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What's New - March 2020

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24 Mar 2020
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Abstract

This article summarizes the new data center products that Lenovo announced in March.

Change History

Changes in the March 24 update:

Micro Datacenter Racks

This month, Lenovo announced two new industry-standard 19-inch server cabinets that are designed for rack servers that are to be deployed outside of traditional data centers. These racks are 12U and 18U high and support a wide variety of servers and other components.

Learn more about the new rack cabinets, including supported servers:

18U and 12U Micro Data Center rack offerings
Figure 1. 12U and 18U Micro Datacenter rack cabinets

New server drive options

This month we announced a new 15TB SSD drive option plus a new SED drive:

The availability of this new 15TB drive doubles the internal storage capacity of supported servers.

ThinkSystem PM1643 Capacity SAS 12Gb SSDs
Figure 2. ThinkSystem PM1643a 12Gb SAS SSDs

In addition, for the SR635 and SR655, our AMD-based servers, we added support for additional drive options. See the respective server product guides for specifics:

ThinkAgile HX updates

In March, we updated our ThinkAgile HX offerings with new processors and drive options:

  • Our 2-socket HX appliances and certified nodes now support these processors:
    • Intel Xeon Silver 4210R 10C 100W 2.4GHz Processor
    • Intel Xeon Silver 4214R 12C 100W 2.4GHz Processor
    • Intel Xeon Silver 4215R 8C 130W 3.2GHz Processor
    • Intel Xeon Gold 5218R 20C 125W 2.1GHz Processor
    • Intel Xeon Gold 5220R 24C 150W 2.2GHz Processor
    • Intel Xeon Gold 6226R 16C 150W 2.9GHz Processor
    • Intel Xeon Gold 6230R 26C 150W 2.1GHz Processor
    • Intel Xeon Gold 6238R 28C 165W 2.2GHz Processor
    • Intel Xeon Gold 6240R 24C 165W 2.4GHz Processor
    • Intel Xeon Gold 6242R 20C 205W 3.1GHz Processor
    • Intel Xeon Gold 6246R 16C 205W 3.4GHz Processor
    • Intel Xeon Gold 6248R 24C 205W 3.0GHz Processor
    • Intel Xeon Gold 6258R 28C 205W 2.7GHz Processor
  • Our HX appliances and certified nodes for SAP HANA now support these drives:
    • ThinkSystem 2.5" Intel S4610 480GB Mainstream SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD
    • ThinkSystem 2.5" Intel S4610 960GB Mainstream SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD
    • ThinkSystem 2.5" PM883 1.92TB Entry SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD
    • ThinkSystem 2.5" PM883 3.84TB Entry SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD
  • All HX appliances and certified nodes now support these M.2 drives:
    • ThinkSystem M.2 5300 240GB SATA 6Gbps Non-Hot Swap SSD
    • ThinkSystem M.2 5300 480GB SATA 6Gbps Non-Hot Swap SSD

Specifics are described in all the HX product guides:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/thinkagile/hx-series#resource_type=product-guide&sort=relevance

Related product families

Product families related to this document are the following:

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