Lenovo M.2 Enablement Kit

High-speed RAID controllers. Provide 12 Gb SAS connectivity to the drive backplanes. A variety of RAID adapters are available, with cache up to 4 TB and support for 12 drives on a single controller. 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 XClarity administrator. Offers comprehensive hardware management tools that help to increase uptime reduce costs and improve productivity through advanced server management capabilities. Industry-standard advanced encryption standard (AES) NI support for faster and stronger encryption. Intel Execute Disable Bit functionality can prevent certain classes of malicious buffer overflow attacks when combined with a supported operating system. Intel Trusted Execution Technology provides enhanced security through hardware-based resistance to malicious software attacks, allowing an application to run in own isolated space, protected from all other software running on a system. Intel Virtualization Technology. Integrates hardware-level virtualization hooks that allow operating system vendors to better use the hardware for virtualization workloads. Low-voltage 1.2 V DDR4 memory. Offers energy savings compared to 1.35 V and 1.5 V DDR3 DIMMs. Advanced data center. Optional Lenovo XClarity Energy Manager provide advanced data center power notification, analysis, and policy-based management to help achieve lower heat output and reduced cooling needs. Intelligent and adaptive system. Performance with Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 allows processor cores to run at maximum speeds during peak workloads by temporarily exceeding processor TDP. Solid-state drives (SSDs). Consume less power than mechanical 2.5-inch HDDs. The use of solid-state drives (SSDs). Instead of, or along with, mechanical hard disk drives (HDDs), can improve I/O performance. An SSD can support up to 100 times more I/O operations per second (IOPS) than a typical HDD. Supports a Lenovo-patented M.2 adapter. Design for convenient operating system boot functions. Available M.2 adapters support either one M.2 drive, or two M.2 drives in a RAID 1 configuration, for the boot drive performance and reliability. Efficient airflow. The server uses hexagonal ventilation holes, which can be grouped more densely than round holes, providing more efficient airflow through the system. Integrated trusted platform module (TPM) 2.0. Support enables advanced cryptographic functionality, such as digital signatures and remote attestation. Intel hyper-threading technology. Boosts performance for multithreaded applications by enabling simultaneous multithreading within each processor core, up to two threads per core. The server includes an XClarity Controller (XCC). Monitor server availability and perform remote management. XCC Enterprise is included as standard, which enables remote KVM and remote media files (ISO and IMG image files), boot capture, and power capping. Support. for up to 96 TruDDR4 DIMMs operating at 2666 MHz means you have the fastest available memory subsystem and memory capacity of up to 12 TB using 96x 128 GB 3DS RDIMMs. Energy-efficient planar. Components help lower operational costs. Supports secure boot. Ensure that only a digitally signed operating system can be used. Supported with HDDs and SSDs as well as M.2 drives in the M.2 Adapter. Reduces energy draw. Intel Intelligent Power Capability powers individual processor elements on and off as needed, to reduce energy draw. 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. Flexible slot. The server has a dedicated flexible LAN-on-motherboard (LOM) slot offering a variety of 10 GbE or Gigabit Ethernet adapters that do not occupy one of the standard PCIe slots.