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Infrastructure Software
Providing the foundation upon which critical enterprise business applications are run. We partner with leading software providers to offer their infrastructure software with our extremely reliable, high-performance ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile servers.
Overview
Your foundation for agility and security
Infrastructure software helps businesses become more agile, secure, and service-oriented. Lenovo complements that software with reliable and high-performance hardware systems and services expertise to help you successfully integrate innovative IT infrastructure with your operations and improve your overall business.
Operating systems
Pair your Lenovo servers with a robust, scalable and secure operating system that works for your business.
Microsoft® Windows Server®
Enterprise-class operating system providing advanced multilayer security, hyperconvergence capabilities, and support for hybrid environments. Microsoft Windows Server licenses from Lenovo are specifically optimized to install on Lenovo servers. Lenovo provides support for these optimized versions of Windows Server, giving customers a single point of support for their entire data center.
Microsoft Windows Server
Description
An enterprise class operating system with advanced multilayer security. Windows Server 2019 is the latest version and provides hybrid capabilities to extend your datacenter to Azure, faster application creation and modernization using containers and microservices, and expanded hyperconvergence capabilities for greater efficiency and security. Includes HyperV server virtualization software.
Offerings
Windows Server 2019
- Standard - for customers with low density or minimally virtualized environments
- Datacenter - for highly virtualized and software defined datacenter environments
- Essentials - for small businesses with up to 25 users and 50 devices
Windows Server 2016
- Standard
- Datacenter
- Essentials
- Storage - for dedicated OEM storage solutions. Available in Standard and Workgroup editions.
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
Open source operating system that is the foundation from which you can scale existing apps — and roll out emerging technologies — across bare-metal, virtual, container, and all types of cloud environments. Combining Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Lenovo servers gives you exceptional reliability and military-grade security, freeing you to deliver meaningful business results through technology.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Offerings
- RHEL Server provides a stable, secure, and performance-driven foundation for applications
- RHEL for Virtual Datacenters allows for the deployment of unlimited guests in dense virtualized environments on supported hypervisors
- RHEL with Smart Virtualization helps organizations virtualize critical applications while delivering performance, scalability, and security.
- RHEL for HPC enables the creation, management and usage of a high performance computing (HPC) cluster
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
A scalable, secure, and modular operating system, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server helps simplify multi-platform (traditional, software-defined and cloud) environments, makes traditional IT infrastructure more efficient and provides an engaging platform for developers. As a result, you can easily deploy and transition business-critical workloads across on-premise and public cloud environments.
SUSE Enterprise Linux
Description
A highly scalable and secure server OS built to power both physical and virtual mission-critical workloads. With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) running on Lenovo servers as a foundation, enterprises can deliver business services, enable secure networks, and manage heterogeneous IT resources.
Offerings
- SLES x86 provides a stable, secure, and performance-driven foundation for applications on x86 servers
- SLES for SAP - is optimized for SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver and SAP S/4HANA environments
- SLES CaaS Platform - enables IT and DevOps professionals to more easily deploy, manage, and scale container-based applications and services.
- SLES for HPC - provides a parallel computing platform for high performance data analytics workloads such as artificial intelligence and machine learning
Virtualization
Improve system utilization, reduce capital and operating costs, and minimize or eliminate downtime when running virtualization software on Lenovo servers.
VMware vSphere
The VMware® ESXi™ hypervisor is a bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly on top of your Lenovo server and partitions it into multiple virtual machines. Each virtual machine shares the same physical resources as the other virtual machines and they can all run at the same time. All management functionality of vSphere is done through remote management tools, and its install footprint is less than 150 MB.
VMware vSphere
Description
Server virtualization software that allows you to consolidate your data center hardware and enable business continuity through server virtualization, reduce CapEx by increasing the use of existing hardware and simplify management of infrastructure at scale, ensure business continuity by reducing or eliminating downtime, and extend your on-premises environment to a vSphere–based public cloud for a seamless hybrid cloud experience.
Offerings
- Standard - Server consolidation and business recovery
- Enterprise Plus - Resource management, enhanced application availability and performance
- Essentials Kit - Server virtualization and consolidation
- Essentials Plus Kit - Server virtualization and consolidation plus business continuity
- Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) Standard - Remote server virtualization with business continuity and backup features
- ROBO Advanced - Remote server virtualization with business continuity and backup and standardization of host configurations
- Acceleration Kit - Server consolidation and no planned downtime
- Desktop - client virtualization
Red Hat Virtualization
An open, software-defined platform that virtualizes Linux and Microsoft Windows workloads. Built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), Red Hat Virtualization features management tools that virtualize resources, processes, and applications.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Description
An open, software-defined platform that virtualizes Linux and Microsoft Windows workloads. It provides high application performance with low total cost of ownership. It provides everything you need to create, start, stop, pause, migrate, and template single or mass deployments of VMs through a single management component.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Virtualization
SUSE supports open source KVM and Xen hypervisors in SLES. SLES also supports vSphere and Hyper-V server virtualization offerings. With these Hypervisors, SUSE Linux Enterprise can be used to provision, de-provision, install, monitor and manage multiple virtual machines on a single physical system.
SUSE Enterprise Virtualization
Description
SUSE supports open source KVM and Xen hypervisors in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). SLES also supports vSphere and HyperV server virtualization offerings. With these Hypervisors, SLES can be used to provision, de-provision, install, monitor and manage multiple virtual machines on a single physical system.
Client virtualization
Provide mobile workers with access to the applications they need to be productive while simplifying management and enhancing security with industry-leading client virtualization software on Lenovo systems.
Citrix® Virtual Apps and Desktops™
Delivers fully-functioning virtual Windows or Linux desktops and the applications employees need to remain productive. The virtual desktops are delivered securely and have the same look and feel as locally installed desktops — even with demanding applications, such as 3D CAD engineering or design apps.
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
Description
Delivers fully-functioning virtual Windows or Linux (Advanced and Platinum editions only) desktops and the applications employees need to remain productive anywhere, anytime and on any device. Virtual Apps provides shared desktops while Virtual Apps and Desktops provides custom desktops.
Offerings
- Virtual Apps Standard - Entry level virtual applications and shared desktops
- Virtual Apps Advanced - Scalable enterprise-level virtual applications and shared desktops
- Virtual Apps Premium - Scalable enterprise-level virtual applications and shared desktops with advanced management, monitoring and security
- Virtual Desktops Standard - Entry-level VDI only
- Virtual Apps & Desktops Advanced - Scalable enterprise-level VDI with virtual application delivery
- Virtual Apps & Desktops Premium - Scalable enterprise-level VDI with virtual application delivery and advanced management, monitoring and security
Solution Brief:
Lenovo Validated Designs for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
Design Briefs:
Lenovo Validated Design for Citrix XenDesktop with VMware vSAN
Lenovo Validated Design for Citrix XenDesktop – ThinkAgile HX
Lenovo Validated Design for Citrix XenDesktop with Nutanix InstantOn
Reference Architectures:
Lenovo Validated Design for Citrix XenDesktop with VMware vSAN
Lenovo Validated Design for Citrix XenDesktop – ThinkAgile HX
VMware® Horizon®
Provides a streamlined approach to deliver, protect, and manage Windows and Linux desktops for knowledge workers, mobile workers and even 3D developers. Horizon is tightly integrated with VMware vSphere, vSAN and NSX, allowing IT to dynamically allocate resources with virtual storage, virtual compute and virtual networking to simplify management and drive down costs.
VMware Horizon
Offerings
- Standard – Simple, powerful VDI with a great user experience
- Advanced – Cost-effective delivery of desktops and applications through a unified workspace
- Enterprise – Desktops and applications delivered through a unified workspace with just-in-time management
- Apps Standard – Simple, powerful app virtualization with a great user experience
- Apps Advanced – Powerful app virtualization with just-in-time management
NVIDIA®
NVIDIA software enables the delivery of graphics-rich virtual desktops and workstations accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs. It divides NVIDIA GPU resources so the GPU can be shared across multiple virtual machines. NVIDIA GRID® delivers Windows desktops and applications and NVIDIA Quadro® delivers professional graphics applications with full features and performance from any device, anywhere.
NVIDIA
Offerings
- GRID vApps - For Citrix Virtual Apps, RDSH or other PC-level app streaming or session-based solutions.
- GRID vPC - For virtual desktop solutions leveraging Windows applications, browsers, and high definition video.
- Quadro vDWS - For virtual workstations leveraging professional graphics applications
Resources
Solution Briefs:
Lenovo Validated Designs for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
Lenovo Validated Designs for VMware Horizon
Reference Guide:
Cloud
Transform your IT infrastructure with cloud infrastructure software, systems and services from Lenovo. Spin up and scale applications on demand while providing access from virtually any internet-connected device.
VMware Cloud Foundation
A hybrid cloud platform that provides a complete set of software-defined services for compute, storage, networking, security, and cloud management to run enterprise applications — traditional or containerized — in private or public environments.
VMware Cloud Foundation
Description
Automates the deployment and lifecycle management of a complete software-defined data center (compute, storage, and networking) on a standardized hyper-converged architecture. The hybrid cloud platform enables faster application provisioning through self-service automation and quick, repeatable, secure deployments.
Offerings
- Basic - For customers who want to automate infrastructure deployment and provisioning, as well as lifecycle management for VMware’s core hyperconverged stack.
- Standard - For customers desiring cloud management capabilities in their on-premises data center.
- Advanced - For customers who are evolving their VMware-based software-defined data centers to a cloud operating model and leveraging advanced cloud management tools to enable cloud costing and workload automation.
- Enterprise - For customers who are adopting a hybrid-cloud operating model where private cloud infrastructure may stretch between data centers and span multiple cloud providers.
Red Hat® OpenStack®
A cloud computing platform that virtualizes resources from industry-standard hardware, organizes those resources into clouds, and manages them so users can access what they need — when they need it. Red Hat OpenStack offers a scalable, highly available solution for the management of cloud-enabled workloads.
Red Hat OpenStack
Resources
Solution Brief:
Lenovo Cloud Reference Architecture for Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Reference Architecture:
Other Resources:
Data protection
The increased threat of data breaches has placed security as a top concern for IT managers. Today's enterprise requires enhanced security and backup solutions to protect and preserve sensitive data.
Veeam® Availability Suite™
Combined with best-in-class data center infrastructure and software-defined solutions from Lenovo, Veeam Availability Suite provides complete data protection, with high availability and reduced downtime. It delivers the simplicity, performance and agility needed to meet the explosive demand for data in today’s digital world.
Veeam Availability Suite
IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager
Addresses the common issues of encryption key proliferation and use of different encryption methods across the enterprise by centralizing, simplifying and automating the data encryption key management process to help minimize risk and reduce operational costs.
IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager
Resources
White paper
Want to get the most from a hyperconverged infrastructure?
Hyperconverged infrastructure is a proven approach to provide a more reliable, secure and available set of IT services. But be sure to make data protection a priority as you deploy a hyper-converged solution.
White paper
Is your data center protection strategy putting your business at risk?
This Frost & Sullivan Executive Brief highlights five common misperceptions related to data protection, and offers better solutions for protecting your business.
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Cloud
We have the capabilities to deliver any cloud solution you need. We partner with industry leaders for a wide range of choices to suit your cloud strategy. Whether it's private cloud, multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, customized to turnkey, Lenovo delivers transformative products and professional services to cover it all.
Client virtualization
We support a range of virtual desktop and virtual application scenarios with solutions from the desktop to the data center. Whether you are new or experienced in VDI, looking to refresh or expand, need to optimize or deploy, we can help you with your VDI journey.
Services
Your needs are specific, and our expert consultants and technicians can meet them with their extensive industry experience and deep technical knowledge
Solution Services
Design the best strategy for your enterprise. We'll work with you to find the right solution for your unique business needs.
Implementation Services
Accelerate your time to productivity. We'll help you streamline implementation of new technologies so you can focus on your business.
Support Services
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TruScale Infrastructure Services
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