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What's New in June - X6 and sd350 servers, HX Series Nutanix Appliances, Lenovo Storage, and more!

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Abstract

This month, Lenovo announced the ThinkServer sd350 dense server with the new Intel Xeon E5 v4 processors, and the System x3850 X6 & x3950 X6 mission-critical servers with the new Intel Xeon E7 v4 processors. We also announced new Lenovo Storage offerings, new HX Series Nutanix Appliances, and several new options for our servers and switches. In this article, we list the documents that we've published that describe the features of the new servers, storage and options. We've published books, papers, product guides and videos.

Change History

More new products announced June 21:

More new products announced June 14:

  • New Lenovo Storage V Series offerings
  • New SSD options for ThinkServer
  • New network adapters from Intel and Mellanox
  • New FC HBAs from Emulex and QLogic
  • Other new server options - USB keys, HDDs and NVIDIA GPUs
  • New 40Gb transceiver and cables for switches
  • New Power Distribution Units

Introduction

This month, Lenovo announced the ThinkServer sd350 dense server and the System x3850 X6 & x3950 X6 mission-critical servers with the new Intel Xeon E7 v4 processors. We also announced new Lenovo Storage offerings, HX Series Nutanix Appliances, and several new options for our servers and switches. Here are the documents we've published.

ThinkServer sd350

ThinkServer sd350The Lenovo ThinkServer sd350 is an ultradense and economical two-socket server in a 0.5U rack form factor. With four sd350 servers installed in the ThinkServer n400 enclosure, you have an ideal high-density 2U four-node (2U4N) platform for enterprise and cloud workloads.

Here are the documents we've published on the sd350:

System x3850 X6 and x3950 X6

System x3850 X6The System x3850 X6 four-socket server and x3950 X6 eight-socket rack servers deliver maximum performance and availability for business-critical applications and databases.

Now with Intel Xeon E7 v4 processors, these servers support for up to 192 processor cores, 12TB of system memory, and over 170TB of flash storage. The X6 servers are not only known for their leadership performance, but also for their ability to scale in order to power traditional databases as well as new in-memory database and analytics solutions.

Here are the documents on the X6 servers we have updated to include information on the new models, processors, memory and features:

In addition, Lenovo announced that the x3850 X6 achieved 17 new performance world records, Here are the benchmark reports that list the #1 results (TPC-E, SPECjbb, STAC-M3) and a very competitive result (SAP SD):

New Lenovo Storage V Series

Lenovo Storage V3700 V2Lenovo Storage V3700 V2 and Lenovo Storage V5030 are the newest additions to the Lenovo Storage family of disk systems. By using Spectrum Virtualize software functions, interoperability, and management tools, these systems deliver innovation and new levels of storage efficiency with ease of use to enable organizations to overcome their storage challenges.

These storage systems feature full 12 Gbps SAS drive-side connectivity, and they support 1 Gb and 10 Gb iSCSI, 12 Gb SAS, 16 Gb Fibre Channel (FC), and 10 Gb Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) host connectivity.

For more information, refer to the following product guides for the just announced new storage offerings:

New HX Series Nutanix Appliances

HX SeriesLenovo Converged HX Series Nutanix Appliances are designed to help you simplify IT infrastructure, reduce costs, and accelerate time to value. These hyperconverged appliances from Lenovo combine industry-leading hyperconvergence software from Nutanix with Lenovo data center platforms that feature the newest Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family.

Here are the new product guides on the HX Series appliances we have created:

New server options

This month, we also announced new options for System x and ThinkServer systems. All server product guides were updated with these options in addition to the new and updated options product guides listed below.

Networking adapters

In our network adapter portfolio, we added the following adapters:

Storage host bus adapters

In our Fibre Channel HBA portfolio, we added the following new adapters:

We published a new paper on the Emulex offerings:

We also published two videos to help you understand the new FC HBAs:

Solid-state drives for ThinkServer

Lenovo added Samsung PM863 and Intel S3510 SSDs for ThinkServer 1P servers:

Other server options

Server product guides were also updated with the following components:

  • All the new options listed above
  • New USB Hypervisor Keys, preloaded with the Lenovo VMware ESXi 5.5 U3B and 6.0 U2 custom image
  • New 12Gbps NL SAS 3.5" HDD options
  • New NVIDIA Tesla and Quadro GPUs

New Power Distribution Units

Power distribution units

Lenovo announced new power distribution units (PDUs):

  • 0U 12 C13/12 C19 Switched and Monitored 48A 3 Phase PDU
  • 0U 36 C13/6 C19 24A 1 Phase PDU
  • 0U 36 C13/6 C19 32A 1 Phase PDU
  • 0U 21 C13/12 C19 32A 3 Phase PDU
  • 0U 21 C13/12 C19 48A 3 Phase PDU
  • 0U 20 C13/4 C19 Switched and Monitored 32A 1 Phase PDU
  • 0U 20 C13/4 C19 Switched and Monitored 24A 1 Phase PDU
  • 0U 18 C13/6 C19 Switched and Monitored 32A 3 Phase PDU

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