Description
Modernize your hybrid cloud and accelerate AI capabilities to stay ahead with smarter, faster, and more efficient solutions.ThinkAgile MX and SXM Series allow customers to easily accelerate and modernize their AI and hybrid cloud infrastructure by enabling Azure cloud services at the edge and in their own datacenter.
ThinkAgile SXM 4600 42U Rack Â
Lenovo ThinkAgile SXM delivers a pre-integrated, easy-to-deploy rack-level solution for hybrid cloud to dramatically reduce time-to-value and total cost of ownership (TCO). The solution is based on Lenovo’s industry-leading data center infrastructure and Microsoft Azure Stack Hub, an extension of Microsoft Azure Services to on-premises environments.
Suggested workloads for the ThinkAgile SXM include virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), back-office applications, server consolidation, enterprise applications, databases, test and development environments, and hybrid and private cloud implementation. Starting with as few as four nodes to keep your acquisition costs down, the solution offers “pay as you grow” scalability as your needs grow.
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The ThinkAgile SXM4600 solution is built on a minimum of four innovative and reliable Lenovo SR650v3 2U compute and storage nodes, each equipped with two Intel® Xeon® Scalable Gold 6400 / Platinum 8400 series processors and expandable, a node at a time, to the rack maximum. The SR650v3 nodes are storage dense with a high performance caching tier of four SSDs and a capacity tier of ten HDDs. Each node utilizes a high speed, dual port 10/25GbE Mellanox ConnectX™-6 network adapter and connects to a 25Gbps SN2410 rack switch.
Business with Innovation & Industry-Leading AI Solutions
ThinkAgile MX is a fully engineered, jointly validated, and integrated solution that can extend any Azure Arc-enabled infrastructure from hybrid multi-cloud environments to the data center and the Edge. It also helps you quickly build and operate applications and services from Edge to Cloud with flexible storage and enhanced processing for AI inferencing at the Edge.
ThinkAgile SXM delivers a pre-integrated, easy-to-deploy solution that dramatically reduces time-to-value by seamlessly integrating infrastructure across applications, which reduces ownership costs. It also offers Azure cloud services from the security of your own data center and unifies application development across the entire hybrid cloud environment.
What’s New?
ThinkAgile MX V4 Series with Intel® Xeon® 6 Processors. Scale your Azure workloads from Edge to Cloud.
- ThinkAgile MX650a V4 – Supports up to 4 double-wide GPUs to enable AI training, inferencing and data visualization scenarios, HPC workloads, and virtual desktops and graphics intensive applications.
- ThinkAgile MX V4 Series supports 34% more AVD users per node and 1.4x increase in compute performance.
- Simplified and centralized management, scalability, and integration with Azure services.
Did you know?
The ThinkAgile SXM ships fully integrated into a rack cabinet, tested, configured, and ready to be plugged in and turned on; it is designed to integrate into an existing infrastructure effortlessly, to accelerate time to value and reduce infrastructure maintenance costs.
There is no up-front cloud software license acquisition cost for the ThinkAgile SXM solution, monthly billing is based on the actual resource usage (capacity-based licenses are also available).
Lenovo provides ThinkAgile Advantage Single Point of Support for the entire ThinkAgile solution with the nodes, networking, and software, for quicker problem determination and minimized downtime.
Key features
The Lenovo ThinkAgile SXM solution integrates computing, storage, networking, and management, and it is designed with industry-standard building blocks, including hyperconverged nodes that are built on powerful and highly reliable Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and Microsoft Azure Stack Hub software that extends Azure technologies on-premises.
The ThinkAgile SXM4600 solution is housed in a 42U rack and can be scaled from 4 to 16 nodes.
The solution can also be deployed in a customer-provided rack cabinet with scaling from 4 to 16 nodes.
ThinkAgile SXM offers the following key features:
- Scalable ThinkAgile SXM configurations of an on-premises, hyperconverged, hybrid cloud platform designed to optimize workload performance and provide the IT agility for business demands.
- Flexible monthly billing that is based on actual resource usage helps lower acquisition cost for the entire solution by eliminating upfront cloud software licensing fees.
- Factory-integrated, pre-configured ready-to-go solutions that are delivered in a Lenovo rack cabinet or can be installed in a customer-provided rack cabinet, with all the hardware customers need for their workloads: servers, storage, and network switches, plus Azure Stack Hub cloud software and Lenovo XClarity hardware management tools.
- Designed for effortless integration into existing infrastructures, thereby reducing deployment time and saving money.
- Lenovo deployment services that are included with the solution help get customers up and running quickly.
- Proven and reliable Lenovo ThinkSystem servers featuring the fourth generation of the Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Family provide compute power for a variety of workloads and applications.
- Microsoft Azure Stack Hub provides a scalable, highly available solution for hybrid cloud extension to deliver Microsoft Azure cloud services on-premises with integrated compute, networking, storage, security, and management services that manage VM lifecycle and automate and orchestrate workload provisioning.
- Powerful tools to manage both hardware and applications that come with the ThinkAgile SXM simplify and automate the management of the entire cloud solution, allowing customers to manage the infrastructure as a single system, rather than as individual components.
- Lenovo ThinkAgile Advantage provides a single point of contact for all support issues that customers might encounter with the server, networking, storage, and software used in the solution, for quicker problem determination and minimized downtime.
Components
The ThinkAgile SXM solution consists of the following hardware components:
- One ThinkSystem SXM630 V3 management node.
- ThinkSystem SXM650 V3 hyperconverged scale unit nodes:
- SXM4600 42U, or customer-provided rack cabinet: From 4 to 16 nodes.
- Three Cisco Nexus N9K – FX3Â 25 GbE network switches.
The SXM630 V3 management node, referred to as the “Hardware Lifecycle Host” or “HLH”, provides hardware management services and includes the following software components:
- Windows Server 2022 with Hyper-V
- Lenovo XClarity Administrator VM: Provides hardware management services.
The SXM650 V3Â hyperconverged scale unit nodes provide compute and storage resources and include the following software components:
- Windows Server 2022 with Hyper-V.
- Azure Stack Hub software: Provides scalable hybrid cloud platform.
Network connectivity is provided by three Cisco network switches. Two Cisco Nexus N9K-C93180YC-FX3 switches provide 25GbE throughput for general network traffic. These switches are referred to as “TOR-1” and “TOR-2″. A single Cisco Nexus N9K-C9348GC-FX3 switch provides 1GbE throughput for management traffic. This switch is referred to as the “BMC” switch
The front and rear views of the ThinkAgile SXM4600 Hybrid 42U are shown in the following figure. Scale unit nodes 05-16 are optional.



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