Lenovo NeXtScale System M5
Achieve Scale and Lower Operating Costs
Lenovo NeXtScale System M5 is a dense platform for high-performance computing. This unified solution provides a single platform for all workload requirements. The simple architecture easily scales up or out. Flexible, mix-and-match configurations are available. NeXtScale enhances density without sacrificing performance. Companies can maximize their IT investment with this scalable system.
NeXtScale System M5
Achieve scale while lowering your operating expense and raising performance. Flexible architecture means a single platform for all your workload requirements, whether you need dense compute, dense storage, or extreme acceleration via GPUs or co-processors.
Achieve Density and High Performance
- Single platform for all workload requirements
- Simple architecture that easily scales up or out
- Flexible, mix-and-match configurations
- Enhanced density, no performance sacrifice
- Scalable system to maximize IT investment
Scalable, Flexible, and Simple
The Lenovo NeXtScale System addresses the increasing data and computing challenges of the data center by delivering dense performance across a variety of functions—including compute, I/O, storage, and acceleration—in more cost- and energy-efficient ways than ever before. NeXtScale now provides even greater performance, efficiency, and flexibility for the data center and enables the broadest selection of server functions for a variety of workloads.
Strong Foundation
Included as a key part of the Lenovo System x family, the space-saving NeXtScale System comprises powerful compute, storage, and acceleration nodes in an energy-efficient, low-cost 12-bay enclosure.
Tech Specs
Form Factor/Height: Half-wide 1U
Processor: Two Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v4 series (4-core to 22-core)
Memory: 16 DDR4 LP, up to 2400MHz, 1TB maximum with 64GB LP LRDIMM
Chassis Support: NeXtScale n1200 Enclosure
Local Storage: One 3.5-inch HDD, two 2.5-inch HDDs/SSDs (simple swap), or four 1.8-inch SSDs. Optional two front hot-swap 2.5-inch HDDs
Internal RAID: Onboard SATA controller with RAID options
PCIe RAID: ServeRAID M1200 series adapter
USB Ports: One internal USB key
Ethernet: Two built-in 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports standard
Input/Output: Two ML2 ports for InfiniBand FDR or 10GbE, two 10GbE one PCIe (x16 PCI Express 3.0)
Storage Native Expansion (NeX) Tray: 7 x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA HDDs
PCIe Native Expansion (NeX) Tray: 2 x16 Full Height Full Length and 1 Half Length x8
2U GPU/Storage Native Expansion (NeX) Tray: 4 x16 Full Height Full Length PCIe with additional 4 drive enclosure supporting 4 x 2.5-inch front hot-swap HDDs
Power Management: Rack-level power capping and management via Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit (xCAT)
Systems Management: 1x shared port with 1GbE per 1/2 wide server
Operating Systems Supported: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Limited Warranty: 3-year customer replaceable unit and on-site limited warranty, next business day 9x5, service upgrades available
Specifications - NeXtScale n1200 Enclosure
Form Factor: 6U NeXtScale, standard rack
Bays: 12 half-wide bays
Power Supply: Six hot-swappable, non-redundant, N+N or N+1 redundant 80 PLUS® Platinum, high energy efficiency, 900W, and 1300W, & 1500W. 1300W Titanium
Fans: 10 hot-swappable
Controller: One fan and power controller
Cache: Last Level Cache (LLC) 2.5MB per processing core. 4 core = 10MB LLC; 8 core = 20MB LLC; 18 core = 45MB LLC; 22 cores = 55MB LLC
Power Management: Rack-level power capping and management via Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit (xCAT)
Systems Management: Integrated Management Module 2 (IMM2.1) with dedicated management port, IPMI 2.0 compliant, Platform LSF and Platform HPC
Operating Systems Supported: Microsoft Windows Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi)
Limited Warranty: 3-year customer replaceable unit and on-site limited warranty, next business day 9x5, service upgrades available
