Lenovo Refreshes X6 Servers

Lenovo  announced an update to its flagship portfolio of scalable, high-performance X6 servers along with an array of prequalified ISV enterprise solutions including offerings optimized for SAP® HANA.  Updated Lenovo X6 server systems include two Flex System™ X6 Compute Nodes and a pair of System x rack servers, both managed by Lenovo XClarity™, the company’s recently announced systems management offering.

Lenovo X6 Rack Servers – Modular ‘Book’ Architecture 

Lenovo’s X6 rack servers, the four-socket Lenovo System x3850 X6 and the eight-socket Lenovo System x3950 X6, feature modular design which allows for the easy swap-out of Compute Books to accommodate next-generation processors. IT shops can easily upgrade other key components, such as storage, full-height and half-height I/O cards, as well as fans and power supplies, without the cost and disruption of replacing complete systems.

Armed with the future Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4800 v3 product family, these servers deliver over 50 percent greater performance than previous-generation systems. With support for DDR4 memory, the latest memory technology, and up to 192 DIMM slots, these systems can power the most memory-intensive workloads, including demanding database and analytics.

Lenovo Flex System X6 – Scalable Compute Nodes 

Lenovo Flex System X6 Compute Nodes, including the Flex System x480 X6, which is scalable to a four-socket system, and the Flex System x880 X6, an eight-socket Intel Xeon processor-based blade server, offer performance in a flexible, converged blade architecture designed to grow with businesses environment. Featuring the future Intel Xeon processor  E7-8800/4800 v3 product families, each equipped with up to 144 cores, these enhanced compute nodes deliver faster application performance for workloads that require the highest levels of performance, memory capacity and high resiliency, such as mission-critical databases (both In-Memory and Traditional RDBMS) and analytics.

SAP HANA Workload Optimized Solutions for the SAP HANA Appliance

Lenovo also offers SAP solutions in partnership with EMC including:

• SAP® HANA Tailored Data Center Integration (TDI) with EMC®
• EMC® VSPEX™ for classis SAP landscapes

Additional Prequalified Enterprise ISV Solutions

Prequalified solutions that simplify and reduce deployment costs include:

• Lenovo Solution for Microsoft Scale Out File Server
• Lenovo Solution for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
• Lenovo Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013
• Lenovo Solution for VMware vCloud Suite 6.0
• Lenovo Solution for VMware Horizon 6.0
• Lenovo Solution for Citrix XenDesktop 7.6
• Lenovo Solution for Microsoft SQL Server 2014
• Lenovo Solution for Engineering Analysis
• Lenovo Solution for ANSYS
• Lenovo Solution for Financial Services
• Lenovo Solution for Life Sciences

Availability

The System x3850 X6 and the System x3950 X6 will be available beginning May 26, 2015, and the Flex System x480 X6 and Flex System x880 X6 will be available beginning May 27.