The Lenovo ThinkServer TS460 is the ideal server for small and medium businesses, remote or branch offices, and retail environments. It features the latest Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 v6 product family with four cores and support for up to 64 GB of 2400 MHz TruDDR4 UDIMM memory. Up to 96 TB of internal enterprise-class storage supports storage-intensive workloads, such as office applications, web, e-mail and file and print serving, and provides growth capacity.

This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the ThinkServer TS460 offering, its key features and specifications, components and options, and configuration guidelines.

This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about the ThinkServer TS460 and consider its use in IT solutions.

Notes:

• This Product Guide describes currently available models of the Lenovo ThinkServer TS460 with the Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6, Core i3 6100/6300/7100/7300, Pentium G6100/6300/7100/7300, and Celeron G3900 Series processors.
• For models of the Lenovo ThinkServer TS460 with the Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5, Core i3 6100/6300, Pentium G6100/6300, and Celeron G3900 Series processors, see the following Product Guide: Lenovo ThinkServer TS460 (Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5, Core i3, Pentium/Celeron G Series Processors).

Changes in the October 17 update:

• Added 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch S4600 Enterprise Mainstream 6 Gbps SATA hot-swap SSDs
• Added 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch S4500 Enterprise Entry 6 Gbps SATA hot-swap SSDs
• Updated Lenovo Storage DX8200D and DX8200C part numbers

Introduction

The Lenovo ThinkServer TS460 is the ideal server for small and medium businesses, remote or branch offices, and retail environments. It features the latest Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 v6 product family with four cores and support for up to 64 GB of 2400 MHz TruDDR4 UDIMM memory. Also, it offers an integrated dual-port 1 GbE NIC and additional PCIe expansion slots for advanced RAID protection, network scalability (including 10 GbE network connectivity), and external storage connectivity (SAS or iSCSI). Up to 96 TB of internal enterprise-class storage supports storage-intensive workloads, such as office applications, web, e-mail and file and print serving, and provides growth capacity.

Figure 1. Lenovo ThinkServer TS460

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The ThinkServer TS460 offers enterprise-class reliability features such as error correcting code (ECC), hot-swap components, and advanced RAID protection with flexible storage configurations at an affordable price.

The ThinkServer Management Module built into the ThinkServer TS460 offers easy-to-use, enterprise-class manageability to monitor server availability and perform remote management.

The ThinkServer TS460 offers office-quiet acoustics, and it fits under or beside an office desk.

Key features

The ThinkServer TS460 is a tower server that has been optimized to provide enterprise-class features to growing small-to-medium-sized businesses, retail stores, and distributed enterprises.

Scalability and performance

The ThinkServer TS460 offers numerous features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs:

• The Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 v6 improves productivity by offering affordable single-socket system performance with 4-core processors with up to 3.9 GHz core speeds and up to 8 MB cache.
• 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 going beyond processor thermal design power (TDP).
• Intel Hyper-Threading Technology boosts performance for multithreaded applications by enabling simultaneous multithreading within each processor core, up to two threads per core.
• Intel Virtualization Technology integrates hardware-level virtualization hooks that allow operating system vendors to better use the hardware for virtualization workloads.
• Up to four 2400 MHz TruDDR4 ECC UDIMMs provide speed and capacity of up to 64 GB.
• The server offers PCI Express 3.0 I/O expansion capabilities that increase the theoretical maximum bandwidth by almost 100% (8 GTps per link using 128b/130b encoding) compared to the PCI Express 2.0 (5 GTps per link using 8b/10b encoding).
• With Intel Integrated I/O Technology, the PCI Express 3.0 controller is integrated into the Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 v6 product family. Such integration reduces I/O latency and increases overall system performance.
• Up to 16x 2.5-inch, or 8x 3.5-inch, or a combination of 8x 2.5-inch and 4x 3.5-inch hot-swap (HS) drive bays, including support for 2.5-inch SSDs in a 3.5-inch conversion tray, provide flexible internal storage configurations and capacity.
• The use of solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of, or along with, traditional spinning drives (hard disk drives or HDDs) can significantly improve I/O performance.

Availability and serviceability

The ThinkServer TS460 provides many features to simplify serviceability and increase system uptime:

• The server supports UDIMM memory with ECC protection which provides error correction not available in PC-class "servers" that use parity memory. Avoiding system crashes (and data loss) due to soft memory errors means greater system uptime.
• Tool-less cover removal provides easy access to upgrades and serviceable parts, such as memory and adapter cards.
• A choice of affordable onboard SATA RAID or advanced hardware RAID redundancy offers data protection and greater system uptime.
• The use of SSDs can provide better reliability than the use of traditional HDDs, for greater uptime.
• Built-in ThinkServer Management Module (TMM) continuously monitors system parameters, sends alerts, and enables administrators to perform remote recovery actions to minimize downtime.
• The ThinkServer EasyUpdate firmware update tool enables you to keep your server firmware up-to-date and helps you avoid unnecessary server outages.
• The ThinkServer Diagnostics software speeds up troubleshooting tasks to reduce service time.
• One-year or three-year customer-replaceable unit (CRU) and onsite limited warranty with next business day response. Optional service upgrades are available.

Energy efficiency

The ThinkServer TS460 offers the following energy-efficiency features to save energy, reduce operational costs, increase energy availability, and contribute to a green environment:

• 80 PLUS Gold-certified power supplies enable greater energy savings while providing flexibility to meet your business needs.
• The ThinkServer Power Planner tool provides information about the power consumption and electric current calculation for the different configurations of servers and other devices, which helps plan deployment of servers and devices in an efficient way.
• Intel Intelligent Power Capability powers individual processor elements on and off as needed, to reduce power draw.