Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 Server

The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 is a versatile GPU-rich 3U rack server that supports eight double-wide GPUs including the new NVIDIA H100 and L40S Tensor Core GPUs, or the NVIDIA HGX H100 4-GPU offering with NVLink and Lenovo Neptune hybrid liquid-to-air cooling. The server is based on the new AMD EPYC 9004 Series processors (formerly codenamed "Genoa", “Genoa-X” and “Bergamo”).

The server delivers optimal performance for Artificial Intelligence (AI), High Performance Computing (HPC) and graphical workloads across an array of industries. Retail, manufacturing, financial services and healthcare industries can leverage the processing power of the GPUs in the SR675 V3 to extract greater insights and drive innovation utilizing machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL).

Figure 1. Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 configured to support eight double-wide GPUs

Traditional air-cooling methods are reaching critical limits. Increases in component power especially on CPU and GPU have resulted in higher energy and infrastructure costs, extremely loud systems and heightened carbon footprints. To combat these challenges and dissipate heat quickly, the SR675 V3 employs Lenovo Neptune liquid-to-air (L2A) hybrid cooling technology. The heat of the NVIDIA HGX H100 GPUs is removed through a unique closed loop liquid-to-air heat exchanger that delivers the benefits of liquid cooling such as higher density, lower power consumption, quiet operation and higher performance without adding plumbing.

The SR675 V3 features a modular design for ultimate flexibility. Multiple configurations are supported, including:

• One or two 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ Processors
• Up to eight double-wide GPUs with NVLink bridges
• NVIDIA HGX H100 4-GPU with NVLink and Lenovo Neptune hybrid liquid cooling
• AMD Instinct™ MI Series Accelerators
• Choice of front or rear high-speed networking
• Choice of local high speed NVMe storage

There are three different base configurations of the SR675 V3 as shown in the following figure. The configurations determine the type and quantity of GPUs supported as well as the supported drive bays.

The SR675 V3 is built on up to two AMD EPYC 9004 Series processors and is designed to support the vast NVIDIA Hooper and Ampere datacenter portfolio and AMD Instinct™ MI Series Accelerators. The SR675 V3 delivers performance optimized for your workload, be it visualization, rendering or computationally intensive HPC and AI.

Availability and serviceability

The SR675 V3 provides many features to simplify serviceability and increase system uptime:

• Designed to run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• The server offers hot-swap drives, supporting RAID redundancy for data protection and greater system uptime.
• Available M.2 RAID Boot Adapters support RAID-1 which can enable two NVMe M.2 drives to be configured as a redundant pair.
• The server has four hot-swap power supplies and five simple-swap redundant fans to provide availability for business-critical applications. N+N, N+0 (non-redundant), N+1 configurations available.
• The Liquid Assisted Cooling Module on the configuration with SXM5 GPUs employs four redundant low-pressure pumps to circulate the liquid to cool the GPUs.
• The light path diagnostics feature uses LEDs to lead the technician to failed (or failing) components, which simplifies servicing, speeds up problem resolution, and helps improve system availability.
• Solid-state drives (SSDs) offer more reliability and performance than traditional mechanical HDDs for greater uptime.
• Proactive Platform Alerts (including PFA and SMART alerts): Processors, voltage regulators, memory, internal storage (SAS/SATA SSDs, NVMe SSDs, M.2 storage, flash storage adapters), fans, power supplies, RAID controllers, server ambient and subcomponent temperatures. Alerts can be surfaced through the XClarity Controller to managers such as Lenovo XClarity Administrator, VMware vCenter, and Microsoft System Center. These proactive alerts let you take appropriate actions in advance of possible failure, thereby increasing server uptime and application availability.
• The built-in XClarity Controller continuously monitors system parameters, triggers alerts, and performs recovery actions in case of failures to minimize downtime.
• Built-in diagnostics in UEFI, using Lenovo XClarity Provisioning Manager, speed up troubleshooting tasks to reduce service time.
• Lenovo XClarity Provisioning Manager supports diagnostics and can save service data to a USB key drive or remote CIFS share folder for troubleshooting and reduce service time.
• Auto restart in the event of a momentary loss of AC power (based on power policy setting in the XClarity Controller service processor)
• Offers a diagnostics port on the front of the server to allow you to attach an external diagnostics handset for enhanced systems management capabilities.
• Support for the XClarity Administrator Mobile app running on a supported smartphone or tablet and connected to the server through the service-enabled USB port, enables additional local systems management functions.
• Three-year or one-year customer-replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty (varies by geography), 9 x 5 next business day. Optional service upgrades are available.

• Lenovo XClarity Administrator offers comprehensive hardware management tools that help to increase uptime, reduce costs and improve productivity through advanced server management capabilities.
• UEFI-based Lenovo XClarity Provisioning Manager, accessible from F1 during boot, provides system inventory information, graphical UEFI Setup, platform update function, RAID Setup wizard, operating system installation function, and diagnostic functions.
• Support for Lenovo XClarity Energy Manager, which captures real-time power and temperature data from the server and provides automated controls to lower energy costs.
• Lenovo HPC & AI Software Stack provides our HPC customers you with a fully tested and supported open-source software stack to enable your administrators and users with for the most effective and environmentally sustainable consumption of Lenovo supercomputing capabilities.
• Our Confluent management system and Lenovo Intelligent Computing Orchestration (LiCO) web portal provides an interface designed to abstract the users from the complexity of HPC cluster orchestration and AI workloads management, making open-source HPC software consumable for every customer.
• An integrated industry-standard Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) enables improved setup, configuration, and updates, and simplifies error handling.
• Support for industry standard management protocols, IPMI 2.0, SNMP 3.0, Redfish REST API, serial console via IPMI.
• An integrated hardware Trusted Platform Module (TPM) supporting TPM 2.0 enables advanced cryptographic functionality, such as digital signatures and remote attestation.
• Administrator and power-on passwords help protect from unauthorized access to the server.
• Supports Secure Boot to ensure only a digitally signed operating system can be used. Supported with SSDs, as well as M.2 drives.
• Industry-standard Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) NI support for faster, stronger encryption.
• An included chassis intrusion switch provides an additional physical security feature.

Energy efficiency

The SR675 V3 offers the following energy-efficiency features to save energy, reduce operational costs, and increase energy availability:

• Energy-efficient system board components help lower operational costs.
• High-efficiency power supplies with 80 PLUS Titanium or Platinum certification.
• Solid-state drives (SSDs) consume as much as 80% less power than traditional spinning 2.5-inch HDDs.
• Optional Lenovo XClarity Energy Manager provides advanced data center power notification, analysis, and policy-based management to help achieve lower heat output and reduced cooling needs.

The following figure shows the architectural block diagram of the SR675 V3, showing the major components and their connections.

Figure 9. SR675 V3 system architectural block diagram

The following table lists the standard specifications.

ThinkSystem SR675 V3 models can be configured by using the Lenovo Data Center Solution Configurator (DCSC).

Configure-to-order (CTO) models are used to create models with factory-integrated server customizations. For CTO models, two types of base CTO models are available for the SR675 V3 as listed in the columns in the following table:

• General purpose base CTO models are for general business (non-HPC) and is selectable by choosing General Purpose mode in DCSC.
• AI and HPC base models are intended for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High Performance Computing (HPC) configurations and solutions are enabled using the AI & HPC Hardware - ThinkSystem Hardware mode in DCSC. These configurations, along with Lenovo EveryScale Solutions, can also be built using System x and Cluster Solutions Configurator (x-config). Tip: Some HPC and AI models are not listed in DCSC and can only be configured in x-config.

Preconfigured server models may also be available for the SR675 V3, however these are region-specific; that is, each region may define their own server models, and not all server models are available in every region.

The following table lists the base CTO models of the ThinkSystem SR675 V3 server.

Models of the SR675 V3 are defined based on the type of GPUs installed in the front portion of the server. For models, the feature codes for these chassis bases are as listed in the following table.

Preconfigured models

The following tables list the available models, grouped by region.

• Models for Mexico

Refer to the Specifications section for information about standard features of the server.

The SR675 V3 supports specific combinations of GPUs, riser cards and internal storage, as listed in the following table.

Additional combinations may be supported via the Special Bid process. Contact your Lenovo representative for more information. The following tables list supported configurations.

The SR675 V3 supports processors in the fourth-generation AMD EPYC family. The server supports up to two processors. Configurations with a single processor are supported.

Topics in this section:

• Processor options
• Processor features
• UEFI operating modes

The figure shows the SR675 V3 on a Two Socket Platform.

Figure 10. AMD Genoa DDR5 Processor on Two Socket Platform

The following table lists the feature codes that allow you to specify the mode you wish to preset in the factory for CTO orders.

The preset modes for the SR675 V3 are as follows:

• Maximum Efficiency Mode (feature BFYA): Maximizes performance/watt efficiency while maintaining reasonable performance
• Maximum Performance Mode (feature BFYB): Achieves maximum performance but with higher power consumption and lower energy efficiency.

For details about these preset modes, and all other performance and power efficiency UEFI settings offered in the SR675 V3, see the paper "Tuning UEFI Settings for Performance and Energy Efficiency on AMD Processor-Based ThinkSystem Servers", available from https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/lp1267.

The SR675 V3 uses Lenovo TruDDR5 memory operating at up to 4800 MHz. The server supports up to 24 DIMMs with 2 processors. The processors have 12 memory channels and support 1 DIMM per channel. The server supports up to 3TB of memory using 24x 128GB 3DS RDIMMs and two processors.

The following table lists the memory options that are available for the server.

Lenovo TruDDR5 memory uses the highest quality components that are sourced from Tier 1 DRAM suppliers and only memory that meets the strict requirements of Lenovo is selected. It is compatibility tested and tuned to maximize performance and reliability. From a service and support standpoint, Lenovo TruDDR5 memory automatically assumes the system warranty, and Lenovo provides service and support worldwide.

9x4 RDIMMs (also known as Optimized or EC4 RDIMMs) are a new lower-cost DDR5 memory option supported in ThinkSystem V3 servers. 9x4 DIMMs offer the same performance as standard RDIMMs (known as 10x4 or EC8 modules), however they support lower fault-tolerance characteristics. Standard RDIMMs and 3DS RDIMMs support two 40-bit subchannels (that is, a total of 80 bits), whereas 9x4 RDIMMs support two 36-bit subchannels (a total of 72 bits). The extra bits in the subchannels allow standard RDIMMs and 3DS RDIMMs to support Single Device Data Correction (SDDC), however 9x4 RDIMMs do not support SDDC. Note, however, that all DDR5 DIMMs, including 9x4 RDIMMs, support Bounded Fault correction, which enables the server to correct most common types of DRAM failures.

For more information on DDR5 memory, see the Lenovo Press paper, Introduction to DDR5 Memory, available from https://lenovopress.com/lp1618.

The following rules apply when selecting the memory configuration:

• The SR675 V3 supports quantities 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 DIMMs per processor; other quantities not supported
• The server supports four types of DIMMs: 9x4 RDIMMs, 10x4 RDIMMs, x8 RDIMMs and 3DS RDIMMs; UDIMMs and LRDIMMs are not supported
• All memory DIMMs must be identical part numbers
• SXM5 configurations with the NVIDIA HGX H100 80GB 700W 4-GPU Board (feature BQQV) have minimum memory requirements. For SXM5 configurations, the following rules apply:
  • With 1 CPU installed, only the following memory configurations are supported:
    • 10x or 12x 64GB RDIMMs (feature BQ36 or BQ3D)
    • 8x, 10x, or 12x 96GB 3DS RDIMMs (feature BUVV)
    • 8x, 10x, or 12x 128GB 3DS RDIMMs (feature BQ3A)
  • With 2 CPUs installed, only the following memory configurations are supported:
    • 16x, 20x, or 24x 32GB DIMMs (feature BQ37)
    • 16x, 20x, or 24x 64GB DIMMs (feature BQ36 or BQ3D)
    • 16x, 20x, or 24x 96GB DIMMs (feature BUVV)
    • 16x, 20x, or 24x 128GB DIMMs (feature BQ3A)

Note: Memory mirroring and memory rank sparing are not supported.

The SR675 V3 supports drives at the front of the server as shown in the Components and connectors section. The choice of drive bays depends on the GPU configuration selected, as described in Configurations section:

• SXM5 model - choice of:
  • 4x 2.5-inch hot-swap NVMe drive bays
  • 4x E3.S 1T EDSFF hot-swap drives
• 4-DW GPU model - choice of:
  • 8x 2.5-inch hot-swap AnyBay drive bays supporting SAS, SATA or NVMe drives
• 8-DW GPU model:
  • 6x EDSFF E1.S 5.9 mm hot-swap NVMe drive bays
  • 4x EDSFF E3.S 1T hot-swap drives

All drives are hot-swap and are accessible from the front of the server.

Where NVMe drives are supported, they are all connected using four PCIe lanes which means there is no NVMe oversubscription.

The server also supports one or two M.2 drives for OS boot functions, installed in an M.2 adapter internal to the server.

In this section:

• Backplanes
• RAID flash power module (supercap) support
• M.2 drives
• E1.S EDSFF drives
• E3.S EDSFF drives

The table also lists the option part numbers for field upgrades. Part numbers include:

• Backplane
• Drive bay fillers
• Data cables to connect drives to controllers
• Power cables

• ThinkSystem RAID 940-8i 4GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter (PN: 4Y37A09728)
• ThinkSystem RAID 940-8e 4GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter (PN: 4Y37A78836)
• ThinkSystem RAID 940-16i 8GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter (PN: 4Y37A09730)

The supercap mounts in a bracket that goes into the top slot of a rear PCIe riser. Ordering information is in the following table.

Supported drives are listed in the Internal drive options section.

The M.2 SATA/x4 NVMe 2-Bay Enablement Kit (BM8X) has the following features:

The M.2 NVMe 2-Bay RAID Enablement Kit (B8P9) has the following features:

For field upgrades, the SR675 V3 also requires an additional M.2 cable kit. Ordering information is listed in the following table.

For further details about M.2 components, see the ThinkSystem M.2 Drives and M.2 Adapters product guide:
https://lenovopress.com/lp0769-thinksystem-m2-drives-adapters

E1.S EDSFF drives

The 8-DW GPU model of the SR675 V3 supports E1.S EDSFF (Enterprise & Datacenter SSD Form Factor) drives with the E1.S (short) form factor. Up to 6 hot-swap EDSFF drives can be installed in the server.

EDSFF drives are a new type of NVMe solid-state drive and have the following characteristics:

• NVMe SSD with PCIe 4.0 x4 host interface
• Hot-swap drive tray
• E1.S form factor defined by SNIA specification SFF-TA-1006
• 112 mm (4.4 inches) long x 32 mm (1.2 inches) tall

The SR675 V3 in the 8-DW GPU configuration supports 6x EDSFF drives, as shown in the following figure.

Figure 12. SR675 V3 E1.S EDSFF drive bays (8-DW GPU configuration only)

E3.S EDSFF drives

The 8-DW GPU and SXM GPU models of the SR675 V3 supports E3.S 1T EDSFF (Enterprise & Datacenter SSD Form Factor) drives with the E1.S (short) form factor. Up to 4 hot-swap EDSFF drives can be installed in the server.

EDSFF drives are a new type of NVMe solid-state drive and have the following characteristics:

• NVMe SSD with PCIe 5.0 x4, 2x2 host interface
• Hot-swap drive tray
• S form factor defined by SNIA specification SFF-TA-1008 Rev 2.0 and SFF-TA-1023
• 113 mm (4.4 inches) long x 7.5 mm (0.3 inches) tall

The SR675 V3 offers a variety of controller options for internal drives:

• For front-mount drives:
  • RAID adapters and HBAs for SAS/SATA drives (PCIe slot-based)
• For M.2 drives internal to the server (see M.2 drives section)
  • NVMe controller integrated on the M.2 SATA/NVMe 2-Bay RAID Enablement Kit ( BDY4 )

The following table lists the adapters used for the internal storage of the server.

† Adapter also supports PCIe 4.0 x1 connectivity to NVMe drives (requires NVMe drives with U.3 interface)

For specifications about the RAID adapters and HBAs supported by the SR675 V3, see the ThinkSystem RAID Adapter and HBA Comparison, available from:
https://lenovopress.com/lp1288-lenovo-thinksystem-raid-adapter-and-hba-reference#sr670-v2-support=SR670%2520V2

Configuration notes:

• RAID adapters are not supported in the front risers PCIe slots.
• Supercap support: The table lists whether the adapter includes a power module (supercap) to power the flash memory. The server supports only 1 supercap as described in the RAID flash power module (supercap) support section. The number of supercaps supported also determines the maximum number of RAID adapters with flash that can be installed in the server, both for internal drive connectivity and external drive connectivity.
• Field upgrades: If you are adding a RAID adapter with supercap to the server as a field upgrade, you may need a supercap holder as described in the RAID flash power module (supercap) support section.

• E810 Ethernet and X350 RAID/HBAs: The use of both an Intel E810 network adapter and an X350 HBA/RAID adapter (9350, 5350 and 4350) is currently not supported in ThinkSystem servers. For details see Support Tip HT513226. Planned support for this combination of adapters is 2Q/2024.

For SXM configurations, we support RAID 940-16i (B8NZ) with U.2 NVMe x4. Support for NVMe U.2 drives connected via a PCIe x4 link to the controller is available for SXM configurations 7, 8, 11, 12, 17, and 18.

The following tables list the drive options for internal storage of the server.

The server supports the external USB optical drive listed in the following table.

The drive is based on the Lenovo Slim DVD Burner DB65 drive and supports the following formats: DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-ROM, DVD-R DL, CD-RW, CD-R, CD-ROM.

The SR675 V3 supports up to eight GPUs:

• SXM5 model: 4x PCIe 5.0 x16 connections for GPUs
• 4-DW GPU model: 4x PCIe 5.0 x16 slots for double-wide GPUs
• 8-DW GPU model: 8x PCIe 5.0 x16 slots for double-wide GPUs

The server also supports, for networking or storage adapters, up to four PCIe 5.0 x16 slots plus an OCP slot, depending on the GPU and drive bay configuration selected. Slot selection is a subset of the following slots:

• Front slots
  • Slot 1: PCIe 5.0 x16 slot, full-height; half-length in SXM5 model, full-length in 4-DW GPU and 8-DW GPU models
  • Slot 2: PCIe 5.0 x16 slot, full-height; half-length in SXM5 model, full-length in 4-DW GPU and 8-DW GPU models
• Rear riser slot 1
  • Slot 15: PCIe 5.0 x16 or x8 slot, full-height, half-length
  • Slot 16: PCIe 5.0 x16 slot, full-height, half-length
• Rear riser slot 2
  • Slot 20: PCIe 5.0 x16 slot, full-height, half-length
  • Slot 21: PCIe 5.0 x16 slot, full-height, half-length*
• OCP slot
  • Slot 27: PCIe 4.0 x16 or x8 slot, OCP 3.0 form factor

*Slot 21 exhibits a maximum compatibility with Gen4 in select configurations: 3, 4, 8, 12, 18, 22, 23, 26, 28, and 31

The locations of these slots are shown in the following figure.

Figure 13. Locations of slots

All GPU and I/O slots are enabled using plug-in or cabled riser cards. Ordering information is shown in the following table.

1. The direct x16 riser (feature BR7Q) has four x16 connections (64 lanes total, implemented using eight x8 cables) for connecting to the system processors. This provides a direct 1:1 connection to all four GPUs.
2. The switched riser with GPUDirect RDMA (feature BR7S) it allows the implementation of NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA. Designed specifically for the needs of GPU acceleration, GPUDirect RDMA provides direct communication between NVIDIA GPUs in remote systems. This eliminates the system CPUs and the required buffer copies of data via the system memory, resulting in 10X better performance. The riser provides a x16 connection to a single CPU (a 1:4 connection to the four GPUs) and a x16 connection directly to I/O slots.
3. The direct x8 riser (feature BR7R) has four x8 connections (32 lanes total, implemented using four x8 cables) for connecting to the system processors. This provides a direct 1:1 connection to all eight GPUs.
4. The NVIDIA SXM5 CX7 Mezz Carrier Board (feature BR7P) provides a networking interface including four NVIDIA ConnectX-7 VPI network controllers for the Nvidia SXM5 baseboard. This provides an OSFP connection to the Front IO riser. The riser allows GPU direct connections for the network only.

5. The SXM5 PCIe Switch Riser (feature BR9D) supports 4-Way SXM5 4-GPU baseboard. The switched riser allows the implementation of NVIDIA GPU Direct. This eliminates the system CPUs and the required buffer copies of data via the system memory, resulting in better performance. BR9D provides two x16 connection to the Front IO riser that are NVIDIA GPU Direct.

   In a dual socket configuration, the riser provides four x16 connections to the CPUs (a 2:4 connection to the four GPUs), but no direct rear I/O connections. No additional GPU Direct connections.

   Use of the GPU risers is as follows:

   • The 8-DW GPU model uses 2 switched risers. This provides connections for eight GPUs using a 1:2 or 1:4 subscription.
     • A direct x8 riser to provide connections for up to four double-wide GPUs. Each GPU gets a x8 connection.
   • The 4-DW GPU model can use either
     • A direct x16 riser (1:1) or a switched x16 riser (1:2 or 1:4) to provide connections for four GPUs. Each GPU gets a x16 connection. The choice of GPU riser is based on what other I/O risers are used in the configuration.
   • The SXM GPU model can use either:
     • A PCIe switch riser or a ConnectX-7 4-chip VPI PCIe Gen5 Mezz Controller to provide connection to the NVIDIA HGX H100 80GB 700W 4-GPU Board. The HGX 4-GPU board gets four x16 connection. The choice of GPU riser is based on the need for NVIDIA GPU Direct and the I/O Front network connections.

   The slots at the rear of the server are 2-slot risers. The mechanical cage has a third slot at the top which does not support an adapter, but is instead of use either for a serial port or for a RAID adapter supercap. Adapter slots are as follows:

   • Riser BR7N has one PCIe 5.0 x16 slots
   • Riser BR7L has two PCIe 5.0 x16 slots. It supports PCIe 5.0 on the bottom slot (slot 15 and slot 20). It supports PCIe 5.0 on top slot depending on configuration*
   • Riser BR7M has one PCIe 5.0 x16 slot (bottom slot) and one PCIe 4.0 x8 slot (top slot - slot 21)

   *Slot 21 exhibits a maximum compatibility with Gen4 in select configurations: 3, 4, 8, 12, 18, 22, 23, 26, 28, and 31

   The following figure shows the rear riser.

   
   Figure 14. Rear riser

The SR675 V3 supports the following graphics processing units (GPUs), depending on the front shuttle selected. All GPUs installed must be identical. 

*CN, Hong Kong and Macao only

Configuration rules:

• Some NVIDIA A Series GPUs are available as two feature codes, one with a CEC chip and one without a CEC chip (ones without the CEC chip have "w/o CEC" in the name). The CEC is a secondary Hardware Root of Trust (RoT) module that provides an additional layer of security, which can be used by customers who have high regulatory requirements or high security standards. NVIDIA uses a multi-layered security model and hence the protection offered by the primary Root of Trust embedded in the GPU is expected to be sufficient for most customers. The CEC defeatured products still offer Secure Boot, Secure Firmware Update, Firmware Rollback Protection, and In-Band Firmware Update Disable. Specifically, without the CEC chip, the GPU does not support Key Revocation or Firmware Attestation. CEC and non-CEC GPUs of the same type of GPU can be mixed in field upgrades.

• The double-wide GPUs also support the installation of an NVLink bridge between adjacent pairs of GPUs. H100 and A100 GPUs use three NVLink bridges per pair. A40 and A30 GPUs support one NVLink bridge per pair. Ordering information in the following table.

For information about these GPUs, see the ThinkSystem GPU Summary, available at:
https://lenovopress.com/lp0768-thinksystem-thinkagile-gpu-summary

When adding a double-wide GPU as a field upgrade, you will need an additional GPU auxiliary power cable as listed in the following table.

The server has a dedicated OCP 3.0 SFF slot with either a PCIe 4.0 x8 or x16 host interface, depending on the server configuration as described in the Configurations section. See Figure 3 for the location of the OCP slot.

The following table lists the supported OCP adapters. One port can optionally be shared with the XCC management processor for Wake-on-LAN and NC-SI support. Only 1 OCP card can be installed in the server.

For more information, including the transceivers and cables that each adapter supports, see the list of Lenovo Press Product Guides in the Networking adapters category:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/ethernet

The following table lists additional supported network adapters that can be installed in the regular PCIe slots (not the GPU slots).

* See configuration requirements below

For more information, including the transceivers and cables that each adapter supports, see the list of Lenovo Press Product Guides in the Networking adapters category:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/ethernet

Configuration requirements:

• Mellanox NDR PCIe Aux Kit: The combination of the Mellanox Aux adapter (BNDQ) and Mellanox ConnectX-6 HDR/200GbE VPI adapter (B4RC) implements SharedIO. The Aux adapter installs in either slot 2, 16 or 21 and the HDR adapter installs in slot 1, 15 or 20 respectively.

**Auxiliary power cable is required to provide power for the adapter. ThinkSystem SR675 V3 BlueField-3 Power Cable (BXB6).

The following table lists the Fibre Channel HBAs supported by the SR675 V3 

The following table lists SAS HBAs and RAID adapters supported by SR675 V3 server for use with external storage.

The RAID 940-8e use a flash power module (supercap), however the server only supports the installation of 1 supercap as described in the RAID flash power module (supercap) support section. As a result, if the internal storage is connected to a RAID 9350 or 940 adapter with supercap, then the use of a RAID 940-8e is not supported.

The SR675 V3 server has up to five 80 mm dual-rotor variable-speed simple-swap fans. Fans are N+1 rotor redundant, tolerating a single-rotor failure. All fans are standard. The server also has one or two additional fans integrated in each of the four power supplies.

These fans have the following electrical input, monitoring, and control connections.

• 12V DC Power
• DC Power Return
• Tachometer Output
• Pulse Width Modulation Control

The SR675 V3 has two or four redundant hot-swap power supplies depending on the configuration, as listed in the following table.

SR675 V3 will support the following power policies:

• Power non-redundant – N+0
• Power Redundancy – N+N, N+1
• Power Restore Policy – Always Off, Restore, Always On
  • Determine how the system behaves when AC power is applied based on state before power was removed.
• Note:
  • Power capping is not a supported feature
  • Zero output mode is not supported

The power supply choices are listed in the following table.

Power supply options do not include a line cord. For server configurations, the inclusion of a power cord is model dependent. Configure-to-order models can be configured without power cords if desired.

The SR675 V3 contains an integrated service processor, XClarity Controller 2 (XCC), which provides advanced control, monitoring, and alerting functions. The XCC2 is based on the AST2600 baseboard management controller (BMC) using a dual-core ARM Cortex A9 service processor.

Topics in this section:

• System I/O Board
• Local management
• System status with XClarity Mobile
• Remote management
• XCC2 Platinum
• Lenovo XClarity Provisioning Manager
• Lenovo XClarity Administrator
• Lenovo XClarity Integrators
• Lenovo XClarity Essentials
• Lenovo XClarity Energy Manager
• Lenovo Capacity Planner
• Lenovo HPC & AI Software Stack

The steps to connect the mobile device are as follows:

1. Enable USB Management on the server, by holding down the ID button for 3 seconds (or pressing the dedicated USB management button if one is present)
2. Connect the mobile device via a USB cable to the server's USB port with the management symbol
3. In iOS or Android settings, enable Personal Hotspot or USB Tethering
4. Launch the Lenovo XClarity Mobile app

Remote server management is provided through industry-standard interfaces:

• Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Version 2.0
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Version 3 (no SET commands; no SNMP v1)
• Common Information Model (CIM-XML)
• Representational State Transfer (REST) support
• Redfish support (DMTF compliant)
• Web browser - HTML 5-based browser interface (Java and ActiveX not required) using a responsive design (content optimized for device being used - laptop, tablet, phone) with NLS support

XCC2 Platinum includes the following Enterprise and Advanced functions:

• Remotely viewing video with graphics resolutions up to 1600x1200 at 75 Hz with up to 23 bits per pixel, regardless of the system state
• Remotely accessing the server using the keyboard and mouse from a remote client
• International keyboard mapping support
• Syslog alerting
• Redirecting serial console via SSH
• Component replacement log (Maintenance History log)
• Access restriction (IP address blocking)
• Lenovo SED security key management
• Displaying graphics for real-time and historical power usage data and temperature
• Boot video capture and crash video capture
• Virtual console collaboration - Ability for up to 6 remote users to be log into the remote session simultaneously
• Remote console Java client
• Mapping the ISO and image files located on the local client as virtual drives for use by the server
• Mounting the remote ISO and image files via HTTPS, SFTP, CIFS, and NFS
• System utilization data and graphic view
• Single sign on with Lenovo XClarity Administrator
• Update firmware from a repository
• License for XClarity Energy Manager

Note: The SR675 V3 does not support Power capping.

The server offers the following electronic security features:

• Administrator and power-on password
• Trusted Platform Module (TPM) supporting TPM 2.0 (no support for TPM 1.2)
• Optional Nationz TPM 2.0, available only in China (CTO only)

The server is NIST SP 800-147B compliant.

The SR675 V3 server also includes the following physical security features:

• Chassis intrusion switch

The following table lists the security features for the SR675 V3.

Platform Firmware Resiliency - Lenovo ThinkShield

Lenovo's ThinkShield Security is a transparent and comprehensive approach to security that extends to all dimensions of our data center products: from development, to supply chain, and through the entire product lifecycle.

The ThinkSystem SR675 V3 includes Platform Firmware Resiliency (PFR) hardware Root of Trust (RoT) which enables the system to be NIST SP800-193 compliant. This offering further enhances key platform subsystem protections against unauthorized firmware updates and corruption, to restore firmware to an integral state, and to closely monitor firmware for possible compromise from cyber-attacks.

PFR operates upon the following server components:

• UEFI image – the low-level server firmware that connects the operating system to the server hardware
• XCC image – the management “engine” software that controls and reports on the server status separate from the server operating system
• FPGA image – the code that runs the server’s lowest level hardware controller on the motherboard

The Lenovo Platform Root of Trust Hardware performs the following three main functions:

• Detection – Measures the firmware and updates for authenticity
• Recovery – Recovers a corrupted image to a known-safe image
• Protection – Monitors the system to ensure the known-good firmware is not maliciously written

These enhanced protection capabilities are implemented using a dedicated, discrete security processor whose implementation has been rigorously validated by leading third-party security firms. Security evaluation results and design details are available for customer review – providing unprecedented transparency and assurance.

The SR675 V3 includes support for Secure Boot, a UEFI firmware security feature developed by the UEFI Consortium that ensures only immutable and signed software are loaded during the boot time. The use of Secure Boot helps prevent malicious code from being loaded and helps prevent attacks, such as the installation of rootkits. Lenovo offers the capability to enable secure boot in the factory, to ensure end-to-end protection.

The following table lists the relevant feature code(s).

Security standards

The SR675 V3 supports the following security standards and capabilities:

• Industry Standard Security Capabilities
  • AMD CPU Enablement
    • AES-NI (Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions)
    • GMET (Guest Mode Execute Trap)
    • Hardware-based side channel attack resilience enhancements
    • NX (No eXecute)
    • PSB (Platform Secure Boot)
    • Shadow Stack
    • SEV (Secure Encrypted Virtualization)
    • SEV-ES (Encrypted State register encryption)
    • SEV-SNP (Secure Nested Paging)
    • SVM (Secure Virtual Machine)
    • SME (Secure Memory Encryption)
    • UMIP (User Mode Instruction Prevention)
  • Microsoft Windows Security Enablement
    • Credential Guard
    • Device Guard
    • Host Guardian Service
  • TCG (Trusted Computing Group) TPM (Trusted Platform Module) 2.0
  • UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Forum Secure Boot
• Hardware Root of Trust and Security
  • Independent security subsystem providing platform-wide NIST SP800-193 compliant Platform Firmware Resilience (PFR)
  • Host domain RoT supplemented by AMD Platform Secure Boot (PSB)
  • Management domain RoT supplemented by the Secure Boot features of XCC
• Platform Security
  • Boot and run-time firmware integrity monitoring with rollback to known-good firmware (e.g., “self-healing”)
  • Non-volatile storage bus security monitoring and filtering
  • Resilient firmware implementation, such as to detect and defeat unauthorized flash writes or SMM (System Management Mode) memory incursions
  • Patented IPMI KCS channel privileged access authorization (USPTO Patent# 11,256,810)
  • Host and management domain authorization, including integration with CyberArk for enterprise password management
  • KMIP (Key Management Interoperability Protocol) compliant, including support for IBM SKLM and Thales KeySecure
  • Reduced “out of box” attack surface
  • Configurable network services
  • FIPS 140-3 (in progress) validated cryptography for XCC
  • CNSA Suite 1.0 Quantum-resistant cryptography for XCC
  • Lenovo System Guard

  For more information on platform security, see the paper “How to Harden the Security of your ThinkSystem Server and Management Applications” available from https://lenovopress.com/lp1260-how-to-harden-the-security-of-your-thinksystem-server.

• Standards Compliance and/or Support
  • NIST SP800-131A rev 2 “Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths”
  • NIST SP800-147B “BIOS Protection Guidelines for Servers”
  • NIST SP800-193 “Platform Firmware Resiliency Guidelines”
  • ISO/IEC 11889 “Trusted Platform Module Library”
  • Common Criteria TCG Protection Profile for “PC Client Specific TPM 2.0”
  • European Union Commission Regulation 2019/424 (“ErP Lot 9”) “Ecodesign Requirements for Servers and Data Storage Products” Secure Data Deletion
  • Optional FIPS 140-2 validated Self-Encrypting Disks (SEDs) with external KMIP-based key management
• Product and Supply Chain Security
  • Suppliers validated through Lenovo’s Trusted Supplier Program
  • Developed in accordance with Lenovo’s Secure Development Lifecycle (LSDL)
  • Continuous firmware security validation through automated testing, including static code analysis, dynamic network and web vulnerability testing, software composition analysis, and subsystem-specific testing, such as UEFI security configuration validation
  • Ongoing security reviews by US-based security experts, with attestation letters available from our third-party security partners
  • Digitally signed firmware, stored and built on US-based infrastructure and signed on US-based Hardware Security Modules (HSMs)
  • TAA (Trade Agreements Act) compliant manufacturing, by default in Mexico for North American markets with additional US and EU manufacturing options
  • US 2019 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) Section 889 compliant

The following table lists the rack installation options that are available for the SR675 V3.

The Slide Rail has the following specifications:

• Rail travel distance is 920 mm (36.22 inches)
• Can be installed in both square hole and round hole rack
• Rack cabinet requirements:
  • Minimum depth of 150 mm (5.9 inches) between the front mounting flanges and inside of the front door.
  • Minimum depth of 125 mm (4.9 inches) between the chassis rear wall and inside of the rear door.
  • The maximum distance between the front and rear mounting flanges is 813 mm (32 inches).
  • If you want to install the rails and a 0U PDU into the same rack, the rack must be at least 1185mm (46.7 inches) deep

The following figure shows the SR675 V3 Toolless Slide Rail.

Figure 19. ThinkSystem SR675 V3 Toolless Slide Rail contents

The server supports the following operating systems

• Microsoft Windows Server 2019
• Microsoft Windows Server 2022
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Xen SP4
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Xen SP5
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-bit
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 64-bit
• VMware ESXi 7.0 U3
• VMware ESXi 8.0
• VMware ESXi 8.0 U2

The SR675 V3 node is also tested with Rocky Linux and Alma Linux.

For a complete list of supported, certified and tested operating systems, plus additional details and links to relevant web sites, see the Operating System Interoperability Guide:
https://lenovopress.com/osig

For configure-to-order configurations, the server can be preloaded with VMware ESXi installed on M.2 cards. Ordering information is listed in the following table.

You can download supported VMware vSphere hypervisor images from the following web page and load it on the M.2 drives using the instructions provided:
https://vmware.lenovo.com/content/custom_iso/

The SR675 V3 has the following overall physical dimensions, excluding components that extend outside the standard chassis, such as EIA flanges, front security bezel (if any), and power supply handles:

• Width: 448 mm (17.6 inches)
• Height: 131 mm (5.2 inches) (3U)
• Depth: 892 mm (35.1 inches)

The following table lists the detailed dimensions. See the figure below for the definition of each dimension.

Figure 20. Server dimensions

The server has the following approximate weight, dependent on the configuration selected:

• SXM5 model: 39.5 kg (87 lb)
• 4-DW GPU model: 36.7 kg (81 lb)
• 8-DW GPU model: 39 kg (86 lb)

Electrical specifications for AC input power supplies:

• Input voltage:
  • 200 to 240 (nominal) Vac, 50 Hz or 60 Hz
  • 180 to 300 Vdc (China only)
• Inlet current:
  • 1800W power supply: 10 A
  • 2400W power supply: 14 A

• Maximum altitude: 3,050 m (10,000 ft)
• Relative Humidity (non-condensing):
  • Operating:
    • ASHRAE Class A2: 8% to 80%; maximum dew point: 21°C (70°F)
    • ASHRAE Class H1: 8% to 80%; Maximum dew point: 17°C (63°F)
  • Shipment/storage: 8% to 90% 

Notes:

• These sound levels were measured in controlled acoustical environments according to procedures specified by ISO7779 and are reported in accordance with ISO 9296.
• The declared acoustic sound levels are based on the following configurations, which may change slightly depending on configuration/conditions.
  • GPU Typical configuration: 2x 360W processors, 4x or 8x NVIDIA A100 80 GB GPU adapters, 12x 32 GB RDIMMs (2Rx8), 2x 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs or 2x E1.S 5.9mm NVMe SSDs, 1x ThinkSystem Broadcom 57504 10/25GbE SFP28 4-Port OCP Ethernet Adapter, 1x 1P NDR (NVIDIA ConnectX-7 card)
  • GPU Max configuration: 2x 360W processors, 4x NVIDIA H100 80 GB GPU adapters, 24x 128 GB 3DS RDIMMs, 8x 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs or 6x E1.S 5.9mm NVMe SSDs, 1x ThinkSystem Broadcom 57508 100GbE QSFP56 2-Port OCP Ethernet Adapter, 6x 1P NDR (NVIDIA ConnectX-7 card)

• The declared acoustic noise levels may increase greatly, if high-power components are installed such as high-power NICs, high-power processors and GPUs.
• Government regulations (such as those prescribed by OSHA or European Community Directives) may govern noise level exposure in the workplace and may apply to you and your server installation. The actual sound pressure levels in your installation depend upon a variety of factors, including the number of racks in the installation; the size, materials, and configuration of the room; the noise levels from other equipment; the room ambient temperature, and employee's location in relation to the equipment. Further, compliance with such government regulations depends on a variety of additional factors, including the duration of employees' exposure and whether employees wear hearing protection. Lenovo recommends that you consult with qualified experts in this field to determine whether you are in compliance with the applicable regulations.

The following specifications indicate the limits of particulates that the system can tolerate:

• Reactive gases:
  • The copper reactivity level shall be less than 200 Angstroms per month (Å/month)
  • The silver reactivity level shall be less than 200 Å/month
• Airborne particulates:
  • The room air should be continuously filtered with MERV 8 filters.
  • Air entering a data center should be filtered with MERV 11 or preferably MERV 13 filters.
  • The deliquescent relative humidity of the particulate contamination should be more than 60% RH
  • Environment must be free of zinc whiskers

For additional information, see the Specifications section of the documentation for the server, available from the Lenovo Documents site, https://pubs.lenovo.com/

The SR675 V3 has a 1-year or 3-year warranty based on the machine type of the system:

• 7D9Q - 1 year warranty
• 7D9R - 3 year warranty

The standard warranty terms are customer-replaceable unit (CRU) and onsite (for field-replaceable units FRUs only) with standard call center support during normal business hours and 9x5 Next Business Day Parts Delivered.

Lenovo’s additional support services provide a sophisticated, unified support structure for your data center, with an experience consistently ranked number one in customer satisfaction worldwide. Available offerings include:

• Premier Support

  Premier Support provides a Lenovo-owned customer experience and delivers direct access to technicians skilled in hardware, software, and advanced troubleshooting, in addition to the following:

  • Direct technician-to-technician access through a dedicated phone line
  • 24x7x365 remote support
  • Single point of contact service
  • End to end case management
  • Third-party collaborative software support
  • Online case tools and live chat support
  • On-demand remote system analysis
• Warranty Upgrade (Preconfigured Support)

  Services are available to meet the on-site response time targets that match the criticality of your systems.

  • 3, 4, or 5 years of service coverage
  • 1-year or 2-year post-warranty extensions
  • Foundation Service: 9x5 service coverage with next business day onsite response. YourDrive YourData is an optional extra (see below).
  • Essential Service: 24x7 service coverage with 4-hour onsite response or 24-hour committed repair (available only in select markets). Bundled with YourDrive YourData.
  • Advanced Service: 24x7 service coverage with 2-hour onsite response or 6-hour committed repair (available only in select markets). Bundled with YourDrive YourData.
• Managed Services

  Lenovo Managed Services provides continuous 24x7 remote monitoring (plus 24x7 call center availability) and proactive management of your data center using state-of-the-art tools, systems, and practices by a team of highly skilled and experienced Lenovo services professionals.

  Quarterly reviews check error logs, verify firmware & OS device driver levels, and software as needed. We’ll also maintain records of latest patches, critical updates, and firmware levels, to ensure you systems are providing business value through optimized performance.

• Technical Account Management (TAM)

  A Lenovo Technical Account Manager helps you optimize the operation of your data center based on a deep understanding of your business. You gain direct access to your Lenovo TAM, who serves as your single point of contact to expedite service requests, provide status updates, and furnish reports to track incidents over time. In addition, your TAM will help proactively make service recommendations and manage your service relationship with Lenovo to make certain your needs are met.

• Enterprise Server Software Support

  Enterprise Software Support is an additional support service providing customers with software support on Microsoft, Red Hat, SUSE, and VMware applications and systems. Around the clock availability for critical problems plus unlimited calls and incidents helps customers address challenges fast, without incremental costs. Support staff can answer troubleshooting and diagnostic questions, address product comparability and interoperability issues, isolate causes of problems, report defects to software vendors, and more.

• YourDrive YourData

  Lenovo’s YourDrive YourData is a multi-drive retention offering that ensures your data is always under your control, regardless of the number of drives that are installed in your Lenovo server. In the unlikely event of a drive failure, you retain possession of your drive while Lenovo replaces the failed drive part. Your data stays safely on your premises, in your hands. The YourDrive YourData service can be purchased in convenient bundles and is optional with Foundation Service. It is bundled with Essential Service and Advanced Service.

• Health Check

  Having a trusted partner who can perform regular and detailed health checks is central to maintaining efficiency and ensuring that your systems and business are always running at their best. Health Check supports Lenovo-branded server, storage, and networking devices, as well as select Lenovo-supported products from other vendors that are sold by Lenovo or a Lenovo-Authorized Reseller.

Examples of region-specific warranty terms are second or longer business day parts delivery or parts-only base warranty.

If warranty terms and conditions include onsite labor for repair or replacement of parts, Lenovo will dispatch a service technician to the customer site to perform the replacement. Onsite labor under base warranty is limited to labor for replacement of parts that have been determined to be field-replaceable units (FRUs). Parts that are determined to be customer-replaceable units (CRUs) do not include onsite labor under base warranty.

If warranty terms include parts-only base warranty, Lenovo is responsible for delivering only replacement parts that are under base warranty (including FRUs) that will be sent to a requested location for self-service. Parts-only service does not include a service technician being dispatched onsite. Parts must be changed at customer’s own cost and labor and defective parts must be returned following the instructions supplied with the spare parts.

Lenovo Services is a dedicated partner to your success. Our goal is to reduce your capital outlays, mitigate your IT risks, and accelerate your time to productivity.

Here’s a more in-depth look at what we can do for you:

• Asset Recovery Services

  Asset Recovery Services (ARS) helps customers recover the maximum value from their end-of-life equipment in a cost-effective and secure way. On top of simplifying the transition from old to new equipment, ARS mitigates environmental and data security risks associated with data center equipment disposal. Lenovo ARS is a cash-back solution for equipment based on its remaining market value, yielding maximum value from aging assets and lowering total cost of ownership for your customers. For more information, see the ARS page, https://lenovopress.com/lp1266-reduce-e-waste-and-grow-your-bottom-line-with-lenovo-ars.

• Assessment Services

  An Assessment helps solve your IT challenges through an onsite, multi-day session with a Lenovo technology expert. We perform a tools-based assessment which provides a comprehensive and thorough review of a company's environment and technology systems. In addition to the technology based functional requirements, the consultant also discusses and records the non-functional business requirements, challenges, and constraints. Assessments help organizations like yours, no matter how large or small, get a better return on your IT investment and overcome challenges in the ever-changing technology landscape.

• Design Services

  Professional Services consultants perform infrastructure design and implementation planning to support your strategy. The high-level architectures provided by the assessment service are turned into low level designs and wiring diagrams, which are reviewed and approved prior to implementation. The implementation plan will demonstrate an outcome-based proposal to provide business capabilities through infrastructure with a risk-mitigated project plan.

• Basic Hardware Installation

  Lenovo experts can seamlessly manage the physical installation of your server, storage, or networking hardware. Working at a time convenient for you (business hours or off shift), the technician will unpack and inspect the systems on your site, install options, mount in a rack cabinet, connect to power and network, check and update firmware to the latest levels, verify operation, and dispose of the packaging, allowing your team to focus on other priorities.

• Deployment Services

  When investing in new IT infrastructures, you need to ensure your business will see quick time to value with little to no disruption. Lenovo deployments are designed by development and engineering teams who know our Products & Solutions better than anyone else, and our technicians own the process from delivery to completion. Lenovo will conduct remote preparation and planning, configure & integrate systems, validate systems, verify and update appliance firmware, train on administrative tasks, and provide post-deployment documentation. Customer’s IT teams leverage our skills to enable IT staff to transform with higher level roles and tasks.

• Integration, Migration, and Expansion Services

  Move existing physical & virtual workloads easily, or determine technical requirements to support increased workloads while maximizing performance. Includes tuning, validation, and documenting ongoing run processes. Leverage migration assessment planning documents to perform necessary migrations.

The SR675 V3 conforms to the following standards:

• ANSI/UL 62368-1
• IEC 62368-1 (CB Certificate and CB Test Report)
• CSA C22.2 No. 62368-1
• Argentina IEC 60950-1
• Mexico NOM-019
• India BIS 13252 (Part 1)
• Germany GS
• Brazil INMETRO
• South Africa NRCS LOA
• Ukraine UkrCEPRO
• Morocco CMIM Certification (CM)
• Russia, Belorussia and Kazakhstan, TP EAC 037/2016 (for RoHS)
• Russia, Belorussia and Kazakhstan, EAC: TP TC 004/2011 (for Safety); TP TC 020/2011 (for EMC)
• CE, UKCA Mark (EN55032 Class A, EN62368-1, EN55024, EN55035, EN61000-3-2, EN61000-3-3, (EU) 2019/424, and EN IEC 63000 (RoHS))
• FCC - Verified to comply with Part 15 of the FCC Rules, Class A
• Canada ICES-003, issue 7, Class A
• CISPR 32, Class A, CISPR 35
• Korea KN32, Class A, KN35
• Japan VCCI, Class A
• Taiwan BSMI CNS15936, Class A; CNS15598-1; Section 5 of CNS15663
• Australia/New Zealand AS/NZS CISPR 32, Class A; AS/NZS 62368.1
• UL Green Guard, UL2819
• Energy Star 4.0
• EPEAT (NSF/ ANSI 426) Bronze
• Japanese Energy-Saving Act
• EU2019/424 Energy Related Product (ErP Lot9)
• China CCC certificate, GB17625.1; GB4943.1; GB/T9254
• China CECP certificate, CQC3135
• China CELP certificate, HJ 2507-2011

The server supports attachment to external drive enclosures using a RAID controller with external ports or a SAS host bus adapter. Adapters supported by the server are listed in the SAS adapters for external storage section.

Note: Information provided in this section is for ordering reference purposes only. For the operating system and adapter support details, refer to the interoperability matrix for a particular storage enclosure that can be found on the Lenovo Data Center Support web site:
http://datacentersupport.lenovo.com

Lenovo offers the ThinkSystem DE Series and ThinkSystem DM Series external storage systems for high-performance storage. See the DE Series and DM Series product guides for specific controller models, expansion enclosures and configuration options:

• ThinkSystem DE Series Storage
  https://lenovopress.com/storage/thinksystem/de-series#rt=product-guide
• ThinkSystem DM Series Storage
  https://lenovopress.com/storage/thinksystem/dm-series#rt=product-guide
• ThinkSystem DG Series Storage
  https://lenovopress.com/storage/thinksystem/dg-series#rt=product-guide

The server supports both USB-attached RDX backup units and SAS-attached tape drives.

The following table lists the available external SAS tape backup options.

Tip: Verify the end-to-end support of an IBM tape backup solution through the IBM System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC): http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/ssic

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Backup units category:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/backup

The following table lists the external RDX backup options available.

For more information, see the Lenovo RDX USB 3.0 Disk Backup Solution product guide:
https://lenovopress.com/tips0894-rdx-usb-30

The following table lists the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units that are offered by Lenovo.

† Only available in China and the Asia Pacific market.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the UPS category:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/ups

The following table lists the power distribution units (PDUs) that are offered by Lenovo.

For more information, see the Lenovo Press documents in the PDU category:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/pdu

To use the SR675 V3 and rail kit with 0U PDUs, the rack cabinet needs to be at least 1185mm (46.7 inches) deep. An 1100mm rack cabinet does not provide sufficient depth.

The following table lists the supported rack cabinets.

For specifications about these racks, see the Lenovo Rack Cabinet Reference, available from:
https://lenovopress.com/lp1287-lenovo-rack-cabinet-reference

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Rack cabinets category:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/racks

The following table lists the supported KVM consoles.

The following table lists the available KVM switches and the options that are supported with them.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the KVM Switches and Consoles category:
http://lenovopress.com/servers/options/kvm

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    Details
    Partner Technical Webinar - Server Review with Mark Bica
    
    

    In this 60-minute replay, Mark Bica, Lenovo ThinkSystem Brand Manager, reviewed currently ThinkSystem Server portfolio. He highlighted recent server announcements including the SE350 V2, SE360 V2 and SR675 V3. Joe Murphy, Lenovo Solution Architect concluded the session with a demo of how to get Estimated Ship Dates in DCSC.

    Published: 2023-06-20
    Length: 60 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: 061623
11. FY24Q1 AI Launch
    2023-06-14 | 15 minutes | Employees and Partners
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    FY24Q1 AI Launch
    
    

    This course covers the exciting announcements that Lenovo is making about its commitment to AI. Not only has Lenovo pledged to invest $1B in AI over the next three years, and committed $100M to bolster the Lenovo AI Innovators Program, but there are also some exciting product announcements.
    
    Once you complete this course, you should be able to define intelligence and artificial intelligence, describe a digital twin, and discuss the three key points of the Lenovo AI launch: investment in AI, a new AI-capable data center server, and new AI-capable edge servers.

    Published: 2023-06-14
    Length: 15 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: SXXW2516
12. Family Portfolio: ThinkSystem AMD Rackmount Servers
    2023-06-07 | 15 minutes | Employees and Partners
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    Family Portfolio: ThinkSystem AMD Rackmount Servers
    
    

    This course adds AI capability information, specifically Lenovo OVX 3.0, about AMD rackmount servers. After completing this course, you will be able to identify products and features within the ThinkSystem AMD rack server family, describe unique innovations that this product family uses, and recognize when a specific product should be selected. You will also be able to describe how AMD rackmount servers are used in AI environments.

    Published: 2023-06-07
    Length: 15 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: SXXW1216r6
13. Partner Technical Webinar - Data Center Limits and ISG TAA Compliance
    2023-05-16 | 60 minutes | Employees and Partners
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    Partner Technical Webinar - Data Center Limits and ISG TAA Compliance
    
    

    In this 60-minute replay, we had two topics. First Vinod Kamath, Lenovo Distinguished Engineer for Data Center Cooling presented on the Systems Configuration and Data Center Ambient Limits. Second, Shama Patari, Lenovo Trade Council, and Glenn Johnson, Lenovo Principal Engineer for Supply Chain presented on ISG TAA Compliance.

    Published: 2023-05-16
    Length: 60 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: 051223
14. Introduction to the AMD EPYC Gen4 Processors
    2022-12-30 | 10 minutes | Employees and Partners
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    Introduction to the AMD EPYC Gen4 Processors
    
    

    After completing this course, you should be able to describe the Gen4 AMD EPYC™ processors, discuss the new and improved features of the Gen4 processors, and describe the customer benefits of the AMD EPYC Gen4 processors. You should also be able to list the Lenovo servers that use AMD EPYC Gen4 processors.

    Published: 2022-12-30
    Length: 10 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: SXXW2501
15. Partner Technical Webinar - ThinkSystem AMD V3 servers
    2022-11-22 | 60 minutes | Partners Only
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    Partner Technical Webinar - ThinkSystem AMD V3 servers
    
    

    In this 60-minute replay, Mark Bica and Joe Murphy presented the details of the new announced ThinkSystem Servers V3 based on the new 4th Generation AMD EPYC processor. They presented the ThinkSytem SR645 V3, SR665 V3, SR675 V3, SD665 V3 and SD665-N V3.

    Published: 2022-11-22
    Length: 60 minutes
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: 111822
16. ThinkSystem AMD Rack Servers Preview Oct 22
    2022-10-26 | 3 minutes | Employees and Partners
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    ThinkSystem AMD Rack Servers Preview Oct 22
    
    

    This Quick Hit introduces three new Lenovo ThinkSystem rackmount servers that use AMD EPYC Gen4 processors. The SR645 V3, SR665 V3, and SR675 V3 are two-socket servers that support TruDDR5 memory and PCIe Gen5.
    After completing this Quick Hit, you will be able to identify the new servers within the family, describe why the new servers are important to a customer, and recognize keywords that lead to using the new servers.

    Published: 2022-10-26
    Length: 3 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: SXXW1216r4a
17. Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Launch
    2022-09-16 | 8 minutes | Employees and Partners
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    Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Launch
    
    

    This Quick Hit introduces a wealth of new products, solutions, and services announced as part of the Lenovo ThinkSystem 30th Anniversary celebration.

    Published: 2022-09-16
    Length: 8 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: FY23Q2a
18. Lenovo Sustainable Computing
    2022-09-16 | 4 minutes | Employees and Partners
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    Lenovo Sustainable Computing
    
    

    This Quick Hit describes the Lenovo sustainable computing program, and the many ways in which Lenovo strives to respect and protect the environment.

    Published: 2022-09-16
    Length: 4 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: SXXW2504a
19. Introduction to DDR5 Memory
    2022-08-23 | 10 minutes | Employees and Partners
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    Introduction to DDR5 Memory
    
    

    This course introduces DDR5 memory, describes new features of this memory generation, and discusses the advantages to customers of this new memory generation.

    Published: 2022-08-23
    Length: 10 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: SXXW2502

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Lenovo Financial Services reinforces Lenovo’s commitment to deliver pioneering products and services that are recognized for their quality, excellence, and trustworthiness. Lenovo Financial Services offers financing solutions and services that complement your technology solution anywhere in the world.

We are dedicated to delivering a positive finance experience for customers like you who want to maximize your purchase power by obtaining the technology you need today, protect against technology obsolescence, and preserve your capital for other uses.

We work with businesses, non-profit organizations, governments and educational institutions to finance their entire technology solution. We focus on making it easy to do business with us. Our highly experienced team of finance professionals operates in a work culture that emphasizes the importance of providing outstanding customer service. Our systems, processes and flexible policies support our goal of providing customers with a positive experience.

We finance your entire solution. Unlike others, we allow you to bundle everything you need from hardware and software to service contracts, installation costs, training fees, and sales tax. If you decide weeks or months later to add to your solution, we can consolidate everything into a single invoice.

Our Premier Client services provide large accounts with special handling services to ensure these complex transactions are serviced properly. As a premier client, you have a dedicated finance specialist who manages your account through its life, from first invoice through asset return or purchase. This specialist develops an in-depth understanding of your invoice and payment requirements. For you, this dedication provides a high-quality, easy, and positive financing experience.

For more information, see these resources:

• ThinkSystem SR675 V3 product page:
  https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/servers-storage/servers/racks/thinksystem-sr675-v3/len21ts0007
• ThinkSystem SR675 V3 datasheet:
  https://lenovopress.com/ds0151
• Interactive 3D Tour of the ThinkSystem SR675 V3:
  https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/LP1631
• ThinkSystem SR675 V3 drivers and support
  https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/servers/thinksystem/sr675v3/7d9r/downloads/driver-list/
• Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 product publications:
  https://pubs.lenovo.com/sr675-v3/
  • Quick Start
  • Rack Installation Guide
  • Setup Guide
  • Hardware Maintenance Manual
  • Messages and Codes Reference
  • Memory Population Reference
• ServerProven hardware compatibility:
  http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/serverproven