Lenovo Blade Portfolio

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Lenovo Blade Servers: Flex SystemPatrick Moakley, Product Marketing


Lenovo Blade (Flex System) portfolio

Virtualization Cloud

Database Analytics

Broadest blade portfolio in the industry with servers, storage, networking, management

Innovations that help businesses reduce cost, increase agility, improve efficiency

Solution with industry leaders aligned to emerging datacenter consumption models

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Blade Gen 1• Higher density for space

optimization• Ease of deployment and 1-

to-many management• Great solution for when

complete solution is desired

Rack• Feature 2 post & 4 post rack

mounting • Datacenter workhorse• Great solution for when

multiple servers needed or space is a premium

Tower • Typically larger chassis for

more drives and card expansion

• Used when no rack available or fewer servers required

• Great solution for branch & remote locations


A refresher on Server form factors

Dense• High density optimizes space• Application provides

management or availability• Great solution for High

Performance Computing or large web / content provider farms


Lenovo Flex System

Flex System is the 2nd generation of blade servers, designed to:

Save money by running the same workloads on less hardware

Support the next decade of compute, storage and networking technologies

Deliver workloads in a easily managed platform

Run mission-critical workloads in a blade environment

Upgrade and scale easily, with minimal disruptions to datacenter operations


Lenovo Flex System helps businesses:

Reduce Costs Up front CAPEX by using less hardware

Long-term OPEX with superior power, cooling & management

Increase Agility

Scalability to 8–processors

Feature on Demand (FOD) upgradability

Improve Efficiency

Superior design for greater performance

Plugs seamlessly into the datacenter

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Lenovo servers gain highest reliability rating

1 ITIC 2014-2015 Reliability Survey, May 2014, http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/system-x/pdfs/analyst-reports/XSL03126USEN.PDF 2 Based on percentage per install population of System x servers versus percentage per install population of HP ProLIant servers3 Based on percentage per install population of System x servers versus percentage per install population of Dell PowerEdge servers

ITIC Global Server Hardware, Reliability Report- 2014-2015

Downtime of more than four (4) hours on each server hardware platform (2014)

HP ProLiant has

10XFailure rate2HP Integrity

Fujitsu Primergy

IBM Power System i, p

13%10%

6%4%4%

3%3%3%

2%2%

1%1%

0%

Dell PowerEdgeHP ProLiant Servers

Oracle x86Oracle SPARC

Fujitsu SPARCToshiba Magnia

Fujitsu Priequest

Cisco UCS

Lenovo System x

IBM System z

Dell PowerEdge has

13XFailure rate3

#1 x86 server; #1 Reliability x86 Rating1

http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/system-x/pdfs/analyst-reports/XSL03126USEN.PDF

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Lenovo servers gain #1 customer satisfaction score

TBR Satisfaction Indices Rank

Overall Customer Satisfaction #1

Service Satisfaction #1

Product Satisfaction #1

Sales Responsiveness #1

1 TBR 1Q15 Customer Satisfaction Survey, May 2015, http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/system-x/pdfs/white-papers/tbr_x86servers_top_csat_1q15_wp.pdf

#1for 13 out of 15 quarters for 22 elementsacross service, product and sales indices#1 Customer Satisfaction Rating1

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Lenovo XClarity™ Management for Flex System

Reduce Complexity

Speed Response

Enhance Availability

Expand integration

Delivered as a virtual appliance Agent free Configuration patterns and profiles

Intuitive interface Firmware out of compliance notifications Re-apply saved configurations Discovery & inventory, monitoring

Predictive Failure Rolling updates with no downtime Audit trails and NIST, FIPS compliance

Packaged integration to VMware & Microsoft PowerShell CLI REST APIs

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External Automation & Management Tools

Hardware Systems

REST APIs & Integrators

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Lenovo XClarity™ available in two editions

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Centralized resource management solution

Deploy Lenovo infrastructure faster and with less effort

REST APIs and PowerShell support

Software bundle includes– Lenovo XClarity Administrator

– Lenovo XClarity Integrator for Microsoft System Center

– Lenovo XClarity Integrator for VMware vCenter

Increases workload availability in the cluster


Flex System Highlights

92% Less Cabling vs.

comparable rack configuration

24% Higher Application density than HP on a 4P Blade

FIRST(and only) 8-Processor blade server available

50% More DIMM slots than HP on a 2P Blade

FIRST Features On Demand

I/O scalability


Flex System Portfolio


Flex System is…

x880 X6

x440x480 X6

x240 M5

Enterprise Chassis w/AC and DC power

Ethernet – iSCSI – Fibre ChannelFCoE – InfiniBand

Open Interoperability with SANsincluding EMC VNX,

Storwize® V7000, V3700

No compromise portfolio across servers, networking & storage

2P

4P

8PCarrier-Grade Chassis

w/ DC power

Chassis

Networking

Storage

Servers

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Flex System Compute Node Portfolio

VDI Private Cloud Mail/Messaging Telco

x240 M5 Flagship 2-Processor E5 v3 with

large DDR4 memory capacity, optimized for density. NEBS 3 certified CPU choices

Entry 2-Processor, Half-Wide

Ideal for workloads that require more and faster memory like virtualization

Customers with NEBS/ETSI or ASHRAE requirements

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Large Virtualization Midrange Databases Business Process/Back Office

x440 Cost effective, 4-Processor E5

v2 offering with maximum memory capacity

Midrange to large databases and workloads

Memory intensive workloads

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Midrange 4-Processor, Full-Wide

x880 X6 &x480 X6

Scale-Up, mission-critical applications

Maximum performance and capacity

Enterprise Virtualization Enterprise Database In-Memory Database Business Analytics OLTP

Scalable 2 to 8-Processor E7 v3 server offering maximum performance, reliability and scalability

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Enterprise 2 to 8 Processor, Full Wide, up to 4X High



Details


Customer Benefits- Both Midplane wired to support 100 Gb –

ready for tomorrow’s workloads 14 Half-Wide or 7 Full-Wide Nodes –

built for density Zoned, adaptive cooling across

chassis, switching, & power supplies – saves power & money

NEBS 3, ASHRAE 4, ETSI compliant Earthquake zone 4 Additional cooling features Additional dust filtering options

Enterprise or Carrier-Grade:

Designed for the next decade of technology

Flex System Chassis

Flex System Carrier-Grade ChassisFlex System

Enterprise Chassis

Customer Benefits- Carrier-Grade


Flex Chassis- Density With a Bonus

Scalable Chassis with:Up to 14 2–processor serversSix redundant power supplies vs. 28 for rackNo extra space needed for KVM or switches

Oh, and those cables….

40% more dense than 1U Rack Servers

Rack Flex

OK, a little exaggerated

92% Reduction in cables

10U4 Cables

14U56 Cables

14 Flex Servers

14 Rack Servers


Flex Networking – Integration Drives Performance

• Flex Supports All Major Protocols– Ethernet– Converged FCoE– Native Fibre– Infiniband

• Integrated Switching = Higher Performance– Server nodes & switches connected to chassis midplane– Servers communicate directly with each other– No routing up to the TOR, then back down– Up to 80% greater throughput4

– 2.5 times faster VM migration5

Chassis Rear View

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Higher performance with cost savings that grow as you scale


Flex Networking-Unmatched I/O Flexibility & Scalability

* Compared to HP Virtual Connect 10/10D

** Using the Flex x240 M5 compute node

Features on DemandScalability – Unlock additional ports with a software key, instead of removing & adding more switches.• Up to 25% less expensive*• Up to 66% less management*• Up to 55% lower power*

Industry first

New!Industry first

New!

“Upgrade-in-place”, not “rip-and-replace”

Flexible port mappingReallocate internal and external ports as needed• Convert between port speeds: • 1G, 10G, 40G for selected ports• Up to 74% less expensive*

Flex System Interconnect Fabric Scalability – Build a 9 chassis POD or Cluster• Scale up to 126** nodes• Zero down time for upgrades• Manage up to 9 switches as one

Base 10 x 1GbE ports Add 10x1GbE and/or Add 4x10GbE

Start here Ready when needed

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Customer Benefits 24 DIMM slots, up to 1.5* TB of memory

runs more workloads on same # of blades

2-processor Intel E5–2600v3 with up to 36 cores per node for greater performance

Up to 14 x240 M5s in a 10U chassis for density, power savings, & cable reduction

Dual, redundant TPM 2.0 chips, delivering greater onboard security

NEBS compliant CPU choices

2-Processor, high memory node built for density

Flex System x240 M5

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Customer Benefits Cost-effective 4–processor solution

with lower cost per VM

Intel E5–4600v2 with up to 48 cores per node for high-end virtualization

Low Power, High Performance & High Frequency processor choices

48 DIMM slots, up to 1.5 TB of memory for midrange database

Up to 7 x440 in a chassis for greater density than 4P rack servers

Cost-effective 4-Processor database engine

Flex System x440


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Customer Benefits Up to 192 DIMM slots, up to 6.1 TB of memory

in a scalable compute node for in-memory apps

Xeon E7–4800/8800 v3 CPUs with up to 288 cores per 8P node for mission-critical apps

Supports eXFlash DIMMs, memory channel storage for ultra fast database performance

FlexNode capability- repurpose an 8P into two 4P or four 2P systems as your needs change

Scalable 2 to 8-processor, blade built for mission critical workloads

Flex System X6 Nodes

2 processors

4 processors

8 processors



Flex System offers diverse storage options

DedicatedStorage

Software DefinedStorage

SharedStorage (SAN)

Ideal for file storage and serving workloads including high-performance

needs with Flash storage

IBM Storwize V7000 and

open interoperability with

“Hyperconverged”x240 + SEN + hypervisor

x240 + SENOr

Internal storage

Emerging technology: Ability to scale dedicated pools of storage into a single

virtual storage pool

Ideal for virtualization, cloud-based workloads, and business applications for

enterprise datacenter


Lenovo solutions with VSPEX

Simple. Efficient. Flexible.

Reference architectures validated by EMC and Lenovo

Eight Flex System based solutions easily selectable by size

End User Computing (EUC) and Private Cloud solution focus

Proven solutions with choice to meet your needsStorage

Network

Compute

Hypervisor

Application


Customer Reference & Summary

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Customer Reference: Europe Airpost

Consolidating Infrastructure Improves Performance and Lower Costs

Client success summaryEurope Airpost is a Paris based airline with a fleet of 21 planes that delivers passengers and freight, including mail, across France. Because increasing fuel costs and a slow economy were impacting profitability, the company had to find ways to control costs in other areas of the business, including IT. By consolidating their infrastructure to Flex, they not only reduced costs, they also improved their database availability.

“The increased performance of our solution delivers up to a 33 percent reduction in application response times and enables us to fire up new virtual resources much faster than before.”

— Francis Brisedoux, Deputy IT Director, Europe Airpost

Solution componentsHardware

• Flex System Enterprise Chassis

• 11 x240 Nodes

• 2 EN4093 10Gb Scalable Switches

• 2 Storwize V7000 Storage units

Software

• Oracle® Real Application Cluster (Oracle RAC)

• VMware with VCenter

Business Partner

• Diademys


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The Top 10 Reasons to Buy Flex System

Reason Why it Matters

1. Designed for the next decade Gen 2 Flex is ready for tomorrow’s workloads, networking and Intel processors.

2. More memory per blade More memory = more workloads/VMs per blade, which = buying less hardware.

3. Scalable 2 to 8-Processors Flex runs mission-critical applications like SAP HANA in a blade environment

4. 40% more dense and 92% less cables Saves space, power and eliminates the jungle of cables compared to 1U rack servers

5. Feature on Demand scalability Upgrade existing switches “in-place” without “rip-&-replace” disruption to datacenter

6. Virtual Switching Flex requires fewer switches to buy and manage as you scale. HP – no virtual switching

7. Lenovo XClarity Management Integrates seamlessly into your datacenter using skills your admins already have

8. Open choice SAN Storage Use the SAN hardware you want and your storage admins know: EMC, IBM, HP NetApp

9. Run without a Top of Rack (TOR) switch Cisco UCS requires expensive TOR’s to buy and manage as you scale

10. Zoned Adaptive Cooling Fans self-adjust speed as needed to save power and money



SummaryLenovo Flex System is the evolution of blade servers that integrates compute, storage,

networking and management. Flex’s Gen 2 design was developed with the next generation of these technologies in mind, to protect your investment, increase your

efficiency, improve datacenter agility, and save you money.


Useful Links

Product Information Datasheets, brochures, Videos, Case Studies and Papers are all located in the Lenovo Server & Storage Resource Library lenovo.com

For more information contact your Lenovo sales

representative

Tolly Paper referenced within this presentation.

Six Ways to Drive Cost and Value Optimization for IT Operations Study on systems management

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FOOTNOTES1. IDC Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Datacenter Trends and Strategies 2013, Michelle Bailey

and Katherine Broderick

2. Forrester Research, Inc. "2013 IT Budget Planning Guide," October 7, 2010 by Craig Symons

3. IBM Market Insights Study – 2013 Business Benchmarking Time-To-Value Study

4. “IBM® Flex System® Network Architecture: VM Migration and Aggregate Network Performance versus Cisco UCS” Tolly Report #214104 © 2014 TOLLY ENTERPRISES, LLC

5. “IBM® Flex System® Network Architecture: VM Migration and Aggregate Network Performance versus Cisco UCS” Tolly Report #214104 © 2014 TOLLY ENTERPRISES, LLC

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