Description
ThinkSystem SR530 Ghana
The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR530 Ghana is a powerful 1U rack server designed to deliver enterprise-grade performance, security, and scalability at a competitive price point. Whether you run a small business, mid-sized company, or large enterprise, this server is engineered to meet diverse IT infrastructure needs, supporting cloud applications, virtualization, and collaborative workloads efficiently.
At its core, the ThinkSystem SR530 is powered by Intel Xeon Scalable Family (Gen 2) processors, ensuring high-speed computing with enhanced multitasking capabilities. With support for up to 768GB of 2933 MHz TruDDR4 memory, this system provides exceptional performance, reliability, and energy efficiency, making it a solid choice for businesses looking to optimize their IT operations.
Flexible Storage & Advanced Data Protection
One of the standout features of the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR530 is its customizable storage architecture, allowing businesses to scale as needed. It supports multiple configurations, including:
- Up to eight (8) 2.5-inch drive bays OR four (4) 3.5-inch drive bays
- SAS/SATA SSDs and HDDs for flexible storage options
- Software and hardware RAID support for enhanced data protection and business continuity
With these options, businesses can tailor their storage capacity based on performance needs while ensuring secure and redundant data management.
Simplified Management & Intelligent Monitoring
The Lenovo XClarity Controller (XCC) is a key highlight of the ThinkSystem SR530, offering centralized automation for monitoring, deployment, and maintenance. This intuitive management tool reduces administrative overhead, allowing IT teams to focus on critical business operations instead of routine server maintenance.
Energy-Efficient & Built for High Availability
Efficiency is a major advantage of the ThinkSystem SR530. The server is equipped with 80 PLUS Titanium and Platinum redundant power supplies, achieving up to 96% energy efficiency at half load. Additionally, it meets ASHRAE A4 thermal standards, ensuring smooth operation even at temperatures up to 45°C. This results in lower cooling costs, enhanced uptime, and long-term reliability—ideal for businesses seeking cost-effective, high-performance server solutions.
Why Choose Lenovo ThinkSystem SR530 Ghana?
If you’re looking for a reliable, flexible, and energy-efficient rack server, the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR530 is an excellent investment. Whether you’re handling virtualization, cloud workloads, or high-performance computing, this server ensures smooth business operations, future scalability, and enterprise-level security at an affordable cost.
Upgrade your IT infrastructure today with the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR530 Ghana and experience powerful computing, seamless storage management, and optimized energy efficiency like never before.
Features:
Empowering IT management
Lenovo XClarity Controller is the embedded management engine in all ThinkSystem servers that is designed to standardize, simplify, and automate foundation server management tasks. Lenovo XClarity Administrator is a virtualized application that centrally manages ThinkSystem servers, storage, and networking, which can reduce provisioning time up to 95% versus manual operation. Running XClarity Integrator helps you streamline IT management, speed provisioning, and contain costs by seamlessly integrating XClarity into an existing IT environment.
Workload optimized support
New second-generation Intel® Xeon® processor Scalable family CPUs offer increased performance of 36% over the previous generation*, support for faster 2933MHz TruDDR4 memory, and Intel’s Vector Neural Network Instruction (VNNI) which accelerates processor performance on Deep Learning and AI workloads. Up to 6% increases in per-core performance and hardware security mitigations round out the enhanced capabilities featured in this next-generation processor technology from Intel.*
Cost-efficient performance
The ThinkSystem SR530 Ghana features a balance of performance, capacity, and value in a 1U form factor. Essential performance components are delivered in a combination that is designed to elevate the cost efficiency of the system, allowing the SR530 to meet both the workload needs and the budgetary needs of the enterprise.
Essential and priced within reach
Lenovo ThinkSystem ThinkSystem SR530 Ghana Ghana is an ideal 2-socket 1U rack server for small businesses up to large enterprises that need industry-leading reliability, management, and security, as well as cost-optimized performance and flexibility for future growth. Designed to handle a wide range of workloads, such as IT infrastructure, collaboration, and entry cloud, it can be the foundation of your online business.
Flexible to grow with your business
ThinkSystem SR530 Ghana offers numerous features to increase performance and flexibility. Incorporating two Intel® Xeon® Scalable family CPUs with 43 percent more cores, faster memory, increased I/O, and more storage capacity than the previous generation*, SR530 offers a balance of performance, capacity and value. With M.2 storage support, it provides robust boot drive options, freeing up the other drive bays for additional storage capacity. SR530 supports up to three PCIe adapter slots; several choices of network options via embedded LOM, selectable LOM, ML2, and PCIe adapters for additional 1GbE/10GbE ports; and software and hardware RAID options for added configuration flexibility. In addition, features such as 80 PLUS Platinum and Titanium PSUs, continuous operation at 45°C (with limitations), and various technologies that speed upgrades and maintenance all combine to reduce your operating costs and increase uptime.
Easily managed
Lenovo XClarity Controller is an all-new hardware embedded management engine common in every ThinkSystem server. XClarity Controller features an uncluttered graphical user interface, industry standard Redfish-compliant REST APIs, and enables booting in half the time of prior generation servers, with up to 6x faster firmware updates.
Lenovo XClarity Administrator is a virtualized application that centrally manages ThinkSystem servers, storage, and networking. Via reusable patterns and policies, it ramps up and scales infrastructure provisioning and maintenance. It serves as a central integration point to extend your data center management processes to physical IT. Running XClarity Integrators in external IT applications, or integrating through REST APIs, helps you further speed services provisioning, streamline IT management, and contain costs.
Highlights
- Incorporates the latest processor, memory, storage, and networking technologies
- Enterprise-class reliability and performance in a 1U chassis, at a price every business can afford
- Shared components across the ThinkSystem portfolio for reduced parts inventory, quicker servicing, and higher availability
- Industry-leading reliability and customer satisfaction (per independent industry surveys)
- Easy-to-use XClarity enterprise-class systems management that leverages industry standards, such as RedFish
- Highly energy-efficient, with ASHRAE A2 compliance, and A4 compliance (with limitations) for up to 45°C continuous operation
Technical Specifications:
| Machine types | 7X07 – 1 year warranty 7X08 – 3 year warranty |
| Form factor | 1U rack-mount |
| Processor | Up to two Intel Xeon Gen 2 Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum processors:
1st Gen Intel Xeon processors are also supported. |
| Chipset | Intel C622 |
| Memory | Up to 12 DIMM sockets (6 DIMMs per processor; six memory channels per processor with one DIMM per channel). Support for RDIMMs and LRDIMMs. Memory types cannot be intermixed. Memory speed up to 2933 MHz depending on the processor selected. |
| Persistent memory | Not supported |
| Memory protection | Error correction code (ECC), SDDC (for x4-based memory DIMMs), ADDDC (for x4-based memory DIMMs, requires Intel Xeon Gold or Platinum processors), memory mirroring, memory rank sparing, patrol scrubbing, and demand scrubbing. |
| Memory capacity | Up to 768 GB with 12x 64 GB RDIMMs (Up to 384 GB per processor) |
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| Optical drive bays | None. Support for an external USB DVD RW Optical Disk Drive |
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| I/O expansion slots | Up to three slots depending on the riser cards installed. The slots are as follows:
PCIe x16 slot 3 requires the second processor to be installed. |
| GPUs | Not supported |
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| Cooling | Four (one processor) or six (two processors) non-hot-swap system fans with N+1 redundancy. |
| Power supply | Up to two redundant hot-swap 550 W or 750 W (100 – 240 V) High Efficiency Platinum or 750 W (200 – 240 V) High Efficiency Titanium AC power supplies. HVDC support (PRC only). |
| Video | Matrox G200 with 16 MB memory integrated into the XClarity Controller. Maximum resolution is 1920×1200 at 60 Hz with 32 bits per pixel. |
| Hot-swap parts | Drives (select models) and power supplies. |
| Systems management | XClarity Controller (XCC) Standard, Advanced, or Enterprise (Pilot 4 chip), proactive platform alerts, XClarity Provisioning Manager, XClarity Essentials, XClarity Administrator, XClarity Integrators for VMware vCenter and Microsoft System Center, XClarity Energy Manager, Capacity Planner. |
| Security features | Power-on password, administrator’s password, secure firmware updates, Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 or 2.0 (configurable UEFI setting). Optional lockable front bezel. Optional Trusted Cryptographic Module (TCM) or Nationz TPM (available only in PRC). Optional Lenovo Business Vantage security software (available only in PRC). |
| Operating systems | Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware ESXi. |
| Warranty | One-year (7X07) or three-year (7X08) customer-replaceable unit (CRU) and onsite limited warranty with 9×5 Next Business Day Parts Delivered. |
| Service and support | Optional service upgrades are available through Lenovo Services: 2-hour or 4-hour response time, 6-hour or 24-hour committed service repair, warranty extension up to 5 years, 1-year or 2-year post-warranty extensions, YourDrive Your Data, Enterprise Software Support, and Basic Hardware Installation Services. |
| Dimensions | Width: 435 mm (17.1 in.), height: 43 mm (1.7 in.), depth: 750 mm (29.5 in.). |
| Weight | Minimum configuration: 10.2 kg (22.5 lb), maximum: 16 kg (35.3 lb) |
