ThinkAgile VX

Overview
Hyperconverged Infrastructure solution for VMware environments
October 2022

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Agenda
Part 1: Industry Trends & Why Lenovo ThinkAgile VX
• HCI adoption drivers and vSAN Benefits
• Why Lenovo ThinkAgile VX
• Customers reviews

Part 2: Key use cases for ThinkAgile VX

• Path to Hybrid Cloud
• Modern workloads and applications
• Datacenter modernization

Part 3: ThinkAgile VX
• Customer choice
• Product overview
• Lenovo management software

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 Hyperconverged Infrastructure is gaining traction
exponentially. Key drivers:

Edge to Core Modernization Hybrid Cloud Simplified Scalability at

with built-in security Adoption management reduced IT Costs

From infrastructure silos to Infrastructure that links cloud HCI eliminates manual tasks HCI’s non-disruptive
integrated systems managed by native applications on premise by simplified workflows and scalability strengths which
existing tools with cloud experience automation also reduce IT costs

Innovation Drivers: Edge Computing | Cloud-like consumption models | 5G | ML/AI Modeling | next-
gen hardware (e.g., processors and TCL NVMe devices)

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 VX
Simplify IT and Accelerate
Business Value
Supports all VMware Software, including vSphere, vSAN, VCF, Tanzu

75%
Faster deployments than
Complete Engineered solution
previous versions (from 4hrs to
Pretested and pre-validated for enhanced ease of configuration ~ 1hr to set up a 3node cluster)

Simplified operations with single platform o

Integration with familiar VMware tools for lifecycle management 360
visibility with enhanced
monitoring and system health
Single point of Support checks
Limit system downtime with 1 contact for the entire solution stack

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Accelerate time to Value with ThinkAgile VX Integrated System

Simplify Higher ROI on Guaranteed

Operations & VMware Compliance &
Lower cost Software IT Security
Faster time to value with Purchase only required SW Flexible and frequent Best
simplified deployment and licenses and transfer Recipes for the latest
leverage familiar tools for license as needed to firmware and security
lifecycle maximize investment patch updates
- ThinkAgile VX Deployer, Lenovo - vCenter licenses are not - Major and minor Best recipe
xClarity Integrator into vCenter mandatory for each VX node releases
- System Monitoring with HW - Flexibility in choosing the desired
Topology view update state

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Why Lenovo ThinkAgile VX

VMware Partnership Software Integration

Collaboration with VMware = a proven Lenovo software fully integrates

and tested, engineered HCI solution into VMware for easy deployment
that supports VMware software and system lifecycle management

Reliability & Performance Flexible Choices

ThinkAgile VX built on #1 most ThinkAgile VX provides the broadest
reliable servers with >300 selection of configuration options
performance benchmark records from multiple vendors

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“We are delighted with the “We now have the option to “The Hybrid environment has
performance, reliability, and scale in a way that we didn’t allowed expansion through
stability of the Lenovo before. Efficiency has the public cloud. If a new
ThinkAgile VX platform. We increased and we are able to project brings significant
barely need touch the cluster; cope with customer results, then we can expand
it just runs and runs” requirements at a faster and scale horizontally on our
speed” local site”

Pardeep Dhiman, Thomas Rumpf, Nikita Vernigora

Sr Sys Admin, Memjet Australia CTO Private Cloud Head of IT Crystal Service Integration

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Use cases
Hybrid Cloud | Modern Apps | DC Modernization

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Hybrid Cloud Environment with VMware Cloud Foundation

• Single storage platform for

virtual machines and
containers (when integrated
Edge Edge Edge
with Tanzu)
Core HCI on Comprehensive Scale from core to
• Consistent operations On- premises Private Cloud Multi Cloud
premises and in the Cloud
• SDDC Manager automates
the deployment and vSAN + vSphere
configuration of vSAN
ThinkAgile VX
• HCI powered by vSAN can
lower CapEx and OpEx costs
SDDC Manager – automated LCM

ThinkAgile VX

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 Adopt Edge to Cloud Applications

Business Applications | DevOps | Data Management (E.g., Backup)

Client Virtualization | Big Data and Analytics

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Data center modernization

• Eliminates infrastructure silos

Hyper-converged
Infrastructure
• Easy deployment

• Reduced time during upgrades

• Modernize for whatever comes

next, e.g., adoption of Hybrid

Cloud, ROBO / Edge

expansion, etc
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 AI Ready Enterprise Platforms with
unified management and support for
multiple use cases
• Data Center AI Training and Inferencing
• Edge AI inferencing
• Data Analytics and Machine Learning
(ML) modeling

GPU Workload flexibility with more

compute and lower costs
• Support for single GPU per VM or GPU sharing
• A16, A30, A40, A100
• DPIO Certified

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Edge to Cloud

CORE DATA
CENTER
Hybrid Cloud Multi Cloud DC Infrastructure

EDGE

INDUSTRIES AND
Retail Manufacturing Healthcare USE CASES
• Immersive customer experience • Quality Management • Clinical decision support
• Automated check out • Inventory Management • Customer service
• Inventory Management • Video surveillance and analysis • Supply chain logistics

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ThinkAgile VX
Choices | Product Overview | Management Software

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Lenovo vSAN Choices
Flexibility and convenience for any business need

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ThinkAgile VX with ThinkAgile VX ThinkAgile VX ThinkSystem

TruScale Integrated System Certified Node vSAN Ready Node
Cloud-like experience with Engineered solution with Fully validated ,pre- Build your own system
Lenovo Managed as a VMware licenses, deployer configured hardware and (customer is responsible
service offering for Hybrid software and deployment firmware, VMware licenses for all sys configuration
Cloud services not included and validation)

Recommended

EASE OF DEPLOYMENT BUILD YOUR OWN

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 Building Blocks

Series: 2000 3000 5000 7000

1U 1U, 2U1-N & 2U4N 2U 1N 2U & 4U

Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC
processors processors processors processors
Use cases: VDI, Video Use cases: Compute- Use cases: High- Optimized for business-
surveillance, heavy& GPU enabled Capacity storage needs critical workloads
Edge/ROBO, co-lo use apps that require high- such as big data / requiring highest-
cases performance analytics, email, large performance, such as
virtualization databases email, collaboration and
databases like SAP
HANA
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Simplify deployment, lifecycle management and maintain operational transparency
using ThinkAgile VX Deployer tool and Lenovo XClarity Integrator (LXCi)

Hyper-converged
Deployment Automation
Infrastructure
Deploying new or expand existing clusters with in-step validation
and automation for repetitive deployments

Simplified Lifecycle Management

Integrate with vLCM for rolling system updates with 1-click updates
and near zero interruptions to desired state

Monitoring Alerts
Hardware inventory view and system visibility to monitor health,
capacity & performance of resources

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Simplify Hybrid
Cloud adoption 40% TCO 100% more VM
on ThinkAgile VX improvement density
V3 with 4th Gen
Intel® Xeon®
Scalable • Accelerated performance with optimized storage compression
processors and techniques and GPU support
4th Gen AMD • Support for vSphere 8, vSAN 8 (OSA and ESA support)
EPYC™ • Lower latency & improved security with DPU support
• Enhanced data protection and backup management
Processors

Workloads and Use cases:

Ideal for Hybrid Multi Cloud solutions, Business critical apps, VDI with Horizon,
Cloud native DevOps with Tanzu and AI/ML support

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Key Takeaways

• ThinkAgile VX is a complete engineered solution in

partnership with VMware

• Ideal for most use cases and supports workloads at

the edge, in the core data center and in the cloud

• ThinkAgile VX is offers the broadest selection of

options and consumption models under 1 single
point of contact – Lenovo with transparent lifecycle
management of the entire solution stack (HW+SW)

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