Flex System Interoperability Guide

To meet today’s complex and ever-changing business demands, you need a solid foundation of compute, storage, networking, and software resources. This system must be simple to deploy, and be able to quickly and automatically adapt to changing conditions. You also need to be able to take advantage of broad expertise and proven guidelines in systems management, applications, hardware maintenance, and more.

Flex System is a no-compromise design that integrates servers, storage and networking in one chassis. The solution is easily scalable with the addition of another chassis with the required nodes. With Lenovo XClarity Administrator, multiple chassis can be monitored from a single panel. The 14 node, 10U chassis delivers high speed performance complete with integrated servers, storage, and networking. This flexible chassis is simple to deploy, and scales to meet your needs in the future.

This document is a reference to compatibility and interoperability of components inside and connected to Flex System solutions.

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Chapter 1. Chassis interoperability
Chapter 2. Compute node component compatibility
Chapter 3. Network interoperability
Chapter 4. Storage interoperability
Chapter 5. Software compatibility

Changes in the March 8 update:

• The following transceiver is supported on the EN4093R, SI4091 and SI4093 - Table 3-3 on page 57:
  • Lenovo 10GBASE-T SFP+ Transceiver, 7G17A03130

Related product families

Product families related to this document are the following:

• 1 Gb Embedded Connectivity
• 10 Gb Embedded Connectivity
• 25 Gb Embedded Connectivity
• 40 Gb Embedded Connectivity
• Blade Chassis
• Blade Expansion Units
• Blade Network Adapters
• Blade Networking Modules
• Blade Servers
• Blade Storage Adapters
• Blade Storage Modules
• Embedded SAN Switches
• InfiniBand Embedded Connectivity
• ThinkSystem SN550 Server
• ThinkSystem SN550 V2 Server
• ThinkSystem SN850 Server