Lenovo Cloud Design for VMware SDDC
The Lenovo Cloud Validated Design for VMware Software Defined Data Center brings state-of-the-art cloud
capability to the small, medium and enterprise data centers, supporting public, private and hybrid cloud
architectures. When combined with Lenovo’s comprehensive suite of services, the primary benefit of
deploying this solution in a VMware Cloud environment is the ability to turn up new services faster and with less
effort. This validated design draws together virtualized server, storage and networking elements enabling
businesses running VMware vCloud Suite, vSAN virtual storage and NSX virtual networking to respond quicker to
customer demands and spend more time on innovation for the next generation of applications.
The Lenovo ThinkSystem product portfolio serves as the high performance foundation for this solution with the
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630, SR650 and SD530 rack servers. With these product choices, this architecture:
- Is built around the latest products in the Lenovo Systems portfolio of servers, storage and networking
- Provides businesses with an affordable and interoperable cloud architecture to manage all of their
virtualized workloads
- Combines the VMware software portfolio with deployment best practices to reduce system downtime
- Provides sizing recommendations, deployment best practices, and validated configurations to simplify and
reduce risk of a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment on Lenovo hardware
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Lenovo Design for VMware vCloud Suite
The Lenovo Validated Design for VMware vRealize vCloud Suite solution enables customers to transform their
internal IT into an agile and resilient cloud, delivering the features of public cloud within the walls of the
enterprise. This architecture features virtualized server and networking along with attached storage elements
enabling businesses running VMware vRealize Suite and NSX virtual networking to eliminate legacy and proprietary
network hardware-based infrastructure management appliances. With the VMware vRealize Suite, Lenovo can deliver a
leadership hybrid cloud solution, with flexibility and features like automated provisioning. The Lenovo
ThinkSystem DS6200 storage array supports cloud environments at leadership levels of cost and performance.
This solution is supported with the all new Lenovo ThinkSystem product portfolio using the Lenovo ThinkSystem
SR630 and SR650 high performance rack servers. Also included in this validated design is the Lenovo ThinkSystem
SN550 blade server integrated into the Flex System platform. With these product choices this architecture:
- Simplifies deployment of VMware cross-cloud architecture based on software-defined, purpose-built compute
nodes with the flexibility and performance of all-flash arrays
- Increases private cloud efficiency with XClarity software running in vRealize to provide ThinkSystem
infrastructure on demand
- Delivers high performance, high capacity, and data resiliency for mission-critical, I/O sensitive virtualized
workloads
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Lenovo Design for VMware vCloud Suite with ThinkAgile HX
The Lenovo Validated Design for VMware vCloud Suite solution yields a cloud infrastructure on Lenovo
hyperconverged appliances, which greatly simplifies the deployment and maintenance of a cloud infrastructure.
This Lenovo solution defines an enterprise cloud infrastructure built on the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX hyperconverged
architecture for businesses interested in deploying a hybrid cloud environment. To facilitate the deployment, the
reference architecture includes sizing recommendations, deployment best practices, and validated configurations.
This solution enables businesses to enhance their existing hyperconverged infrastructure with the orchestration
and virtualization capabilities of a cloud environment and can be deployed on either the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX
series.
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