Lenovo ThinkAgile VX5575
A 1-2 socket 2U VMware vSAN hyperconverged Integrated System built on the ThinkSystem SR665 with AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors, configured storage-heavy with up to 16 × 3.5-inch drive bays but no GPU support.
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
- Type
- Lenovo TruDDR4 RDIMM/3DS RDIMM; Performance+ RDIMM 3200 MHz at 1 or 2 DPC; standard RDIMM 3200 MHz (1 DPC)/2933 MHz (2 DPC); 3DS RDIMM 2933 MHz (1 DPC)/2666 MHz (2 DPC)
- Persistent memory
- Not supported
- Protection
- ECC, SDDC, Patrol/Demand Scrubbing, DRAM Address Command Parity with Replay, DRAM Uncorrected ECC Error Retry, Post Package Repair
Storage
- Drive bays
- Up to 16 × 3.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA drive bays, plus 2 × 7 mm rear hot-swap boot drives
- Boot drives
- 2 × 7 mm hot-swap SATA, 2 × 7 mm hot-swap NVMe, or 2 × M.2 SATA (internal module)
- Storage controller
- Onboard NVMe and NVMe adapters (no RAID); 12 Gb SAS/SATA 430-8i or 430-16i HBA
- Configurations
- All-flash or hybrid; drives organized in up to 5 disk groups
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; 1GbE, 10GbE and 25GbE 2-port/4-port adapters; one port can share XCC sideband (Wake-on-LAN, NC-SI)
- PCIe adapters
- Up to 8 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
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
- Up to 6 × N+1 redundant hot-swap 60 mm fans, configuration dependent; 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 U1 (factory installed); ESXi 7.0 U2 available as a field upgrade
- 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
- AMD EPYC 72F3
- AMD EPYC 7313
- AMD EPYC 7313P
- AMD EPYC 7343
- AMD EPYC 73F3
- AMD EPYC 7413
- AMD EPYC 7443
- AMD EPYC 7443P
- AMD EPYC 7453
- AMD EPYC 74F3
- AMD EPYC 7513
- AMD EPYC 7543
- AMD EPYC 7543P
- AMD EPYC 75F3
- AMD EPYC 7643
- AMD EPYC 7663
- AMD EPYC 7713
- AMD EPYC 7713P
- AMD EPYC 7763
- AMD EPYC 7373X
- AMD EPYC 7473X
- AMD EPYC 7573X
- AMD EPYC 7773X