Lenovo Technology Centre Lenovo Chineham UK

Dave Ridley

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Engagements • Four main types:

–  Briefing – Demo (locally and remote) – Workshop –  Study Tour

§ Customer Briefings: §  Including extensive demonstration and physical equipment

§ Remote Demonstrations / Webinars: §  From customer site (network/facilities permitting) §  Webinar with remote presenter (audio and video)

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Demonstration Hardware Proof of Concept

The Systems

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Hardware Details §  Rack Showcase:

§  iDataplex (dx360M4) legacy purposes

§  NextScale (nx360 Storage & IO expansion) §  x3850 X6 §  x3650 M5 / x3550 M5 § ThinkServer RD550 / RD650

§ Lenovo Storage S3200 § IBM V7000 Storwize

§  Infrastructure § x3650 / x3550 M4/M3 §  Storewize v7000 (Gen 1)

§ Flex (x440) § Network: Lenovo / Juniper / Brocade

§ Flex Showcase § Flex Chassis

§ Network / Fabric: § EN4093 (Lenovo) § CN4093 (Lenovo) § SI4093 - Flex Fabric to G8264CS (Lenovo)

§ G8264, G8264CS, G8052 / G8316 (Lenovo) § EN4023 - Virtual Chassis Cluster to VDX6740 (Brocade)

§ SAN § Qlogic FC3171 (NPV), Brocade FC 5022 – SAN24/48B5

§ Hardware Nodes:

§ x480 § x440 § x240 (PEN and SEN+NVidia K2) § x222

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Demo - Software §  Infrastructure

§ Windows 2012 R2 AD / DHCP / DNS

§ Lenovo PXE / SAMBA BoMC § Exchange 2010 § Lenovo SwitchCenter § Tools: ASU, BoMC etc..

§ Service Processor: cMM, iMM, TSM etc. § Technology walkthrough:

§ FCoE, UFP, FlexFabric etc…

§ Virtualisation § VMware VCenter/ESXi 6 § Microsoft HyperV 2012

§ Redhat KVM § VMware VSAN § Cloudian § Nutanix

§ Management § XClarity Administrator

§ Microsrosft Systems Center 2012 § SCOM, SCCM, WSUS, SCVMM, § Lenovo UIMs § Lenovo XClarity Integrator

§ VMware § VCenter 6 c/w Xclarity Integrator § vRealize Operations § vRealize Log Insight § vRealize Orchestrator

§ Misc § Splunk § IBM Tivoli SCM

§  VDI ( not generally practical for remote demo)

§ Citrix XenDesktop / XenCenter §  VMware Horizon 6

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Types of Client Engagements

§ Infrastructure: § Datacenter equivalent setup §  Servers (x86, rack, flex) § Options – SSD, Disks etc §  Storage (v7000), Lenovo S3200 §  Networking (internal and external switches) §  Management (end to end infrastructure) §  Integration & Interoperability §  Workloads (Windows, Linux, VMware, KVM etc…) § Proof of Technologies (i.e. FCoE, UFP etc…)

§  Solutions: § VDI §  SAP Hana §  VMware §  Microsoft §  Cloud § Software Defined Storage (SDS)

§ Cloudian § Hyperconverged (HCI)

§ Nutanix, Stormagic Others §  Systems Management and Tools

§  xClarity Administrator / Integrators

§ Pre-GA Hardware §  WW Beta Site

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Lenovo DemoWeb

Others!

VMware VSAN

Microsoft TVP SQL 2014

Derby Pivot 3

Kelway Atlantis

SAP To EBC/SAP locally

Remote Demonstrations

Technology Centre

EBC

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So - How to book the LTC? §  Booking can be made either by Lenovo employee or Lenovo Partners

§  All bookings for EBG resource are by EBG Seller, Technical Architect (TA) or Business Development Manager (BDM).

§  Partners can book via their account representatives §  Centre bookings made internally via Lenovo calendar system (UK CHIN F2 Turing 30S (II))

§  Mandatory booking form completed containing: §  Details tracking and engagement detail

§  Salesforce numbers – valid opportunities only §  EBG representative responsibilities §  Other relevant site information