Lenovo ThinkAgile VX665 V3

Lenovo's 2-socket 2U VMware hyperconverged system, code name Kauai (Integrated System MTM 7D9LCTO1WW, Certified Node 7D9LCTO2WW; built on the ThinkSystem SR665 V3), for one or two AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" or 9004 "Genoa" processors, with 24 DDR5 DIMM slots (up to 6 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: 24 DIMM with 2 processors (12 per CPU), 1 DIMM per channel across 12 memory channels per CPU
Max: 6 TB using 24 x 256 GB TruDDR5 3DS RDIMM-A
Types: Lenovo TruDDR5 RDIMM, 3DS RDIMM and 9x4 RDIMM, up to 6000 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 20 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, no SATA HDD support and no SED drive support on the VX665 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 5 x NVIDIA L4 24 GB or up to 4 x NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition 32 GB PCIe Gen5 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 10 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; use of some slots requires 2 processors
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 processors (Lenovo Processor Neptune Core Module, requires 2 CPUs)

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: 7D9L (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, 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 9184X
AMD EPYC 9224
AMD EPYC 9254
AMD EPYC 9274F
AMD EPYC 9334
AMD EPYC 9354
AMD EPYC 9354P
AMD EPYC 9374F
AMD EPYC 9384X
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