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Lenovo ThinkAgile HX5530

A 2-socket 2U Nutanix hyperconverged appliance, built on the ThinkSystem SR650 V2 with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and 3.5-inch storage-heavy drive bays; ships factory-integrated with licensed Nutanix software and ThinkAgile Premier single-point-of-contact support.

Memory

Slots
32 DIMM (16 per processor, 8 channels per processor, 2 DIMMs per channel)
Max capacity
4 TB using 32 × 128 GB 3DS RDIMMs
Type
TruDDR4 3200 MHz RDIMM (16 GB, 32 GB, 64 GB) or 3DS RDIMM (128 GB)
Protection
ECC, SDDC (x4 DIMMs), ADDDC (x4 DIMMs, Gold/Platinum CPUs only), memory mirroring

Storage

Front drive bays
12 × 3.5" SAS/SATA hot-swap
Rear drive bays
4 × 2.5" SAS/SATA hot-swap
Boot drives
2 × 7mm hot-swap SATA drives, or 2 × M.2 drives (RAID-1) in an internal M.2 adapter
Storage controller
430-16i 12 Gb SAS/SATA HBA (non-RAID); onboard NVMe ports (RAID not supported)
Config rules
Hybrid: 4-12 HDD capacity drives depending on 2 or 4 SSD cache drives (SATA/SAS only, not NVMe); All-flash: 4-24 SSDs in increments of 2. All SSDs must be the same model/capacity; all HDDs must be the same type/capacity.

Graphics

Options
Up to 2 × double-width 300 W GPUs, or up to 6 × single-width 75 W GPUs, or 4 × single-width 150 W GPUs

Expansion

Slots
Up to 8 × PCIe 4.0 full-height slots, all rear-access, across 3 riser cards, plus a dedicated OCP 3.0 x16 slot; slots 4-8 require two processors
Network adapters
Up to 7 × PCIe network adapters supported in practice alongside the storage HBA

Networking

OCP 3.0 (dedicated slot)
PCIe 4.0 x16 host interface; 10GbE (Broadcom 57454 4-port) or 10/25GbE SFP28 (Broadcom 57454 4-port, Broadcom 57414 2-port, Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx 2-port)
PCIe adapters
10GBASE-T (Broadcom 57454 4-port, Broadcom 57416 2-port) or 10/25GbE SFP28 (Broadcom 57454 4-port V2, Broadcom 57414 2-port, Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx / ConnectX-6 Lx 2-port); mixing NIC vendors within a system is not supported
Management
1 × RJ-45 10/100/1000 Mb dedicated XClarity Controller port

Power

Supplies
Up to 2 × hot-swap redundant AC, 500 W/750 W/1100 W/1800 W/2600 W, 80 PLUS Platinum (220 V) or Titanium; 500/750/1100 W also support 110 V

Ports

Front
1 × USB 3.1 Gen 1, 1 × USB 2.0 (also XCC local management), external diagnostics port, optional VGA
Rear
3 × USB 3.1 Gen 1, 1 × VGA, 1 × RJ-45 1GbE XCC management, optional DB-9 serial (slot 3)
Internal
1 × USB 3.1 Gen 1 connector for OS/license key

Physical

Dimensions
445 mm (17.5 in) W × 87 mm (3.4 in) H × 764 mm (30.1 in) D
Weight
Up to 38.8 kg (85.5 lb)
Cooling
5 or 6 hot-swap dual-rotor 60 mm fans (configuration dependent), N+1 redundant; one fan integrated in each PSU

Management

Controller
XClarity Controller (XCC); optional Advanced (remote KVM) or Enterprise (remote media, boot capture, power capping)
Tools
XClarity Administrator, XClarity Integrator plugins, XClarity Energy Manager
Video
G200 graphics, 16 MB, integrated in XCC, up to 1920×1200 60 Hz
Security
Chassis intrusion switch, power-on/admin password, TPM 2.0, optional lockable front bezel

Operating systems

Hypervisor
Nutanix AHV or VMware ESXi
Software
Nutanix Acropolis Starter, Pro, and Ultimate editions; Nutanix Prism; optional Nutanix Calm and Flow

Processors

  • Intel Xeon Silver 4309Y
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4310
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4310T
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4314
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4316
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5315Y
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5317
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5318N
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5318S
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5318Y
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5320
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5320T
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6326
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6330
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6330N
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6334
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6336Y
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6338
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6338N
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6338T
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6342
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6346
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6354
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8352S
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8352V
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8352Y