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Lenovo ThinkAgile HX5521

A dual-socket, 2U Nutanix-certified node built on the ThinkSystem SR650 platform for storage-heavy hyperconverged workloads, with large 3.5" hybrid or all-flash bays and up to 3 TB of memory.

Memory

Slots
24 DIMM (12 per processor, 2 DIMMs per channel)
Max capacity
3 TB
Type
TruDDR4 RDIMM and 3DS RDIMM up to 2933 MHz
Protection
ECC, SDDC, ADDDC (Gold/Platinum CPUs only), patrol/demand scrubbing
Persistent memory
Not supported

Storage

Drive bays
12 or 14 × 3.5" SAS/SATA hot-swap
Hybrid config
2 cache SSDs + 4–12 HDDs, or 4 cache SSDs + 8–10 HDDs (increments of 2)
All-flash config
4–14 SSDs (increments of 2)
Storage controller
ThinkSystem 430-8i or 430-16i SAS/SATA HBA
Boot drive
2 × M.2 SATA SSD, RAID-1, non-hot-swap

Expansion

Slots
Up to 5 × PCIe 3.0 in the 14-bay config (3 usable, rest reserved) or up to 7 in the base SR650 layout: slot 1 x16/x8 FH/HL, slot 2 x8 FH/HL, slot 3 x8 FH/HL, slot 4 x8 low-profile, slot 5 x16 FH/HL, slot 6 x16 FH/HL, slot 7 x8 (storage controller)
14-bay rear config
3 × PCIe slots plus 2 × rear 3.5" drive bays
No rear drives
5 × PCIe slots

Networking

Base LOM
2 or 4 × 10 GbE RJ-45 or SFP+
Expansion
10GBASE-T, 10 GbE SFP+, 25 GbE SFP28, or 40 GbE QSFP28 adapters
Management
1 × RJ-45 10/100/1000 Mb dedicated XClarity Controller port

Power

Supplies
2 × redundant hot-swap 550 W, 750 W, or 1100 W (100–240 V) High Efficiency Platinum, or 1600 W (200–240 V) Platinum, or 750 W (200–240 V) Titanium

Ports

Front
1 × USB 2.0 (XClarity Controller access), 1 × USB 3.0, 1 × VGA
Rear
2 × USB 3.0, 1 × VGA

Physical

Dimensions
87 × 445 × 764 mm (3.4 × 17.5 × 30.1 in)
Weight
Up to 32 kg (70.5 lb)
Cooling
6 hot-swap system fans, N+1 redundant

Management

Controller
XClarity Controller (XCC) Enterprise, Pilot 4 chip
Tools
XClarity Provisioning Manager, XClarity Administrator, XClarity Pro, optional XClarity Energy Manager
Video
Matrox G200, 16 MB, integrated in XCC, up to 1920×1200 60 Hz
Security
Power-on/admin password, secure firmware updates, TPM 2.0, optional security bezel

Operating systems

Hypervisor
Nutanix AHV, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V
Software
Nutanix Acropolis Starter, Pro and Ultimate editions (licensed separately from Nutanix or a Nutanix reseller)

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 4215R
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4216
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5215
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5215L
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5217
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5218
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5218R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5220
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5220R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5220S
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6222V
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6226
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6226R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6230
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6230R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6234
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6238
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6238L
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6238R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6240
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6240L
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6240R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6242
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6248
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6252
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6262V
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8253
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8260
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8260L
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8276
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8276L