Protect Your Investment & Drive Down Costs

Microsoft® Hyper-V®-based cloud solutions for small- and mid-sized businesses provide a graceful transition from a completely virtualized environment to a private in-house and/or public cloud. This solution provides a seamless pathway to move from virtualization to a private cloud on a Flex System platform that has been validated by the Microsoft Fast Track program. Built on Lenovo x86 servers, Juniper® Network Ethernet switches, and IBM® System Storage® DS3500 Express, this solution is designed to be affordable, reliable, and highly available.

Lenovo Solution for Microsoft Hyper-V on X6

Lenovo Converged System for Infrastructure is created from the no-comprise building blocks of Flex System. Based on reliable and proven technology, Flex System components support open standards. The simplicity of a Lenovo Converged System for Infrastructure begins with acquisition. You can choose a fully integrated, optimized configuration as your starting point. Your solution will ship to you as a complete, fully tested, configured package of compute, storage, and networking resources upon which you and your Lenovo Business Partners can customize a solution. With built-in expertise for deployment, redundancy for durability, management, and optimization—including cloud capabilities—to simplify key tasks across all of your IT resources, your system is designed to deploy quickly and be easy to manage.

Your Lenovo Converged System for Infrastructure is designed for multiple generations of technology to support your workload today and meet the demands of your business in the future:

• Simplified ordering with pre-integrated, tested, and validated configurations that deliver interoperability and predictable performance for demanding data center environments
• Deep integration of compute, networking, and storage hardware with virtualization, operating system, and management software so you can deploy in hours instead of days
• Purposefully designed systems, taking the guesswork out of your configuration so you can simplify every aspect of IT operations to improve agility and lower costs
• Flexibility to configure your Lenovo Converged System for Infrastructure with a wide variety of elements such as storage, operating systems, hypervisors, and networking architectures that allow systems to be optimized and tuned
  to your enterprise • Maximum application performance, flexibility, and lower operating costs with simplified resource management to easily and quickly add new products and services
• Extensive partner ecosystem that delivers leveraged innovative technologies to streamline operations and run your most mission-critical application workloads with confidence

Simple, Efficient, & Flexible

As IT growth accelerates, business applications are moving into a complete and consolidated compute, network, and storage environment. Lenovo has partnered with EMC® to bring validated reference architectures leveraging Lenovo’s strength in servers, networking technology, and high-performance infrastructure.

VSPEX reference architectures have been tested, sized, and proven by Lenovo and EMC® to scale and deliver the performance and protection your business needs. The VSPEX infrastructure is a simple, efficient, and flexible reference architecture comprised of EMC VNX storage, EMC Powered Backup, and best-of‐breed virtualization, along with server and network technology from Lenovo.

The Lenovo VSPEX solution enables administrators to become more efficient and productive, allowing them to spend more time planning rather than reacting. Eliminating the many stand-alone physical servers and pockets of storage, VSPEX transforms your environment from isolated and costly physical systems to fast, efficient, and easy-to-manage virtual systems.

Flex Systems Solutions for EMC VSPEX

Just select the solution that maps to your number of virtual machines or end-user instances. Lenovo and EMC have done all the sizing, testing, and verification for you.

• EMC VSPEX by Flex System for Private Cloud combines EMC storage with Lenovo Flex System server, networking, and virtualization components to provide a comprehensive, enterprise-ready, private-cloud solution. Solutions can accommodate 300 up to 1,000 virtual machines using VMware® VSphere®. The VSPEX with Lenovo Private Cloud is a proven configuration that delivers a virtualized data center on your choice of the leading hypervisor, VMware vSphere, or Microsoft Hyper-V™
• EMC VSPEX by Flex System for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is an end-user computing infrastructure solution that allows IT managers to deploy, manage, and maintain thousands of employee desktops from a single user interface. Solutions can manage up to 3,500 end-user instances utilizing VMware Horizon® View™.

ThinkServer Solutions for EMC VSPEX

EMC VSPEX by ThinkServer for Private Cloud and VDI solutions enable small businesses to rapidly deploy an enterprise-grade scalable infrastructure. The ThinkServer VSPEX private cloud solution is for customers deploying up to 125 virtual machines running VMware vSphere. The ThinkServer VSPEX VDI solution is for customers with up to 250 users and is based on VMware Horizon View.