ThinkAgile HX Solution for SAP HANA
SAP HANA speed meets hyperconverged simplicity
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4 pages, 487 KBDeploy and Manage SAP HANA with Simplicity and Scalability
For decades, customers have trusted their mission-critical workloads to run on Lenovo’s ultra-reliable, high-performing platforms. Now Lenovo offers businesses with SAP HANA deployments an opportunity to reap the efficiencies and cost savings of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) powered by Nutanix Enterprise Cloud software.
By migrating SAP landscapes and SAP HANA workloads from complex, multi-tiered legacy architectures to hyperconverged clusters, customers can enjoy the simplicity, scalability, and cost-savings of HCI, which consolidates storage and compute into a single virtual pool with a simple management interface. At the same time, hyperconverged customers can leverage their existing IT to deploy SAP HANA with the same streamlined results.
Engineered and optimized for SAP HANA, the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Solution for SAP HANA on the 4U 2- or 4-socket platforms and the 1U and 2U 2-socket platforms, delivers extreme speed, availability, and data-center efficiency for SAP HANA workloads in hyperconverged clusters. All solutions come backed by Lenovo Professional Services so you can rely on Lenovo’s deep SAP expertise to deploy SAP HANA with confidence.
Developed in close collaboration with Lenovo's long-standing partners, SAP and Nutanix, the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX HANA Series includes:
- Mission-critical performance and ultra-reliability of Lenovo’s platforms married with the dramatic efficiency and cost savings of the industry-leading Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS
- Factory-integrated, validated, and configured with preloaded Nutanix software on Lenovo HX platforms, using best-recipe firmware
- Lenovo Professional Services deployment of SAP HANA software onsite for a seamless customer experience
- 24/7 Lenovo ThinkAgile Advantage Single Point of Support, plus SAP HANA solution support from Lenovo's SAP experts
Deliver Greater Reliability
Successfully running SAP HANA analytics workloads requires outstanding performance and 24/7 availability, plus easy scalability. Businesses that can accomplish this with minimized operating expenses and footprint can gain a long-term advantage over their competition. You can't do any better than Lenovo for reliability.
In fact, for the 7th year in a row, Lenovo servers have ranked as the industry´s #1 most reliable x86 platforms. As a result, you can run your SAP HANA workloads with outstanding uptime on ThinkAgile HX.
As an SAP HANA market leader, Lenovo has teamed with SAP for more than 30 years and has shipped more than 14,000 SAP HANA systems. Lenovo's deep heritage with SAP translates into a seamless customer experience — from initial planning and architecture through deployment, lifecycle management, and support.
Accelerate SAP HANA Workloads
Now updated with the latest Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, the ThinkAgile HX Solution for SAP HANA offerings enable you to run your SAP HANA databases even faster. Lenovo servers currently hold more than 240 world records for performance including records for SAP BW and SD 2-tier performance♦. You can run your SAP HANA workloads with confidence, knowing you have blazing-fast speed, industry-best uptime, and Nutanix simplicity.
Lenovo ThinkAgile HX7821 Certified Node using Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8280L processors delivers world record performance for all three KPIs for SAP BW edition for SAP HANA Standard Application Benchmark Version 3 with 24.7 billion initial records in a scale-out configuration.
Support for SAP HANA with VMware ESXi
Customers now can run their SAP HANA and SAP applications in a VMware virtualized environment with Lenovo ThinkAgile HX. Previously, SAP HANA was only supported with Nutanix' Acropolis (AHV) hypervisor.
Bottom Line
ThinkAgile HX Series appliances, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, enable you to simplify your IT infrastructure and drive down costs through the combination of preloaded easy-to-use software on powerful, extremely reliable hardware. All ThinkAgile HX Series models are backed by world-class Lenovo services and support.
ThinkAgile Advantage: Personalized Support
ThinkAgile Advantage provides a first-class experience for your ThinkAgile products and solutions. You’ll skip the wait and connect directly with skilled technicians through your own dedicated phone line for real-time triaging and troubleshooting. As a single point of contact, your dedicated Lenovo specialist will own your support case end-to-end, ensuring a faster and more seamless resolution. You’ll also enjoy faster time to value and reduced system disruption, thanks to the plan’s hardware and software deployment benefit from the Lenovo Professional Services team. Finally, Lenovo's SAP experts provide SAP solution support.
For More Information
To learn more about ThinkAgile HX Solution for SAP HANA, contact your Lenovo representative or Business Partner or visit lenovo.com/thinkagile. For detailed specifications see:
SAP HANA for ThinkAgile HX Solution
The Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Solution for SAP HANA includes the ThinkAgile HX7820 Appliance, HX7821 Certified Node, HX3320 Appliance, HX3321 Certified Node, HX7520 Appliance, and HX7521 Certified Node for SAP HANA.
Specifications
| Model Name | ThinkAgile HX3320/HX3321 for SAP HANA | ThinkAgile HX7520/HX7521 for SAP HANA | ThinkAgile HX7820/HX7821 for SAP HANA |
| Form Factor | 1U | 2U | 4U |
| Processor | 2x Intel® Xeon® Silver, Gold, or Platinum processors, up to 205W | 2x Intel® Xeon® Silver, Gold, or Platinum processors, up to 165W | 2x-4x Intel® Xeon® Silver, Gold or Platinum processors, up to 205W |
| Memory | 192GB, 384GB, 576GB, 768GB, 1.5TB, 3TB (TruDDR4 2933MHz) | 192GB, 384GB, 576GB, 768GB, 1.125TB, 1.5TB, 3TB (TruDDR4 2933MHz) | 384GB, 576GB, 768GB, 1.125TB, 1.5TB, 2.25TB, 3TB, 4.5TB, 6TB (TruDDR4 2933MHz) |
| Drive Bays | Up to 10 or 12 2.5-inch | Up to 24 2.5-inch | Up to 24 2.5-inch |
| SSD Options | 4-12x 480GB, 800GB, 960GB, 1.6TB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.68TB SAS and SATA SSDs | 4-24x 480GB, 800GB, 960GB, 1.6TB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.68TB SAS and SATA SSDs | 4-24x 480GB, 800GB, 960GB, 1.6TB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB 7.68TB SAS and SATA SSDs |
| NVMe Options | 0, 2 or 4x 1.6TB or 3.2TB NVMe drives | 0, 2 or 4x 1.6TB or 3.2TBNVMe drives | |
| 10GBASE-T | 2-8 ports | ||
| 10GbE SFP+ | 2-8 ports | ||
| 10/25GbE SFP28 | 0-4 ports | ||
| Hypervisors Preloaded and Supported | Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor VMware vSphere ESXi hypervisor |
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| Systems Management | Hardware management via Lenovo XClarity and software management via Nutanix Prism | ||
| Software Licenses | Nutanix AOS Starter, Pro, or Ultimate license included with appliance; purchased separately with certified nodes. SAP HANA license obtained separately | ||
| Lenovo Deployment Services | Lenovo Professional Services deployment of Nutanix software and SAP HANA included with appliance in select countries; optional with certified node* | ||
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About Lenovo
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Document number DS0068, published April 12, 2021. For the latest version, go to lenovopress.lenovo.com/ds0068.
