Lenovo ThinkAgile VX5530
A 1-2 socket 2U VMware vSAN hyperconverged Appliance built on the ThinkSystem SR650 V2 with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake) processors, configured storage-heavy with up to 16 × 3.5-inch drive bays for capacity-focused hybrid or all-flash clusters.
Memory
- Slots
- 32 DIMM with 2 processors (16 per processor), 8 channels per processor, 2 DIMMs per channel
- Max capacity
- 4 TB using 32 × 128 GB 3DS RDIMMs (RDIMM-only); 6 TB using 16 × 128 GB 3DS RDIMMs + 16 × 256 GB Persistent Memory modules
- Type
- Lenovo TruDDR4 RDIMM or 3DS RDIMM, up to 3200 MHz at 2 DPC; DIMM slots shared with Persistent Memory
- Persistent memory
- Up to 16 × Intel Optane Persistent Memory 200 Series modules (8 per processor), installed alongside system memory DIMMs
- Protection
- ECC, SDDC (x4 DIMMs), ADDDC (x4 DIMMs, Gold/Platinum CPUs only), memory mirroring
Storage
- Drive bays
- Up to 16 × 3.5" hot-swap drive bays (SAS/SATA or AnyBay), plus 2 × 7 mm rear hot-swap boot drives
- Boot drives
- 2 × M.2 SATA (internal module) or 2 × 7 mm hot-swap drives
- Storage controller
- Up to 12 × onboard NVMe ports (no RAID), NVMe Retimer Adapter, NVMe Switch Adapter; 12 Gb SAS/SATA non-RAID 430-8i or 430-16i HBA
- Configurations
- All-flash or hybrid; drives organized as Cache or Capacity drives in disk groups (1–5 disk groups)
- Note
- No onboard SATA controller, no RAID adapter, no vROC, no SATA HDDs, no SED drive support, no Fibre Channel
Expansion
- Slots
- Up to 8 × PCIe 4.0 full-height rear slots across 3 risers (Riser 1: slots 1-3, Riser 2: slots 4-6 on the system board; Riser 3: slots 7-8, cabled), plus a dedicated OCP 3.0 slot; slots 4-8 require two processors
- Note
- For 2.5" front-drive configurations an HBA can be installed in a dedicated area without using a PCIe slot
Networking
- OCP 3.0 (dedicated slot)
- PCIe 4.0 x16 host interface; 10GbE and 25GbE adapters; one port can share XCC sideband (Wake-on-LAN, NC-SI)
- PCIe adapters
- Up to 7 adapters: 10GBASE-T, 10GbE, 25GbE, 100GbE
Power
- Supplies
- Up to 2 × hot-swap redundant AC, 500 W / 750 W / 1100 W / 1800 W, 80 PLUS Platinum or Titanium, 220 V; 500/750/1100 W also support 110 V; 240 V DC in China; 1100 W -48V DC option also available
Ports
- Front
- 1 × USB 3.1 Gen 1 (5 Gb/s), 1 × USB 2.0 (also XCC local management), external diagnostics port, optional VGA
- Rear
- 3 × USB 3.1 Gen 1 (5 Gb/s), 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
- 6 × (two CPUs) or 5 × (one CPU) dual-rotor hot-swap 60 mm fans, N+1 redundant; one fan integrated in each PSU
Management
- Controller
- XClarity Controller (XCC) embedded management; optional XClarity Controller Advanced or Enterprise for remote control functions
- 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 Nationz TPM 2.0 in China), optional lockable front bezel
Operating systems
- Hypervisor
- VMware ESXi 7.0 U2 (factory installed)
- Software stack
- VMware Cloud Foundation 5 (VCF) or VMware vSphere Foundation 8 (VVF); add-ons include VMware vSAN 8, Live Recovery, Firewall, Avi Load Balancer, Private AI Foundation
- Cluster sizing
- VCF: minimum 4 nodes for a management domain. VVF: 3-host minimum vSAN cluster (2-node ROBO deployment supported with a witness appliance, requires vSAN 7.0+), maximum 64 hosts
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 8352M
- 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 8362
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8368
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8380