Lenovo ThinkAgile HX7531
A 2-socket 2U hyperconverged Certified Node built on the ThinkSystem SR650 V2 with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable ('Ice Lake') processors, aimed at high-performance workloads; the bare-metal counterpart of the Nutanix-preloaded ThinkAgile HX7530 appliance, with Nutanix software licensed separately.
Memory
- Slots
- 32 DIMM slots (16 per processor, 8 memory channels/socket, 2 DPC)
- Type
- Lenovo TruDDR4 RDIMM and 3DS RDIMM, up to 3200 MHz at 2 DPC
- Max
- Up to 4 TB with 32 × 128 GB 3DS RDIMMs
- Protection
- ECC, SDDC (x4-based DIMMs), ADDDC (x4-based DIMMs, requires Platinum or Gold processors), memory mirroring
Storage
- Front bays (24-bay)
- 16 × 2.5" SAS/SATA + 8 × 2.5" AnyBay
- Front bays (16-bay max)
- 16 × 2.5" SAS/SATA
- Rear bays
- None
- Boot
- Internal M.2 module, up to 2 M.2 drives; optional 7mm hot-swap boot drives at the rear of the server
- Controller
- Onboard NVMe ports (no RAID); 12 Gb SAS/SATA non-RAID 430-8i or 430-16i HBA
Graphics
- Options
- Up to 7 × single-wide GPUs or 2 × double-wide GPUs
Expansion
- Slots
- Up to 8 × PCIe 4.0 full-height, rear-access slots plus 1 dedicated OCP 3.0 slot; slot availability depends on riser and rear-drive-bay selection
- Risers
- Riser 1 (slots 1-3) and Riser 2 (slots 4-6) on the system board; Riser 3 (slots 7-8) cabled to the system board
- Note
- Slots 4-8 require two processors; 2.5" front-drive configurations can add an HBA in a dedicated area outside the PCIe slot count
Networking
- OCP
- Dedicated OCP 3.0 SFF slot, PCIe 4.0 x16, 10GbE/25GbE connectivity; one port can optionally share with the XClarity Controller (XCC) for Wake-on-LAN and NC-SI
Power
- Supplies
- Up to 2 hot-swap redundant AC power supplies, 80 PLUS Platinum or Titanium: 500 W, 750 W, 1100 W, 1800 W, 2600 W at 220 V AC (500 W/750 W/1100 W also support 110 V); China-only 240 V DC on all options
Ports
- Front
- 1 × USB 3.1 Gen1 (5 Gb/s), 1 × USB 2.0 (also XCC local management), external diagnostics port, optional VGA
- Rear
- 3 × USB 3.1 Gen1 (5 Gb/s), 1 × VGA, 1 × RJ-45 1GbE XCC management port, optional DB-9 serial port (slot 3)
- Internal
- 1 × USB 3.1 Gen1 connector for OS or license-key use
Physical
- Dimensions
- 445 × 87 × 764 mm (17.5 × 3.4 × 30.1 in), W×H×D
- Weight
- 38.8 kg (85.5 lb) maximum
- Cooling
- 6 (two processors) or 5 (one processor) dual-rotor hot-swap 60 mm fans, N+1 redundant, tolerating a single-rotor failure; one fan integrated per power supply
Management
- Controller
- XClarity Controller (XCC) embedded management
- Software
- XClarity Administrator, XClarity Integrator plugins, XClarity Energy Manager; optional XClarity Controller Advanced/Enterprise for remote control
- Security
- Chassis intrusion switch, power-on and administrator passwords, TPM 2.0 (China: optional Nationz TPM 2.0), optional lockable front security bezel
Operating systems
- Hypervisors
- Nutanix AHV, VMware ESXi
- Software
- Certified Node: Nutanix Acropolis Starter, Pro and Ultimate editions (licenses purchased separately from Nutanix or a Nutanix reseller)
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 6348
- Intel Xeon Gold 6354
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8352S
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8352V
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8352Y
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8358
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8358P
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8360Y
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8368
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8380