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Lenovo ThinkAgile MX650 V4

Lenovo's 2-socket 2U hyperconverged appliance (base MTM 7DFHCTO1WW, built on the ThinkSystem SR650 V4) for Intel Xeon 6 P-core "Granite Rapids" 6500P/6700P-series processors up to 86 cores and 350 W, with 32 DDR5 DIMM slots (up to 8 TB) and up to 12x 3.5" or 28x 2.5" drive bays, preloaded with Microsoft Azure Local for Storage Spaces Direct hyperconverged infrastructure.

Memory

Slots
32 DIMM (16 per processor, up to 2 DPC); 16 DIMM slots with 2 processors when Compute Complex Neptune Core liquid cooling is used
Max
8 TB with 32 x 256 GB TruDDR5 3DS RDIMM
Type
TruDDR5 RDIMM/3DS RDIMM up to 6400 MHz (1 DPC) / 5200 MHz (2 DPC); MRDIMM up to 8000 MHz (1 DPC, CPU-dependent)
Protection
ECC, SDDC (x4 DIMMs), ADDDC (x4 DIMMs, not with 9x4 RDIMMs), memory mirroring

Storage

Drive bays
Up to 12x 3.5" or 28x 2.5" hot-swap: front up to 12x 3.5" or 24x 2.5", rear up to 4x 2.5"; combinations of SAS/SATA, NVMe or AnyBay
Controller
Onboard NVMe ports (no RAID); optional ThinkSystem 440-16i SAS/SATA PCIe Gen4 12Gb HBA (up to 2)
Boot
2x front/rear hot-swap M.2 or an internal M.2 module, up to 2 drives, optional RAID-1 via M.2 RAID adapter
Configurations
All-flash NVMe-only (S2D or S2D+SAN), all-flash NVMe+SSD (S2D only), hybrid NVMe cache + HDD capacity (S2D only), or compute-only with no local storage for external SAN

Expansion

Slots
Up to 8x PCIe 5.0 full-height, rear-access slots across 3 risers (Riser 1: slots 1-3; Riser 2: slots 4-6, requires 2 processors; Riser 3: slots 7-8, cabled), plus a dedicated OCP 3.0 slot; slot 8 unavailable with the Processor Neptune Core Module
GPU
Up to 10x single-wide or 2x double-wide GPUs; RAID/HBA can be installed in a dedicated area on 2.5" front-drive configs without consuming a PCIe slot

Networking

OCP adapters
2x OCP 3.0 rear-accessible slots, PCIe 5.0 x16; Broadcom 57412 10GBASE-T 4-port; Broadcom 57416 10GBASE-T 2-port; Intel E810-DA2 10/25GbE SFP28 2-port; Broadcom 57414 10/25GbE SFP28 2-port; Broadcom 57504 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port; Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx 10/25GbE SFP28 2-port; NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Dx 100GbE QSFP56 2-port
PCIe adapters
Broadcom 57412 10GBASE-T 4-port; Broadcom 57416 10GBASE-T 2-port; Intel E810-DA2 10/25GbE SFP28 2-port; Broadcom 57414 10/25GbE SFP28 2-port; Broadcom 57504 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port; Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx 10/25GbE SFP28 2-port; Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx 100GbE QSFP56 2-port
Fibre Channel (Disaggregated Solution only)
QLogic QLE2872 64Gb 2-port; Emulex LPe38102 64Gb 2-port SecureHBA; Emulex LPe37102 32Gb 2-port SecureHBA; QLogic QLE2772 32Gb 2-port; QLogic QLE2770 32Gb 1-port — for connecting to external ThinkSystem DS/DM/DG SAN storage; data migration only on the base MX650 V4

Power

Supply
Up to 2x hot-swap redundant AC PSUs: 750 W, 1100 W, 1800 W, 2400 W or 2600 W, 80 PLUS Platinum/Titanium, 220 V AC (750 W/1100 W also support 110 V); 1100 W with -48V DC input also available; 240 V DC option in China

Ports

Front
1x USB 3.1 Gen 1 (5 Gb/s), 1x USB 2.0 (also XCC local management), external diagnostics port, optional VGA
Rear
3x USB 3.1 Gen 1 (5 Gb/s), 1x VGA, 1x RJ-45 1GbE XCC remote-management port, optional 2nd dedicated BMC port in the OCP bay, optional DB-9 serial (slot 3)
Internal
1x USB 3.1 Gen 1 connector for OS or license-key purposes

Physical

Dimensions
445 mm (17.5 in) W x 87 mm (3.4 in) H x 796 mm (31.3 in) D; up to 924 mm (36.4 in) D in some configurations, per Lenovo
Weight
Maximum 38.8 kg (85.5 lb)

Management

BMC
XClarity Controller 3 (XCC3) on ASPEED AST2600 BMC; optional XCC3 Premier for remote KVM, remote media mounting, boot capture, power capping, Neighbor Groups, System Guard, CNSA-compliant and FIPS 140-3-compliant modes, enhanced NIST 800-193 support
Tools
Lenovo XClarity Administrator, XClarity Provisioning Manager, XClarity Integrator, XClarity Energy Manager; managed via Azure Arc and Windows Admin Center with Lenovo XClarity Integrator; Solution Builder Extension (SBE) one-click update
Protocols
IPMI 2.0, SNMP 3.0, Redfish REST API, serial console via IPMI
Security
Chassis intrusion switch, power-on/administrator passwords, Root of Trust with TPM 2.0 and Platform Firmware Resiliency, Secure Boot, optional lockable front security bezel

Operating systems

Preloaded OS
Microsoft Azure Local (Azure Stack HCI OS), version 24H2, factory-installed; Hyper-V, Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) and Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Optional
Windows Server 2025 Datacenter Edition (S2D/Hyper-V) with unlimited guest VM rights, factory-installed or bring-your-own-license

Processors

  • Intel Xeon 6505P
  • Intel Xeon 6507P
  • Intel Xeon 6511P
  • Intel Xeon 6515P
  • Intel Xeon 6517P
  • Intel Xeon 6520P
  • Intel Xeon 6521P
  • Intel Xeon 6527P
  • Intel Xeon 6530P
  • Intel Xeon 6714P
  • Intel Xeon 6724P
  • Intel Xeon 6730P
  • Intel Xeon 6731P
  • Intel Xeon 6732P
  • Intel Xeon 6736P
  • Intel Xeon 6737P
  • Intel Xeon 6740P
  • Intel Xeon 6741P
  • Intel Xeon 6745P
  • Intel Xeon 6747P
  • Intel Xeon 6760P
  • Intel Xeon 6761P
  • Intel Xeon 6767P
  • Intel Xeon 6781P
  • Intel Xeon 6787P