1. ThinkSystem Server Joshua Jankowsky | August 8th 2017
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2. Contents Market & Customer Challenges Lenovo DCG Lenovo Services
Data Center Management
ThinkSystem Servers
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3. Are you ahead of the data curve?
$500B global health care analytics market3
$480B global financial services IT spend4
General:
General: in 2020
Retail:
Healthcare: (pg 3)
Financial Services:
Speaker Notes: We generate a data footprint whenever we go online. It’s created when we carry our GPS-equipped smartphones, when we communicate with our friends or colleagues, and through all digital output created.
This translates to a vast amount of digital information which is getting larger and larger ever more rapidly. To be successful, businesses realize that the more you know about anything or any situation, the more reliably you can gain new insights and make predictions about what will happen in the future.
And this makes it possible to do many things that previously could not be done: spot business trends, prevent diseases, combat crime and so on. Managed well, the data can be used to unlock new sources of economic value and provide fresh insights.
This slide shows not only how ubiquitous data production is but also how important data storage has become by sector spend allocated toward IT and analytics--notably in retail, finance and healthcare.
Other real world examples of data being produced every minute of every day:
2,460,000 Posts to Facebook
277,000 Tweets sent
More than 150 million s are sent
41,000 photos are loaded on Instagram
50,000 apps are downloaded from Apple
120 hours of new videos are uploaded to YouTube
600,000 Facebook login sessions every minute
4.19 million searches were performed on Google
80,000 sales transactions were recorded on Amazon
And it just goes on.
Not only is data growing exponentially, but the ubiquity of personal computing devices and cloud services are changing our expectations about how we want to access that data.
VR market expected to grow 16x from $2.5B in 2016 to $40.3B in 2020 (source: superdata.com)
AR market revenue expected to reach $100B by 2020 with 150% YoY growth (Source: BI Intelligence April 2015, ABI Intelligence Oct 2015, Goldman Sachs July 206, Digi-Capital 2016Q1)
$204k in sales transactions on Amazon every minute2
150M s sent every minute2
1.7 megabytes
of new info created every second for every human1
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4. Opportunities to innovate bring challenges…
Gain advantage from new innovations
Adapt for quicker-turn IT transitions
Mind the gap between operations and innovation
Speaker Notes:
Today’s technology leaders need to meet three overarching imperatives; modernize the data center, mitigate risk and enable business and IT transformation. In doing so, IT organizations need to satisfy increasingly more diverse, distributed and dynamic business requirements. This means supporting always on workloads, balancing cloud usage effectively, supporting new applications and iterative data analysis to drive real time decision making. Thus, infrastructure teams are continuing being asked to stand up new services faster, improve service levels and deliver greater performance.
More details:
New ways of customer interaction
2.4bn users with ubiquitous access
2.5bn GB of data created daily
50bn connected devices
Changing roles of IT
Developed to support the business
Transitioning to leading the business
IT Capabilities gap
80% of CEO’s rank growth initiatives as top business priority
20% of budget is allocated for innovation
Integration Risk
Proprietary Stacks
Complexity
New IT Models
Flexibility and Scale
Simplicity of Cloud
Growth top priority, only
20% of budget for innovation
Value Innovation
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5. Success requires agility
Speaker Notes:
To meet these challenges, organizations are working to reinvent how they deliver IT services. The data center needs to evolve. The transformation is to achieve not only additional efficiency, but effectiveness as well. Depending on the business goals of the data center, this will result in fundamental impacts to the data center, how it is managed, and how IT infrastructure is consumed. Infrastructure modernization and automation is essential with resources that able to be consumed in a more agile and fluid manner. Increasingly, customers are looking to both software-defined infrastructure and cloud computing models to offer this agility and infrastructure flexibility. Delivering applications and resources on demand but tailored to balance on premise and public cloud use. Agility alone is not enough.
Future-defined Strategy
Optimal balance to scale and adapt
IT Partners unconstrained to focus on client needs
Cloud simplicity to broader workloads
Status Quo is Untenable
Workload-optimized for today vs. tomorrow
Incumbent provider isn’t the only safe choice
Public cloud not the only path to simplicity
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6. It Began 30 Years Ago, Leading to Next-Gen Leadership
Building on Leadership
Reliability
Scalability
Performance
Server | Storage | Networking
performance / flexibility / reliability
Software Defined
simplicity / control / agility
Velocity
Value / Volume
Supply chain
Speaker Notes:
From device to data center, our 30-year commitment to nonstop innovation and improvement continues to shape the very future of work—and, we’re still writing that story today.
Lenovo engineers and designers focus on one goal: a transformational business computing experience..
Lenovo Storage
COMPLEXITY
SIMPLICITY
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7. Global business needs global expertise…
Worldwide facilities
Data Center HQ Raleigh, NC
17 manufacturing facilities,
7 research centers and
71 offices globally
A $46 billion, Fortune 500 company
55,000
employees serving customers in 160+ countries
100%
publicly traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Globally diverse leadership team
Seven different nationalities among top 16 executives
Five nationalities represented on Board of Directors
Global Support Reach
10K+ IT Support specialists in 165 countries
GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS
REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS
MANUFACTURING
RESEARCH CENTER
COMPANY LOCATION
51 Contact centers
Speaker Notes: Lenovo starts with a strong foundation. We know that the building blocks used to build your IT systems must meet key infrastructure requirements. Lenovo innovates where it matters most to reduce cost, improve operational efficiency, protect your data, and have the ultimate in performance for critical workloads.
Our customers rank us #1 in reliability for 4.5 years running and #1 in customer satisfaction for the 6th consecutive quarter, and for 9 of the last 10. We have 3 current world record benchmarks on everything from virtualization and database to application performance.
We are SAP’s largest provider of SAP installations – SAP solutions running on Lenovo hardware.
And Lenovo is the fastest growing TOP500 HPC vendor worldwide and we rank 2nd in the number of fastest HPC systems.
Claims
*Updated Lenovo Internal
Deck
Source examples…
TBR 4Q15 Customer Satisfaction Survey, January
The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2016, May 18,
Lenovo annual report (FY )
Internal competitive analysis
Internal Study
Benchmarks Summary – As of July 8, 2016
The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world. (As of June 2016)
2.7M systems
…with a foundation of leadership #1 #1 #1 #2 42
Top 25 2 1
SAP HANA
Server
Installations
TOP500
HPC Vendor
Current x86
World Record
Benchmarks
Customer Satisfaction
x86 Server
Reliability
Supply Chain
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8. Lenovo Services Support the Full IT Lifecycle
Planning
Fulfillment
Deployment
Support
Optimization
End of Life
Assessment Workshop
Factory
Integration Services
Basic Hardware Installation
Managed Services
Health Checks
Asset Recovery Services
Enterprise Server
Software Support
TCO Study
Speaker Notes:
Lenovo Service Support offers many customer benefits.
We have a comprehensive portfolio of services that supports the full lifecycle of your Lenovo IT assets
At every stage, from planning through end of life, we offer the expertise and services you need to:
Budget more accurately for IT expenses
Deliver better service-level agreements
Generate greater end-user satisfaction
Additional information on each of the 6 steps:
Planning: Lenovo will help you tackle your most complex challenges-understand your options, evaluate deployment alternatives, and design the best IT strategy for your enterprise
Fulfillment: We will help you reduce project time and costs by performing configuration, deployment, and quality assurance tasks at the point of manufacturing
Deployment: Simplify installation of new technologies, accelerate time to productivity, and free your IT staff to concentrate on business priorities
Support: Lenovo experts are available to you 24x7 to help ensure everyone in your organization has the tools needed—around the clock, around the world…
Optimization: Lenovo Health Check services help maintain optimal performance and efficiency in your data center.  Experienced Lenovo consultants will perform a thorough assessment of the current status of your firmware, HX Series Nutanix Clusters, SAP HANA or Hypervisor/Linux infrastructure, deliver a comprehensive report of their findings, and make the required updates.
End of Life: Dispose of Retired Hardware Responsibly, Securely, and Easily--Recycle and dispose of hardware assets responsibly via Lenovo’s audited processing facilities. Lenovo’s web-based portal delivers a reliable and consistent customer experience
Integration,
Migration, and Expansion
YourDrive YourData
Solution Design
Warranty Upgrades and Extensions
Proof-of-Concept Technology Lab
Post-Warranty Services
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9. Lenovo Systems Management
Customer-Centric, Strategic Partner-Based Approach
Integration and Scripting
REST APIs
Infrastructure Tools
Operations Management
Orchestration Engines
Simplify
Accelerate
Integrate
Speaker Notes:
In addition, Lenovo is delivering a robust update to our systems mgmt SW family, XClarity including an all-new embedded management engine common in all ThinkSystem servers, the XClarity Controller.
Designed w/ a clean, uncluttered UI to streamline workflows, increase productivity & improve system responsiveness:
- up to 6x faster update times; up to 2x faster time to initial boot.
 XClarity family extends from our server platforms to our XClarity Administrator delivering centralized sys mgmt across the ThinkSystem & ThinkAgile portfolios.
Adding centralized configuration patterns & policy-based firmware mgmt helps you standardize & scale delivery across the DC.
XClarity family built on open standards-such as Redfish, Python, & Windows PowerShell simplifying HW deployment & mgmt. You also can use our Integrator software plugins such as VMWare’s VCenter & MSFT’s System Center to automate deployment using your existing data center applications.
Deliver hardware like software and automate complex infrastructure tasks
Accelerate and scale system deployment to reduce time to market of critical systems and workloads
Deliver hardware with your IT apps by integrating with REST APIs, running available software plugins, or scripting
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10. Preview | All-New management engine Elegant User Experience
Succeeds IMMv2
Elegant User Experience
Fresh & uncluttered graphical interface
Modernized inter-operability
Built on Redfish-compliant APIs
Vastly Improved performance
2x faster boot time to OS screen
6x faster firmware updates
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11. A Relentless Pursuit of Better
Different is Better
The Future-Defined Data Center
Speaker Notes:
At Lenovo, we see two primary data center environments.
A traditional data center environment serves to support and enable the business. The data center is the operational engine room of the business, and typically it must support a wide range of workloads – systems of record and back-office applications. IT systems deployed emphasize infrastructure safety — things like security, availability, reliability. The driving factors are primarily business continuity and cost containment (to reducing the friction of doing business). Hence, key focus areas for IT include utilization optimization, cost, ultimate hardware reliability and manageability.
An agile data center is transformational. Purposed to support the new web scale architectures and address the new emerging internet based business opportunities, its infrastructure and operations are a central part of their cost of doing business, and in many cases, it IS the business! The emphasis here is on the speed and agility required to support the demands of the business. Key focus areas for IT include cost optimization and operational efficiency.
These data center environments serve different business goals, BUT are NOT necessarily mutually exclusive. Issues affecting one typically affect the other, and many organizations will find themselves on a journey to transform a continuum of both.
Server, storage, & networking solutions
for the future-defined data center
Next Generation IT
for software-defined infrastructure
Engineered Solutions
Simplify infrastructure, workload & service delivery
Lenovo Services
A relationship of trust
across every phase of the IT lifecycle
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12. #1 Increasing productivity and lowering OPEX1
Industry Leading Reliability
#1 Increasing productivity and lowering OPEX1
Unique system design 12% less service time minimizes downtime4
Real-time Insights at the speed of digital business
31% lower TCO compared to competition2
The compact ThinkSystem SD530 provides
150%
More VDI sessions than prior generation 1U servers5
Faster boot and faster firmware updates
2x / 6x
for smaller maintenance windows3
Lenovo infrastructure mgmt over manual process 20x / 72% less time than competitive infrastructure mgmt tools6
Speaker Notes:
Our leading ThinkSystem brand provides…
Heritage of superior design and engineering innovations along with the industry’s most rigorous end to end testing
Independent 3rd party confirmation (ITIC)
Designed for pure performance with HANA software-defined implementation (2) “Comparing Costs and Effectiveness of Lenovo
System x for SAP HANA Deployment”, Quark Lipton, Whitepaper / December 19th, 2016 / QL576122
Purpose built and innovative design for new XClarity Controller, for Faster boot time to OS Screen*
Faster firmware updates (3) Compared to Lenovo prior generation servers
Delivered Denmark’s largest Supercomputer; Abacus 2.0 Helped discover previously unknown pathway of bacterial infection
(4) Compared to Lenovo prior generation servers
Delivered World’s largest Supercomputer for Astrophysics
Helped understand implication of black hole phenomenon to our world
(5) Compared to Lenovo prior generation servers
Simplified management with Innovative and unique XClarity design optimized with RedFish
(6) Less time to perform mgmt. tasks in multi-platform environments
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13. 14 7 5 SERVER PLATFORMS STORAGE OFFERINGS NETWORK SWITCHES
WORLD RECORD PERFORMANCE & RELIABILITY
SERVER PLATFORMS 7
REVOLUTIONIZED ECONOMICS
STORAGE OFFERINGS 5
OPTIMIZED CLOUD PERFORMANCE
NETWORK SWITCHES
Speaker Notes:
Lenovo has 26 all-new ThinkSystem platforms: servers, storage & networking.
ThinkSystem is engineered to reliably & safely deliver demanding workloads such as real-time analytics, DevOps application svcs, & SW-defined storage svcs.
W/ ThinkSystem you get world class performance, superior economics & a future proof platform that includes industrial-strength security technology & processes.
Working with customers around the world to understand their needs & goals is what led us to develop our new ThinkSystem portfolio.
ThinkSystem is a completely redesigned & simplified experience that starts when customers decide they need to acquire new products and goes thru to end of life.
Our unified portfolio shares common components such as networking, memory, power supplies and more, simplifying planning as you prepare RFQs, RFPs and set expectations for deploying and maintaining solutions.
We’ve also designed in additional configuration flexibility with our unique AnyBay storage bays.
AnyBay allows customers to configure systems with any combination of HDDs, SDDs, and NVMe storage. This enables them to deploy highly optimized solutions fine-tuned to their unique needs.
To ensure products are easy to acquire and delivered when customers need them, we’re rolling out a new configuration tool.
Standardized components and the new configuration tool will reduce the time to place and fulfill orders, ensuring they get their products on time every time.
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14. Benefits of a unified portfolio
Customers will receive:
Faster qualifications
Faster time to value
Simplified integration into existing IT environments
Simplified serviceability
Simplified ordering
Fewer parts to maintain
Speaker Notes: Under a unified portfolio, we offer our customers the following benefits:
Faster qualifications
Faster time to value
Simplified integration into existing IT environments
Simplified serviceability
Simplified ordering
Fewer parts to maintain
For Sellers and Partners, you’ll enjoy easier configuration and ordering, and Partners will have fewer parts to maintain.
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15. Common Platform Elements
Memory DIMMs
Power Supplies
Storage Devices
CPUs
IO Cards
Speaker Notes: ThinkSystem has been developed from the ground up as a stand alone brand, with common components across the portfolio to streamline our offerings in market and make us more effective both from a supply chain standpoint, but most importantly, from a customer point of view.
Some of those common components within Thinksystem include memory, power supplies and storage, among others.
What this means that the 32GB DIMM in the 1U 2P Value system is the same part and part number as the 32GB DIMM in the 4P blade, and the 8P mission critical system. It’s all the same part number, they are fully interchangeable.
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16. LENOVO DATA CENTER Dual Processor Servers: Entry
ThinkSystem ST550
ThinkSystem SR530
ThinkSystem SR550
ST550 2P/4U (3 Yr. W)
$1,749 (NEW)
$1,969 (NEW)
$2,999 (NEW)
SR530 2P/1U (3 Yr. W)
$1,699 (NEW)
$1,929 (NEW)
$3,029 (NEW)
SR550 2P/2U (3 Yr. W)
$1,729 (NEW)
$2,299 (NEW)
$3,399 (NEW)
7X10A03PNA
7X10A028NA
7X10A02PNA
7X08A04FNA
7X08A03SNA
7X08A045NA
7X04A02QNA
7X04A02KNA
7X04A02TNA
1x Bronze C/1.7GHz/85W
(4XG7A07218)
1x Silver C/2.1GHz/85W
(4XG7A07215)
1x Silver C/2.1GHz/85W
(4XG7A07212)
(4XG7A07206)
(4XG7A07203)
(4XG7A07200)
(4XG7A07198)
(4XG7A07195)
(4XG7A07191)
1x 16GB DDR (7X77A01302)
1x 32GB DDR (7X77A01304)
RAID 530-8i
RAID 930-8i 2GB
RAID i 4GB
4x 3.5" HS
8x 3.5" HS
12x 3.5" HS
2x GbE + 1x GbE Mgmt (XClarity Enterprise included)
1x 750W HS (7N67A00883)
RDX Dock: 7T27A01501 | LTO 7: 7T27A01503
10Gb 2-port Base-T LOM: 7ZT7A00548
10Gb 2-port SFP+ LOM: 7ZT7A00546
Essential 3Yr 24x7x4 + YDYD: 5PS7A01720
Essential 3Yr 24x7x4 + YDYD: 5PS7A01612
Essential 3Yr 24x7x4 + YDYD: 5PS7A01666
HW Install: 5AS7A02045 | 3Yr ESS OS: 5MS7A01466
HW Install: 5AS7A02045 | 3YR ESS OS: 5MS7A01466
Win Svr’16 Std. 16C ROK: 01GU569 | 5U CAL: 01GU640

17. LENOVO DATA CENTER Dual Processor Servers: Mainstream
ThinkSystem SR630
ThinkSystem SR650
SR630 2P/1U (3 Yr. W)
$1,729 (NEW)
$2,429 (NEW)
$2,879 (NEW)
SR650 2P/2U (3 Yr. W)
$1,799 (NEW)
$2,499 (NEW)
$2,949 (NEW)
7X02A03UNA
7X02A04JNA
7X02A04YNA
7X06A057NA
7X06A04ZNA
7X06A05XNA
1x Silver C/2.1GHz/85W
(7XG7A05531)
1x Silver C/2.1GHz/85W
(7XG7A05532)
1x Gold C/2.3GHz/105W
(7XG7A05536)
(7XG7A05575)
(7XG7A05576)
(7XG7A05580)
1x 16GB DDR (7X77A01302)
1x 32GB DDR (7X77A01304)
1x 16GB DDR (7X77A01303)
1x GbE Mgmt (XClarity Enterprise included)
1x 750W HS (7N67A00883)
8x 2.5” Chassis (No Backplane or RAID)
24x 2.5” Chassis (No Backplane or RAID)
M.2 Enablement Kit: 7Y37A01092 | M.2 with Mirroring Enablement Kit: 7Y37A01093
2.5” SATA/SAS 8-Bay Backplane Kit: 7XH7A05896
2.5” AnyBay 8-Bay Backplane Kit: 7XH7A ” SATA/SAS 8-Bay Backplane Kit: 7XH7A06254
RAID 530-8i: 7Y37A01082 | 930-8i 2GB: 7Y37A01084
RAID 930-8i 2GB: 7Y37A01084 | i 4GB: 7Y37A01085 | i 4GB: 7Y37A01086
1Gb 2-port RJ45 LOM: 7ZT7A00544 | 10Gb 4-port Base-T LOM: 7ZT7A00549
4Gb 2-port RJ45 LOM: 7ZT7A00545 | 10Gb 4-port SFP+ LOM: 7ZT7A00547
Essential 3Yr 24x7x4 + YDYD: 5PS7A01504
Essential 3Yr 24x7x4 + YDYD: 5PS7A01558
HW Install: 5AS7A02045 | 3YR ESS OS: 5MS7A01466
Win Svr’16 Std. 16C ROK: 01GU569 | 5U CAL: 01GU640

18. HIGH-VOLUME RACK & TOWER PORTFOLIO
Speaker Notes:
Our high-volume rack and tower systems are flexible for even the most demanding workloads. They are powerful, versatile rack & tower servers to enable the broadest set of enterprise workloads, deliver industry-leading uptime, and dramatically minimize data center costs.
1) Purpose-built for availability
Consistently ranked #1 in reliability by ITIC, Lenovo value-added PFA
In these products we wanted to leverage attributes that were more important to customers like our #1 reliability by ITIC (that we’ve held for 4.5 years) as well as value-add PFA (predictive failure alerts).
2) Tools based on open standards for the real world
Bare metal deployment, firmware updates, policy/rules driven maintenance activities, award winning systems management software - XClarity
We made sure the products were easy-to-use with common parts across the portfolio and made sure that our customers could leverage tool-sets like open standards for people doing bare metal deployments and firmware updates.
3) Trust Lenovo to be your expert
Available with Lenovo’s complete options portfolio, umbrella support for hardware, firmware, and software
We know our customers want to utilize tools that are common to the industry, not just one vendor. This leverages our XClarity software portfolio, which is now available from our Value products and up the stack. These racks and towers support various workloads from cloud and virtualization all the way to point of sale configurations. Exact workloads supported include: cloud/virtualization, big data/analytics, infrastructure, database, backup/recovery, retail POS.
RELIABLE
FLEXIBLE
AFFORDABLE 18
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19. 2-Socket Rack and Tower Server Positioning
2P Racks & Tower
Value
Value +
Mainstream 1U 2U 1U 2U
SR630
SR650
2 x Intel Xeon processor Scalable Family
24 DDR4 DIMMs
Up to ” HDD/SSD
Up to 4 3.5” HDD/SSD
HW RAID
Flexible LAN up to 4 ports
1GbE, 10Gb LAN Choices
XClarity Management
2 x Intel Xeon processor Scalable Family
24 DDR4 DIMMs
Up to ” HDD/SSD
Up to ” HDD/SSD
HW RAID
Flexible LAN up to 4 ports
1GbE, 10Gb LAN Choices
XClarity Management
SR570
SR590
2 x Intel Xeon processor Scalable Family
16 DDR4 DIMMs
NVME support
Hotswap fan support
Up to ” HDD/SSD
Up to ” HDD/SSD 1U 2U
2 x Intel Xeon processor Scalable Family
16 DDR4 DIMMs
NVME support
Hotswap fan support
Up to ” HDD/SSD
Up to ” HDD/SSD
Performance
SR530
SR550
IT Infrastructure/Web/ Enterprise Cloud/Database/ Data Analytic/Virtualization/ Hyper-Converged
IT Infrastructure/Web/ Enterprise Cloud/
Virtualization/Database
Speaker Notes:
Here is a look at our 2-socket rack and tower server positioning. We have 3 categories. Our value category, SR530 (1U) and SR550 (2U), consists of server products suitable for 1st time owners and SMBs who need products that are simple and easy to distribute but are price sensitive. They have less memory, support fewer drives and less connectivity. These were created to satisfy customers with price sensitivity.
Our value+ category is a hybrid category and consists of 1 Tower, ST550 (4U), and 2 racks, SR570 (1U) and SR590 (2U). This category can be thought of as in between the value and mainstream categories. It has more memory as well as AnyBay and NVMe support as well as increased processor capabilities.
Mainstream is SR650 (2U) and SR630 (1U). These are the follow- ons to our x3650 and x3550 respectively. They support up to 24 DIMMs, more drives as well as more connectivity. Processors continue to get faster and hotter, so this is where our cooling capabilities come into play.
In these products we wanted to leverage attributes that were more important to customers like our #1 reliability by ITIC (that we’ve held for 4.5 years) as well as value-add PFA (predictive failure alerts). We made sure the products were easy-to-use with common parts across the portfolio and made sure that our customers could leverage tool-sets like open standards for people doing bare metal deployments and firmware updates. We know our customers want to utilize tools that are common to the industry, not just one vendor. This leverages our XClarity software portfolio, which is now available from our Value products and up the stack. These racks and towers support various workloads from cloud and virtualization all the way to point of sale configurations. Exact workloads supported include: cloud/virtualization, big data/analytics, infrastructure, database, backup/recovery, retail POS.
2 x Intel Xeon processor Scalable Family
12 DDR4 DIMMs
Up to 4 3.5” HDD/SSD
Up to 8 2.5” HDD/SSD
SW & HW RAID
2x 1GbE onboard LAN
1GbE, 10Gb LAN Choices
XClarity Management
2 x Intel Xeon processor Scalable Family
12 DDR4 DIMMs
Up to ” HDD/SSD
Up to ” HDD/SSD
SW & HW RAID
2x 1GbE onboard LAN
1GbE, 10Gb LAN Choices
XClarity Management
Tower / 4U
ST550
2 x Intel Xeon
processor Scalable Family
12 DDR4 DIMMs
Up to 8x 3.5” & 20x 2.5” HDD
Up to Hybrid 8x 3.5”+4x 2.5”
2x 1GbE onboard LAN
XClarity Management
Collaborative/IT Infrastructure/Web/
Business Process/POS
IT Infrastructure/Web/Entry Cloud/Virtualization
IT Infrastructure/Web/Entry Cloud/Mail server/Scale Out
Cost
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20. Lenovo reliability features minimize downtime
Tool-less Designs
Simplifies and expedites replacement of failed components
Parts commonality
Simplifies support across all platforms
Customer replaceable components easily identifiable by blue color
Enhanced Platform Alerts and PFA to provide advance notice of possible failures
Speaker Notes:
Customers are often curious about the features from previous generations that they’ve loved and hope to see again…
In terms of minimizing a customer’s downtime, we generally like to discuss Light Path Diagnostics panel. The customer has options on the panel, it’s not standard on any product except on the SR950. We also have the Predictive Failure Alerts (PFA) or platform alerts, and we’ve made sure to enhance those. This all gets tied to the management stack where XClarity Pro Call Home, when turned on, notifies support based on the various alerts. XClarity can dynamically take the workloads and evacuate them, so the customer can do maintenance.
There’s also tool-less designs to make things as easy as possible for customers to replace components as quickly as possible. Light Path Diagnostics notifies the customer via LED of failing components like DIMMs. This is available on the Mainstream systems (SR650 our 2U) and (SR630 our 1U), but we’ve eliminated it on our Value systems (SR550 and SR530). We leverage components across the portfolio, but we leverage it based on the class of product. (For the Value systems, where price is a priority concern, some concessions have been made.) Hot-swap fans have also made things easier to keep things up and running and minimize downtime.
Light Path Diagnostics
LEDs identify failing components
XClarity Pro Call Home proactively notifies support based on defined alerts
XClarity Dynamic Workload Evacuation moves workloads from a node sending a PFA to another node
Hot-swap parts
Easy replacement without powering-down the server
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21. MISSION-CRITICAL PORTFOLIO
Speaker Notes:
Mission-critical workloads support the business in every dimension—its organization, its employees and its customers. These workloads are the most demanding types of applications and databases running on servers today, and include ERP, CRM, data warehouses, business intelligence and analytics. They must be available on a 24 x 7 x 365 basis.
Let’s get into our value prop messaging for Mission-Critical and why Lenovo is putting the focus on these 3 points specifically.
Always on reliability on x86
MCA Recovery, Memory Post Package Repair, Fatal Error Handling, Automated ROM Recovery; Lenovo value-added PFA ; Consistently ranked #1 in reliability by ITIC
Always on reliability: Mission-Critical is a platform in which the customer can walk away and know that there is an extremely high level of reliability due in large part to MCA recovery, memory pooling – all the attributes that Intel built into the processor—but don’t think that’s just because of Intel. More importantly, Lenovo ensures that we adhere to ALL of the specifications. Not all vendors abide by all the Intel attributes. Most competitors will enable their products to support up to 80% on Intel’s projected Purley attributes. Lenovo leverages up to 98% of attributes from a RAS capability– This is one reason why we consistently get the #1 reliability ranking from ITIC for 4.5 years. We help to future-proof our customers to the best of our abilities, and we’re industry-leading in that regard.
Real time insights for real time business
Leadership benchmarks, Massive onboard storage, Direct Connected NVMe, Future proof with 3D Xpoint (*coming at a later date)
Real time insights: This is all about having the leadership in benchmarks. Across the portfolio we’ve had benchmarks to date. Today, we currently hold 30 benchmarks. These numbers are dynamic after the 7/11 announce we hope to see more world records.
For the most up-to-date info:
We also have large amounts of storage and direct connect NVMe and future proofing for new Intel technologies. This class of products is about performance and reliability.
Everything within reach
Modular 4S & 8S in one platform, Modular drive tray, leverages NVMe drives, highest drive density, Front and rear access for easy serviceability, Efficient cooling
Everything within Reach: As we saw earlier for our high volume products, they are serviceable top-down: you pull out the rack and open the top to service things. Mission-Critical products are a follow on to X6, this design is our foray into front and rear load which makes it easier to replace components. Mainframes are maintained while power is on but the domains are powered off, so we used this same concept in these products. Mission-Critical is set up to stay in the rack and have all the components maintained from the front or back to help increase uptime.
In terms of workloads, these products are all about enterprise applications: databases/online transaction processing (OLTP), analytics, big data, business intelligence. These are companies who have a lot of online transactions and want to get customer insights instantaneously (selling trends, etc). These platforms are the heart of the business—database and doing the analytics for that data.
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POWERFUL
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22. Mission Critical Rack Server Comparison
Mainstream
Enterprise
Price
Performance
Enterprise 4-8S
Mainstream 2-4S
2, 4, 8 x Next generation Intel® Xeon® processor product family; Gold & Platinum
Up to 96 DDR4 DIMMs slots
Up to ” HDDD/SSD bays
Up to 12 NVMe bays
HW RAID
Common Lenovo Mgmt
Business Analytics
Database
Business Logic, ERP & CRM
Virtualization
2, 4 x Next generation Intel® Xeon® processor product family; Gold & Platinum
48 DDR4 DIMMs slots
Up to 16 x 2.5” HDD/SSD bays
Up to 8 NVMe drive bays
HW RAID
Common Lenovo Mgmt
General business consolidation High Performance and dense computing
Scientific
Speaker Notes:
Our high-end, mission critical systems have high performance and are reliable and modular for easier upgrades and servicing. They are designed for the customer’s most demanding, mission-critical workloads--such as in-memory databases, large transactional databases, batch and real-time analytics, ERP, CRM and virtualized server workloads. The SR950 scales from 2 to 8 processors with easy front and rear access to all major subsystems.
We will discuss these in more detail in the following slides; however, at a high-level, if your customer is price sensitive think about SR850, if they need better performance and reliability- SR950.
After July, we will have more detailed presentations and Whitepapers that will get into the benchmarks, CPU and memory technology, tuning parameters, etc. (Future Links will be inserted here)
Also memory will be more complex to configure and we’ll have a module in the online configurator to help customers to place adapters and also have to configure it from a memory point of view.
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23. BLADE & FLEX PORTFOLIOS
Speaker Notes: Now let’s turn our attention to blade systems.
Lenovo Flex System is our blade technology with more performance and bandwidth and far more capability to consolidate and virtualize than previous systems. Flex System is anchored by the Flex System Enterprise Chassis which enables high-speed performance with integrated servers and networking. Furthermore, its flexible design can meet the needs of varying workloads with independently scalable IT resource pools for higher utilization and lower cost per workload.
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EFFICIENT
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24. ThinkSystem Blade Portfolio
Flexible. Efficient. Reliable.
Flexible infrastructure for ever-changing workloads
Move virtual machines faster for easier orchestration; Non-disruptive, pay- as-you-grow networking scalability; Choice of no HDD, or mix and match SAS/SATA/NVMe; Multiple boot devices
Efficient on multiple levels
XClarity reduces time of management; Modular, integrated design reduces clutter, saves money; Zoned adaptive cooling reduces energy costs
Steadfast reliability, accelerated recovery
Second generation blade that has been in market for 5 years; Houses four generations of processors in the same chassis; Cable-less nodes accelerate service/upgrade time
Speaker Notes:
Lenovo Blades are the orchestration platform for conducting tomorrow’s business , for customers who need expandable and dense platform with superior management to run a wide variety of workloads.
Blades offer a more flexible, efficient and reliable infrastructure. Workloads associated with this segment include virtualization, cloud, database, analytics and OLTP. On this slide you see ThinkSystem SN850. This is referred to as a double-wide or 4-socket. (The half-wide is the SN550: it has 2 processors.)
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25. DENSE PORTFOLIO ULTRA-DENSE EXTREME COMPUTE PROVEN Speaker Notes:
Moving on from blades, let’s talk about our Dense Optimized Systems next.
Our ThinkSystem products in production is where the powerful performance really shines.
Up To 50% Faster Database Throughput
We’ve engineered our solutions to be more powerful than ever – in internal tests achieved 150% increase in VDI users per system w/ our ultra-dense servers resulting in significantly lower cost per virtual deskop when you consolidate on ThinkSystem servers.
4 consecutive yrs led the industry in x86 server reliability, as ranked by ITIC.
Customers report Lenovo delivers the least amount of unplanned downtime amongst all x86 server offerings.
We will continue delivering industry-leading reliability w/ ThinkSystem providing our customers the most stable and resilient foundation for agile businesses – hot swappable internal components, predictive analytics anticipating events, and easily serviceable designs all work together to provide you with industry-leading reliability.
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EXTREME COMPUTE
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26. Ultra-Dense. Extreme Compute. Proven.
ThinkSystem Dense Portfolio
Ultra-Dense. Extreme Compute. Proven.
More in less
Innovative chassis enables greater density for Hyperconverged workloads; Designed for dense HPC architectures; Future proof with 3D XPoint
Ready to adapt
Widest range of processors in a dense form factor; Max storage with 48TB of capacity; Stackable node design supports GPUs and specialized IO adapters
Modularity to transform
Disaggregated IO design allows for multiple fabrics; Scalable management design simplifies infrastructure costs; Front and rear access for easy serviceability
Speaker Notes:
Our large offering in the Dense space is our SD530, our brand new, 2U enclosure (the enclosure is the D2 enclosure). The nodes are branded SD530. In addition, we’ve released a water cool NeXtScale nx360 M5 WCT. The goal is to do more in less, be able to adapt easily and have that modularity in design. The workloads this can tackle include: analytics, big data, HPC, modeling/simulation and scientific. This is targeted for customer that are looking for software-defined storage attributes like Nutanix (perfect solution for SD530) as well as HPC customers. These two offerings are all about supplying enterprise customers with density and performance (esp when we’re talking about HPC).
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27. Lenovo has delivered the world’s largest, next-generation Intel-based supercomputer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).
The 11.1 petaflop high performance computing (HPC) system is at the Chapel Torre Girona at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, one of the most beautiful data centers in the world.
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30. Citations/Math
2.5x faster VM migration- IBM® Flex System® Network Architecture: VM Migration and Aggregate Network Performance versus Cisco UCS” Tolly Report # © 2014 TOLLY ENTERPRISES, LLC
Zero Downtime Upgrade- PAYG upgrades utilize software key to unlock additional ports on the switch. This can be done while switch is in operation.
5yrs in market- Flex announced 4/2012 shipped 6/2012
$2,500 per rack per year: Flex 15% less power consumption compared to IBM BladeCenter, average per rack cost of power is $17,000
$180 per rack per year: Avg US cost per square foot of commercial real estate ~$30/sq ft. Avg sq ft per rack (incl asile, door space etc) 30Sq Ft Fles is 80% more dense than 1U Rack Environments – Flex Enterprise chassis holds 14 2P Servers & 4 switches in 10U P 1U rack servers & 4 1U switches take up 18U. 80% x 30 Sq ft = 24 Sq ft. x $30 = 720 for Flex, 30 sq ft x $30 = $900 for 1U racks. $900-$720 = $180
Common options reduces the number of options and drivers that customers must qualify, deploy and manage across systems and images.
Systems designed for higher temperature operation can be more reliably installed and deployed in a wider variety of environments giving customers more choice and freedom.
Open Standard management API’s allow customers to continue to use the management console they use today since the XClarity Controller and the XClarity Administrator can upwardly integrate into many management consoles
Shared motherboards allow customers to qualify their image on one server and minimize the work required to qualify another server. This frees up IT resources to focus on new projects.
The tower server is designed to operate at very low acoustic levels and also has lockable bezels. This allows the server to be comfortably placed in office and retail environments. All the rack servers support lockable bezels enabling their use in less secure areas such as retail back offices.
VDI Configuration: XenDesktop, Knowledge Worker, Stateless
Broadwell solution, using Intel E v4: 356 users per 1U (x3650)
Purley solution, using Intel Purley 8170 (approx. max TDP that’s fits in Stark): 902 users (per SD350)
902/356 = 2.53, so increase of just over 150%
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