Lenovo ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix (SXN3000)

Lenovo ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix delivers a turnkey, pre-integrated, easy-to-deploy rack-level solution that dramatically reduces time-to-value and provides a seamless end-to-end customer experience. The solution is based on Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series appliances that combine industry-leading hyperconvergence software from Nutanix with Lenovo ThinkSystem enterprise platforms.

ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix integrates Lenovo networking, ThinkAgile HX appliances, and management, and the solution is pre-tested, factory configured, and is delivered ready to go (up to 60% of the steps that are typically done onsite are automated in the factory). Starting with four nodes to keep acquisition costs down, the ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix is capable of immense scalability as business needs grow. Customers can also mix and match different models of ThinkAgile HX appliances.

Figure 1. Lenovo ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix

Suggested workloads for the ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix include virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), server virtualization, private/hybrid clouds, enterprise applications, and high performance databases.

The ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix is built on ThinkAgile HX Series appliances that feature enterprise-class reliability, management, and security, and they deliver the industry’s most feature-rich hyperconverged infrastructure to enterprise datacenters.

The ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix ships fully integrated into a 42U or 25U rack cabinet, tested, configured, and ready to be plugged in and turned on; it is designed to integrate into an existing infrastructure effortlessly, to dramatically accelerate time to value and reduce infrastructure maintenance costs.

Lenovo provides ThinkAgile Advantage lifecycle management with a single point of support for the entire ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix solution with the nodes, networking, and software components, for quicker problem determination and minimized downtime.

Lenovo ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix integrates Lenovo networking, ThinkAgile HX appliances, and premier, easy-to-use management to administer the infrastructure as a single system. It is designed with industry-standard software defined building blocks: Nutanix hyperconverged software loaded on powerful and highly reliable Lenovo ThinkSystem servers.

The ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix solution offers the following key features:

• Scalable configurations of a complete on-premises hyperconverged platform designed to optimize your workload’s performance to provide the IT agility your business demands.
• Factory-integrated, pre-configured ready-to-go solution that is delivered in a rack with all the software and hardware you need for your workloads: hyperconverged appliances, network switches, plus essential management tools.
• Designed for effortless integration into existing infrastructures, thereby reducing deployment time and saving money.
• Lenovo ThinkAgile Advantage deployment services that are included with the solution help get customers up and running quickly by allowing to begin deploying workloads in hours — not weeks — and realize substantial savings.
• Proven and reliable ThinkAgile HX Series appliances featuring Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family provide compute power for a variety of workloads and applications.
• The HX Series appliances deliver enterprise data storage as an on-demand service by employing highly distributed software architecture to provide a rich set of software-defined services that are entirely VM-centric, including snapshots, high availability, disaster recovery, deduplication and more.
  • Nutanix software offers a natively integrated solution for data protection and continuous availability at VM granularity and gives administrators an affordable range of options to meet the recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO) for different applications.
  • The Nutanix platform is fault resistant, with no single point of failure and no bottlenecks with shared-nothing architecture, where all data, metadata and services are distributed to all nodes within the cluster, and is built to detect, isolate and recover from failures anywhere in the system.
  • The Nutanix platform combines web-scale capabilities with an intuitive user-centric management experience to simplify every aspect of the IT infrastructure lifecycle and provide a single pane of glass to monitor and control Nutanix clusters, with simplified workflows and rich automation for common administrative tasks.
  • Nutanix software combines powerful features, such as two-factor authentication and data-at-rest encryption, with a security development lifecycle that is integrated into product development to help customers meet the most stringent security requirements.
• Lenovo ThinkSystem Ethernet switches deliver exceptional performance and low latency, along with cost savings, and are designed to perform seamlessly with other vendors' upstream switches.
• The ThinkAgile Network Orchestrator feature of Lenovo Cloud Networking Operating System (CNOS) running on the Lenovo Ethernet switches gives increased visibility of the virtual infrastructure, including VM and virtual network information. It provides automated VM-aware provisioning by automatically configuring VLANs in the physical network based on the auto-discovered virtual network topology and performs ongoing dynamic updates to the physical network configuration in response to changes to the virtual network (for example, adding, updating, or deleting VMs and virtual networks).
• Powerful tools to manage both hardware and applications that come integrated into the ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix solution simplify and automate the management of the entire solution, allowing you to manage the infrastructure as a single system, rather than as individual components.
• Enables you to centrally manage virtual and physical resource pools, eliminate planned and unplanned workload downtime related to physical hosts, and avoid disruption and wasted time with predictive analytics across the application-to-infrastructure topology, for a more efficient data center and increased productivity.
• All the components of the solution are available through Lenovo, which provides ThinkAgile Advantage with a single point of support for all issues that you might encounter with the switches, software defined appliances, and software used in the solution, for quicker problem determination and minimized downtime.

ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix is offered in two models: ThinkAgile SXN3000 42U and ThinkAgile SXN3000 25U.

The following table lists the system specifications of the ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix.

Factory-integrated ThinkAgile SXN3000 models of the ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix are configured by using the Lenovo Enterprise Solutions Configurator (LESC):
http://lesc.lenovo.com

Note: You are required to engage a Lenovo representative in the project that includes the ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix.

The configuration of the ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix includes the following selectable components:

• Rack cabinet
  • 42U
  • 25U
• Power distribution infrastructure
  • 208 V AC single-phase (US)
  • 230 V AC single-phase (non-US)
  • 230 V AC three-phase (non-US)
  • 380-415 V AC three-phase (non-US)
• Node configuration
  • Node type and model
    • HX1320
    • HX1520-R
    • HX3320
    • HX3520-G
    • HX3720
    • HX5520
    • HX5520-C
    • HX7520
  • Processor model
  • Memory capacity
  • Storage capacity
  • Node quantity

    Note: During the configuration process, you are adding components to the nodes according to the output from the Nutanix Sizer tool:
    http://services.nutanix.com

• Networking
  • 10 GbE SFP+ connectivity: RackSwitch G8272
  • 10 GbE RJ-45 connectivity: ThinkSystem NE1072T RackSwitch
  • 25 GbE SFP28 connectivity: ThinkSystem NE2572 RackSwitch
  • 1 GbE management network: RackSwitch G8052 (derived by the configuration tool)
• Software
  • Lenovo XClarity Pro 3-year software and support license is included.
  • Hypervisor
    • Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) (factory preload; selected by default)
    • VMware vSphere (ESXi) (optional factory preload)
  • VMware vSphere software licenses
    (optional; if selected, the quantity is derived based on the number of ESXi-based nodes)
  • VMware vCenter Server licenses (optional)
  • Nutanix software edition
    • Pro (selected by default)
    • Ultimate
  • Nutanix Prism Pro (optional)
  • Lenovo XClarity Energy Manager (optional)
• Warranty
  • Three or five years of service coverage
    • 9x5 Next Business Day response with parts delivered (default selection) or onsite response
    • 24x7 4-hour or 2-hour onsite response or 24x7 6-hour committed service repair (available only in select regions)
    • Premier services (optional)
  • YourDrive YourData
• Services
  • Lenovo ThinkAgile Advantage lifecycle services: Deployment services and single point of support
  • Health check (onsite firmware updates from Lenovo) (optional)
  • Managed services (remote monitoring and management by Lenovo managed services team) (optional)

The following table lists the base models of the ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix rack cabinets.

Configuration note: 1U, 3U, and 5U Filler panels will be derived based on the number of nodes selected.

Power distribution units (PDUs) are used to distribute power from an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) or utility power to the equipment within the ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix rack cabinets and to provide fault-tolerant power redundancy for high availability.

Each ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix node, management network switch, and VM/storage network switch has two redundant power supplies, and each of two power supplies is connected to a separate PDU to support topologies with redundant AC power sources.

The following table lists the power distribution units for the ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix rack cabinets.

Configuration notes:

• Only one type of PDUs is supported within the ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix rack cabinet; different PDU types cannot be mixed within the rack cabinet.
• The quantity of PDUs required for the configuration is derived based on the ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix model and the number and type of nodes selected.
• Power cables are derived based on the ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix model and the number of nodes selected.

The following table summarizes the PDU specifications.

The ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix uses the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series nodes listed in the following table.

* Processor model is selectable (See Processors).
** Memory capacity is configurable (See Memory).
^ Storage capacity is configurable (See Internal storage).
# Power supply is configurable for some models (See Power supplies).
† In the HX Series Enclosure.

Processors

The HX Series nodes for ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix support the Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family. The following table lists the processor options that are available for selection.

The following table lists the specifications of the processors for the appliances.

Memory

The HX Series for ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix support Lenovo TruDDR4 memory. TruDDR4 memory uses the highest-quality components sourced from Tier 1 DRAM suppliers and only memory that meets strict requirements is selected. It is compatibility tested and tuned to maximize performance and reliability.

The following rules apply when selecting the memory configuration:

• For appliances that support RDIMMs or LRDIMMs, mixing RDIMMs and LRDIMMs is not supported.
• All DIMMs in the appliance must be of the same type and capacity.
• All DIMMs in the appliance operate at the same speed up to 2666 MHz, which is determined by the maximum memory speed supported by the specific processor.

  Note: Maximum memory speed can be achieved when Max performance mode is enabled in UEFI.

The following memory protection technologies are supported:

• ECC
• SDDC (for x4-based memory DIMMs)
• ADDDC (for x4-based memory DIMMs; Gold and Platinum processors only)
• Patrol scrubbing
• Demand scrubbing

The following table lists the memory options that are available for selection for the appliances.

* System performance might be impacted due to unbalanced memory configuration.

Internal storage

The ThinkAgile HX Series appliances support the internal drive configurations listed in the following tables.

The following tables list the drive selection options for hybrid and all flash configurations.

Configuration note: All SSD drives in the appliance must be of the same type and capacity. All HDD drives in the appliance must be of the same type and capacity.

Network connectivity

Two-port 10 GbE RJ-45 or 10 GbE SFP+ network connectivity is provided by the onboard Intel X722 NIC and a LOM card installed in the appliance or an Ethernet I/O Module (EIOM) installed in the HX Series enclosure.

Two-port 25 GbE SFP28 network connectivity is provided by the Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx 2x25GbE SFP28 Adapter that can be installed in the appliance instead of 10 GbE connections.

The following table lists the network adapter options that are available for selection.

Configuration note: All 25 GbE SFP28 DAC cables, 10 GbE SFP+ DAC cables, or RJ-45 Category 6 cables for the VM/storage network are derived based on the number of nodes selected.

Power supplies

The HX Series appliances ship with two power supplies. The following table lists the power supply options that are available for selection.

^ Where applicable, the feature code is shown for 1U appliances / 2U appliances.
* In the HX Series Enclosure.

Configuration note: For N+N power redundancy, the power supplies should provide sufficient power without oversubscription for the selected node configuration. To ensure that the right power supply is chosen, you should always validate your appliance configuration using the latest version of the Lenovo Capacity Planner:
http://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/lnvo-lcp

For more information about the ThinkAgile HX Series appliances, refer to the following Lenovo Press Product Guides:

• Lenovo ThinkAgile HX1320 and HX1520-R Appliances
  http://lenovopress.com/lp0726
• Lenovo ThinkAgile HX3320, HX3520-G, and HX3720 Appliances
  ​http://lenovopress.com/lp0728
• Lenovo ThinkAgile HX5520 and HX5520-C Appliances
  ​http://lenovopress.com/lp0729
• Lenovo ThinkAgile HX7520 Appliance
  ​http://lenovopress.com/lp0730

The ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix uses the Lenovo RackSwitch G8052 to provide management network connectivity. For VM/storage network, customers can choose either 10 GbE SFP+ connections by selecting two RackSwitch G8272 switches, 10 GbE RJ-45 connections by selecting two ThinkSystem NE1072T switches, or 25 GbE SFP28 connections by selecting two ThinkSystem NE2572 switches. VM/storage network uses a pair of switches for availability and redundancy purposes.

Dedicated XCC management ports on the 1U and 2U nodes, an SMM management port on the 2U4N enclosure, management ports on the G8272, NE1072T, or NE2572 VM/storage network switches, and management ports on the monitored PDUs are connected to the G8052 management network switch. A management network switch provides two 1 GbE uplinks (2x 25 m RJ-45 UTP Category 6 cables) or two 10 GbE uplinks (2x 20 m SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cables) for upstream network integration.

If 10 GbE network connectivity is used, two 10 GbE ports on each node are connected to a pair of the G8272 (10 GbE SFP+) or NE1072T (10 GbE RJ-45) VM/storage network switches. The switches are connected to each other via two 40 GbE links configured as a LAG.

If 25 GbE network connectivity is used, two 25 GbE ports on each node are connected to a pair of the NE2572 (25 GbE SFP28) VM/storage network switches. The switches are connected to each other via two 100 GbE links configured as a LAG.

Each of two G8272 switches provides two 10 GbE LC uplinks (2x 10GBASE-SR SFP+ transceivers with 25m LC-LC OM3 MMF cables), two 10 GbE SFP+ uplinks (2x 20 m SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cables), or two 40 GbE QSFP+ uplinks (2x 20 m QSFP+ to QSFP+ Active Optical Cables) that are configured in a virtual link aggregation group (VLAG) for upstream network integration.

Each of two NE1072T switches provides two 10 GbE RJ-45 uplinks (2x 25 m RJ-45 UTP Category 6 cables) or two 40 GbE QSFP+ uplinks (2x 20 m QSFP+ to QSFP+ Active Optical Cables) that are configured in a virtual link aggregation group (VLAG) for upstream network integration.

Each of two NE2572 switches provides two 10 GbE SFP+ uplinks (2x 20 m SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cables), two 25 GbE SFP28 uplinks (2x 20m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cables), two 40 GbE QSFP+ uplinks (2x 20 m QSFP+ to QSFP+ Active Optical Cables), or two 100 GbE uplinks (2x 20m 100G QSFP28 Active Optical Cables) that are configured in a virtual link aggregation group (VLAG) for upstream network integration.

The following table summarizes specifications of the RackSwitch switches for ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix.

* The ThinkAgile Network Orchestrator feature that works with the AHV hypervisor.

The following table lists cables that are available for selection for the uplink ports.

Configuration notes:

• All UTP Category 5E cables for the 1 GbE management network and 25 GbE SFP 28 DAC cables, 10 GbE SFP+ DAC cables, or 10 GbE RJ-45 UTP Category 6 cables for the VM/storage network are derived based on the number of nodes selected.
• Selection of uplink connections for the management and VM/storage networks is required:
  • Management network (G8052): 1 GbE RJ-45 or 10 GbE SFP+
  • VM/storage network:
    • G8272: 10 GbE LC, 10 GbE SFP+, or 40 GbE QSFP+
    • NE1072T: 10 GbE RJ-45 or 40 GbE QSFP+
    • NE2572: 10 GbE SFP+, 25 GbE SFP28, 40 GbE QSFP+, or 100 GbE QSFP28

The ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix includes the following software components:

• Hypervisor
  • Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) (default preload selection)
  • VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5 or 6.0 Update 3 (optional preload selection) (vSphere software and subscription licenses for the solution can be purchased from Lenovo, if not provided by the customer)
• Nutanix Acropolis Pro (default selection) or Ultimate (optional selection) Edition
• VMware vCenter Server virtual appliance (if ESXi is selected) (vCenter Server software and subscription licenses for the solution can be purchased from Lenovo, if not provided by the customer)
• Lenovo XClarity Pro (included)
• Lenovo ThinkAgile Network Orchestrator (AHV environments only)
• Nutanix Prism Starter (default) or Pro (optional)
• Lenovo XClarity Energy Manager (optional)

Optionally, VMware vSphere 6 Standard and vCenter Server 6 Standard software and subscription licenses can be selected for ESXi-based deployments, if not provided by the customer (see the following table for details). The quantity of vSphere licenses is calculated automatically based on the number of HX Series nodes selected.

Nutanix software

The HX Series appliances can be configured with one of the Nutanix Software editions that are listed in the following table. The appropriate license can be downloaded from the Nutanix website to match the serial number of the appliance. The quantity of Nutanix licenses is calculated automatically based on the number of HX Series nodes selected.

The Pro edition offers rich data services, along with resilience and management features. This edition is ideal for enterprises running multiple applications on a Nutanix cluster or with large-scale single workload deployments.

The Ultimate edition offers the full suite of Nutanix software capabilities to tackle complex infrastructure challenges. This edition is ideal for multi-site deployments.

The following table compares features of the Nutanix software editions.

VMware vCenter Server

VMware vCenter Server offers the following key features:

• Centralized management of virtualized hosts and virtual machines from a single console.
• Centralized inventory of virtual machines, hosts, datastores and networks.
• Alerts and notifications can trigger automated workflows to remedy and preempt problems.
• Host profiles standardize and simplify configuration and management of VMware ESXi hosts.
• Resource management for virtual machines allows to control allocation of processor, memory, disk and network resources.
• Continuously monitors utilization across resource pools and intelligently allocates available resources among virtual machines according to predefined rules
• Automatically restarts virtual machines that have failed without manual intervention with VMware vSphere HA.
• Maintains records of significant configuration changes and exports reports for event tracking.
• Patch management enforces compliance to patch standards through automated scanning and patching of online ESXi hosts and select Microsoft and Linux virtual machines.

Lenovo XClarity Pro

Lenovo XClarity Pro offers the following features for the ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix:

• Auto-discovery and monitoring of HX Series nodes and RackSwitch switches from the centralized XClarity Pro user interface
• Health status, warranty status, inventory status
• Firmware updates and compliance enforcement
• External alerts and notifications via SNMP traps, syslog remote logging, and e-mail
• Secure connections to managed endpoints
• NIST 800-131A or FIPS 140-2 compliant cryptographic standards between the management solution and managed endpoints
• Integration into existing higher level management systems such as cloud automation and orchestration tools through REST APIs, providing extensive external visibility and control over hardware resources
• An intuitive, easy-to-use GUI
• Scripting with Windows PowerShell, providing command-line visibility and control over hardware resources

Lenovo ThinkAgile Network Orchestrator

ThinkAgile Network Orchestrator gives increased visibility of the virtual infrastructure to Nutanix Prism, including VM and virtual network information. It provides automated VM-aware provisioning by dynamically configuring VLANs in the physical network based on the auto-discovered virtual network topology. The agent also performs ongoing dynamic updates to the physical network configuration in response to new VMs, updated VMs, and deleted VMs and virtual networks, eliminating errors with manual configuration.

Nutanix Prism

Nutanix Prism gives administrators a simple way to manage virtual environments. Powered by advanced data analytics and heuristics, Prism simplifies and streamlines common workflows within a datacenter eliminating the need to have disparate management solutions.

Nutanix Prism is a part of the Nutanix software preloaded on the appliances, and it includes the following components:

• Prism Starter (included in Pro and Ultimate Nutanix software editions): Provides ability to configure, manage, and monitor a Nutanix cluster and centralized management of multiple local and remote Nutanix clusters.
• Prism Pro (Selectable software license; optional): Enables efficiency evaluation, capacity planning, expansion recommendations, custom dashboards, and advanced search capabilities.

The Prism Pro software license can be selected during the initial purchase. The quantity of licenses is calculated automatically based on the number of HX Series nodes selected.

Nutanix Prism offers the following features:

• Single point of control
  • Accelerates enterprise-wide deployment
  • Manages capacity centrally
  • Adds nodes in minutes
  • Supports non-disruptive software upgrades with zero downtime
  • Integrates with REST APIs and PowerShell
• Monitoring and alerting
  • Tracks infrastructure utilization (storage, processor, memory)
  • Centrally monitors multiple clusters across multiple sites
  • Monitors per-VM performance and resource usage
  • Checks system health
  • Generates alerts and notifications
• Integrated data protection
  • Offers customizable RPO/RTO and retention policies
  • Supports configurable per-VM replication (1:1, 1:many and many:1)
  • Provides efficient VM recovery
  • Deploys affordable DR and backup to the cloud
• Diagnostics and troubleshooting
  • Provides time-based historical views of VM activity
  • Performs proactive alert analysis
  • Correlates alerts and events to quickly diagnose issues
  • Generates actionable alerts and reduces resolution times
  • Analyzes trending patterns for accurate capacity planning

Lenovo XClarity Energy Manager license is included in the XClarity Controller Enterprise upgrade.

The ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix can be configured with a three-year (default selection) or five-year (optional selection) hardware warranty and software support with 24x7 call center support and various levels of coverage with a well-defined scope of services, including service hours, response time, term of service, and service agreement terms and conditions.

Some regions might have different warranty terms and conditions than the standard warranty. This is due to local business practices or laws in the specific region. Local service teams can assist in explaining region-specific terms when needed. Examples of region-specific warranty terms are second or longer business day parts delivery or parts-only base warranty.

If warranty terms and conditions include onsite labor for repair or replacement of parts, Lenovo will dispatch a service technician to the customer site to perform the replacement. Onsite labor under base warranty is limited to labor for replacement of parts that have been determined to be field-replaceable units (FRUs). Parts that are determined to be customer-replaceable units (CRUs) do not include onsite labor under base warranty.

If warranty terms include parts-only base warranty, Lenovo is responsible for delivering only replacement parts that are under base warranty (including FRUs) that will be sent to a requested location for self-service. Parts-only service does not include a service technician being dispatched onsite. Parts must be changed at customer’s own cost and labor and defective parts must be returned following the instructions supplied with the spares parts.

Lenovo warranty service coverage levels are region-specific. Not all warranty service levels are available in every region. For information about Lenovo warranty services that are available in your region, refer to the following resources:

The following Lenovo warranty service levels are available for the ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix:

• 3 or 5 years of warranty service coverage
  • Base warranty: 9x5 Next Business Day response with parts delivered
  • Foundation Service: 9x5 service coverage with next business day onsite response
  • Essential Service: 24x7 service coverage with 4-hour onsite response or 24-hour committed repair (available only in select regions)
  • Advanced Service: 24x7 service coverage with 2-hour onsite response or 6-hour committed repair (available only in select regions)
• YourDrive YourData

  Lenovo’s YourDrive YourData service (where applicable) is a multi-drive retention offering that ensures your data is always under your control, regardless of the number of drives that are installed in your Lenovo system. In the unlikely event of a drive failure, you retain possession of your drive while Lenovo replaces the failed drive part. Your data stays safely on your premises, in your hands. The YourDrive YourData service can be purchased in convenient bundles with Foundation, Essential, or Advanced Service upgrades and extensions.

For service definitions, region-specific details, and service limitations, please refer to the following documents:

• Lenovo Statement of Limited Warranty for Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) Servers and System Storage
  http://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht503310
• Lenovo Data Center Services Agreement
  http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht116628

The ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix also includes a three-year (default selection) or five-year (optional selection) Nutanix software support and subscription (matches the duration of the selected hardware warranty period) that entitles you to submit service requests to troubleshoot Nutanix software issues and receive code updates, including fixes, patches, and new software releases.

The Lenovo local support centers perform problem determination and resolution for hardware-related issues and escalate to Nutanix, on behalf of the customer, for software-related problem determination. Nutanix will contact the customer and will own the software-related problem resolution until closure.

The following ThinkAgile Advantage services performed in the factory and onsite are included with the ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix solutions to get customers up and running quickly:

• Conducting remote preparation and planning
• Verifying firmware versions and performing firmware updates, if needed
• Configuring network switches
• Configuring XCC management settings
• Configuring Nutanix
• Configuring hypervisor settings
• Discovering hosts and storage
• Configuring Lenovo XClarity network settings and performing discovery and inventory
• Transferring knowledge
• Developing post-installation documentation

The ThinkAgile SXN3000 42U model has the following dimensions and weight (approximate):

• Height: 2009 mm (79.1 in)
• Width: 600 mm (23.6 in)
• Depth: 1096 mm (43.1 in)
• Total rack load capacity: 953 kg (2101 lb)
• Total rack weight (maximum): 1127 kg (2484.6 lb)

The ThinkAgile SXN3000 25U model has the following dimensions and weight (approximate):

• Height: 1244 mm (49.0 in)
• Width: 605 mm (23.8 in)
• Depth: 1000 mm (39.4 in)
• Total rack load capacity: 570 kg (1256.6 lb)
• Total rack weight (maximum): 670 kg (1477.1 lb)

The ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix is supported in the following environment:

• Air temperature: 10 °C - 35 °C (50 °F - 95 °F);

• Humidity: 10% to 80% (non-condensing)
• Power load (rated maximum):
  • SXN3000 25U (fully configured solution): 23 728 W
  • SXN3000 42U (fully configured solution): 46 256 W
• Heat output (maximum):
  • SXN3000 25U (fully configured solution): 80 959 BTU/hour
  • SXN3000 42U (fully configured solution): 157 823 BTU/hour

Note: Certain configurations may support 5 °C - 40 °C (41 °F - 104 °F) if they meet the following conditions:

• No HX3520-G appliances.
• No processors with TDP more than or equal to 125 W (HX3720 only) or 150 W (except HX3720).
• No Intel Xeon Gold 6126 processors.

The following table lists maximum power load and heat output for the ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix solution components.

For more information, see these resources:

• Lenovo ThinkAgile SX for Nutanix product page
  https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/p/WMD00000325
• Lenovo Data Center Solution Configurator (DCSC):
  http://dcsc.lenovo.com