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Accelerate time to value with Simplified Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

ThinkAgile VX Series

Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is a co-engineered solution that simplifies private and hybrid cloud implementation with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). Powered by the most reliable and secure server platforms with VMware's virtualization software, it arrives preconfigured, tested, and optimized to deliver seamless integrations while future-proofing IT infrastructure.

This co-engineered solution from Lenovo and VMware is workload ready, easy to manage, resilient and secure. It helps organizations drive revenue growth and operational efficiencies with optimized performance both on premise and in the cloud.

ThinkAgile VX Value Proposition

Avoid HCL lookups, Turnkey HCI solution, Shipped with vSAN-certified components only, includes vSAN ESA & OSA

Simplified single pane of glass for lifecycle management with vLCM, Best Recipe Firmware and Driver updates. System monitoring and observability integrated into VMware tools

VX Deployer Tool, Standardized Deployment with Deployment Services

Certified Hardware and Firmware, Perfect building block for Private and Hybrid Cloud

ThinkAgile VX Lifecycle Management Enhancements

Provides operational transformation via simplified deployment and automated lifecycle management through integration with VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager ™ (vLCM)

Get to productivity with ease and speed

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reduction in
time to deploy

Wizard-based experience reduces manual errors. Built-in intelligence for configuration settings. Deploy a 4-node VVF cluster in ˂ 1 hour

degree visibility

Easy to follow alerts and detailed health monitoring and diagnostics removes any downtime risk

Click Updates

One click upgrade for entire cluster. Maintain HW & SW best recipe and HCL & audit compliance

Key Values

End-to-end simplified experience via Day-0 automation and operational intelligence to proactively monitor and manage cluster health for increased uptime.

Private and Hybrid Cloud Platform

Application Mobility & Large-Scale Workload Migration

Network Operations & Automation Software

Operations Automation & Cloud Management Software

Management Software

Virtualization Software
(Compute, Storage & Networking)

ThinkAgile VX Series with
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

Advanced Services Add-Ons

SDDC Manager

HCX Enterprise

Aria Operations for Network Enterprise

Aria Suite Lifecycle Enterprise

Aria Automation Enterprise

Aria Operations Enterprise

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vCenter Standard

NSX Networking Enterprise Plus

vSphere with Tanzu Enterprise Plus

vSAN Enterprise
(1 TiB/Core)

ESXi (pre-installed)

ThinkAgile VX Series with
VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF)

Advanced Services Add-Ons

Aria Suite Lifecycle Standard

Aria Operations
Standard

Aria Operations for Logs Standard

vCenter Standard

vSphere with Tanzu Enterprise Plus

vSAN Enterprise
(100 GiB/Core)

ESXi (pre-installed)

Consolidate on Multi-Cloud Ready Infrastructure

Virtual Desktops (VDI)
Cloud Native Apps
Containers
ROBO
Management
Clusters
DR/DA
Databases
(SQL/Oracle)
Business Critical Apps

Private Cloud

Public Cloud

ThinkAgile VX Series with VMware Cloud Foundation

Private & Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

Private cloud infrastructure with enterprise-class compute, networking, storage (vSAN ESA & OSA), management, and security.

  • Establish a foundation for hybrid, multi-cloud deployments
  • Automate to provide self-service IaaS
  • Extend your data center into the cloud

Advanced Workload Management

Enable development teams to supercharge productivity and support advanced workloads utilizing cloud-native and AI technologies.

  • Automated self-service infrastructure platform to deploy VMs and containers apps
  • Implement Private AI
  • Run business critical and modern workloads

Comprehensive Security & Resilience

Protect workloads and infrastructure against cyberattacks through distributed firewalling, context-aware security, and rapid recovery.

  • Ransomware protection and recovery
  • Implement disaster recovery and threat detection
  • Integrate security, compliance, and resiliency

Fast, flexible and scalable

Deploy infrastructure faster and with less effort. Lenovo XClarity makes short work of administrative tasks.

Consolidate virtual and physical infrastructure management using your familiar console

  • Discovery
  • Monitoring
  • Firmware updates
  • Configurations

Eliminate downtime in vSphere clusters

  • Automate rolling reboots & firmware updates
  • Automate evacuation of VMs from impacted hosts based on user-defined events
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Benefits of XClarity Integrators for VMware

XClarity Integrator for
VMware vCenter

  • View, monitor and manage Lenovo infrastructure on a familiar dashboard
  • Non-disruptive rolling firmware updates for ThinkAgile VX Series
  • Obtain and apply Best Recipes to ThinkAgile VX Series products

XClarity Integrator for
VCF Automation

  • Installation and Configuration of ESXi
  • Visibility into managed endpoint inventory information and status

XClarity Integrator for
VCF Operations

  • Allows Lenovo XClarity Administrator (LXCA) and all entities managed by LXCA to forward SysLogs to Log Insight for capture and analysis
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  • In-band and out-of-band updates for system and adapter firmware
  • Clear intuitive dashboards
  • At-a-glance status visualizations
  • Easy access to common system actions
  • HTML-5 based graphical User Interface and Remote Control
  • Eliminates downtime in vSphere clusters

Why ThinkAgile VX Series

Flexible Options

General purpose and application-specific models for every use case

Remove Guesswork

Engineering systems built for optimal performance

Firmware Best Recipes

Seemless updates in vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) with XClarity Integrator

Worry-Free upgrades

Avoid expensive downtimes. No need to deploy the firmware in test clusters

Single Point of Support

ThinkAgile Premier Support included with ThinkAgile VX Series

One Back to Pat

Avoid panic during outage with faster service recovery

Use Cases

Data Center Modernization

  • Hardware Refresh (Server / Storage)
  • VMware Renewals / Expansions
  • Data Center / Workload Consolidation
  • Infrastructure Standardization
  • Simplifying Operations
  • Merger & Acquisitions / Greenfield Data Center
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI & ML) Workloads

Modern Applications

  • Cloud Native Application Development
  • New Container / Kubernetes Deployment
  • Application Refactoring

Hybrid Cloud

  • Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery
  • Application Migration
  • Application Connectivity
  • Workload Mobility
  • Cloud Repatriation

Integrated security

Vulnerabilities and threats can be securely covered by our extensive portfolio of AI powered solutions, software, and services to defend your business anywhere and everywhere without compromising end-user productivity

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Identity & Access

  • Multi-factor authentication via SAML
  • Role-based access controls
  • Audit logging
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Data Protection

  • Native data-at-rest encryption
  • FIPS 140-2 validated encryption modules
  • Built-in Key management
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Integrated Security Baseline & Audit

  • Factory-applied Integrated Security baselines
  • Standards-based configuration
  • Native audit and self-healing capabilities
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Experience the Benefits of ThinkAgile VX Series with TruScale

The on-premises, pay-as-you-use Data Center with Lenovo TruScale

Plan, procure and manage your entire IT environment from a single source.

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One provider

Plan, procure and run your entire
infrastructure simply, with a single point of
global accountability and predictable costs.

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Complete pay as you
go solution

Acquire the Lenovo hardware
and VMware software together
on a Subscription model.

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Full Maintenance, Support & Management

End to end services including installation,
deployment, configuration and managed
services

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Secure by nature

Lenovo’s foundational security
approach protects everything,
everywhere, all the time.

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Absolute Control

Real-time insights that help drive efficiency,
with less time in the weeds and more time for
the big picture.

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Constant ROI

End to end services including
installation, deployment, configuration
and managed services.

Infrastructure Lifecycle Services: From the data center to the edge

1. Discover 2. Design 3. Implement 4. Support 5. Optimize 6. Retire
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1. Discover

  • Workshop
  • Assessment

Workshop sessions to review your primary goals and objectives.

2. Design

  • Solution Architecture
  • Capacity Planning
  • Best Recipe Development

Architect the entire solution, end-to-end, to meet your needs.

3. Implement

  • Hardware Installation
  • Migration
  • Deployment

Lenovo will manage the hardware installation, data migration and deployment of your solution.

4. Support

  • Warranty Upgrade/Extension
  • Premier Support
  • Technical Account Manager
  • Enterprise Server Software
  • Your Drive Your Data

Expert support for you with our warranty upgrade/extension offerings, single point of contact service through Premier Support and technical expertise with Technical Account Manager.

5. Optimize

  • Managed Services
  • Firmware/Best Recipe Update
  • Preventative Maintenance
  • Health Check

Lenovo will manage and monitor your data center infrastructure, perform firmware/best recipe updates, preventative maintenance and health checks.

6. Retire

  • Hardware Deinstallation
  • Asset Recovery:
    1. Recycling/Disposal
    2. Data Sanitization
    3. Drive Destruction

Recovery programs to provide you with potential monetary value for your older assets, with rigorous world standards.

ThinkAgile Premier Support

Offers customers a superior and comprehensive support experience

ThinkAgile Premier Support

  • 94 Markets and 11 different languages
  • Skilled ThinkAgile technicians serve as a single point of contact
  • Dedicated ThinkAgile phone number, live chat, and case management system
  • 24x7x365 remote support
  • Collaborated 3rd party software support
  • Dedicated support for all hardware and software issues

ThinkAgile Professional Services

  • Designed deployment that ensures accelerated time to value
  • End to end ownership by Lenovo Professional Services teams
  • Post deployment documentation & knowledge transfer

ThinkAgile Premier Support and Professional Services are included in ThinkAgile VX Series offerings. Premier Support also offers various SLAs for quicker issue resolution. For the best customer experience, we highly recommend that your ThinkAgile VX Series offering be deployed by Lenovo Professional Services.

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For more than 20 years, Lenovo and VMware have been partnering with customers around the world to optimize their investment in IT infrastructure and become cloud smart. Our innovative joint portfolio of
co-engineered solutions combining infrastructure, software and services are designed for enabling faster insights, improving operational efficiency, and accelerating business value and innovation on your hybrid multi-cloud journey.

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