Lenovo ThinkSystem SN550 vs Supermicro SuperBlade SBI-4129P-C2N
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Lenovo ThinkSystem SN550 is a half-wide 2-socket blade server engineered for the Flex System Enterprise Chassis. The Supermicro SBI-4129P-C2N is a dual-processor SuperBlade server blade module engineered for the 4U and 8U SuperBlade chassis.
| Lenovo ThinkSystem SN550 | Supermicro SuperBlade SBI-4129P-C2N | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Lenovo | Supermicro |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jul 2017 | Jun 2018 |
| Form factor | blade | blade |
| Processor | Up to 2x 1st or 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 28 cores each (up to 205W TDP) | — |
| Memory | 24x DDR4 DIMM slots (12 per CPU) supporting up to 3TB DDR4-2933 ECC RDIMM/LRDIMM | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 2x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe hot-swap SSDs plus dual internal M.2 boot drives | 2x 2.5-inch hot-swap NVMe/SAS3 |
| Expansion slots | 2x PCIe 3.0 x16 I/O mezzanine slots connecting to Flex System midplane fabric switches | — |
| Network | Mezzanine I/O cards supporting dual or quad-port 10GbE, 25GbE, or 16Gb/32Gb Fibre Channel | — |
| Power supply | Shared power and cooling delivered through the Flex System Enterprise Chassis | — |
| Management | Lenovo XClarity Controller (XCC) | — |
| Form factor | — | blade |
| Sockets | — | 2 |
| Processor family | — | Intel Xeon Scalable (1st/2nd Gen) |
| Memory slots | — | 16 |
| Max memory | — | 4TB DDR4-2933 |
| Power supplies | — | Chassis-shared Redundant Titanium |
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