Description
ThinkSystem SR850 Ghana
The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR850 Ghana is a cutting-edge, mission-critical server engineered for enterprises that require unmatched scalability, reliability, and efficiency. Designed with a smart 2U rack architecture, this robust server provides seamless scalability from two to four processors, striking the perfect balance between cost-effectiveness and high-performance computing.
At the core of its capabilities, the ThinkSystem SR850 is powered by second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable Family processors, supporting up to four CPUs, each offering a maximum of 28 cores. This powerful configuration makes it an ideal choice for demanding, compute-intensive workloads, such as virtualization, enterprise databases, high-performance computing (HPC), and AI-driven applications.
Exceptional Memory & Storage Capacity for High-Speed Processing
The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR850 is built for enterprises handling large datasets and memory-intensive workloads. It supports an impressive 48 DIMM slots, allowing for high-speed memory processing that optimizes performance for critical applications. Its flexible storage options are designed to adapt to evolving business needs, featuring:
- Up to 16x 2.5-inch drive bays, accommodating SAS, SATA, and NVMe drives through Lenovo AnyBay technology for maximum storage flexibility.
- Support for multiple storage tiers, ensuring a balance of speed, reliability, and capacity for high-volume data processing.
- Mirrored M.2 drives, enabling ultra-fast OS boot-up and enhancing system resilience.
Advanced Expandability & High-Speed Connectivity
The ThinkSystem SR850 offers extensive expansion capabilities, making it a future-proof solution for enterprises requiring increased processing power and I/O bandwidth. With up to nine PCIe slots, including two x16 slots, businesses can integrate high-speed networking cards, GPUs, or additional storage controllers to meet their growing demands.
Intelligent Management & Enhanced System Reliability
Reliability is at the core of the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR850 Ghana. It features advanced Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) attributes, ensuring maximum uptime and minimal service disruptions. With Lenovo XClarity Controller, IT teams can streamline server deployment, configuration, and ongoing maintenance with an intuitive, centralized management interface.
This enterprise-grade server is tailored for data-heavy workloads, supporting industries such as finance, healthcare, cloud computing, and large-scale data analytics. Whether you’re running complex AI models, enterprise databases, or high-performance virtualization, the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR850 ensures unmatched speed, seamless scalability, and enterprise-class reliability, making it an ideal choice for modern business infrastructures in Ghana and beyond.
Features:
Perfectly balanced, optimized for growth
ThinkSystem SR850 Ghana 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 Ghana 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. |