Lenovo ThinkAgile SXM 3 4600 42U for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub

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Specifications

  • Form Factor 42U Rack cabinet (7D6DBHC3)
  • Dimensions Height: 2011 mm Width: 600 mm Depth: 1200 mm
  • Total rack load capacity 953 kg
  • Maximum rack weight 1588 kg
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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  

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.

Non-Strategic parts. Not stocked. Availability will be subject to lead times anywhere from 8-26 wks.

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 – FX3 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 V3  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.

  • ThinkAgile SXM solution specifications

    Form factor42U Rack cabinet (7D6DBHC3)
    DimensionsHeight: 2011 mm Width: 600 mm Depth: 1200 mm
    Total rack load capacity953 kg
    Maximum rack weight1588 kg
    AC power distribution4x C19/C13 PDUs: 3-Ph, 80A/200-240V C13/C19 PDU 3-Ph, 60A/200-240V C13/C19 PDU 3-Ph, 48A/200-240V C13/C19 PDU 3-Ph, 48A/346-415V C13/C19 PDU 3-Ph, 32A/200-240V C13/C19 PDU
    Hardware warrantyThree-, four, or five-year customer-replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty with ThinkAgile Advantage Support and selectable service levels: 9x5 next business day (NBD) parts delivered or onsite response, 24x7x4 or 24x7x2 onsite response or 6-hour or 24-hour committed repair (select countries). Also available are 1-year and 2-year post-warranty extensions, YourDrive YourData, and Premier Support.
    SoftwareMicrosoft Windows Server 2019 with Hyper-V, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Microsoft Azure Stack Hub, Lenovo XClarity Administrator Pro
    Base modelLenovo SXM630 V3 (7D73CTOAWW)
    Quantity1
    ProcessorTwo Intel Xeon Gold processors
    Memory128 GB (8x 16GB TruDDR5 RDIMMs). ECC, patrol scrubbing, and demand scrubbing memory protection
    Drive bays8x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA hot-swap
    Internal storage2x ThinkSystem 2.5" PM1655 800GB Mixed Use SAS 24Gb HS SSDs (RAID-1 boot volume)
    Storage controllerThinkSystem RAID 540-8i PCIe Adapter (12 Gbps SAS)
    Network interfacesManagement network: 1x 1 GbE dedicated XCC management port (RJ-45) VM/storage network: 1x ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx 10/25GbE SFP28 2-port PCIe Ethernet Adapter
    PortsFront: 1x USB 2.0 port with XClarity Controller access, 1x USB 3.0 port Rear: 2x USB 3.0 ports and 1x VGA port
    I/O expansion slotsBLKF V3 1U x16/x16 BF PCIe Gen4 Riser1 BLKG - V3 1U x16 PCIe Gen4 Riser2 Three slots: Slot 1: x16; low profile (for the network adapter) Slot 2: x16; low profile Slot 3: x16 (for the RAID adapter)
    Management featuresLenovo XClarity Controller 2 (XCC2) Enterprise, proactive platform alerts, light path diagnostics, Lenovo XClarity Administrator with Pro license
    Security featuresChassis intrusion switch, Power-on password, administrator's password, Root of Trust module supporting TPM 2.0 and Platform Firmware Resiliency (PFR). Optional lockable front security bezel
    VideoEmbedded graphics with 16 MB memory with 2D hardware accelerator, integrated into the XClarity Controller 2 management controller. Maximum resolution is 1920x1200 at 60 Hz with 32 bits per pixel
    CoolingSeven hot-swap system fans with N+1 redundancy
    Power suppliesTwo redundant hot-swap 750 W High Efficiency Platinum or Titanium AC power supplies
    VM/storage network2x Cisco Nexus 9300-FX3 Series Switch 25 GbE network switches, each with 48x 10/25 GbE SFP28/SFP+ and 6x 100 GbE QSFP28/QSFP+ ports
    VM network uplinks4x 10 GbE SFP+ SR or 4x 25 GbE SFP28 SR upstream connections (2x per switch) with customer-supplied MMF OM3 or OM4 fiber optic cables with LC connectors
    Cooling4x hot-swap fans
    Power supplies2x 460 W AC redundant hot-swap power supplies

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