Database Solutions on Lenovo Servers

Database Solutions
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Overview
Tools to derive value from data
The amount of available data and ability to collect that data continues to rise. As the volume and velocity of data increases, business demands the tools to derive value from its data. Lenovo database solutions are optimized for Microsoft, SAP, Oracle and IBM applications.
Product solutions

Microsoft SQL Server
Our Database Solutions for Microsoft® SQL Server® bring together the right mix of technology and software to align with a range of data warehouse and transactional database use cases. The configurations integrate a variety of Lenovo Systems and appliances, robust storage options and the capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise and Standard Editions.
- Improve time to value with pretested hardware configurations
- Optimize SQL server deployment with significant reduction in hardware testing and tuning
- Reduce cost of ownership through low pricing, better performance, rapid deployment, and advanced hardware
- Consolidate storage and match IT investment-to-information-value with high-performance storage options

SAP HANA
Simple & Scalable. You need new ways to accelerate decision making and gain insights into key trends locked in your data. With our solutions for SAP® S/4HANA® and SAP BW4/HANA®, your organization will be able to optimize your SAP deployments.
- Scalable from 2 to 8 sockets and enables large memory configurations up to 24TB with the SAP HANA with ThinkSystem SR950 solution
- Scales-out to 94 nodes to support your largest SAP BW application requirements
- Provides the choice of a preconfigured solution or a custom-tailored data center Integration (TDI) solution
- Runs with VMware® or Nutanix® virtualization technology for optimizing deployment and management of the server application environment

Oracle Database
Lenovo solutions for Oracle Database feature a unified architecture to serve both transaction and data warehouse workloads. The solutions scale uniformly based on workload requirements, enabling businesses to deploy a cost-effective yet highly reliable and fast Oracle Database solution.
- Cloud-like offering for Oracle Database 19c with Lenovo ThinkAgile HX hyperconverged systems
- Certified Oracle database solutions are faster and easier to deploy using pre-tested hardware configurations
- Oracle Validated Configurations for several Lenovo ThinkSystem server and storage combinations with Oracle Database 18c
- High availability options using Oracle Database 19c or 18c Real Application Cluster (RAC) with no single point of failure

IBM Db2
IBM Db2® Warehouse is database and analytics software for private and virtual clouds that support Docker container technology. When running on IBM Cloud Private, Db2 Warehouse provides an on-premises private cloud deployment with the same look and feel of IBM Cloud.
- Designed and optimized to deliver predictable high performance for an IBM Db2 Warehouse infrastructure
- Pre-tested configuration accelerates the deployment of Db2 Warehouse databases on Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650
- Supported as a private cloud offering running on IBM Cloud Private

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Developed from collaboration with industry providers in solutions, data centers, and services, Intel® Select Solutions take the guesswork out of compatibility with software and hardware stacks tailored to specific workloads.
Intel Select Solution
SQL Server 2019 on SR650 V2
Intel Select Solution
SQL Server 2019 on Azure Stack HCI
Intel Select Solution
SAP HANA with ThinkSystem SR950
Powered by mission critical ThinkSystem SR950 servers, the Lenovo Solution for SAP HANA provides outstanding capability for SAP® HANA® to drive enterprise-critical insights in real time.
SAP HANA with ThinkSystem SR950

Configuration Details
Complementary products

ThinkSystem SR950

ThinkSystem SR650 V2

ThinkAgile VX

ThinkAgile HX
Recommended configurations
Lenovo designs, tests and jointly certifies solutions with software partners. These solutions are optimized to be cost-effective and provide high performance, scalability and faster time to value.
Microsoft configurations
Microsoft SQL Server Solution
Configuration details
Products
Servers:
ThinkSystem SR630
ThinkSystem SR650
Software:
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Standard Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Enterprise Edition
Resources
Microsoft SQL Server DWFT – 10 TB
Products
Servers:
Software:
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Standard Edition
Microsoft SQL Server DWFT on SR655 - 10 TB
Products
Servers:
Software:
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Standard Edition
Microsoft SQL Server DWFT – 50 TB

Products
Servers:
Software:
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft SQL Server DWFT - 70 TB HA
Products
Servers:
Software:
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft SQL Server OLAP on SR645/SR665 - 125 TB
Products
Servers:
ThinkSystem SR645
ThinkSystem SR665
Software:
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition
MS SQL Server OLAP on SR860 V2 - 150 TB
Configuration details
A high-performance Microsoft SQL Server data warehouse solution for needs up to 150 TB in size using the 4U Lenovo ThinkSystem SR860 V2 server or 2U Lenovo ThinkSystem SR850 V2 server including third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with support for Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory 200 Series.
Products
Servers:
ThinkAgile SR860 V2
ThinkAgile SR850 V2
Software:
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Standard Edition
Resources
Microsoft SQL Server DWFT - 200 TB

Products
Servers:
Software:
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft SQL Server for SMB on SR250 V2
Microsoft SQL Server on SR650 V2

Configuration details
Microsoft SQL Server OLTP on SE350
Products
Servers:
Software:
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Standard Edition
Microsoft SQL Server on SE450
Configuration details
Products
Servers:
Software:
Microsoft Azure Stack HCI
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Standard Edition
Microsoft SQL Server OLTP on SR645/SR665
Configuration details
Products
Servers:
ThinkSystem SR645
ThinkSystem SR665
Software:
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition
Microsoft SQL Server OLTP on SR650 with Persistent Memory
Products
Servers:
Software:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Standard Edition Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Enterprise Edition
Resources
Microsoft SQL Server OLTP on SR650 with Containers
Products
Servers:
Software:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Standard Edition
Resources
Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise OLTP with RHEL on SR650
Products
Servers:
Software:
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux v8.0
Database: Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Standard Edition
Resources
Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise OLTP with SUSE Linux on SR650
Products
Servers:
Software:
Operating System: SUSE Linux SLES12 SP3
Database: Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Enterprise Edition or Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Standard Edition
Microsoft SQL Server OLTP High Performance

Configuration details
This Intel® Select Solution features the highly reliable Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 or ThinkSystem SR650 servers deployed with Microsoft SQL Server 2017 software. Provisioned with Intel® SSD DC P4610 NVMe SSDs and Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory module, this high performance solution can optionally feature multiple servers for both scalability and high availability requirements through Microsoft SQL Server Always On.
Products
Servers:
ThinkSystem SR630
ThinkSystem SR650
Software:
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Standard Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Enterprise Edition
Resources
Microsoft SQL Server OLTP on ThinkAgile HX
Microsoft SQL Server OLTP on ThinkAgile MX

Configuration details
Products
Servers:
Software:
Microsoft Azure Stack HCI Operating System
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Enterprise Edition
SAP configurations
SAP HANA with ThinkSystem Servers

Configuration details
Lenovo Solutions for SAP HANA with ThinkSystem Servers provide outstanding capability for SAP® HANA® to drive enterprise-critical insights in real time. When paired with Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory, the solution can also increase SAP HANA capacity and reduce business downtimes.
Products
Servers:
ThinkSystem SR950
ThinkSystem SR860 V2
ThinkSystem SR650 V2
Other Certified Servers
Software:
SAP HANA
SUSE Linux for SAP
RHEL for SAP HANA
Resources
ThinkAgile HX Solution for SAP HANA
Resources
Solution Briefs:
Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Solution for SAP Applications
Reference Architectures:
Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Solution for SAP Applications
Configurations:
ThinkAgile VX Solution for SAP HANA
Resources
Solution Briefs:
Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Solution for SAP Applications
Reference Architectures:
Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Solution for SAP Applications
Configurations:
SAP HANA with ThinkSystem DM/DE Storage
Configuration details
Products
Servers:
ThinkSystem SR950
ThinkSystem SR860 V2
ThinkSystem SR650 V2
ThinkSystem SR630 V2
ThinkSystem SN550 V2
Software:
SAP HANA
SUSE Linux for SAP
RHEL for SAP HANA
Storage:
Resources
Solution Briefs:
Lenovo Solution for SAP HANA with ThinkSystem DM/DE Series Storage
Services:
Deployment
Maintenance
Managed
SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator
SAP HANA Offerings for SAP Business One
Configuration details
Resources
Oracle configurations
Oracle Database 18c
Configuration details
- Addresses both transaction and data warehouse database workloads with its unified architecture approach. Includes the ThinkSystem SR650 2-socket and ThinkSystem SR950 8-socket servers with ThinkSystem DM5000 or DM7000 all flash storage arrays. All configurations are pre-tested and certified Oracle Validated Configurations.
- ThinkSystem SR650 also validated with ThinkSystem DE6000F all flash storage arrays for OLTP workloads. Solution identical to existing Oracle Validated Configuration except for replacement of the DM5000F with the DE6000F.
Products
Servers:
ThinkSystem SR650
ThinkSystem SR950
ThinkSystem DM5000F
ThinkSystem DM7000F
Software:
Oracle Database 18c with Real Application Cluster (RAC)
Resources
Oracle Database 19c OLTP on ThinkAgile HX
Products
Servers:
Software:
Oracle Database 19c with Real Application Cluster (RAC)
VMware ESXi
Resources
Solution Briefs:
Lenovo Database Validated Designs for Oracle Database
Lenovo Validated Designs for ThinkAgile HX
Solution Guides & Reference Architectures:
Lenovo Database Configuration for Oracle Database 19c running OLTP workloads on ThinkAgile HX7520
Oracle Database 19c OLAP on SR650
Products
Resources
Solution Guides & Reference Architectures:
Lenovo Database Configuration for Oracle Database 19c OLAP on SR650
IBM configurations
IBM Db2 on IBM Cloud Private
Services

TruScale Infrastructure Services

Professional Services

Support Services
