Lenovo ThinkSystem SN550 Blade Server Supply
Half-height blade with XClarity Controller management.
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Blade servers
Blade server supply
Blade systems pack compute into a shared enclosure: power, cooling, networking and management are provided by the chassis, and each blade is a self-contained server that slides into it. The blade line we supply is built around the Lenovo ThinkSystem SN550 half-height blade.
Models and lines we supply
Lenovo ThinkSystem Server Supply
The wider ThinkSystem range, rack, tower and blade together.
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The rack alternative for estates that do not need blade density.
View supply options →Where blades earn their chassis
Blades make sense when node count is high and the nodes are alike: virtualisation farms, VDI hosts and scale-out services where a shared backplane cuts cabling and every slot runs the same image. The enclosure concentrates power delivery and cooling, so per-node overheads fall as the chassis fills.
They make less sense for a handful of mixed servers. Below a full enclosure, rack servers give the same compute with simpler sparing, which is why we ask about node count and growth before quoting a blade configuration.
What to specify
Enclosure population now and at full build, the per-blade processor and memory target, and the fabric the chassis must speak to. We quote the enclosure and blades as one configuration.
Questions buyers ask
What does half-height mean?
A half-height blade occupies half the vertical slot space of the enclosure bay design, so more blades fit per chassis. The SN550 is a half-height module.
Can blades and rack servers be quoted together?
Yes. Mixed estates are common; send both lists and they are quoted as one order.
Price a configuration like this
Send the model name, your target configuration and the delivery destination. We reply with a configuration-matched quote and the checks to run before shipment.