VX Series
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
Powered By
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 Cloud Ready
VMware vSphere Foundation
VMware vSphere Foundation + Storage
VMware Cloud Foundation
Add on Services (e.g., Private AI)
VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF)
A simplified, enterprise-grade workload platform for our mid-sized to smaller customers.
- Intelligent operations management to provide the best performance, availability, and efficiency with greater visibility and insights.
- VVF can be upgraded to a Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solution with an optional software-defined storage (vSAN) add-on
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
The flagship enterprise-class private cloud platform for customers to run their business-critical and modern applications
- VCF delivers software-defined compute, storage, networking, security, and management.
- Integrated self-service infrastructure platform to deploy VMs/containers for developer agility.
- Hardened platform offering built-in resilience, scaling, and clustering for non-stop operations.
- Provides cloud agility to scale infrastructure without scaling staff, delivering cloud consumption on-premises.
- Provides automation and orchestration to simplify Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 tasks.
Consolidate on Private/Hybrid Cloud Ready Infrastructure
Clusters
(SQL/Oracle)
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
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
- 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
Identity & Access
- Multi-factor authentication via SAML
- Role-based access controls
- Audit logging
Data Protection
- Native data-at-rest encryption
- FIPS 140-2 validated encryption modules
- Built-in Key management
Integrated Security Baseline & Audit
- Factory-applied Integrated Security baselines
- Standards-based configuration
- Native audit and self-healing capabilities
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.
One provider
Plan, procure and run your entire
infrastructure simply, with a single point of
global accountability and predictable costs.
Complete pay as you
go solution
Acquire the Lenovo hardware
and VMware software together
on a Subscription model.
Full Maintenance, Support & Management
End to end services including installation,
deployment, configuration and managed
services
Secure by nature
Lenovo’s foundational security
approach protects everything,
everywhere, all the time.
Absolute Control
Real-time insights that help drive efficiency,
with less time in the weeds and more time for
the big picture.
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
- 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:
- Recycling/Disposal
- Data Sanitization
- 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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