ThinkSystem SR590 Server Product Guide

Lenovo ThinkSystem SR590 Server

Product Guide

Lenovo ThinkSystem SR590 is a 2-socket 2U rack server for small businesses up to large enterprises that need

industry-leading reliability, management, and security, as well as balancing performance and expandability. The

SR590 server is designed to handle a wide range of workloads, such as virtualization and cloud computing, IT

infrastructure, enterprise applications, collaboration/email, and web serving.

Featuring the Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family, the SR590 server offers balanced performance, storage

capacity, and I/O expansion. The SR590 server supports up to two processors, up to 1 TB of 2666 MHz

monitoring, and alerting functions.

The following figure shows the ThinkSystem SR590 models.

Figure 1. Lenovo ThinkSystem SR590: 16x SFF (left) or 12x LFF (right) drive bays

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The SR590 server features a unique AnyBay design that allows a choice of drive interface types in the same

drive bay: SAS drives, SATA drives, or U.2 NVMe PCIe drives.

The SR590 server offers onboard NVMe PCIe ports that allow direct connections to the U.2 NVMe PCIe SSDs,

which frees up I/O slots and helps lower NVMe solution acquisition costs.

The SR590 server delivers impressive compute power per watt, featuring 80 PLUS Titanium and Platinum

redundant power supplies that can deliver 96% (Titanium) or 94% (Platinum) efficiency at 50% load when

Key features

The SR590 server offers a balance of processing power, storage capacity, and cost for small and medium

businesses up to the large enterprise. Ease of use and comprehensive systems management tools help make

deployment easier. Outstanding reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) and high-efficiency design

improve your business environment and help save operational costs.

Scalability and performance

The SR590 server offers numerous features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs:

Improves productivity by offering superior system performance with the Intel Xeon Processor Scalable

Family with up to 26-core processors, up to 35.75 MB of last level cache (LLC), up to 2666 MHz

memory speeds, and up to 10.4 GT/s Ultra Path Interconnect (UPI) links.

Intel Hyper-Threading Technology boosts performance for multithreaded applications by

system vendors to better utilize the hardware for virtualization workloads.

Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX-512) enable acceleration of enterprise-class and high

performance computing (HPC) workloads.

Helps maximize system performance for data intensive applications with up to 2666 MHz memory

speeds and up to 1 TB of memory capacity.

Offers flexible and scalable internal storage in a 2U rack form factor with up to 16x 2.5-inch drives for

performance-optimized configurations or up to 14x 3.5-inch drives for capacity-optimized

configurations, providing a wide selection of SAS/SATA HDD/SSD and PCIe NVMe SSD types and

capacities.

Provides flexibility to use SAS, SATA, or NVMe PCIe drives in the same drive bays with a unique AnyBay

The SR590 server provides many features to simplify serviceability and increase system uptime:

Offers protection in the event of a non-correctable memory failure with Single Device Data Correction

(SDDC, also known as Chipkill, requires x4-based DIMMs), Adaptive Double Device Data Correction

(ADDDC, also known as Redundant Bit Steering [RBS], requires x4-based DIMMs and Intel Xeon Gold

or Platinum processors), memory mirroring, and memory rank sparing.

Provides easy access to upgrades and serviceable parts (such as processors, memory DIMMs, and

adapter cards) with tool-less cover removal.

Offers affordable data protection with software RAID and Simple Swap drives and advanced hardware

RAID data redundancy with hot-swap drives.

Provides availability for business-critical applications with redundant hot-swap power supplies and

fans, power supplies, RAID controllers, and server ambient and sub-component temperatures.

Continuously monitors system parameters, triggers alerts, and performs recovery actions in case of

failure to minimize downtime with Built-in XClarity Controller (XCC).

Provides quick access to system status, firmware, network, health, and alerts information via Virtual

Operator Panel from the XClarity Mobile App running on the Android or iOS mobile device that is

connected to the front USB port with XClarity Controller access.

Speeds up troubleshooting tasks to reduce service time with diagnostics built into the XClarity

Provisioning Manager.

Powerful systems management features simplify local and remote management of the SR590 server and

deliver enterprise-class data protection:

capabilities with Lenovo XClarity Administrator that provides comprehensive hardware management.

Provides on-the-go monitoring and management of devices in XClarity Administrator from anywhere

with the Lenovo XClarity mobile app, which can help improve efficiency and reduce downtime risks.

Centralizes infrastructure resource management with Lenovo XClarity Integrators for VMware vCenter

and Microsoft System Center, extending XClarity Administrator features to virtualization management

software tools and enabling users to deploy and manage infrastructure end-to-end.

Offers advanced cryptographic functionality (such as digital signatures and remote attestation) with an

integrated Trusted Platform Module (TPM) or optional Trusted Cryptographic Module (TCM) or Nationz

TPM (available only in China).

Keeps user data safe with Lenovo Business Vantage, a security software tool suite designed to work

Execution Technology, allowing an application to run in its own isolated space, protected from all other

software running on a system.

Energy efficiency

The SR590 server offers the following energy-efficiency features to save energy, reduce operational costs,

increase energy availability, and contribute to the green environment:

Delivers impressive compute power per watt, featuring 80 PLUS Titanium and Platinum redundant

power supplies.

Enables customers to lower energy costs with design to meet ASHRAE A4 standards in select

configurations.

Reduces power drawn with Intel Intelligent Power Capability that powers individual processor elements

Figure 2. Front view of the SR590: Up to 16x 2.5-inch drive bays

The following figure shows the front of the SR590 server with 8x 3.5-inch drive bays.

Figure 3. Front view of the SR590: 8x 3.5-inch drive bays

The following figure shows the front of the SR590 server with 12x 3.5-inch drive bays.

Figure 4. Front view of the SR590: 12x 3.5-inch drive bays

The following figure shows the rear of the SR590 server.

Figure 5. Rear view of the SR590