Lenovo RD550 70CX000DEA Leaflet

 

 

The performance and capacity of a 2U system  
in a 1U form factor

EXTREMELY VERSATILE 
STORAGE

Innovation is built in to the new 
Lenovo® ThinkServer® RD550.  
A cleverly engineered design 
allows more storage density and 
I/O connectivity than ever before 
— giving you the performance 
and capacity of a 2U system in 
a 1U form factor. By creating 
smaller drive trays and a slightly 
larger chassis within the same 1U 
space, the RD550 offers a total 
of up to 12 bays, which can be 
used for data storage or better 
performance. Two additional 
enterprise-class M.2 solid-state 
drives (SSDs) are available as an 
option for secure booting as well 
as SD card options for hypervisor 
booting.

Industry-unique Lenovo AnyBay 
design allows multiple storage 
types in the same drive bay, 
including front-accessible PCIe 
SSD for ultimate performance. 

HIGHLY FLEXIBLE I/O

In the past, 1U servers were 
constrained by their size and 
did not have as many I/O 
slots as larger servers. With 
the new RD550, networking 
configurations that traditionally 
required a larger server can 
now fit into a 1U form factor.

Leveraging the unique Lenovo 
AnyFabric design, the RD550 
can house up to eight 10 Gb 
Ethernet ports — without taking 
up any of the available PCIe 
slots. If you include network 
adapters in the available slots, 
the RD550 can support an 
incredible amount of network 
bandwidth in a single 1U server. 
There’s even an option for four 
10 Gb Ethernet ports with two 
16 Gb Fibre Channel ports at the 
same time — without using any 
of the PCIe slots — an industry 
first.

Data center cooling costs can 
be greater than the cost of 
powering the IT equipment itself. 
One way to reduce these cooling 
costs is by operating the data 
center at a higher temperature. 
With a dynamic environmental 
design, the RD550 can run at 
45 degrees Celsius continuously 
— with no impact on reliability. 
In fact, the system has been 
carefully architected and tested 
to support long-term reliability. 

The RD550 is also perfect 
for organizations that install 
servers in less strictly controlled 
environments. 

Other high-reliability features 
include ECC memory, hot-swap 
hard-disk drive and SSD 
capability, and hot-swap and 
redundant power and cooling.

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EXTRA-RELIABLE 
PERFORMANCE