
The RD550 provides outstanding memory performance by supporting two DIMMs per channel at speeds
up to 12% faster than the Intel specification, while still maintaining world-class reliability.
With an efficient cooling design, the RD550 can run continuously at 45 °C with no impact on reliability.
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