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Abstract
This technical brief show how ThinkAgile HX V3 Integrated Systems and Certified Nodes with Nutanix software and 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors provide superior performance, scalability and higher consolidation for different workloads. Use cases are provided for container management (Red Hat OpenShift) and AI/ML workloads (NVIDIA AI Enterprise).
Business Trends
Accelerating Hybrid Cloud Adoption: The growth of technology, cloud and data-driven ecosystems bring the need for on-premise infrastructure to meet hybrid cloud requirements. Servers need to have virtualization and hybrid cloud capabilities – and be able to scale and operationalize quickly. Also, due to cost and operational factors a variety of workloads are being migrated back to on-premises infrastructure. This trend means businesses need faster servers and storage to achieve the performance and low latency required.
Infrastructure and Workloads Modernization: Many business-critical applications - database, VDI, data science and AI/ML workloads - need increased processing and data storage capabilities. Ever growing data and AI/ML workloads require processors with built-in acceleration and servers with high-speed memory, network adapters, drives and interconnects that are pre-tested and pre-validated engineered solutions to reduce deployment complexities.
Lenovo Solution
Lenovo ThinkAgile HX645 V3 and HX665 V3 Integrated Systems and Certified Nodes are hyperconverged systems featured with 4th generation AMD EPYC™ processors and Nutanix software to address these customer trends and lower operations management. The new 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors offer up to 96 cores, up to 3.6 GHz clock speed, up to 6TB memory, and support for PCIe 5.0 and NVMe drives.
ThinkAgile HX V3 systems support all flash, hybrid and storage dense configurations to meet different workload performance and capacity requirements.
Highlights
- Realize up to 100% better performance on workloads with the 50% greater number of cores in Lenovo servers equipped with 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors than on similar servers equipped with AMD’s previous generation processors.
- Improve performance of critical applications, Big Data and AI/ML solutions with higher cores, embedded accelerators, GPU, DPU, DDR5 and PCIe Gen 5 components
- Enjoy seamless support for running Nutanix solutions for hybrid cloud, containers, and Generative AI workloads.
ThinkAgile HX V3 Systems
Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series V3 servers powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors provide increased performance, bandwidth and speed than ThinkAgile HX V2 servers with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors.
Applications where the servers would excel include:
- ROBO (Remote Office / Branch Office
- Virtual Desktops
- Databases and Data Warehouses
- SAP Business Applications
- ERP and CRM applications
- Data Science and AI/ML
- Server Consolidation
ThinkAgile HX645 V3
ThinkAgile HX665 V3
Lenovo ThinkAgile HX V3 servers are available as Integrated Systems and Certified Nodes. Both are pre-validated and factory integrated systems with Lenovo hardware, Nutanix software, and deployment services. Integrated systems provide a quick and convenient path to implement a hyperconverged solution powered by Nutanix and a single point of contact provided by Lenovo for purchasing, deploying, and supporting the solution. HX Certified Nodes come with optional Nutanix software and services. ThinkAgile HX V3 systems also support storage heavy configurations to address bid data and object storage solutions enabled by Nutanix Unified Storage.
ThinkAgile HX V3 with 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors
4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors
4th Gen AMD EPYC processors:
- Support up to 96 cores per processor, core speeds of up to 4.1 GHz, and TDP ratings of up to 360W.
- 1 Socket systems support up to 12 TruDDR5 memory DIMMs and 2 Socket systems support up to 24 TruDDR5 memory DIMMs with two processors. Each processor has 12 memory channels and 1 DIMM per channel. With 1 DIMM installed per channel (12 DIMMs total per processor), memory operates at 4800 MHz.
- Supports 12x NVMe drives without oversubscription of PCIe lanes
Performance Gain from 3rd Gen AMD EPYC Processors
4th Gen AMD EPYC processors support more cores, DDR5 and enhanced features for virtualization and acceleration and provide better performance than 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors. Here is the comparison between AMD EPYC 7763 64C vs. AMD EPYC 9654 96C.
- Up to 15% increase in performance per watt efficiency
- Up to 85% increase in middle tier application transaction throughput performance
- Up to 60% increase in high performance compute workload (GFLOPS)
- Up to 90% increase in integer and floating point operations
- Up to 100% increase in memory bandwidth performance
Nutanix Cloud Platform with ThinkAgile HX V3
Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) is a unified solution built on top of hyperconverged infrastructure to address hybrid cloud requirements and simplify operations for different workload scenarios. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX systems support NCP to provide reliable infrastructure as a foundation for a variety of use cases in hybrid cloud deployments. The platform comprises of the following key components which can be chosen based on the solution requirements:
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is a software defined infrastructure solution with compute, storage and networking for virtual machines and containers that can be deployed in private data centers on the hardware of your choice or in public clouds. The core platform is designed with AOS Storage, AHV, Karbon (Kubernetes Engine), Leap (Disaster Recovery) and Flow Network Security and Virtual Networking.
Nutanix Cloud Manager provides infrastructure management and operational support to build, manage and monitor deployments of virtual machines, containers and applications. It also delivers insights and automated remediation. The management stack includes Prism (Operations and Management), Calm (Self Service), Beam (Cost Governance) and Security Central.
Nutanix Unified Storage is software defined storage for multiple protocol volumes, files, and objects with Mine integrated backup.
Nutanix Virtual Desktop infrastructure(VDI) enables delivering virtual apps and desktops to users from public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructure and supports Citrix, VMware Horizon, and Nutanix Frame platforms.
Nutanix Database Service (NDB) is a database as a service solution that provides management and deployment across hybrid multi-cloud environments for database engines like PostgreSQL®, MySQL®, Microsoft® SQL Server, and Oracle® Database.
Prism Central is the global control plane for Nutanix. Many of the Nutanix Cloud Platform components can be deployed as virtual machines from Prism Central. Nutanix NCP software editions are available on all Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile HX models based on Nutanix Portfolio 2.0 (PnP) Licensing Model.
Figure 1. Nutanix Cloud Platform
Nutanix Licensing
Use Case: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on ThinkAgile HX V3 Systems
The evolution of microservices, containers, DevOps/DevSecOps and hybrid cloud deployment requires a first in class container orchestration platform and robust software defined infrastructure solution without compromising performance and security. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX with 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors and Nutanix AHV provide a solid base to enable Red Hat OpenShift container application platform to develop and deploy modern applications by substantially hosting more containers per node. Red Hat OpenShift on Nutanix Cloud Platform is an enterprise grade unified solution stack to meet hybrid cloud deployments and accelerate cloud native applications at scale.
Nutanix AHV is a Red Hat certified hypervisor and Red Hat Enterprise Linux is certified on Nutanix AHV. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX systems are designed to outperform for a wide range of workloads, and with Lenovo Open Cloud Automation (LOCA) simplify deployment, provisioning and management of Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure. Refer to the Lenovo reference architecture RedHat OpenShift on Lenovo Servers for a detailed design.
Figure 2. Red Hat OpenShift on Lenovo ThinkAgile HX V3 Systems
Use Case: AI/ML Workloads on ThinkAgile HX V3 Systems
NVIDIA AI Enterprise software provides curated frameworks, models, and data science tools for AI and ML workflows, all of which are certified to seamlessly integrate with Nutanix AHV. Nutanix clusters currently support a variety of NVIDIA GPU models and now the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software for analytics and ML tools running on AHV.
ThinkAgile HX V3 systems with 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors with higher core and clock speed provide the ideal platform for running many analytics and machine learning inference workloads. With support for high end NVIDIA GPUs, it provides the foundational infrastructure to train and deploy many deep learning and Generative AI models at on-premises.
Figure 3. AI/ML Workloads on Lenovo ThinkAgile HX V3 Systems
Bill of Material : ThinkAgile HX645 V3 All Flash Configuration with Nutanix
Conclusion
ThinkAgile HX V3 Integrated Systems and Certified Nodes with Nutanix software and 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors provide superior performance, scalability and higher consolidation for different workloads. ThinkAgile HX systems are pre-validated and factory installed with Nutanix AOS. HX systems simplify deployment and enable applications to address latency and security issues seamlessly. These next generation engineered hardware and software solutions from Lenovo and AMD are a one-stop scalable solution for modern application development, hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence / machine learning scenarios with reduced TCO.
Why Lenovo
Lenovo is a US$70 billion revenue Fortune Global 500 company serving customers in 180 markets around the world. Focused on a bold vision to deliver smarter technology for all, we are developing world-changing technologies that power (through devices and infrastructure) and empower (through solutions, services and software) millions of customers every day.
For More Information
To learn more about Lenovo workload solutions on ThinkAgile HX645 V3 and HX665 V3 servers, contact your Lenovo Business Partner or visit: https://www.lenovo.com/systems/solutions
References:
Lenovo ThinkAgile HX645 V3 1U Integrated Systems and Certified Nodes: https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/lp1650
Lenovo ThinkAgile HX665 V3 2U Integrated Systems and Certified Nodes: https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/lp1649
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