Description
ThinkSystem SR530 Kenya
The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR530 Kenya is a high-performance 1U rack server designed to provide enterprise-level reliability, security, and scalability at an affordable price. Engineered for businesses of all sizes, this dual-socket server offers a powerful yet cost-effective solution for IT infrastructure, cloud applications, and collaborative workloads. Equipped with Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family (Gen 2), the SR530 ensures superior computing power with support for up to 768GB of 2933 MHz TruDDR4 memory, delivering enhanced performance and efficiency.
This versatile rack server supports multiple storage configurations, including up to eight 2.5-inch or four 3.5-inch drive bays, allowing users to customize their storage capacity with SAS/SATA SSDs and HDDs. For data protection and reliability, the SR530 server offers both software and hardware RAID options to ensure business continuity. The advanced Lenovo XClarity Controller simplifies system monitoring and management with centralized automation, reducing administrative workload and improving operational efficiency.
Designed for energy efficiency, the ThinkSystem SR530 Kenya server features 80 PLUS Titanium and Platinum redundant power supplies, achieving up to 96% efficiency at half load. It also meets ASHRAE A4 standards, enabling operation at temperatures up to 45°C, reducing cooling costs while maintaining high availability.
Whether you are a small business or a large enterprise, the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR530 Kenya is an optimal choice for those seeking a reliable, flexible, and energy-efficient rack server that ensures smooth business operations and future growth.
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 Kenya 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 Kenya Kenya 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 Kenya 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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| Storage controller |
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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) |
