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Challenges
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 Too Much Time Spent on IT infrastructure
 Not Enough Time on Mission Critical Business
Applications
 Challenges such as:
– Making IT a strategic asset
– Accelerating IT service delivery
– Planning for private cloud initiatives
– Reducing cost to maintain & support IT infrastructure
Private cloud is cloud infrastructure operated solely for a single organization
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Solution: Pre-Engineered Converged Infrastructure
 Converged Infrastructure packages information technology (IT) components into a single, optimized application solution
– Components include: Servers, storage, networking equipment & software for IT infrastructure management
 Benefits
– Faster time to business value (already designed & engineered)
– Reduced risk (already tested, predictable performance)
– Lower costs:
– Capital expenses
– Operating costs
– Increased IT agility:
– Single console management
– Scale with pre-determined building blocks
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EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure (Converged Infrastructure)
 EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure
– Reference architecture:
 Lenovo ThinkServers
 EMC‘s storage system
 Virtualization
 Network technology
– Most popular use cases for customers moving to cloud computing
– Enable customers to accelerate deployment
– Lenovo has partnered with EMC to offer private cloud solutions
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ThinkServer Converged Infrastructure Offerings
Jump Start your Private Cloud Implementation!
 Lenovo ThinkServer - EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure for a
Complete Virtualization Solution
– Enables an informed decision on the hypervisor, compute, networking and storage layers
 Virtual Machine Resources Balanced for a Specific Reference
Workload
 Design & Deployment Documented:
– Hardware & software resource requirements
– Memory, network & storage configuration guidelines
– High availability & failover
– Sizing guidelines & reference workload
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VSPEX Proven Infrastructure
 Designed for Flexibility & to Ensure
Interoperability
 Support for 50 Virtual Machines (VMs) with
Hyper-V
 Fast Deployment
Configuration
Mixed Workloads on
Microsoft Hyper-V
Server 2012
Lenovo
ThinkServer RD 630
Extreme Networks
Summit X460
EMC VNXe3150
Certification Planned for September, 2013

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VSPEX Proven Infrastructure
 Designed for Flexibility & to Ensure
Interoperability
 Support for 100 Virtual Machines (VMs) with
VMware ESXi 5.1
 Fast Deployment
Configuration
Mixed Workloads on
VMware ESXi 5.1
Lenovo
ThinkServer RD 630
Extreme Networks
Summit X670
EMC VNXe3300
Certified August, 2013

Benefits
Easier to deploy private clouds resulting in reduced time to business value!
Reduces
Planning, Sizing
& Configuration
Time
Deliver
Predictable
Performance
Reduces
Deployment
Time
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Lower
Operational
Costs

Summary
 Private Cloud Starts with:
– Best designed, delivered & managed virtualization platform
– And meets the needs of today & tomorrow
 Accelerate Private Cloud
Implementations while Reducing
Risk with ThinkServers
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Call to Action
 Visit www.lenovo.com/thinkcloud
 Consider Downloading the Following:
– EMC VSPEX ThinkServer Solution Overview
– EMC VSPEX ThinkServer Hyper-V Deployment Guide (available in September)
 Contact your Representative to Learn More About Building a Private Cloud
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