This presentation describes the Lenovo HX Series appliances that operate with Nutanix software.

1. Invisible Infrastructure with the
Lenovo Converged HX Series
Nutanix Appliance
Mike Dilio, WW Product Marketing Manager
January 2016

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The Best IT Infrastructure Is
You Can’t See

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Complexity of Legacy Infrastructure
Networking
Adapters
Servers
Storage
Hypervisor
Switches
…
SAN/NAS
Storage
Network
Centralized Storage
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Lenovo Choice: Invisible Infrastructure
Networking
Hypervisor
…
Lenovo HX Appliance
With Nutanix
Networking
Adapters
Servers
Storage
Hypervisor
Switches
…
KVMAHV*
AHV* = built-in Acropolis Hypervisor
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Enterprise Infrastructure with Web-Scale Virtues
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• 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 HX Appliance Solutions for the Data Center
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VDI
Branch
Office
Data Protection &
Disaster Recovery
Big Data
Private & Hybrid
Clouds
Unified
Comm
Enterprise
Databases
Business
Applications

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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 – 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: of 11 3 years running1
Dell: of 111
HP: of 111
#1
#9
Oracle: #11 of 111
1 ITIC 2015-2016 Reliability Survey, July 2015
http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/system-x/pdfs/white-papers/itic_2015_reliability_wp.pdf
#10 ITIC Global Server Hardware,
Reliability Report- 2015-2016

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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 2Q15 Customer Satisfaction Survey, August 2015, http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/system-x/pdfs/white-papers/tbr_x86servers_top_csat_2q15_wp.pdf
#1
for 14 out of 16 quarters for 22 elements
across service, product and sales indices
#1 Customer Satisfaction Rating1

11. Lenovo Converged HX Series
Portfolio

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Lenovo Converged HX Series
Storage-heavy Workloads: HX5500
High Performance Workloads: HX7500
Compute-heavy Workloads: HX3500
Lenovo and Nutanix Partnership
 Deliver best-in-class appliance to combat IT
challenges
 Ideal for all virtual applications
 Extreme reliability, dependable security
 Predictable scalability
 Simplified Management
 Faster time-to-value
 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

13. Details

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Lenovo Converged HX3500
Target Workloads
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
 Optimized for VDI and smaller workloads
VDIBusiness
Applications

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Lenovo Converged HX5500
Target Workloads
HX5500
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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
 Optimized for virtualization and big data
Big Data

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Lenovo Converged HX7500
Target Workloads
HX7500
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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
 Optimized for Databases & I/O Intensive
Enterprise Applications

17. Software

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The Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform software is comprised of 2 key parts:
Nutanix Software
Acropolis
Data
Services
Prism
Management
Services
One-click
Infrastructure
Management
One-click
Operational
Insights
One-click
Remediation
Scale-out
Capabilities
Automated
Data
Tiering
Data
Protection
& Security
Disaster
Recovery
Space
Efficiency

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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 AHV
Hypervisor Support

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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 real-
time hardware monitoring, fault detection and alert handling/forwarding.

21. Nutanix Software Editions

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reserved.
HX Series Nutanix Software Editions
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
Pro
1. Adds rich data services,
along with resilience and
management features
2. Ideal for enterprises
running multiple apps on a
Nutanix cluster or with
large-scale single workload
deployments
Starter
1. Core set of Nutanix
software functionality with
every model
2. Ideal for small deployments
with a limited set of
workloads
3. No license key required

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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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Lenovo’s Comprehensive Global Network
Customer Contact LocationsDepot and/or Parts Centers Customer Contact LocationsParts Centers
Sao Paulo, Brazil
India
Australia
Malaysia
Beijing
Hong Kong
Japan
Korea
Philippines
Toronto, Canada
Memphis, TN
Mexico
Johannesburg
Netherlands
Norway
IsraelSwitzerland
Greece
Dubai
Poland Russia
Taiwan
Egypt
Dallas, TX
Zhu Hai
Turkey
Colombia
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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Nutanix Software Features
Infrastructure
Resilience
Enterprise
Storage
Data protection
Management
& Analytics
Adds for Pro Edition Adds for Ultimate Edition
MapReduce Compression
MapReduce De-duplication
Tunable Data Path Redundancy 2 or 3
Availability domains
Metro Availability
Time Stream
VSS Integration
Multiple Site DR
Prism Central
Rest APIs
Unlimited Cluster Size Unlimited Cluster Size
Data-At-Rest Encryption
Cloud Connect
Cluster ShieldSecurity
Starter Edition
Cluster limited to 12 nodes
Heterogeneous Clusters
Data Tiering
Inline Compression
Inline Performance De-duplication
Data Path Redundancy fixed at 2
1-1 Replication & Disaster Recovery
Bi-directional Replication & DR
Online Cluster Grow/Shrink
Prism Element
Pulse
Cluster Health
One-click Upgrades