Description
ThinkSystem SR850 Rack Server Dubai
The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR850 Dubai is a high-performance, mission-critical server designed to meet the demands of enterprise environments. This versatile 4-socket server is housed in a compact, 2U rack design that combines exceptional value, flexibility, and scalability, making it ideal for businesses requiring a powerful solution with room to grow. The SR850 Dubai is engineered to deliver enhanced price-to-performance ratios, offering support for second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable Family processors. Each processor can have up to 28 cores, enabling powerful computing capabilities for even the most demanding workloads.
With its agile design, the ThinkSystem SR850 Dubai is built for seamless upgrades, allowing for efficient scaling with the addition of processors and memory. The server’s extensive memory capacity, supporting up to 48 DIMMs, enables businesses to handle large datasets and optimize performance for diverse applications. Its storage flexibility is another standout feature, with up to 16x 2.5-inch drive bays. The SR850 offers configurable AnyBay drives, which support SAS, SATA, or NVMe drives—ideal for high-speed, low-latency storage needs, particularly for demanding storage tiering applications.
Moreover, the ThinkSystem SR850 Dubai is designed with advanced reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features, ensuring uninterrupted operations. The embedded Lenovo XClarity Controller enhances systems management, providing an easy-to-use interface for administrators to monitor and manage server health and performance. For businesses looking for scalable, high-performing solutions that can grow with their needs, the SR850 is an ideal choice. With a total of up to nine PCIe slots, two of which are x16, and support for up to two M.2 drives for rapid OS boot, the ThinkSystem SR850 Dubai offers ample opportunities for further expansion while maintaining maximum performance.
Features
Perfectly balanced, optimized for growth
ThinkSystem SR850 Dubai is intelligently designed to deliver affordable scalability in a standard x86 platform. Optimized for your business needs, there are multiple customizable solutions to fit your ever-growing and changing mission-critical workload needs, giving you the confidence to run anything.
With XClarity, integration management is simple and standardized, reducing provisioning time up to 95% from manual operations. ThinkShield protects your business with each offering, from development through disposal.
The confidence to run anything
Because your business depends on your systems, you need servers built for reliability. The ThinkSystem SR850 Dubai delivers multiple layers of reliability from the processors up, so you can have the confidence that you’re running your workloads on a platform built to stay up.
With reliability and security designed into the system, SR850 builds on industry-standard technologies to deliver an economical, dependable platform for the most demanding users and applications.
Workload-optimized support
Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory delivers a new, flexible tier of memory designed specifically for data center workloads that offers an unprecedented combination of high capacity, affordability, and persistence. This technology will have a significant impact on real-world data center operations: reduction of restart times from minutes down to seconds, 1.2x virtual machine density, dramatically improved data replication with 14x lower latency and 14x higher IOPS, and greater security for persistent data built into hardware.
Technical Specifications
Form Factor/Height | 2U rack server |
Processor (max) | 2 or 4 second-generation Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable family CPUs, up to 165W |
Memory (max) | Up to 6TB in 48x slots using 128GB DIMMs; 2666MHz / 2933MHz TruDDR4 |
Expansion Slots | Up to 9x PCIe plus 1x LOM; optional 1x ML2 slot |
Internal Storage | Up to 16x 2.5″ storage bays supporting SAS/SATA HDD and SSDs or up to 8x 2.5″ NVMe SSD; plus up to 2x mirrored M.2 boot |
Network Interface | Multiple options with 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 32GbE, 40GbE or InfiniBand PCIe adapters; one (2-/4-port) 1GbE or 10GbE LOM card |
Power Supply (std/max) | 2x hot-swap/redundant: 750W/1100W/1600W AC 80 PLUS Platinum |
Security and Availability Features | Lenovo ThinkShield, TPM 1.2/2.0; PFA; hot-swap/redundant drives, fans, and PSUs; internal light path diagnostic LEDs; front-access diagnostics via dedicated USB port; diagnostic LCD panel |
RAID Support | HW RAID (up to 16 ports) with flash cache; up to 16-port HBAs |
Systems Management | XClarity Controller embedded management, XClarity Administrator centralized infrastructure delivery, XClarity Integrator plugins, and XClarity Energy Manager centralized server power management |
Operating Systems Supported | Microsoft Windows Server, RHEL, SLES, VMware vSphere. |