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Lenovo – Think Agile VX Series – HCI

vSAN Hyperconverged Architecture

Differentiating yourself from the competition is vital in today’s fast-moving business environment. To support your business, IT systems must be simple, agile, and cost-effective so you can meet your customers’ requirements to be ever online. Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series enables you to meet these requirements by focusing on the business outcome you require, rather than on building your infrastructure.

ThinkAgile VX Series, powered by VMware vSAN, is available in several models. Each is preconfigured, pretested, and optimized to provide the simplest way to bring a new VMware hyperconverged environment online. If you have an existing VMware environment, the VX Series can integrate into it easily.

Designed for any size business from SMBs through large enterprises, VX Series can be used as infrastructure for remote office/branch office (ROBO) and retail stores as well as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and enterprise applications.

Buying vs. Building Infrastructure

Typically, VMware vSAN installation is very much a do-it-yourself project. Customers must configure, test, debug, optimize, validate, etc., on their own. However, ThinkAgile VX Series eliminates all of that time and effort by completing those steps before it leaves the factory.

VX Series arrives with the hardware configured, software installed, and Lenovo professional services to integrate it into your environment. This makes VX Series easy to deploy and provides faster time-to-value and reduces your costs.

VX Series is simple to manage and operate. With compute, storage, and virtualization resources integrated into a single node, it enables you to dramatically simplify your infrastructure by pooling multiple sets of node resources into a single virtual structure for more efficient utilization and management. Plus, the infrastructure scales rapidly to meet the growing needs of your business. Solutions include next-generation Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable family CPUs, with up to 36% total performance improvement compared to the previous generation.*

There is no need for expensive IT overprovisioning. You can wait until you actually need additional resources before you pay for them.

Flexibility and Choice

ThinkAgile VX Series comes in a wide range of platforms and provides the flexibility to configure the system you need to meet any use-case. Both all-flash and hybrid platforms are supported.

  • VX 1000 Series—General-purpose 1U 1-socket platform for small businesses and remote sites.
  • VX 2000 Series—General-purpose 1U 1-node platform optimized small and medium businesses.
  • VX 3000 Series—General-purpose 1U and 2U 1-node platform and 2U 4-node platform optimized for compute-heavy applications, such as VDI. The VX3520-G 2U 1-node platform is available with GPU hardware for accelerating graphics-intensive VDI deployments.
  • VX 5000 Series—Storage-dense 2U 1-node platform optimized for long-term, high-capacity storage requirements
  • VX 7000 Series—2U 1-node platform optimized for the highest-performance workloads, such as databases and collaboration.

Scalability and Performance

Based on Lenovo ThinkSystem platforms that incorporate powerful Intel® Xeon® processor Scalable family CPUs, VX Series allows you to start small, with as few as three nodes, and scale either by adding more storage capacity or by adding nodes one at a time. This enables you to scale capacity and performance easily and without disruption to day-to-day operations. All-flash models support inline de-duplication, compression, and encryption to give you an optimized, secure, high-performance platform with maximum usable capacity.

Fast Time-to-Business Use

All ThinkAgile platforms are delivered with Lenovo ThinkAgile Advantage. Lenovo Services will set up and configure your new solution and provide any training you need to get the system operational. Your VX Series will be up and running productively in hours instead of days or weeks.

Once your VX Series is deployed, you’ll have the utmost in productivity. After all, ThinkSystem servers have already achieved 127 world record benchmarks. And dating back to 2001, Lenovo servers have achieved more than 300 world record results, demonstrating a history of performance innovation.

Greater Reliability

A successful hyperconverged solution requires reliable server platforms. Because servers perform both the compute and pooled-storage missions, uptime is more important than ever.

For the fifth year in a row, Lenovo servers achieved the #1 reliability rating of all x86 servers worldwide, according to the ITIC 2017-2018 Global Server Hardware and OS Reliability Survey.† The independent survey polled hundreds of global businesses and once again Lenovo servers came out ahead of all other x86 servers.