Lenovo Converged HX2310-E and HX2710-E Appliances

Lenovo 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 enterprise platforms that feature Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family.

The Lenovo Converged HX2000 Series Express appliances are tailored specifically for various types of workloads for small and medium sized businesses. The HX2000 Series appliances include leading edge Nutanix Xpress software to deliver a simplified, cost effective solution that helps lower total-cost-of-ownership and enables smaller organizations to focus less time on infrastructure management.

The Lenovo Converged HX2000 Series include Lenovo Converged HX2310-E (1U rack-mount) and HX2710-E (2U 4-node [2U4N] rack-mount) appliances that are shown in the following figure.

Figure 1. Lenovo Converged HX2310-E (top) and HX2710-E (bottom) appliances

The Lenovo Converged HX Series appliances are built on industry-leading Lenovo servers that feature enterprise-class reliability, management, and security.

The Lenovo Converged HX Series appliances deliver the industry’s most feature-rich hyperconverged infrastructure to enterprise datacenters, bringing the benefits of web-scale technologies to enterprise applications through enterprise storage, data protection, infrastructure resilience, management and analytics, and security.

The Lenovo Converged HX Series Nutanix Appliances deliver the industry’s most feature-rich hyperconverged infrastructure to enterprise datacenters (shown in the following figure). Nutanix brings the benefits of web-scale technologies to enterprise applications through enterprise storage, data protection, infrastructure resilience, management and analytics, and security.

Figure 2. HX Series hyperconverged infrastructure

The Lenovo Converged HX Series appliances offer the following key features:

• Enterprise storage

  The Lenovo Converged HX Series Nutanix Appliances deliver enterprise data storage as an on-demand service by employing highly distributed software architecture. The Nutanix Software eliminates the need for traditional SAN and NAS solutions, and delivers a rich set of software-defined services that are entirely VM-centric, including snapshots, high availability, disaster recovery, deduplication and more.

  • Inline and post-process compression at the sub-block level increase effective storage capacity by up to four times.
  • Redirect-on-write snapshots and writeable clones at the granularity of a single VM increase efficiency.
  • Distributed caching of VM data improves performance in multi-reader scenarios, such as VDI with linked clones.
  • Inline deduplication in the read cache and post-process deduplication in the capacity tier improve performance and effective capacity.
  • Powerful acceleration capabilities such as caching, automatic data tiering and data locality speed storage performance.
• Data protection

  The Nutanix Software offers a natively integrated solution for data protection and continuous availability at VM granularity. It gives administrators an affordable range of options to meet the recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO) for different applications.

  • Unlimited local backups using VM-centric snapshots and integrated workflows delivering RPO in minutes.
  • Natively integrated solution for disaster recovery enables simple VM-centric backup, recovery and replication with application-level consistency.
  • Built-in Cloud Connect hybrid cloud technology enables seamless backup of data to public cloud services.
  • Metro availability feature provides continuous availability of data across different sites during planned maintenance or disasters through synchronous replication.
  • Support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Services (VSS), VMware vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP), and seamless integration with third-party backup providers.
• Infrastructure resilience

  The platform for the Lenovo Converged HX Series Nutanix Appliances is fault resistant, with no single point of failure and no bottlenecks. The system uses a 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. Lenovo hyperconverged appliances deliver always-on operation, and can survive system hardware, software and hypervisor issues and maintain 100% availability to applications and data.

  • Intelligent data placement in different physical failure domains, or availability domains, (for example, separate racks or power sources) delivers greater fault tolerance.
  • Data and metadata replicated across multiple nodes provide user-defined resilience against hardware failures.
  • Multiple copies of data ensure 100% data availability in the event that a Nutanix controller VM is unavailable due to failure or maintenance.
  • Automatic integrity checks during reads and silent at-rest error detection for data consistency.
• Management and analytics

  The platform for the Lenovo Converged HX Series Nutanix Appliances marries web-scale capabilities with an intuitive user-centric management experience to simplify every aspect of the IT infrastructure lifecycle. Nutanix Prism provides a single pane of glass to monitor and control one or more Nutanix clusters, with simplified workflows and rich automation for common administrative tasks.

  • Elegantly simple management framework with intuitive workflows delivers radical simplicity and powerful control to IT management.
  • Single pane of glass delivers centralized visibility and management of multiple Nutanix clusters across the world.
  • Rich automation and intuitive workflows simplify deployment, provisioning, orchestration and maintenance of Nutanix clusters.
  • End-to-end visibility of VMs, nodes and disks and the ability to visually diagnose potential issues gives administrators total infrastructure control.
  • Programmatic control of every aspect of cluster management, including deployment, upgrades, data protection, and performance management enables powerful automation.
  • Streamlined management for hypervisor and virtual machines on Nutanix.
• Security

  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.

  • Security incorporated into every step of the software development process enables verifiably secure software releases.
  • Two-step authentication using a client certificate and username/password, along with cluster lockdown, provides protection against unauthorized access.

The following figure shows the front view of the HX2310-E appliance.

Figure 3. HX2310-E front view

The following table lists the system specifications of the Converged HX2310-E appliance.

The following table lists the system specifications of the Converged HX2710-E appliance.

Factory-integrated models of the Converged HX Series appliances are configured by using one of the following configuration tools:

• Lenovo Enterprise Solutions Configurator (LESC):
  http://lesc.lenovo.com
• System x and Cluster Solutions Configurator (x-config):
  http://lesc.lenovo.com/products/hardware/configurator/worldwide/bhui/asit/

During the configuration process, you are selecting one of the base models first, and then you are adding components (processors, memory, drives, and network adapters) to the selected model according to the output from the Nutanix Sizer tool:
http://services.nutanix.com/

Note: You are required to engage a Lenovo representative in the project that includes the Lenovo Converged HX Series appliances.

The following table lists the base models of the Lenovo Converged HX2000 Series appliances.

The Lenovo Converged HX2310-E appliances ship with the following items:

• System documentation
• Gen II Universal Slides Kit
• Enterprise 1U Cable Management Arm (CMA)
• Two 2.8 m IEC 320-C13 to C14 rack power cables

The Lenovo Converged HX2710-E appliances ship with the following items:

• System documentation
• Rail kit (enclosure only)
• One 2 m 2x IEC 320-C13 to C14 rack power cable (Y-cable) (enclosure only)

It is possible to perform a hardware upgrade after the initial deployment, such as adding more memory or network adapters, by purchasing the hardware upgrade option listed in the following table.

Configuration note: You should request a quote for the Nutanix HW Upgrade part number from Lenovo and provide additional details on the existing installation and planned upgrade.

TopSeller models of the Converged HX Series appliances are pre-configured bundles that cannot be upgraded with additional options. TopSeller models are region-specific; that is, each region may define their own models, and not all models are available in every region.

Product availability: HX Series TopSeller models are available only in North America.

Note: You are required to engage a Lenovo representative in the project that includes the Lenovo Converged HX Series appliances.

The following table lists the TopSeller models of the Lenovo Converged HX2000 Series appliances.

The Lenovo Converged HX2000 Series appliances ship with two processors. The following table lists the processor options that are available for selection.

The Lenovo Converged HX2000 Series appliances support Lenovo TruDDR4 memory. TruDDR memory is selected, tested and tuned to maximize performance and reliability, and it enables extended memory performance features to support memory speeds that exceed industry standards.

The HX2310-E and HX2710-E appliances support up to 16 DIMMs (8 DIMMs per processor). Each processor has four memory channels, and there are two DIMMs per channel.

Note: HX2310-E appliance has 24 DIMM slots, however, it supports only up to 16 DIMMs.

The following memory protection technologies are supported:

• ECC
• Chipkill

The Lenovo Converged HX2000 Series appliances support the internal drive bay configurations that are listed in the following table.

The Lenovo Converged HX2310-E appliances provide four-port 1 GbE network connectivity. The onboard 1 GbE network interface controller (NIC) that is based on the Broadcom BCM5719 chip provides four 10/100/1000 Mb Ethernet ports with RJ-45 connectors. Optionally, two-port 10 GbE network connectivity can be configured for the HX2310-E by selecting the Intel X520 adapter that provides two 10 GbE ports with SFP+ connectors or Intel X550-T2 adapter that provides two 10 GbE ports with RJ-45 connectors.

The Lenovo Converged HX2710-E appliances provide two-port 1 GbE or 10 GbE network connectivity. The 1 GbE mezzanine card that is based on the Intel I350-AM2 network interface controller (NIC) chip is selected by default and provides two 10/100/1000 Mb Ethernet ports with RJ-45 connectors.

The optional Intel X520 10 GbE mezzanine card that is based on the Intel 82599 NIC chip can be configured for the HX2710-E instead of the 1 GbE mezzanine card to provide two 10 GbE ports with SFP+ connectors. Alternatively, two-port 10 GbE network connectivity can be configured for the HX2710-E by selecting the Intel X550-T2 PCIe adapter that provides two 10 GbE ports with RJ-45 connectors.

The following table lists the 10 GbE network adapter options that are available for selection.

Note: The Intel X520 and X550-T2 adapters cannot be intermixed in the same appliance, that is, either X520 or X550-T2 adapter can be selected for the appliance, but not both adapter types.

The following table summarizes features of the 10 GbE network adapters used in the Lenovo Converged HX2000 Series appliances.

The SFP+ adapters require SFP+ transceivers or direct-attach copper (DAC) cables that must be ordered separately (two SFP+ transceivers or DAC cables per adapter). The following table lists supported SFP+ transceiver and cable options.

The Lenovo Converged HX2000 Series appliances support the following hypervisors:

• Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)
• VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 3
• VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 1
• VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 DataCenter Edition (Hyper-V)

Notes:

• The HX Series appliances ship with Nutanix AHV (default) or VMware ESXi (optional) preloaded.
• Microsoft Hyper-V is supported as a field-installable option only.

The Lenovo Converged HX2000 Series appliances ship with Nutanix Xpress Software edition, which offers a rich set of features for cluster of up to four nodes (three nodes minimum are required per cluster).

The following table lists features that are available in the Nutanix Xpress software edition.

The Lenovo Converged HX2310-E appliances support the following systems management tools:

• Integrated Management Module
• Light path diagnostics
• Lenovo XClarity
• Nutanix Prism
• Lenovo XClarity Energy Manager

Integrated Management Module (HX2310-E appliances)

The Lenovo Converged HX2310-E appliances contain Integrated Management Module II (IMM2.1), which provides advanced service-processor control, monitoring, and alerting functions. If an environmental condition exceeds a threshold or if a system component fails, the IMM2 lights LEDs to help you diagnose the problem, records the error in the event log, and alerts you to the problem. The Integrated Management Module Advanced Upgrade comes standard with the appliances, and it provides a virtual presence for remote management capabilities of the appliances.

The remote presence feature provides the following functions:

• Remotely viewing video with graphics resolutions up to 1600x1200 at 75 Hz with up to 23 bits per pixel colors, regardless of the system state
• Remotely accessing the appliance using the keyboard and mouse from a remote client
• Mapping the CD or DVD drive, diskette drive, and USB flash drive on a remote client, and mapping ISO and diskette image files as virtual drives that are available for use by the appliance
• Uploading a diskette image to the IMM memory and mapping it to the appliance as a virtual drive

Light path diagnostics (HX2310-E appliances)

The Lenovo Converged HX2310-E appliances include basic light path diagnostics, which includes system LEDs on the front of the appliance and LEDs near the monitored components (for example, the DIMM error LED on the system board).

The Lenovo Converged HX2310-E appliances also include a next-gen light path diagnostics LCD display panel. With LCD display, customers have quick access to system status, firmware, network, and health information.

Lenovo XClarity is an optional software component for the Lenovo Converged HX Series appliances which can be used to manage firmware upgrades outside of the Nutanix Prism software.

Notes:

• Lenovo XClarity Administrator can be downloaded and used at no charge to discover and monitor HX Series appliances and manage firmware upgrades for them.
• An optional Lenovo XClarity Pro subscription license available in the configurator provides software support for XClarity Administrator and XClarity Integrators for the duration of the selected warranty period. If Lenovo XClarity software support is required, the XClarity Pro option must be selected.
• For the HX2710-E appliances, Lenovo XClarity only supports discovery, inventory, and monitoring. Other functions, including firmware updates and secure connectivity, are not supported.

In addition, Lenovo XClarity Administrator offers two software plug-in modules (Lenovo XClarity Integrators) at no charge:

• Lenovo XClarity Integrator for Microsoft System Center
• Lenovo XClarity Integrator for VMware vCenter

Lenovo XClarity Integrators allow administrators to manage physical infrastructure from leading external virtualization management software tools from Microsoft and VMware.

The Lenovo Converged HX2310-E appliances have the following dimensions and weight (approximate):

• Height: 43 mm (1.7 in.)
• Width: 434 mm (17.1 in.)
• Depth: 734 mm (28.9 in.)
• Weight (maximum): 19.3 kg (42.5 lb)

The Lenovo Converged HX2710-E appliances have the following dimensions and weight (approximate):

• Enclosure
  • Height: 87 mm (3.4 in.)
  • Width: 442 mm (17.4 in.)
  • Depth: 835 mm (32.9 in.)
  • Weight (maximum): 36.9 kg (81 lb)
• Node
  • Height: 41 mm (1.6 in.)
  • Width: 216 mm (8.5 in.)
  • Depth: 659 mm (25.9 in.)
  • Weight (maximum): 6.2 kg (13.6 lb)

The Lenovo Converged HX2310-E appliances are supported in the following environment:

• Air temperature:
  • System on: 5 °C to 40 °C (41 °F to 104 °F); altitude: 0 to 950 m (3,117 ft); decrease the maximum system temperature by 1 °C for every 175-m increase in altitude above 950 m.
  • System off: 5 °C to 45 °C (41 °F to 113 °F)
  • Shipment: -40 °C to +60 °C (-40 °F to 140 °F) at up to 10,700 m (35,105 ft)
• Maximum altitude: 3,050 m (10,000 ft) at 5 °C to 28 °C (41 °F to 82 °F)
• Humidity:
  • System on: 8% to 85%, maximum dew point 24 °C, maximum rate of change 5 °C/hr
  • System off: 8% to 85%, maximum dew point 27 °C
• Design to ASHRAE Class A3, ambient of 36 °C to 40 °C (96.8 °F to 104 °F), with relaxed support:
  • Supports cloud-like workload with no performance degradation acceptable (Turbo-Off).
  • Under no circumstance can any combination of worst-case workload and configuration result in system shutdown or design exposure at 40 °C.
  • The worst-case workload (like Linpack, Turbo-On) might have performance degradation.
• Electrical:
  • 100 to 127 (nominal) V AC; 50 Hz or 60 Hz; 10.0 A
  • 200 to 240 (nominal) V AC; 50 Hz or 60 Hz; 5.0 A
  • Input kilovolt-amperes (kVA) (approximately): 1.188 kVA
• BTU output (maximum): 4053 Btu/hr (1188 watts)
• Noise level:
  • 6.6 bels (operating)
  • 6.4 bels (idle)

The Lenovo Converged HX2710-E appliances are supported in the following environment:

• Air temperature:
  • System on: 10 °C to 35 °C (50 °F to 95 °F); altitude: 0 to 950 m (3,117 ft); decrease the maximum system temperature by 1 °C for every 300-m increase in altitude above 950 m.
  • System off: 5 °C to 45 °C (41 °F to 113 °F)
  • Shipment: -40 °C to +60 °C (-40 °F to 140 °F) at up to 10,700 m (35,105 ft)
• Maximum altitude: 3,050 m (10,000 ft) at 10 °C to 28 °C (50 °F to 82 °F)
• Humidity:
  • System on: 20% to 80%, maximum dew point 21 °C (70 °F), maximum rate of change 20 °C/hr
  • System off: 8% to 80%, maximum dew point 27 °C (80.6°F)
  • Shipment: 5% to 100%, maximum dew point 29 °C (84.2°F)
• Electrical:
  • 200 to 240 (nominal) V AC; 50 Hz or 60 Hz
  • Input kilovolt-amperes (kVA) (approximately): 1.544 kVA
• BTU output (maximum): 6051 Btu/hr (1773 watts)
• Noise level:
  • 6.8 bels (operating)
  • 6.2 bels (idle)

The Lenovo Converged HX2000 Series appliances conform to the following regulations:

• AS/NZS CISPR 22, Class A (Australia/New Zealand)
• BSMI CNS 13438, Class A; CNS 14336 (Taiwan)
• CCC GB 4943.1, GB 17625.1, GB 9254 Class A (China)
• CE Mark (European Union)
• CISPR 22, Class A
• EAC (Russia)
• EN 55022, Class A
• EN 55024
• EN/IEC 61000-3-2
• EN/IEC 61000-3-3
• EN/IEC/CSA/UL 60950-1
• Energy Star 2.0
• FCC Part 15, Class A (United States)
• GS/TUV (Germany)
• ICES-003/NMB-03, Class A (Canada)
• MSIP (Korea)
• NOM-019 (Mexico)
• Reduction of Hazardous Substances (ROHS)
• TUV S (Argentina)
• VCCI, Class A (Japan)

The Lenovo Converged HX2000 Series appliances can be configured with a three-year or five-year hardware warranty and software support with standard 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.

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.

Note: Lenovo warranty service coverage levels are region-specific. Not all warranty service levels are available in every region.

The following table explains warranty service definitions in more detail.

In general, the following Lenovo warranty service levels are available for the Converged HX Series appliances:

• Three or five years of 9x5 or 24x7 service coverage
• Parts delivered or technician installed parts from next business day to 4 or 2 hours
• Committed Service Repair

  Committed Service Repair (CSR) enhances the level of Warranty Service Upgrade or Post Warranty/Maintenance Service offering associated with the selected systems. Offerings vary and are available in select regions.

  • Priority handling to meet defined time frames to restore the failing machine to good working condition
  • 24x7x6 committed repair: Service performed 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, within 6 hours
• YourDrive YourData

  Lenovo’s YourDrive YourData service 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 server. 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 Lenovo warranty upgrades and extensions.

The Lenovo Converged HX2000 Series appliances include a three-year or five-year 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.

Software support that is provided by Nutanix includes 24x7 phone and web coverage with the following target response times (priorities are assigned by Nutanix based on the impact on productivity):

• Priority 1 (Emergency: Productivity halted): 2 hours
• Priority 2 (Critical: Significant impact on productivity): 4 hours
• Priority 3 (Normal: Minimal impact on productivity): 8 hours (by next business day)

The following table lists the Ethernet LAN switches that are offered by Lenovo that can be used in Lenovo Converged HX Series solutions.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Top-of-rack Switches category:
http://lenovopress.com/servers/options/switches

The following table lists the rack cabinets that are offered by Lenovo that can be used in Lenovo Converged HX Series solutions.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Rack Cabinets category:
http://lenovopress.com/servers/options/racks

The following table lists the power distribution units (PDUs) that are offered by Lenovo that can be used in Lenovo Converged HX Series solutions.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Power Distribution Units category:
http://lenovopress.com/servers/options/pdu

The following table lists the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units that are offered by Lenovo that can be used in Lenovo Converged HX Series solutions.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Uninterruptible Power Supply Units category:
http://lenovopress.com/servers/options/ups

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For more information, see these resources:

• Lenovo Converged HX Series appliances product page
  http://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/p/WMD00000036
• Lenovo Enterprise Solutions Configurator (LESC):
  http://lesc.lenovo.com
• System x and Cluster Solutions Configurator (x-config)
  http://lesc.lenovo.com/products/hardware/configurator/worldwide/bhui/asit/
• Nutanix documentation
  http://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs
• Lenovo Data Center Support
  http://datacentersupport.lenovo.com
• Lenovo Converged HX Series TCO Calculator
  http://lenovo-hx.esgcalculator.com
• Lenovo Hyperconverged Decision Tool
  http://www.lenovo.com/hxdecisiontool