The document discusses Lenovo's Converged HX Series appliance powered by Nutanix software. It notes that the appliance aims to simplify IT infrastructure through an integrated solution that reduces costs and speeds deployment times. Key advantages highlighted include ease of management, scalability, reliability, and a smaller data center footprint compared to traditional legacy infrastructure. The appliance supports various hypervisors and workloads. Lenovo provides global support, warranty options up to 5 years, and professional services for the solution.

1. Lenovo Converged HX
Series Nutanix Appliance
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Data center infrastructures are transforming as people look to the cloud for agility
Management
Network
Storage
Server
Traditional
Infrastructure
Converged
Infrastructure
Hyperconverged
Infrastructure
Software Defined
Data center
Acquired as discrete parts
Hard to deploy
Storage
Server
SDS
Server
Network
Management
Management
Network
Acquired as single entity
Faster deployment
IT Agility
Moves storage as part of server
IT Agility
Virtualizes server, storage, network
SDS
Server
SDN
Management
Challenge
Disrupt
Virtualize everythingVirtualized Server Virtualized Server and Storage
Since 1995 Since 2011 Since 2014 Evolving
’16 TAM:
$69B
’16 TAM:
$10B
’16 TAM:
$8B*
*Includes Tier 1 hyperscale
EBG TAM = Server, Storage all PB, L2/3 DC Switching
IDC Forecasts; Factory Revenue; MI Modelling
SoftwareDefined
Servicesforserver,
storageandnetwork

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Complexity of Legacy Infrastructure
Networking
Adapters
Servers
Storage
Hypervisor
Switches
…
SAN/NAS
Storage
Network
Centralized Storage

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Simplicity of Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Lenovo Networking G70281
or G80521; G8124E2 or
G82722
Hypervisor
…
Lenovo HX Appliance
With Nutanix
Networking
Adapters
Servers
Storage
Hypervisor
Switches
…
KVMAHV*
AHV* = built-in Acropolis Hypervisor
1 1GbE Switches used for IMM traffic. 2Low-latency ToR interconnect
for multi-node configuration, also compatible with other vendors 10GE
switches

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Enterprise Infrastructure with Web-Scale Virtues
• Agility
• Predictable scale
• Lower TCO
Public Cloud
Web-scale Infrastructure
All of the benefits of Public
Cloud & Enterprise Data
Center computing
• SLAs
• Privacy and control
• Wide range of workloads
Enterprise Data Center

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HX Series Advantages
Preloaded,
fully tested,
integrated
datacenter
building
blocks
Simple
To Deploy
Ease of
Management
Lower
Opex and
Capex
Industry
Leading
Reliability
Smaller
Footprint
Limitless Scalability

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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 and
switches – coupled with ease of use and high performance
Compute Heavy
Storage Heavy
High-Performance
Low Latency
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ROBO SMB
“New Workloads”

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Purpose-driven innovation optimizing key
requirements
Ultimate Performance
Achieve faster business results
Reliability and Security
Improve uptime
Management and Efficiency
Reduced operational expense
Lenovo Innovates in Foundation technologies

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Operations & Management

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• Discovery of Lenovo servers
• Monitoring and Event Management
• Health Status
• UI for Monitoring, events and health status
• Workload migration triggered by Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA)
• Firmware updates
• Rolling firmware updates
• Call Home coordination
• Display inventory of Lenovo servers
• Show warranty status
Integrator features launch with Nutanix Prism target September 2016
Lenovo XClarity Integrator features in Nutanix Prism

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XClarity/Nutanix integration value-add to customers
 Reduced downtime for applications using predictive indicators –
Workload can be migrated based on predictive alerts, instead of waiting
for servers to fail
 Seamless firmware updates – Workload migrated off of systems,
firmware updated, workload migrated back through single UI.
 More accurate hardware health reporting – Take into account
additional alerts
 Detailed inventory view – Improved views of hardware being managed

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The Lenovo HX Series currently supports 2 hypervisors:
• Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (built-in at no additional charge)
• VMware ESXi Hypervisor
ESXi HYPER-V
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Hypervisor Support
AHV

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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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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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Lenovo’s Comprehensive Global Network
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Netherlands
Norway
IsraelSwitzerland
Greece
Dubai
Poland Russia
Taiwan
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Zhu Hai
Turkey
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Argentina
Atlanta, GA
Romania
Istanbul
Slovakia
114
Development
Labs
11
Global
Research
Labs
10,000+
IT Support
Specialists
160
Countries
42
Contact Centers
35
Languages
3,000
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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Thank You!

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