Lenovo ThinkAgile HX3720
A 2-socket, half-wide 1U hyperconverged compute node — up to four nodes share a 2U four-node (2U4N) enclosure — running Nutanix AHV/Prism for compute-dense HCI clusters where density matters more than per-node local storage.
Memory
- Slots
- Up to 12 DIMM (6 per processor, 1 per channel)
- Max
- 768 GB
- Speed
- 16/32/64 GB RDIMM at 2933 MHz, or 16/32 GB RDIMM at 2666 MHz
- Protection
- ECC, SDDC, ADDDC (Gold/Platinum CPUs), patrol scrubbing, demand scrubbing
Storage
- Drive bays
- 6 × 2.5" SAS/SATA hot-swap per node
- Configurations
- Hybrid: 2 cache SSDs + 4 capacity HDDs. All-flash: 2–6 SSDs in steps of 2
- Storage controller
- 1 × 430-8i Dense HBA (12 Gbps SAS / 6 Gbps SATA)
- Boot drives
- 2 × M.2 non-hot-swap SSD, up to 480 GB, RAID-1
Expansion
- System board slot
- 1 × PCIe 3.0 x8 (internal storage controller)
- Enclosure I/O shuttle (x16 option)
- 1 × PCIe 3.0 x16 low-profile per node (4 total across the 2U4N enclosure)
- Enclosure I/O shuttle (x8 option)
- 2 × PCIe 3.0 x8 low-profile per node (8 total across the 2U4N enclosure)
Networking
- Base ports
- 2 × 1/10 GbE RJ-45 or 10 GbE SFP+
- Expansion ports
- 2 or 4 × 1/10 GbE RJ-45, 10 GbE SFP+, 25 GbE SFP28, or 2 × 40 GbE QSFP+
- Management
- 1 × Gigabit Ethernet RJ-45 for systems management (per enclosure)
Power
- Supplies
- 2 × redundant hot-swap 1100 W (100–240 V), 1600 W (200–240 V), or 2000 W (200–240 V) Platinum, shared per 2U4N enclosure
Ports
- Enclosure
- 1 × Gigabit Ethernet RJ-45 (systems management), 1 × USB, per enclosure
Physical
- Form factor
- Half-wide 1U node; up to 4 nodes per 2U four-node (2U4N) enclosure
- Node dimensions
- 222 mm W × 41 mm H × 562 mm D (8.7 × 1.6 × 21.1 in)
- Enclosure dimensions
- 448 mm W × 87 mm H × 834 mm D (17.6 × 3.4 × 32.8 in)
- Weight
- Node max 7.5 kg (16.5 lb); enclosure with 4 nodes max 55.0 kg (121.3 lb)
- Cooling
- 5 hot-swap system fans per enclosure
Management
- Controller
- Lenovo XClarity Controller (XCC) Enterprise, Pilot 4 chip
- Tools
- XClarity Provisioning Manager, XClarity Administrator, XClarity Pro, optional XClarity Energy Manager
- Security
- Power-on/admin password, TPM 1.2 or 2.0 (configurable in UEFI)
- Video
- Matrox G200, 16 MB, integrated in XCC; max 1920×1200 @ 60 Hz, 32bpp
Operating systems
- Hypervisors
- Nutanix AHV (bundled with AOS), VMware ESXi, Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Hyper-V
- HCI software
- Nutanix Acropolis (Starter/Pro/Ultimate), Prism, optional Calm, optional Flow
Processors
- Intel Xeon Silver 4208
- Intel Xeon Silver 4210
- Intel Xeon Silver 4210R
- Intel Xeon Silver 4214
- Intel Xeon Silver 4214R
- Intel Xeon Silver 4215
- Intel Xeon Silver 4216
- Intel Xeon Gold 5215
- Intel Xeon Gold 5215L
- Intel Xeon Gold 5218
- Intel Xeon Gold 5218R
- Intel Xeon Gold 5220
- Intel Xeon Gold 5220S
- Intel Xeon Gold 6230
- Intel Xeon Gold 6238
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8253