Lenovo ThinkAgile VX3331
A 2-socket 1U VMware hyperconverged Certified Node built on the ThinkSystem SR630 V2, using 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake) processors; a compute-heavy node the customer licenses separately for VCF/VVF, with optional single-wide GPU support for VDI/AI workloads.
Memory
- Slots
- 32 DIMM with 2 processors (16 per processor, 8 memory channels, 2 DIMMs per channel)
- Max capacity
- 4 TB using 32 x 128 GB 3DS RDIMMs; up to 6 TB using 16 x 128 GB 3DS RDIMM + 16 x 256 GB Optane PMem 200
- Type
- Lenovo TruDDR4 RDIMM and 3DS RDIMM, up to 3200 MHz at 2 DPC; DIMM slots shared with persistent memory
- Persistent memory
- Up to 16 x Intel Optane Persistent Memory 200 Series modules (8 per processor)
- Protection
- ECC, SDDC (x4 DIMMs), ADDDC (x4 DIMMs, requires Gold/Platinum CPU), memory mirroring
Storage
- Drive bays
- Front: up to 10 x 2.5" SAS/SATA, NVMe or AnyBay hot-swap bays; Rear: 2 x 2.5" SAS/SATA or NVMe hot-swap bays; Rear boot: 2 x 7mm SAS/SATA or NVMe
- Boot
- Internal M.2 module for up to 2 M.2 drives, for OS boot and drive storage support
- Storage controller
- Up to 12 x onboard NVMe ports (Intel VROC NVMe RAID, optional license for non-Intel NVMe); NVMe Retimer Adapter; 12 Gb SAS/SATA non-RAID 430-8i, 430-16i or 440-16i Internal HBA
- Disk groups
- 1-4 disk groups; 1 cache drive + 2-7 capacity drives per group (All Flash or Hybrid)
- Note
- No onboard SATA controller, no RAID adapter, no SATA HDDs, no EDSFF or SED drives, no Fibre Channel or InfiniBand (differs from the base SR630 V2)
Graphics
- GPU support
- Up to 3 x single-wide GPU, 75 W each
Expansion
- Slots
- Up to 3 x PCIe 4.0 rear-access slots plus a dedicated OCP 3.0 slot; Slot 3 requires 2 processors
- Slot combinations
- 3 x PCIe 4.0 x16 low-profile; or 1 x PCIe 4.0 x16 full-height/half-length + 1 x PCIe 4.0 x16 low-profile; or 1 x PCIe 4.0 x16 low-profile + 2 x rear 2.5" drive bays
Networking
- OCP
- Dedicated OCP 3.0 SFF slot, PCIe 4.0 x16 host interface, 1/10/25 GbE adapters; one port can share with XCC for Wake-on-LAN/NC-SI
- PCIe adapters
- Up to 2-3 additional PCIe network adapters (10GBASE-T, 10G, 25G, 100G)
- Management
- 1 x RJ-45 1 GbE dedicated XClarity Controller port
Power
- Supplies
- Up to 2 x hot-swap redundant AC power supplies: 500 W, 750 W, 1100 W or 1800 W, 80 PLUS Platinum or Titanium (500/750/1100 W also support 110 V)
Ports
- Front
- 1 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 (5 Gb/s), 1 x USB 2.0 (also XCC local management), external diagnostics port, optional VGA
- Rear
- 3 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 (5 Gb/s), 1 x VGA, 1 x RJ-45 1 GbE XCC management port, optional DB-9 serial (installs in Slot 3)
- Internal
- 1 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 connector for OS/license-key media
Physical
- Dimensions
- 43 x 440 x 773 mm (1.7 x 17.3 x 30.4 in.)
- Weight
- Up to 26.3 kg (58 lb)
- Cooling
- Up to 8 x N+1 redundant hot-swap 40 mm fans (configuration-dependent), plus a fan integrated in each power supply
Management
- Controller
- XClarity Controller (XCC) embedded management; optional XCC Advanced/Enterprise for remote control
- Tools
- XClarity Administrator, XClarity Integrator plugins, XClarity Energy Manager
- Video
- Matrox G200, 16 MB, integrated in XCC, up to 1920x1200 32bpp @ 60 Hz
- Security
- Chassis intrusion switch, power-on/administrator password, TPM 2.0 (Nationz TPM 2.0 in China), optional lockable front security bezel
Operating systems
- Hypervisor
- VMware ESXi
- Supported ESXi versions
- VMware ESXi 7.0 U2, VMware ESXi 7.0 U3, VMware ESXi 8.0, VMware ESXi 8.0 U1, VMware ESXi 8.0 U2, VMware ESXi 8.0 U3, VMware ESXi 9.0
- Software
- VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5 or VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) 8, with optional vSAN, Live Recovery, Firewall, Avi Load Balancer and Private AI Foundation add-ons
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 6312U
- Intel Xeon Gold 6314U
- 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 8351N
- 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
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8362
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8352M