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This bundle includes:
x1 Lenovo ThinkSystem ST550 Intel Xeon Silver 4208 2.1 GHz 8C 1P 32GB 9350-8i DDR4-SDRAM 750W Gigabit Ethernet Rack-Mountable Tower Server
x2 Micron 5400 PRO - SSD - Read Intensive - encrypted - 480 GB - hot-swap - 2.5" - SATA 6Gb/s - 256-bit AES - Self-Encrypting Drive (SED), TCG Opal Encryption - for ThinkEdge SE450 7D
Lenovo ThinkSystem ST550 Intel Xeon Silver 4208 2.1 GHz 8C 1P 32GB 9350-8i DDR4-SDRAM 750W Gigabit Ethernet Rack-Mountable Tower Server
The Lenovo ThinkSystem ST550 2-socket 4U rack-mountable tower server provides outstanding performance and industry-leading reliability. Now available with second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, the ST550 is ideal for small-to-medium businesses, distributed enterprises, retail, educational institutions and branch offices.
This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the ThinkSystem ST550 server, its key features and specifications, components and options, and configuration guidelines. This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about the ST550 and consider its use in IT solutions.
PROCESSOR
- Manufacturer: Intel
- Processor family: Intel Xeon Silver
- Model: 4208
- Frequency: 2.1 GHz
- Boost frequency: 3.2 GHz
- Processor cache: 11 MB
- Motherboard chipset: Intel C624
- Number of processors installed: 1
MEMORY
- Internal memory: 32 GB
- Internal memory type: DDR4-SDRAM
- Memory layout (slots x size): 1 x 32 GB
- Memory clock speed: 2933 MHz
- Memory slots:12x DIMM
- ECC: Yes
STORAGE
- RAID support: Yes
- RAID levels: 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
- Supported RAID controllers: 9350-8i
- Internal drive bays: 8
GRAPHICS
- On-board graphics card: Yes
- On-board graphics card model: Matrox G200
- Maximum graphics card memory: 16 MB
NETWORK
- Cabling technology: 10/100/1000Base-T(X)
- Ethernet LAN: Yes
PORTS & INTERFACES
- USB 2.0 ports quantity: 5
- USB 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1)
- Type-A ports quantity :3
- VGA (D-Sub) ports quantity: 1
DESIGN
- Chassis type: Tower (4U)
- Product colour: Black
- Redundant fans support : Yes
PERFORMANCE
- Performance management: XClarity Enterprise
- Trusted Platform Module (TPM): Yes
SOFTWARE
- Compatible operating systems : Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware ESXi
POWER
- Redundant power supply (RPS) support: Yes
- Power supply: 750 W
WEIGHT & DIMENSIONS
- Width: 176 mm
- Height: 438 mm
- Depth: 660 mm
- Weight: 36 kg
Micron 5400 PRO - SSD - Read Intensive - encrypted - 480 GB - hot-swap - 2.5" - SATA 6Gb/s - 256-bit AES - Self-Encrypting Drive (SED), TCG Opal Encryption - for ThinkEdge SE450 7D
Automatic encryption
It is vital that a company keep its data secure. With the threat of data loss due to physical theft or improper inventory practices, it is important that the data be encrypted. However, challenges with performance, scalability, and complexity have led IT departments to push back against security policies that require the use of encryption. In addition, encryption has been viewed as risky by those unfamiliar with key management, a process for ensuring a company can always decrypt its own data. Self-encrypting drives comprehensively resolve these issues, making encryption both easy and affordable.
When the self-encrypting drive is in normal use, its owner need not maintain authentication keys (otherwise known as credentials or passwords) in order to access the data on the drive. The self-encrypting drive will encrypt data being written to the drive and decrypt data being read from it, all without requiring an authentication key from the owner.
Instant secure erase
The self-encrypting drive provides instant data encryption key destruction via cryptographic erasure. When it is time to retire or repurpose the drive, the owner sends a command to the drive to perform a cryptographic erasure. Cryptographic erasure simply replaces the encryption key inside the encrypted drive, making it impossible to ever decrypt the data encrypted with the deleted key.
Self-encrypting drives reduce IT operating expenses by reducing asset control challenges and disposal costs. Data security with self-encrypting drives helps ensure compliance with privacy regulations without hindering IT efficiency. So called "Safe Harbor" clauses in government regulations allow companies to not have to notify customers of occurrences of data theft if that data was encrypted and therefore unreadable.
Auto-locking
Insider theft or misplacement is a growing concern for businesses of all sizes; in addition, managers of branch offices and small businesses without strong physical security face greater vulnerability to external theft. Self-encrypting drives include a feature called auto-lock mode to help secure active data against theft.
Using a self-encrypting drive when auto-lock mode is enabled simply requires securing the drive with an authentication key. When secured in this manner, the drive’s data encryption key is locked whenever the drive is powered down. In other words, the moment the self-encrypting drive is switched off or unplugged, it automatically locks down the drive’s data.
When the self-encrypting drive is then powered back on, it requires authentication before being able to unlock its encryption key and read any data on the drive, thus protecting against misplacement and theft.
While using self-encrypting drives just for the instant secure erase is an extremely efficient and effective means to help securely retire a drive, using self-encrypting drives in auto-lock mode provides even more advantages. From the moment the drive or system is removed from the data center (with or without authorization), the drive is locked. No advance thought or action is required from the data center administrator to protect the data. This helps prevent a breach should the drive be mishandled and helps secure the data against the threat of insider or outside theft.
Key Features
- Compliant with the Trusted Computing Group Enterprise Security Subsystem Class cryptographic standard (TCG Enterprise SSC)
- Supports the SafeStore self-encrypting drive (SED) functionality of ThinkSystem RAID adapters
- New generation 176-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory
- Suitable for read-intensive workloads with an endurance of up to 1.5 full drive writes per day (DWPD) for 5 years
- 6 Gbps SATA host interface
- High reliability and enhanced ruggedness
- Absence of moving parts to reduce potential failure points in the server
- S.M.A.R.T. support
- Advanced Encrypting Standard (AES) 256-bit encryption
- Supports Sanitize Cryptographic Erase
