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23 Apr 2025
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Private Cloud Infrastructure with Hybrid Capabilities

Differentiating yourself from the competition is vital in today’s fast-moving business environment. Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series enables you to focus on the business outcome rather than on building your infrastructure by providing simple, agile, and cost-effective solutions to support your business needs.

ThinkAgile VX Series is a co-engineered solution with VMware that helps you implement a private/hybrid cloud with VMware Cloud Foundation or modernize your data center with VMware vSphere Foundation. It arrives from the factory as a complete engineered system, preconfigured, tested, validated, software preloaded and optimized to provide the simplest way to bring a new environment, based on VMware software stack. Available in several models, VX Series allows you to start with as few as three nodes (four nodes for a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment) and scale capacity and performance easily, without disrupting your day-to-day operation.

ThinkAgile VX Series is also available as a pay-as-you go OpEX model via TruScale Infrastructure services and offers a cloud-like experience with metering capabilities that eliminate overprovisioning.

Infrastructure Performance and Reliability

ThinkAgile VX Series supports the latest Intel and AMD Processors, that boast enhancements in performance, security, and energy efficiency. These new generations support new DDR memory, PCIe Gen5 PCIe I/O and our Intel platforms also enable hardware accelerator (Data Processing Unit – DPU) support. With flexible NVMe-based storage options, accelerate performance for your vital cloud-native applications while scaling compute or storage capacity easily. All models support inline de-duplication, compression, and encryption to give you an optimized, secure, high-performance platform with maximum usable capacity.

ThinkAgile VX Series offers the broadest selection of components that are VVF and VCF compliant giving customers the flexibility to configure the systems they need to meet any use-case. Lenovo servers continually rank as the industry’s most reliable x86 platforms, according to the latest ITIC Global Server Hardware and OS Reliability Survey. This same independent survey also ranked Lenovo servers as one the most secure systems in the market today.

Simplified Operations and Lifecycle Management

Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series streamlines the deployment, configuration, and management of your HCI environments with full integration directly into vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) for single pane of glass management via Lenovo XClarity integrator (LXCi) Hardware Support Manager (HSM). vLCM simplifies and speeds up software and hardware firmware updating with task automation via ThinkAgile VX Best Recipes. These are released frequently throughout the year to ensure you are compliant and secure. This enables you to free up valuable personnel for more productive tasks.

Supports a Variety of Workloads including AI Projects

Designed for any size business from SMBs through large enterprises, ThinkAgile VX Series can be used as infrastructure in the core data center or for remote office/branch office (ROBO) and retail stores. It supports a wide variety of applications such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) applications and modern container-based applications. Databases such as Oracle, SQL, Cassandra and Mongo DB, as well as large data sets for AI workloads, are also supported.

VX Series also supports business critical enterprise applications like SAP HANA, Online Transaction Processing OLTP for retail and airline industry. Use cases range from data center modernization, deploying a private or hybrid cloud, leveraging cloud native applications on premises to backup and disaster recovery and AI inferencing, while leveraging external storage solutions like Lenovo ThinkSystem DG and DM storage.

Single Point of Support

Lenovo ThinkAgile gives you a direct phone line to a team of experts who specialize in ThinkAgile solutions. The experts will rapidly diagnose any hardware or software issues and remain with you as the single-point-of-contact throughout the entire support process.

Lenovo also provides comprehensive services such as deployment services, assessment workshops, hybrid cloud assessment, enterprise server software support, managed services, and health checks.

Licensing

ThinkAgile VX Series is available with the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) primary software stack options. Licenses can be purchased through flexible term subscription-based models with 3-year or 5-year durations. In addition to the primary stack options, advanced add-on options are available for features like VMware Private AI Foundation, vSAN additional capacity, Live Recovery, Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention, and Avi Load Balancer.

For an optimal and complete support experience, it is advised that you purchase your VMware by Broadcom software licenses from Lenovo with your ThinkAgile VX Series product.

Warranty

Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series can be configured with a three- or five-year hardware warranty with 24x7 Single Point of Support (Lenovo server hardware and VMware by Broadcom software 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. Optional service upgrades such as managed services, Technical Account Management (TAM), Enterprise Server Software Support, YourData YourDrive, and Health Check are also available.

Bottom Line

ThinkAgile VX Series is a jointly co-engineered solution with VMware that enables you to simplify your private/hybrid cloud infrastructure, accelerate time-to-value and drive down costs through the combination of preloaded easy-to-use software on powerful, extremely reliable hardware. All ThinkAgile VX Series models are backed by world-class Lenovo services and support.

ThinkAgile VX Series Specifications - Intel

The ThinkAgile VX Intel-based Series are built with Intel® Xeon® 6 processors and are available in 1U and 2U form factor servers.

Specifications

Model VX630 V4 VX650 V4
Target Workloads SMB, Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO), VDI General purpose and Compute Heavy
Form Factor 1U 2U
Processor Up to 2x Intel® Xeon® 6 processors, up to 86 cores and 350W TDP
Memory Up to 32x TruDDR5 RDIMMs
GPU Up to 3x single-width 75W GPUs Up to 10x single-width GPUs or 2x double-width GPUs
DPU1 Not supported Up to 2x NVIDIA BlueField-3
100GbE Ethernet DPU1
Drive Configurations 1-12 2.5” NVMe drives or 1-16 E3.S NVMe drives 1-24 2.5” NVMe drives or 1-16 E3.S NVMe
Drive Bays
  • Front: Up to 10x 2.5" NVMe, or 16x E3.S NVMe
  • Rear: Up to 2x 2.5" NVMe
  • Bootable device: Up to 2x M.2 SATA/NVMe drives with RAID support, optional hot swap
  • Front: Up to 24x 2.5" NVMe, or 32x E3.S NVMe
  • Mid: Up to 8x2.5” NVMe
  • Rear: Up to 8x 2.5"
  • Bootable device: Up to 2x M.2 SATA/NVMe drives with RAID support, optional hot swap
OCP Networking 2x OCP 3.0 slots
PCIe Networking Up to 3x PCIe 5.0 slots Up to 10x PCIe Gen5 slots
Product Guide VX630 V4 VX650 V4

Specifications

Model VX850 V3 VX850 V3 SAP HANA
Target Workloads Database & Analytics, ERP & CRM Applications Compute Heavy with SAP HANA
Form Factor 2U 2U
Processor 2x or 4x 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
Memory 64x DDR5 4800MHz
(16TB maximum)
GPU 2x DW GPUs up to 300W each
4x SW GPUs up to 75W each
Not supported
DPU1 Not supported
Drive Configurations All Flash
Drive Bays 24x 2.5” (HS)
NVMe
OCP Networking 2x OCP 3.0 adapter
1GbE, 10GBASE-T, 10GbE, 25GbE, 100GbE
PCIe Networking 12x adapters
1GbE, 10GBASE-T, 10GbE, 25GbE, 100GbE, 200GbE
Number of Disk Groups Not applicable
(vSAN ESA only)
Product Guide VX850 V3 VX850 V3 SAP HANA

1DPU support available with unique models on Intel V3 and doesn’t cover GPU support along with it (VX650 V3 CN DPU, VX650 V3 SAP HANA DPU). DPU is supported on the VX650 V4 model.
*Maximum up to 40x 2.5” (HS) SAS/SATA supported with expander via CORE request

ThinkAgile VX Series Specifications - AMD

The ThinkAgile VX Series AMD-based are built with AMD EPYC™ 9005 or AMD EPYC™ 9004 Processors and are available in 1U and 2U form factor servers.

Specifications

Model VX635 V3 VX645 V3 VX655 V3 VX665 V3
Target Workloads SMB, Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO), VDI, Data Analytics & Backup High performance computing (HPC), Big Data & Analytics and I/O intensive operations
Form Factor 1U 2U
Processor 1x
AMD EPYC™ 9005 or
AMD EPYC™ 9004 Processors
1x or 2x
AMD EPYC™ 9005 or
AMD EPYC™ 9004 Processors
1x
AMD EPYC™ 9005 or
AMD EPYC™ 9004 Processors
1x or 2x
AMD EPYC™ 9005 or
AMD EPYC™ 9004 Processors
Memory

12x DDR5 6400MHz
(3TB maximum)

24x DDR5 6400MHz
(6TB maximum)

12x DDR5 6400MHz
(3TB maximum)

24x DDR5 6400MHz
(6TB maximum)

GPU 3x SW GPUs up to 75W each 3x DW GPU up to 300W each
8x SW GPU up to 75W each
6x SW GPU up to 150W each
DPU Not supported
Drive Configurations All Flash or Hybrid
Drive Bays 12x 2.5” (HS)
NVMe/SAS/SATA
12x 2.5” (HS)
NVMe/SAS/SATA
32*x 2.5” (HS)
NVMe/SAS/SATA
20x 3.5” (HS)
SAS/SATA
OCP Networking 1x OCP 3.0 adapter
1GbE, 10GBASE-T, 10GbE, 25GbE,100GbE
PCIe Networking 3x adapters
1GbE, 10GBASE-T, 10GbE, 25GbE, 100GbE
8x adapters
1GbE, 10GBASE-T, 10GbE, 25GbE, 100GbE
Number of Disk Groups 1 – 4 1 – 5
Product Guide VX635 V3 VX645 V3 VX655 V3 VX665 V3

*Maximum up to 40x 2.5” (HS) SAS/SATA supported with expander via CORE request

About Lenovo

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For More Information

To learn more about Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, contact your Lenovo representative or Business Partner or visit lenovo.com/thinkagile

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Document number DS0104, published April 23, 2025. For the latest version, go to lenovopress.lenovo.com/ds0104.