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Lenovo ThinkAgile HX2320-E and HX2720-E

Appliances

Product Guide

Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series appliances are designed to help you simplify IT infrastructure, reduce costs,

and accelerate time to value. These hyperconverged appliances from Lenovo combine industry-leading

hyperconvergence software from Nutanix with Lenovo enterprise platforms that feature Intel Xeon

Processor Scalable family.

The ThinkAgile HX Series Express appliances are tailored specifically for various types of workloads

for small and medium sized businesses. The HX Series Express appliances include leading edge

Nutanix Xpress software to deliver a simplified, cost effective solution that helps lower total-cost-of-

ownership and enables smaller organizations to focus less time on infrastructure management.

The ThinkAgile HX Series Express appliances include the HX2320-E 1U rack-mount and HX2720-E

2U 4-node (2U4N) rack-mount appliances. These appliances are shown in the following figure.

Figure 1. ThinkAgile HX2320-E (top) and HX2720-E (bottom) appliances

Did you know?

The ThinkAgile HX Series appliances are built on industry-leading Lenovo ThinkSystem servers that feature

enterprise-class reliability, management, and security.

The ThinkAgile HX Series appliances deliver the industry’s most feature-rich hyperconverged infrastructure

to enterprise datacenters, bringing the benefits of web-scale technologies to enterprise applications

through enterprise storage, data protection, infrastructure resilience, management and analytics, and

security.

Lenovo ThinkAgile HX2320-E and HX2720-E Appliances

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Summary of Contents for ThinkAgile HX2320-E

Page 1: ...st of ownership and enables smaller organizations to focus less time on infrastructure management The ThinkAgile HX Series Express appliances include the HX2320 E 1U rack mount and HX2720 E 2U 4 node 2U4N rack mount appliances These appliances are shown in the following figure Figure 1 ThinkAgile HX2320 E top and HX2720 E bottom appliances Did you know The ThinkAgile HX Series appliances are built...

Page 2: ...are eliminates the need for traditional SAN and NAS solutions and delivers a rich set of software defined services that are entirely VM centric including snapshots high availability disaster recovery deduplication and more Inline and post process compression at the sub block level increase effective storage capacity by up to four times Redirect on write snapshots and writeable clones at the granul...

Page 3: ...ntelligent data placement in different physical failure domains or availability domains for example separate racks or power sources delivers greater fault tolerance Data and metadata replicated across multiple nodes provide user defined resilience against hardware failures Multiple copies of data ensure 100 data availability in the event that a Nutanix controller VM is unavailable due to failure o...

Page 4: ... of the software development process enables verifiably secure software releases Two step authentication using a client certificate and username password along with cluster lockdown provides protection against unauthorized access Components and connectors The following figure shows the front view of the HX2320 E appliance Figure 3 HX2320 E front view The following figure shows the rear view of the...

Page 5: ...re with up to four HX2720 E appliance nodes Figure 5 HX Series enclosure with up to four HX2720 E appliances front view The following figure shows the rear view of the HX Series enclosure Figure 6 HX Series enclosure rear view Lenovo ThinkAgile HX2320 E and HX2720 E Appliances 5 ...

Page 6: ...0 1000 Mb Ethernet systems management port Boot drive 2x 128 GB M 2 non hot swap SSDs RAID 1 I O expansion slots 4x PCIe 3 0 slots Slot 1 PCIe 3 0 x8 low profile for a network adapter Slot 2 PCIe 3 0 x16 low profile not used Slot 3 PCIe 3 0 x16 low profile not used Slot 4 PCIe 3 0 x8 for an internal storage controller Ports Front 1x USB 2 0 port with XClarity Controller access 1x USB 3 0 port and ...

Page 7: ...to 85 W TDP Chipset Intel C624 Memory Up to 12 DIMMs Support for 8 GB 16 GB and 32 GB TruDDR4 2666 MHz RDIMMs Memory capacity Up to 384 GB with 12x 32 GB RDIMMs Memory protection Error correction code ECC Single Device Data Correction SDDC for x4 based memory DIMMs patrol scrubbing and demand scrubbing Drive bays 6x 2 5 inch SAS SATA hot swap Storage capacity Hybrid Up to 12 TB HDDs Up to 1 92 TB ...

Page 8: ... ThinkAgile HX Series appliances are configured by using the Lenovo Data Center Solution Configurator DCSC http dcsc lenovo com During the configuration process you are selecting one of the base Configure to Order CTO models first and then you are adding components processors memory drives and network adapters to the selected model according to the output from the Nutanix Sizer tool http services ...

Page 9: ...configured bundles that cannot be upgraded with additional options TopSeller models are country specific that is each country may define their own models and not all models are available in every country Note You are required to engage a Lenovo representative in the project that includes the ThinkAgile HX Series appliances The following table lists the TopSeller models of the HX2320 E appliances T...

Page 10: ...he following table lists the specifications of the processors for the appliances Table 8 CPU specifications HT Hyper Threading TB Turbo Boost VT Virtualization Technology CPU model Core frequency Base TB Max Number of cores threads Cache Max DDR4 frequency Max memory per socket UPI speed TDP HT TB VT x VT d Intel Xeon Silver processors 4108 1 8 3 GHz 8 16 11 MB 2400 MHz 768 GB 9 6 GT s 85W Yes Yes...

Page 11: ...rted ECC SDDC for x4 based memory DIMMs Patrol scrubbing Demand scrubbing The following table lists the memory options that are available for selection Table 9 Memory selection options Selection option Description Quantity 64 GB ThinkSystem 16GB TruDDR4 2666 MHz 2Rx8 1 2V RDIMM 4 Y Y 96 GB ThinkSystem 16GB TruDDR4 2666 MHz 2Rx8 1 2V RDIMM 6 Y Y 96 GB ThinkSystem 8GB TruDDR4 2666 MHz 1Rx8 1 2V RDIM...

Page 12: ...d configurations Description Quantity min max HX2320 E HX2720 E SSD selection Cache tier ThinkSystem 2 5 Intel S4600 480GB Mainstream SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD 1 2 1 2 ThinkSystem 2 5 Intel S4600 960GB Mainstream SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD 1 2 1 2 ThinkSystem 2 5 Intel S4600 1 92TB Mainstream SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD 1 2 1 2 HDD selection Capacity tier ThinkSystem 2 5 1TB 7 2K SATA 6Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD 4 7 4...

Page 13: ...E RJ 45 expansion ports Intel X550 T2 Dual Port 10GBase T Adapter RJ 45 0 1 Y Y 10 GbE SFP base ports ThinkSystem 10Gb 2 port SFP LOM 0 1 Y N ThinkSystem 10Gb 4 port SFP LOM 0 1 Y N ThinkSystem D2 10Gb 8 port EIOM SFP 0 1 N Y 10 GbE SFP expansion ports ThinkSystem Intel X710 DA2 PCIe 10Gb 2 Port SFP Ethernet adapter 0 1 Y Y 25 GbE SFP expansion ports Mellanox ConnectX 4 Lx 2x25GbE SFP28 Adapter 0 ...

Page 14: ...AC Cable 00AY765 A51P Lenovo 3m Passive SFP DAC Cable 90Y9430 A1PJ Lenovo 5m Passive SFP DAC Cable 90Y9433 A1PK Lenovo 7m Passive SFP DAC Cable 00D6151 A3RH Active SFP DAC cables for 10 GbE SFP adapters Lenovo 1m Active DAC SFP Cable 00VX111 AT2R Lenovo 3m Active DAC SFP Cable 00VX114 AT2S Lenovo 5m Active DAC SFP Cable 00VX117 AT2T The following table lists transceivers and cables for the 25 GbE ...

Page 15: ...r supply options that are available for selection Table 17 Power supply selection options Description Quantity ThinkSystem 550W 230V 115V Platinum Hot Swap Power Supply 2 Y N ThinkSystem 750W 230 115V Platinum Hot Swap Power Supply 2 Y N ThinkSystem 750W 230V Titanium Hot Swap Power Supply 2 Y N ThinkSystem D2 1600W Platinum PSU 2 N Y ThinkSystem D2 2000W Platinum PSU 2 N Y Configuration notes For...

Page 16: ... 74 in 807 mm 31 8 in 853 mm 33 58 in Rail type Full out slide ball bearing Full out slide ball bearing Tool less installation Yes Yes In rack maintenance Yes Yes 1U PDU support Yes Yes 0U PDU support Limited No Rack type IBM and Lenovo 4 post IEC standard compliant IBM and Lenovo 4 post IEC standard compliant Mounting holes Square or round Square or round Mounting flange thickness 2 mm 0 08 in 3 ...

Page 17: ... edition Enterprise storage Cluster size 4 nodes max Online cluster grow shrink Yes Heterogeneous clusters No VM centric snapshots and clones Yes Volume groups No Data tiering Yes Inline compression Yes Inline performance deduplication Yes MapReduce compression Yes MapReduce deduplication Yes Erasure Coding EC X No VM Flash Mode Pin to SSD Yes Infrastructure resilience Data path redundancy Yes Red...

Page 18: ...nt tools Lenovo XClarity Controller Light path diagnostics HX2320 E only Lenovo XClarity Administrator Nutanix Prism Lenovo XClarity Energy Manager Lenovo XClarity Controller The ThinkAgile HX appliances contain Lenovo XClarity Controller XCC Enterprise which provides advanced service processor control monitoring and alerting functions XClarity Controller Enterprise offers the following capabiliti...

Page 19: ...the system LEDs on the front of the appliance see Components and connectors and the LEDs near the monitored components for example the DIMM error LEDs on the system board Lenovo XClarity Administrator Lenovo XClarity Administrator is a centralized systems management solution that helps administrators deliver infrastructure faster This solution integrates easily with Lenovo x86 servers HX Series ap...

Page 20: ...ility to discover manage and monitor Lenovo server hardware from VMware vCenter or Microsoft System Center Deployment of firmware updates to HX Series appliances from the virtualization management tool Non disruptive server maintenance in clustered environments that reduces workload downtime by dynamically migrating workloads from affected hosts during rolling server updates or reboots Greater ser...

Page 21: ...storage processor memory Centrally monitors multiple clusters across multiple sites Monitors per VM performance and resource usage Checks system health Generates alerts and notifications Integrated data protection Offers customizable RPO RTO and retention policies Supports configurable per VM replication 1 1 1 many and many 1 Provides efficient VM recovery Deploys affordable DR and backup to the c...

Page 22: ... 121 3 lb Node Height 41 mm 1 6 in Width 222 mm 8 7 in Depth 562 mm 22 1 in Weight maximum 7 5 kg 16 5 lb Operating environment The HX Series appliances comply with ASHRAE class A2 specifications The HX2320 E and HX2720 E appliances also complies with ASHRAE class A3 and class A4 specifications The appliance performance might be impacted when the operating temperature is outside the ASHRAE A2 spec...

Page 23: ...1 kg 35 G for 152 in sec velocity change across 6 surfaces The following table lists the maximum system power load rated inlet current and system heat output based on the power supply and source voltage Table 22 Rated system power inlet current and system heat output Power supply Source voltage Maximum power load per system two power supplies Rated current per inlet System heat output 550 W AC Pla...

Page 24: ...andard warranty This is due to local business practices or laws in the specific country Local service teams can assist in explaining country specific terms when needed Examples of country specific warranty terms are second or longer business day parts delivery or parts only base warranty If warranty terms and conditions include onsite labor for repair or replacement of parts Lenovo will dispatch a...

Page 25: ...ment http support lenovo com us en solutions ht116628 Software maintenance The ThinkAgile HX Series appliances include a three year or five year software support and subscription matches the duration of the selected hardware warranty period that entitles you to submit service requests to troubleshoot Nutanix software issues and receive code updates including fixes patches and new software releases...

Page 26: ...itches 10 GbE host connectivity Lenovo ThinkSystem NE1032 RackSwitch Rear to Front 7159A1X AU3A Lenovo ThinkSystem NE1032T RackSwitch Rear to Front 7159B1X AU38 Lenovo ThinkSystem NE1072T RackSwitch Rear to Front 7159C1X AU36 Lenovo RackSwitch G8124E Rear to Front 7159BR6 AT0B Lenovo RackSwitch G8272 Rear to Front 7159CRW ASRD Lenovo RackSwitch G8296 Rear to Front 7159GR6 ASVM 25 Gb Ethernet switc...

Page 27: ... Series appliances Table 25 Power distribution units Description Part number Feature code 0U Basic PDUs 0U 36 C13 6 C19 24A 200 240V 1 Phase PDU with NEMA L6 30P line cord 00YJ776 ATZY 0U 36 C13 6 C19 32A 200 240V 1 Phase PDU with IEC60309 332P6 line cord 00YJ777 ATZZ 0U 21 C13 12 C19 32A 200 240V 346 415V 3 Phase PDU with IEC60309 532P6 cord 00YJ778 AU00 0U 21 C13 12 C19 48A 200 240V 3 Phase PDU ...

Page 28: ...2P Gnd line cord 39Y8940 6004 DPI 63amp 250V Front end PDU with IEC 309 2P Gnd line cord 39Y8935 6006 Universal PDUs 7x IEC 320 C13 outlets DPI Universal 7 C13 PDU with 2 m IEC 320 C19 to C20 rack power cord 00YE443 5950 NEMA PDUs 6x NEMA 5 15R outlets DPI 100 127V PDU with fixed NEMA L5 15P line cord 39Y8905 5900 Line cords for PDUs that ship without a line cord DPI 30a Line Cord NEMA L6 30P 40K9...

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Page 30: ...e bhui asit Nutanix documentation http portal nutanix com page docs Lenovo Data Center Support http datacentersupport lenovo com Lenovo Converged HX Series TCO Calculator http lenovo hx esgcalculator com Lenovo Hyperconverged Decision Tool http www lenovo com hxdecisiontool Related product families Product families related to this document are the following ThinkAgile HX Series for Nutanix Nutanix...

Page 31: ... not intended for use in implantation or other life support applications where malfunction may result in injury or death to persons The information contained in this document does not affect or change Lenovo product specifications or warranties Nothing in this document shall operate as an express or implied license or indemnity under the intellectual property rights of Lenovo or third parties All ...

Page 32: ...rvices Lenovo XClarity Lenovo RackSwitch System x ThinkAgile ThinkSystem TopSeller TruDDR4 The following terms are trademarks of other companies Intel and Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries Microsoft PowerShell Windows PowerShell and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States other...

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