Lenovo ThinkAgile VX7820

Lenovo's 4U ThinkAgile VX Appliance (base MTM 7Z13CTO1WW, built on the ThinkSystem SR950) supporting two or four 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable ("Cascade Lake") processors, up to 48 DDR4 DIMM slots (12 TB max) and up to 24 x 2.5" all-flash hot-swap drive bays. Factory-integrated with VMware for high-performance hyperconverged workloads; bundled with Lenovo Premier Support. Withdrawn from marketing.

Memory

Slots: 48 DIMM (12 per CPU, 2 DIMMs per channel, 6 channels per CPU)
Max: 12 TB (48 x 256 GB 3DS RDIMM, 4 CPUs)
Types: RDIMM and 3DS RDIMM, up to 2933 MHz
Protection: ECC, SDDC (x4 DIMMs), ADDDC (x4 DIMMs with Gold/Platinum CPUs), patrol scrubbing, demand scrubbing

Storage

Bays: Up to 24 x 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA bays, using up to 6 x 4-bay backplanes
Backplanes: SAS/SATA backplane (4 SAS/SATA bays) or SAS/SATA/NVMe backplane (2 SAS/SATA + 2 SAS/SATA/NVMe bays); minimum 2 backplanes required; NVMe drives use PCIe 3.0 x4
Boot: 2 x M.2 non-hot-swap SSDs (RAID-1)
Controllers: 12 Gbps SAS / 6 Gbps SATA non-RAID: 430-8i, 430-16i HBA; Onboard NVMe (non-RAID)
Configuration: All-flash; 2-5 vSAN disk groups

Expansion

Slots 1-4: On a riser: 4 x PCIe 3.0 x16 FH/HL 75W, or 2 x PCIe 3.0 x16 FH/HL 75W, or 4 x PCIe 3.0 x8 FH/HL 75W
Slot 5: PCIe 3.0 x16, low-profile, 75 W
Slot 6: PCIe 3.0 x16, low-profile, 75 W
Slot 7: PCIe 3.0 x8, low-profile, 75 W
Slot 8: PCIe 3.0 x16 ML2, low-profile (supports NC-SI)
Slot 9: PCIe 3.0 x8 LOM adapter slot, low-profile (supports NC-SI)
Slots 10-15: On a riser: 5 x PCIe 3.0 x16 FH/HL 75W + 1 x PCIe 3.0 x16 ML2 FH/HL 30W, or 2 x PCIe 3.0 x16 FH/HL 75W, or 4 x PCIe 3.0 x8 FH/HL 75W
Slots 16-17: On a riser: 2 x PCIe 3.0 x8, low-profile, 75 W each
Additional: 1 or 2 x internal PCIe 3.0 x8 slots for storage adapters; M.2 adapter slot

Networking

LOM: Integrated 10 Gb Ethernet controller (Intel X722); supports a 1 Gb or 10 Gb LOM adapter
ML2: Supports 1 or 2 ML2 adapters
PCIe adapters: Up to 14 PCIe network adapters, 1 Gb to 100 Gb Ethernet

Power

PSU options: 1100 W (100-240 V), 1600 W (200-240 V) or 2000 W (200-240 V), 80 PLUS Platinum
Redundancy: 2 or 4 x redundant hot-swap PSUs
Cooling: 6 x hot-swap fans, N+1 redundant, in the compute tray

Ports

Front: 1 x USB 2.0 (XClarity Controller access), 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x VGA
Rear: 2 x USB 3.0, 1 x VGA, 1 x DB-9 serial, 1 x RJ-45 10/100/1000 Mb Ethernet for systems management

Physical

Form factor: 4U rack-mount
Dimensions: 447 mm W x 173 mm H x 800 mm D (17.6 x 6.8 x 31.5 in)
Weight: 58.7 kg (129.4 lb) maximum
Machine type: 7Z13

Management

BMC: Lenovo XClarity Controller (XCC) Enterprise (Pilot 4 chip), proactive platform alerts, light path diagnostics
Tools: XClarity Administrator, XClarity Pro, XClarity Integrator for VMware vCenter (optional), XClarity Energy Manager (optional)
Security: Power-on and administrator passwords, secure firmware updates, TPM 1.2 or 2.0 (configurable UEFI setting)
Cluster: VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF): minimum 4 nodes for a management domain; VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF): vSAN cluster of 3-64 hosts

Operating systems

Hypervisor: VMware ESXi

Processors

Intel Xeon Gold 5215
Intel Xeon Gold 5215L
Intel Xeon Gold 5217
Intel Xeon Gold 5218
Intel Xeon Gold 5218B
Intel Xeon Gold 5218T
Intel Xeon Gold 5220
Intel Xeon Gold 5220S
Intel Xeon Gold 5220T
Intel Xeon Gold 5222
Intel Xeon Gold 6222V
Intel Xeon Gold 6226
Intel Xeon Gold 6230
Intel Xeon Gold 6230N
Intel Xeon Gold 6230T
Intel Xeon Gold 6234
Intel Xeon Gold 6238
Intel Xeon Gold 6238L
Intel Xeon Gold 6238T
Intel Xeon Gold 6240
Intel Xeon Gold 6240L
Intel Xeon Gold 6240Y
Intel Xeon Gold 6242
Intel Xeon Gold 6244
Intel Xeon Gold 6248
Intel Xeon Gold 6252
Intel Xeon Gold 6252N
Intel Xeon Gold 6254
Intel Xeon Gold 6262V
Intel Xeon Platinum 8253
Intel Xeon Platinum 8256
Intel Xeon Platinum 8260
Intel Xeon Platinum 8260L
Intel Xeon Platinum 8260Y
Intel Xeon Platinum 8268
Intel Xeon Platinum 8270
Intel Xeon Platinum 8276
Intel Xeon Platinum 8276L
Intel Xeon Platinum 8280
Intel Xeon Platinum 8280L