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Lenovo ThinkAgile VX655 V3

Lenovo's 1-socket 2U VMware hyperconverged system (Integrated System MTM 7D9WCTO1WW, Certified Node 7D9WCTO2WW; built on the ThinkSystem SR655 V3) for a single AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" or 9004 "Genoa" processor, with 12 DDR5 DIMM slots (up to 3 TB) and up to 40 x 2.5" or 16 x 3.5" drive bays across SAS/SATA/NVMe. Supports up to 8 single-wide or 3 double-wide GPUs and factory-ships VMware ESXi for vSAN clusters via the ThinkAgile VX Deployer.

Memory

Slots
12 DIMM, 1 DIMM per channel across 12 memory channels
Max
3 TB using 12 x 256 GB TruDDR5 3DS RDIMM-A
Types
Lenovo TruDDR5 RDIMM, 3DS RDIMM and 9x4 RDIMM, up to 4800 MHz
Protection
ECC, SDDC, Patrol/Demand Scrubbing, Bounded Fault, DRAM Address/Command Parity with Replay, DRAM Uncorrected ECC Error Retry, On-die ECC, ECC Error Check and Scrub (ECS), Post Package Repair
Persistent memory
Not supported

Storage

Drive bays
Up to 16 x 3.5" (8 or 12 front, 4 middle, 2 or 4 rear) or up to 40 x 2.5" (8/16/24 front, 8 middle, 4 or 8 rear) hot-swap bays; combinations of SAS/SATA, NVMe or AnyBay
Boot drives
2 x 7 mm hot-swap rear drives (SATA or NVMe), plus an internal M.2 module for up to 2 M.2 SATA drives, in addition to the main drive bays
Controllers
Onboard NVMe (no RAID); NVMe Retimer Adapter (PCIe 4.0/5.0); 12 Gb SAS/SATA HBA, non-RAID, 8-port or 16-port, PCIe 4.0 or 3.0
Configuration
All-flash or hybrid vSAN OSA, up to 5 disk groups of Cache/Capacity drives; no onboard SATA controller and no SATA HDD support on the VX655 V3

Graphics

Onboard
G200 graphics with 16 MB memory, 2D hardware accelerator, integrated into the XClarity Controller; max 1920x1200 32bpp at 60 Hz
Single-wide GPU
Up to 8 x NVIDIA L4 24 GB PCIe Gen4 passive GPU
Double-wide GPU
Up to 3 x NVIDIA L40S 48 GB, NVIDIA A16 64 GB, NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Workstation Edition 32 GB (active), or NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition 96 GB (active)

Expansion

Slots
Up to 8 x PCIe rear slots (PCIe 5.0 or 4.0 depending on riser and rear drive bay selection) via 3 riser cards, plus a dedicated OCP slot
Riser layout
Riser 1 (slots 1-3) and Riser 2 (slots 4-6) install on the system board; Riser 3 (slots 7-8) is cabled to the system board
OCP 3.0
1 x dedicated OCP 3.0 SFF slot, PCIe 5.0 x16, front- or rear-accessible; one port can be shared with XClarity Controller 2 for Wake-on-LAN/NC-SI

Networking

OCP 3.0 adapters
1/10/25 GbE options (Intel I350, Broadcom 5719/57416, Intel X710-T2L/T4L, Broadcom 57414), 1 installed
PCIe adapters
Up to 10 x adapters at 10GBASE-T, 10G, 25G or 100G
Fibre Channel
16/32/64 Gb Emulex and QLogic PCIe HBAs (up to 10), supported for use cases like data migration

Power

PSU options
750 W, 1100 W, 1800 W, 2400 W and 2600 W (80 PLUS Platinum or Titanium), 220 V AC; 750 W and 1100 W also support 110 V; 240 V DC in China only
Redundancy
Up to 2 x hot-swap redundant PSUs; one fan integrated in each PSU
Cooling
Up to 6 x N+1 redundant hot-swap 60 mm fans; optional open-loop water cooling for the processor (Lenovo Processor Neptune Core Module)

Ports

Front
1 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 (5 Gb/s), 1 x USB 2.0 (also for 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 second XCC port (in OCP slot); optional DB-9 serial port (slot 3)
Internal
1 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 (5 Gb/s) for OS/license key purposes

Physical

Form factor
2U rack
Dimensions
445 mm W x 87 mm H x 764 mm D (17.5 x 3.4 x 30.1 in)
Weight
38.8 kg (85.5 lb) maximum
Machine type
7D9W (3-year warranty)

Management

BMC
XClarity Controller 2 (XCC2, ASPEED AST2600); dedicated rear Ethernet port, optional second redundant XCC2 port in the OCP slot; optional XCC Platinum for remote control
Tools
Lenovo XClarity Administrator, XClarity Integrator (VMware Lifecycle Manager), XClarity Energy Manager
Security
Chassis intrusion switch, power-on and administrator passwords, Root of Trust module with TPM 2.0 and Platform Firmware Resiliency; optional lockable front security bezel
Warranty
3-year customer-replaceable-unit and onsite limited warranty, 9x5 next business day; optional service upgrades (4-hour or 2-hour response, 6-hour fix time)
Cluster
Minimum 4 nodes for a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) management domain; minimum 3 hosts (2 with a vSAN witness appliance, requires VVF license) and maximum 64 hosts for a VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) vSAN cluster, requires vSAN 7.0 or later

Operating systems

Hypervisor
VMware ESXi 7.0 U3 (factory-installed), ESXi 8.0 U2, ESXi 8.0u3 (factory-installed), selected via the ThinkAgile VX Deployer tool

Processors

  • AMD EPYC 9015
  • AMD EPYC 9115
  • AMD EPYC 9135
  • AMD EPYC 9175F
  • AMD EPYC 9255
  • AMD EPYC 9275F
  • AMD EPYC 9335
  • AMD EPYC 9355
  • AMD EPYC 9355P
  • AMD EPYC 9365
  • AMD EPYC 9375F
  • AMD EPYC 9455
  • AMD EPYC 9455P
  • AMD EPYC 9475F
  • AMD EPYC 9535
  • AMD EPYC 9555
  • AMD EPYC 9555P
  • AMD EPYC 9565
  • AMD EPYC 9575F
  • AMD EPYC 9645
  • AMD EPYC 9655
  • AMD EPYC 9655P
  • AMD EPYC 9745
  • AMD EPYC 9825
  • AMD EPYC 9845
  • AMD EPYC 9124
  • AMD EPYC 9174F
  • AMD EPYC 9224
  • AMD EPYC 9254
  • AMD EPYC 9274F
  • AMD EPYC 9334
  • AMD EPYC 9354
  • AMD EPYC 9354P
  • AMD EPYC 9374F
  • AMD EPYC 9454
  • AMD EPYC 9454P
  • AMD EPYC 9474F
  • AMD EPYC 9534
  • AMD EPYC 9554
  • AMD EPYC 9554P
  • AMD EPYC 9634
  • AMD EPYC 9654
  • AMD EPYC 9654P