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Abstract
Here's what we announced in the month of August.
Change History
Changes in the August 27, 2024 update:
- New SSDs and HDDs have been announced for ThinkSystem and ThinkEdge servers - New drive options for servers section
- New 25Gb transceiver for DM and DG storage
- New 5-year license of NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise - NVIDIA Omniverse section
ThinkSystem SR780a V3
The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR780a V3 is a powerful water-cooled 5U server that features two 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and eight high-performance GPUs. This server is the ultimate Generative AI server, with advanced GPU-to-GPU communications and high-speed PCIe 5.0 connectivity between the GPUs, CPUs, and networking. It was designed fully in-house by Lenovo from ground up to provide best-in-class modularity, thermal performance and reliability.
The SR780a V3 is now configurable and orderable in the DCSC configurator.
Figure 1. Lenovo ThinkSystem SR780a V3
For more information see the following Lenovo Press resources:
- Datasheet, ThinkSystem SR780a V3
- Product Guide, ThinkSystem SR780a V3
- Article, New 8-GPU AI Servers from Lenovo
ONTAP 9.15
Our ThinkSystem DM Series and DG Series storage systems now support ONTAP 9.15. Here's what's new with ONTAP 9.15:
- SnapMirror Active Sync – GA release
- Encrypted NVLOG mirroring on DM7100F
- All MCC data is now encrypted
- Autonomous Ransomware Protection – Increased accuracy.
- Expansion of Multi Admin Verify commands
- NFS v3 over RDMA Support
- FlexCache Writeback – GA
- Reduced the number of reboots during ONTAP upgrades
- TLS 1.3 support for Cluster Peering Encryption
- Completes TLS journey
- FlexClone volumes will have unique encryption key (different from host FlexVol)
For information about the storage systems, see the following links:
New transceiver for DM and DG storage
We've announced a new 25Gb transceiver for DM and DG storage systems:
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Lenovo 25G SR SFP28 Amphenol Ethernet Transceiver, 4TC7A94751
The transceiver is supported on these systems:
- ThinkSystem DG5000
- ThinkSystem DG7000
- ThinkSystem DM3010H
- ThinkSystem DM5100F
- ThinkSystem DM7100F
- ThinkSystem DM7100H
New drive options for servers
The following new SSDs and HDDs have been announced:
- ThinkSystem PM7 Mixed Use SAS drive family, available in the 2.5" form factor in 1.6TB and 3.2TB capacities. For details, including server support, see the PM7 product guide.
- ThinkSystem PM9D3a Read Intensive NVMe drive family, available in E3.S and 2.5" form factors up to 15.26TB. For details, including server support, see the PM9D3a product guide.
- New v2 versions of the ThinkSystem 12TB, 16TB, and 20TB SAS and SATA HDDs in a 3.5" form factor. See the ThinkSystem HDD Reference for server support.
- We've also expanded the support of existing drive families to additional servers. See these product guides for server support:
All server product guides have also been updated with the new drive support.
Other server options
This month we announced the following server options for ThinkSystem and ThinkEdge servers:
- Support for Intel Xeon Platinum 8593Q 64C 385W 2.2GHz processor for these servers:
- New 128GB RDIMM for these servers:
- Support for the 3.84TB 7450 PRO Read Intensive NVMe M.2 drive for this server:
- Support for Broadcom 57504 25GbE 4-port OCP and PCIe adapters for these servers:
- Support for the ThinkSystem M.2 RAID B540i-2i SATA/NVMe Adapter in this server:
- New Security bezel for the following server:
- New option part number for Security and Standard front bezels for the following server:
- New option part number for field replacements (customer spare parts) of the CR2032 coin battery for the ThinkEdge servers
GPUs in July
In case you missed it, at the end of July we announced the following GPU support:
- New NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada 24GB PCIe Active GPU, supported on these servers:
- Added server support for the Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU, supported on this server:
- Added server support for the NVIDIA L4 24GB PCIe Gen4 Passive GPU, supported on this server:
- Added server support for the NVIDIA H100 NVL 94GB PCIe Gen5 Passive GPU, supported on these servers:
- Added server support for the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB PCIe Active GPU, supported on these servers:
Figure 3. ThinkSystem NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada 24GB PCIe Active GPU
NVIDIA Omniverse
Subscription licenses of 5 years are now available for NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise:
- NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise Subscription per GPU, 5 Year, 7S020044WW
- NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise Subscription per GPU EDU, 5 Year, 7S020045WW
See the ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile GPU Summary for details.
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Full Change History
Changes in the August 27, 2024 update:
- New SSDs and HDDs have been announced for ThinkSystem and ThinkEdge servers - New drive options for servers section
- New 25Gb transceiver for DM and DG storage
- New 5-year license of NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise - NVIDIA Omniverse section
Changes in the August 20, 2024 update:
- The ST650 V3 now supports the ThinkSystem M.2 RAID B540i-2i SATA/NVMe Adapter - Other server options section
- DM Series and DG Series storage now supports ONTAP 9.15
Changes in the August 13, 2024 update:
- The ThinkSystem SR780a V3 is now orderable
First published: August 7, 2024
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