Lenovo ThinkAgile VX7575
Lenovo's 2-socket 2U ThinkAgile VX Integrated System (base MTM 7D43CTO3WW, built on the ThinkSystem SR665) for one or two AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors, with up to 32 DDR4 DIMM slots (4 TB max) and up to 35 x 2.5" SAS/SATA or 32 x 2.5" NVMe hot-swap drive bays. Factory-integrated with VMware vSAN/ESXi for hyperconverged deployments; unlike its VX7576 sibling it has no GPU support.
Memory
- Slots
- 32 DIMM (16 per CPU, 2 DIMMs per channel, 8 channels per CPU)
- Max
- 4 TB (32 x 128 GB 3DS RDIMM, 2 CPUs)
- Types
- Lenovo TruDDR4 RDIMM, 3DS RDIMM, Performance+ RDIMM
- Protection
- ECC, SDDC, patrol/demand scrubbing, DRAM address/command parity with replay, DRAM uncorrected ECC error retry, Post Package Repair
Storage
- Front
- Up to 24 x 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA, AnyBay or NVMe bays
- Mid
- Up to 8 x 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA bays
- Rear
- Up to 8 x 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA bays
- Boot
- 2 x 7mm hot-swap SATA or NVMe (rear), or 2 x M.2 SATA on an internal adapter
- Controllers
- Onboard NVMe / NVMe adapters (no RAID); 12 Gb SAS/SATA HBAs: 430-8i, 430-16i, 440-16i
- Configuration
- All-flash or hybrid; up to 5 vSAN disk groups
Graphics
- Onboard
- G200 with 16 MB memory, integrated into XClarity Controller; max 1920x1200 32bpp at 60 Hz
- Discrete GPU
- No GPU support on VX7575
Expansion
- Slots
- Up to 8 x PCIe 4.0 full-height slots with rear access, plus a dedicated OCP 3.0 slot; configured via 3 riser cards (Riser 1: slots 1-3, Riser 2: slots 4-6, Riser 3: slots 7-8, cabled)
- Notes
- Slots 4-8 require two processors; for 2.5" front drive configurations an HBA can be installed in a dedicated area that doesn't consume a PCIe slot
- OCP 3.0
- 1 x dedicated OCP 3.0 SFF slot, PCIe 4.0 x16 host interface; 2-port and 4-port 1/10/25 GbE adapters; one port can be shared with XCC for Wake-on-LAN/NC-SI
Networking
- OCP adapters
- 1/10/25 GbE 2- or 4-port OCP 3.0 adapters (Intel, Broadcom, Mellanox)
- PCIe adapters
- Up to 8 x PCIe adapters, 1/10/25/100 GbE (Intel, Broadcom, Marvell, Mellanox, Xilinx)
- Fibre Channel
- Up to 8 x 16/32/64 Gb Fibre Channel HBAs (Emulex, QLogic)
Power
- PSU options
- 500 W, 750 W, 1100 W and 1800 W (80 PLUS Platinum or Titanium), 220 V AC; 500/750/1100 W also support 110 V; China-only 240 V DC
- Redundancy
- Up to 2 x hot-swap redundant PSUs
- Cooling
- Up to 6 x N+1 redundant hot-swap 60 mm fans (configuration dependent); one fan integrated in each PSU
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 port (slot 3)
- Internal
- 1 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 connector 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
- 7D43 (3-year warranty)
Management
- BMC
- XClarity Controller (XCC) embedded management; optional XCC Advanced/Enterprise for remote control functions
- Tools
- XClarity Administrator, XClarity Integrator plugins, XClarity Energy Manager
- Security
- Chassis intrusion switch, power-on and administrator passwords, TPM 2.0 (Nationz TPM 2.0 in China); optional lockable front security bezel
- Cluster
- VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF): minimum 4 nodes for a management domain; VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF): vSAN cluster of 3-64 hosts (2-node ROBO with a vSAN witness appliance requires VVF)
Operating systems
- Hypervisor
- VMware ESXi 7.0 U1 (factory install), plus ESXi 7.0 U2, 7.0 U3, 8.0, 8.0 U1, 8.0 U2, 8.0 U3, 9.0
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