ThinkAgile VX Series

Modernize your IT infrastructure with Lenovo ThinkAgile VX

• Supports DDR5 Memory and PCIe Gen5 critical for AI/ML
• 1.5x performance improvement¹
• Hardware accelerator support with data processing units (DPU) for Intel platforms
  • 27% lower latency²
  • 20% Core savings²
  • 36% Higher transaction processing²

Sources:
1 - Lenovo internal testing
2 - VMware internal testing August 2022

ThinkAgile VX V3 1U Front View 8x 2.5" drive bays

ThinkAgile VX V3 2U Front View 8x 3.5" drive bays

vSAN Hyperconverged Architecture

Differentiating yourself from the competition is vital in today’s fast-moving business environment. Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series enables you to focus on the business outcome rather than on building your infrastructure by providing simple, agile, and cost-effective solutions to support your business needs.

ThinkAgile VX Series helps you modernize your data center or implement a hybrid cloud with VMware Cloud Foundation by arriving from the factory as a complete engineered system, preconfigured, tested, validated, software preloaded and optimized to provide the simplest way to bring a new VMware environment online. Available in several models, VX Series allows you to start with as few as three nodes and scale capacity and performance easily, without disruption to day-to-day operations.

VX Series is also available as a pay-as-you go OpEX model via TruScale Infrastructure services that offer a cloud-like experience with metering capabilities that eliminate overprovisioning. Services include Infrastructure as a service and TruScale Hybrid Cloud with VMware.

Infrastructure Performance and Reliability

ThinkAgile VX supports the latest 5th or 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® processor family CPUs or AMD 4th Generation EPYC™ Series Processors, that boast enhancements in performance, security, and energy efficiency. These new generations support new DDR memory, PCIe Gen5 PCIe I/O and our Intel platforms will also enable hardware accelerator (Data Processing Unit – DPU) support. Both all-flash and hybrid platforms are supported. All-flash models support inline de-duplication, compression, and encryption to give you an optimized, secure, high-performance platform with maximum usable capacity.

ThinkAgile VX Series offers the broadest selection of components that are vSAN compliant giving customers the flexibility to configure the systems they need to meet any use-case. For 9 years in a row, Lenovo servers have held the #1 reliability rating among all x86 server brands worldwide, according to the latest ITIC Global Server Hardware and OS Reliability Survey.† This same independent survey also ranked Lenovo servers as one the most secure systems in the market today.

Simplified Operations and Lifecycle Management

Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series streamlines the deployment, configuration, and management of your HCI environments with full integration directly into vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) for single pane of glass management via Lenovo XClarity integrator (LXCi) Hardware Support Manager (HSM). vLCM simplifies and speeds up software and hardware firmware updating with task automation via Best Recipes. These are released frequently throughout the year to ensure you are compliant and secure. This enables you to free up valuable personnel for more productive tasks.

Support variety workloads based on unique use cases

Designed for any size business from SMBs through large enterprises, VX Series can be used as infrastructure in the core data center or for remote office/branch office (ROBO) and retail stores. Supports a wide variety of applications such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) applications, SQL and Oracle databases, business critical enterprise applications like SAP HANA, Online Transaction Processing OLTP for retail and airline industry. Use cases range from data center modernization, deploying a hybrid cloud, leveraging cloud native applications on premise as well as backup and disaster recovery while leveraging external storage solutions like Lenovo ThinkSystem DE and DM storage.

Single Point of Support

Lenovo ThinkAgile gives you a direct phone line to a team of experts who specialize in ThinkAgile solutions. The experts will rapidly diagnose any hardware or software issues and remain with you as the single-point-of-contact throughout the entire support process. Lenovo also provides comprehensive services such as deployment services, assessment workshops, hybrid cloud assessment, enterprise server software support, managed services, and health checks.

Licensing

VMware vSAN, vSphere and vCenter Server software are required for ThinkAgile VX Series systems. Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Integrated Systems are bundled with VMware vSAN licenses. Licenses can be purchased either as perpetual or subscription-based models. For vSphere and vCenter Server, you can purchase software licenses and support from Lenovo, or you can use your existing VMware software licenses and active support contracts.

VMware licenses purchased from Lenovo are not subject to vendor lock-in and are transferable once they initially land on a Lenovo system.