Invisible Infrastructure with the

Lenovo Converged HX Series

Nutanix Appliance
Mike Dilio, WW Product Marketing Manager
January 2016

The Best IT Infrastructure Is

Infrastructure You Cant See

Complexity of Legacy Infrastructure

Hypervisor
Storage

Switches
Adapters
Servers

SAN/NAS
Storage
Network

Networking

Centralized Storage
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Lenovo Choice: Invisible Infrastructure

Hypervisor
Storage

Hypervisor

AHV*
KVM

Lenovo HX Appliance
With Nutanix

Switches
Adapters
Servers
Networking

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Networking

AHV* = built-in Acropolis Hypervisor

Enterprise Infrastructure with Web-Scale Virtues

Web-scale
Infrastructure
All of the benefits of
Public Cloud & Enterprise
Data Center computing
Enterprise Data Center

SLAs
Privacy and control
Wide range of
workloads
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Public Cloud

Agility
Predictable scale
Lower TCO
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HX Series Advantages
Simple
To Deploy
Ease of
Management

Lower
Opex and
Capex

Preloaded,
fully tested,
integrated
datacenter
building
blocks

Smaller
footprint

Industry
Leading
Reliability

Limitless Scalability
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Lenovo HX Appliance Solutions for the Data Center

Enterprise
Databases

Business
Applications

Private & Hybrid

Clouds

VDI

Big Data

Data Protection &

Disaster Recovery
Unified
Comm

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Branch
Office

Lenovo Converged HX Series Nutanix Appliance

Simplify IT Infrastructure and Accelerate Time-to-Value
Simplicity Simplify IT Infrastructure through Lenovo and Nutanix
common vision which significant reduces time and resources to
maintain

Reduced Cost Reduce cost and accelerate time to value with the
combination of Lenovo x86 platform and Nutanix software

Reliability Deliver greater reliability with Lenovo servers coupled

with ease of use and high performance
Compute Heavy
Storage Heavy
High-Performance
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Lenovo servers achieve highest reliability rating

Lenovo:
Dell:

#1
of
11
#9

of 11 3 years running1
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#10
Oracle: #11 of 11
HP:

of 111

ITIC Global Server Hardware,

Reliability Report- 2015-2016

ITIC 2015-2016 Reliability Survey, July 2015

http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/system-x/pdfs/white-papers/itic_2015_reliability_wp.pdf
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Lenovo servers gain #1 customer satisfaction score

#1

for 14 out of 16 quarters for 22 elements

across service, product and sales indices
#1 Customer Satisfaction Rating1

TBR Satisfaction Indices

Rank

Overall Customer Satisfaction

#1

Service Satisfaction

#1

Product Satisfaction

#1

Sales Responsiveness

#1

TBR 2Q15 Customer Satisfaction Survey, August 2015, http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/system-x/pdfs/white-papers/tbr_x86servers_top_csat_2q15_wp.pdf

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Lenovo Converged HX Series

Portfolio

Lenovo Converged HX Series

Lenovo and Nutanix Partnership
Deliver best-in-class appliance to combat IT
challenges

Compute-heavy Workloads: HX3500

Ideal for all virtual applications
Extreme reliability, dependable security
Predictable scalability
Simplified Management
Faster time-to-value

Storage-heavy Workloads: HX5500

The focus of the Lenovo HX Series is threefold:

1) Simplify IT infrastructure
2) Reduce costs and accelerate time to value
3) Deliver greater reliability

High Performance Workloads: HX7500

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Details

Lenovo Converged HX3500

Characteristics
2U design with 8 x 2.5 drives. HDD & SDD
1 x 2.5 SSD boot drive
10GbE dual port Ethernet NIC (optional 2nd)
Redundant hot swap power supplies
Engineered for compute-heavy workloads
HX3500

Optimized for VDI and smaller workloads

Target Workloads
Business
Applications

VDI

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Lenovo Converged HX5500

Characteristics
2U design with 8 x 3.5 drives. HDD & SDD
1 x 2.5 SSD boot drive
10GbE dual port Ethernet NIC (optional 2nd)
Redundant hot swap power supplies
Engineered for storage-heavy workloads
HX5500

Optimized for virtualization and big data

Target Workloads

Big Data
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Lenovo Converged HX7500

Characteristics
2U design with 24 x 2.5 drives. HDD & SDD
1 x 2.5 SSD boot drive
2 x 10GbE dual port Ethernet NIC
Redundant hot swap power supplies
Engineered for high-performance workloads
HX7500

Optimized for Databases & I/O Intensive

Target Workloads
Enterprise
Applications

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Software

Nutanix Software
The Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform software is comprised of 2
key parts:
Scale-out
Capabilities

Space
Efficiency

Acropolis
Data
Protection
& Security

Data
Services

Disaster
Recovery

One-click
Infrastructure
Management

Automated
Data
Tiering

Prism

One-click
Operational
Insights

Management
Services
One-click
Remediation
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Hypervisor Support
The Lenovo HX Series currently supports 2 hypervisors:
Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (built-in at no additional charge)
VMware ESXi Hypervisor

ESXi

AHV
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Hardware Management:
Lenovo XClarity Administrator or Lenovo XClarity Pro
Lenovo XClarity is a single, centralized point of management for the Lenovo
hardware that speeds up data center operations by automating tasks, providing
detailed hardware system inventory information and status, and performing realtime hardware monitoring, fault detection and alert handling/forwarding.

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Nutanix Software Editions

HX Series Nutanix Software Editions

Starter

Pro

1.

Core set of Nutanix

software functionality with
every model

1.

Adds rich data services,

along with resilience and
management features

2.

Ideal for small deployments

with a limited set of
workloads

2.

Ideal for enterprises

running multiple apps on a
Nutanix cluster or with
large-scale single workload
deployments

3.

No license key required

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Ultimate
1.

Offers full suite of Nutanix

software capabilities to
tackle complex
infrastructure challenges

2.

Ideal for multi-site

deployments and for
meeting advanced security
needs

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Lenovo Warranty & Services

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Lenovo Warranty & Professional Services

Single point of support through Lenovo
Lenovo owns the support contact with the client
Soft hand off to Nutanix for any SW related issues
3 year and 5 year warranty for the appliance
Additional 1 year available for clients that purchased 3 year
(max 5 year)

Professional Services
Nutanix Cluster Services (add-on: Managed Services of Cluster Services)
Professional Services Offerings:
1) Design and Implementation for RedHat CloudForms
2) Design and Implementation for VMware SDDC
3) Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (leveraging Nutanix technology)

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Proposed Services Offerings

Professional Services
Professional Services Delivered
Deployment Services for Nutanix Clusters
Migration Services for Nutanix Clusters
Design and Implementation for VDI on Nutanix Clusters
Health Check for Nutanix Clusters
Technical Resource Management on Nutanix Clusters
Managed Services for Nutanix Clusters

Nutanix Delivered
Workload Deployment and Optimization Services on Nutanix Clusters
Development and Integration Services for Nutanix APIs
Private Cloud Automation Services on Nutanix Clusters (VMware vCAC & Microsoft HyperV)

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Lenovos Comprehensive Global Network

160
Countries

11
Global
Research
Labs

10,000+
IT Support
Specialists

114
Development
Labs

Norway
Toronto, Canada
Memphis, TN
Mexico
42
Contact Centers
35
Languages

Atlanta, GA

Dallas, TX

Slovakia
Poland Russia
Netherlands
Romania
Israel
Switzerland
Istanbul
Greece
Turkey
Egypt Dubai

Colombia
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Johannesburg

Korea
Beijing

India

Hong Kong
Zhu Hai
Malaysia

Japan

Taiwan
Philippines

Australia

Argentina

3,000
Customer
Locations
Depot and/or Parts Centers
Customer
Contact Locations
Parts
Centers Contact
Field Service Locations
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Summary
The Lenovo HX Series with Nutanix software,
powered by Intel Xeon processors,
enables you to simplify your IT infrastructure
and focus on the applications that power your business

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Nutanix Software Features

Starter Edition

Adds for Pro Edition

Cluster limited to 12 nodes

Enterprise
Storage
Infrastructure
Resilience
Data protection

Unlimited Cluster Size

Heterogeneous Clusters
Data Tiering
Inline Compression
Inline Performance De-duplication

MapReduce Compression

Data Path Redundancy fixed at 2

Tunable Data Path Redundancy 2 or 3

Availability domains

1-1 Replication & Disaster Recovery

Bi-directional Replication & DR
Online Cluster Grow/Shrink

Security
Management
& Analytics

Unlimited Cluster Size

Adds for Ultimate Edition

Prism Element
Pulse
Cluster Health
One-click Upgrades

MapReduce De-duplication

Time Stream

Multiple Site DR

VSS Integration
Cloud Connect

Metro Availability

Cluster Shield

Data-At-Rest Encryption

Prism Central
Rest APIs
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