Lenovo Client Virtualization Solutions for

VMware Horizon
Transform desktops into secure, digital workspaces that can be delivered on demand
Meeting the Needs of the Mobile Workforce
Industries as diverse as healthcare, finance, government, retail, and education have the common
requirement to support and secure a mobile workforce. Organizations often have a dispersed workforce
using many PCs, laptops, and mobile devices distributed to field offices and remote locations. Client
virtualization is a powerful solution to meet the need for flexibility and global availability of computeresources, while managing data security and compliance on mobile devices.
Lenovo Client Virtualization Solutions for VMware Horizon help your organization meet these business
requirements by centrally managing the desktop image within the corporate IT environment rather than at
the remote worker or office location. With user data, user profiles and application data files on centralized
servers, data center security and manageability are extended down to the user resources. Users haveanywhere, anytime, secure access to data and applications from any device, including tablets andsmartphones.

Deliver Secure Desktops While Cutting IT Costs
VMware Horizon provides a streamlined approach to deliver, protect, and manage Windows and Linux
desktops and apps while containing costs. It supports a consistently rich end user experience for
office workers, mobile workers and even 3D developers across devices, locations, media andconnections.
Horizon is tightly integrated with VMware’s Software-Defined Data Center, which includes vSphere,vSAN and NSX. This integration provides a seamless turnkey solution, allowing IT to dynamically allocate
resources with virtual compute, virtual storage and virtual networking to simplify management and drive
down costs.
Reduce day-to-day operations costs with a single platform that allows you to extend virtualization fromthe data center to your devices. A unified version of all software across your desktops provides
maintenance and services savings, and unauthorized downloads of software or malware are prevented
with controlled boot images.

Highlights
Delivers, protects and manages virtual desktops and apps while providing end users accessanytime, anywhere, across any device
Enables a scalable solution for a few hundred to several thousand users to meet current and futureneeds
Supports a wide variety of VDI usage models from typical office users all the way up to high-end
3D rendering power users
Optimize cost and performance with ThinkAgile VX configurations that have been verified by Intel
via the Intel Select Solution program

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Simplify Solutions Infrastructure with ThinkAgile VX
VMware Horizon has been certified on several Lenovo
servers, including the Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series.
ThinkAgile VX Series are VMware vSAN-based
hyperconverged servers with compute, storage andvirtualization co-located on a single node. The VX Series
enables you to dramatically simplify your server, storage andvirtualization deployments and pool your resources into asingle virtualized infrastructure for more flexible and efficientutilization and management.
If you currently have a client virtualization solution in a 3-tierarchitecture, switching to a hyperconverged architecture canreduce your cost per virtual machine. While requiring a
dedicated server in a 3-tier environment, VMware Horizon
could be one of many workloads supported on a
hyperconverged server, thus increasing utilization of yourserver resources and lowering your total cost of ownership.
ThinkAgile VX systems arrive with the hardware configured,software installed, and the option of having Lenovo
Professional Services to integrate it into your environment. VX
systems are available in several models, supporting SMB
through mission-critical enterprise applications. Each ispreconfigured, pretested, and optimized to provide thesimplest way to bring a new VMware hyperconverged
environment online. If you have an existing VMware
environment, the VX Series can integrate into it easily.
ThinkAgile VX integrated systems include VMware software
licenses and ThinkAgile Advantage Services, which deliverproactive, solution-oriented support for your systems. This
includes end-to-end case management and problem
resolution, with a dedicated Lenovo phone number forexpedited response. Lenovo ThinkAgile Advantage services
extend these benefits with 24x7 support, allowing your ITteam to focus on developing proficiencies that give yourbusiness a competitive edge. It’s an efficient way to keep yourinvestment working for you, with minimal disruption to yourstaff resources.
For customers who prefer to provide their own VMware
software licenses and/or deployment services, Lenovo offers
another choice: the ThinkAgile VX Certified Nodes, which
include ThinkAgile Advantage Single Point of Support for
quick 24/7 problem reporting and resolution.
All ThinkAgile VX systems include powerful lifecycle
management capabilities via vSphere Lifecycle Manager(vLCM). vLCM speeds deployment, simplifies patching andupdating software, and offers task automation. This enables
you to free up valuable personnel for more productive tasks.

The Lenovo solution for VMware
Horizon on Lenovo ThinkAgile VX is anIntel® Select Solution. Intel SelectSolutions are workload optimized
configurations engineered to satisfy
software, system, and solution
performance standards and streamline
deployments. Key benefits of investingin an Intel Select Solution from Lenovo
include:Simplified evaluation. New workload
integration and the transition tosoftware-defined infrastructure are
two areas where IT managers spend
more and more time and money
sorting through endless options,searching for optimal solutions. Intel
Select Solutions are tightly specified
in terms of hardware and software
components to eliminate guesswork
and speed decision-making.
Fast and easy deployment. With
pre-defined settings and rigorous
system-wide tuning, Intel SelectSolutions are designed to increase
efficiency in IT's testing process,speed time to service delivery, andincrease confidence in solution
performance.
Workload-optimized performance.
Intel Select Solution configurations
are designed to deliver to a
performance threshold for theworkload, and are built on the latest
Intel architecture foundation
including the recently-launchedIntel® Xeon® Scalable platforms.

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Powered by Lenovo
Reference architectures also exist for VMware Horizon with thefollowing Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile servers:
ThinkAgile HX hyperconverged appliances with Nutanix software
SR630 V2/SR650 V2 - 1U and 2U, 2-socket servers, respectively,that provide extensive flexibility to fit almost any customer
environment
SR645/SR665 - 1U and 2U, 2-socket servers, respectively, thatprovide good cost/user. The SR665 supports up to 6 NVIDIA GPU
modules for power users employing 3D rendering or medical
imaging applications
SD530 - A dense 2U configuration that supports up to four 2-socketservers
SN550 - A compute node that is part of the Flex System bladeserver
All Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile servers are high performancesystems, regularly holding numerous world performance benchmarks.
Engineered for always-on productivity, ThinkSystem servers areconsistently ranked high in x86 server customer satisfaction and #1 inx86 server reliability.

ThinkAgile VX

ThinkSystem SR665 /SR650 V2

ThinkSystem SR645 /SR630 V2

Optimized Configurations
Lenovo has designed and tested several configurations of VMware
Horizon on ThinkAgile VX. These configurations are optimized forperformance and scalability. They can be used as is, as building blocks
for larger installations, or as a base from which customizations can bemade. The current Solution IDs include:
Solution ID

Supporting

SID0000234

200 Office Workers

SID0000235

150/50 Office/Knowledge Workers

SID0000236

160 Power Users

These recommended configurations can be found on Lenovo's Data
Center Configurator tool at dcsc.lenovo.com. Just select "Deployment
Ready Solutions" and then "Client Virtualization".

“The [Lenovo] solution has been pivotal intransforming our IT department from cost a center
into a profit center. We are now empowering our ITteam to spend 90% of their time on what reallymatters: delivering value to our customers.”
Matthew Day, CIO, Langs Building Supplies

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Complementary Software
Lenovo offers a wide range of complementary
software offerings for your VMware Horizon
environments.
Data can be backed up with Veeam® Availability
Suite™. Veeam Agents for Microsoft Windows
and Linux work with Veeam Availability Suite todeliver comprehensive backup and recovery for ALL
workloads — virtual, physical and cloud — with asingle management console.
The delivery of graphics-rich desktops andworkstations is facilitated by NVIDIA® virtual GPU(vGPU) software in conjunction with NVIDIA GPUs.
Today's digital worker requires more graphicsintensive applications and operating systems to beproductive. Windows 10 provides a rich, immersive
experience and is the most graphically intensive
operating system to date. NVIDIA GRID software isdesigned to deliver Windows desktops andapplications at full performance while NVIDIA
Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation (vDWS)
software allows users to access their professionalgraphics applications with full features andperformance from any device, anywhere.

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft virtualized all 1,400
desktops using VMware Horizon. Now,
the company can manage all virtualized
resources centrally and keep a tighter
control on security.

TruScale IaaS: OpEx vs. CapEx
Lenovo TruScale Services allow you to have yourVDI infrastructure on-premises with a “pay for use”
cloud subscription instead of an outright purchase.
This allows you to better tie your VDI expenses toyour business use.

Lenovo XClarity™ Administrator is a centralized
resource management solution that is aimed at
reducing complexity, speeding response, andenhancing the availability of Lenovo server systems
and solutions.

Lenovo TruScale removes layers of administrationand management from stretched IT teams. It also
creates opportunities to implement new solutions,with cloud-like functionality and flexible, pay-as-yougo, as-a-service models.

It captures industry-leading proactive platform alerts,
enabling administrators to migrate workloads or
replace failing components without incurring
downtime.

Services include assessment, design, configuration,installation, cloud deployment, data migration,
concierge/tech desk services, maintenance,
metering, service portal, security and compliance,
upgrades, renewals and old tech retirement.

XClarity Administrator enjoys tight integration with
VMware vCenter through the XClarity Integrator for
VMware vCenter. Administrators can view, monitor,and manage Lenovo infrastructure from the vCenter
management console and vSphere web client. The
XClarity Integrator for VMware vCenter also speeds
Day 1 provisioning of new Lenovo systems intoproduction, simplifies ongoing administration, andincreases workload uptime in clusteredenvironments by eliminating system maintenancewindows and dynamically initiating workload
migration based on user-defined system events.

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End-to-End VDI Solution

Tying It All Together

Completing the Lenovo end-to-end client
virtualization solution for VMware environments are
the endpoints. From devices to desktops, Lenovo
helps businesses access the data needed to makeinformed decisions. Lenovo offers a wide range ofPCs, tablets, thin clients and smartphones for end
user access. The portability, versatility andlightweight features of Lenovo thin clients allow for
deployment across the organization, especiallywhere space is at a premium.

To have a successful VDI implementation, it isimportant to know which users will be accessing
what applications, how they normally use those
applications, the time of day the users normallywork, and other factors.

Lenovo streamlines device deployment andmanagement with Lenovo Terminal Manager(LTM™). LTM is a browser-based solution for
managing groups of thin clients. Whether you
operate in a simple or complex environment, you
can streamline the management of multiple hosted
desktops all from one place. LTM's web-based
console allows IT administrators to freely access itfrom any device that can connect to the server, as
well as pushing through certificates and software
packages. LTM also simplifies the ability to rapidly
deploy additional devices, scaling to thousands ofconnected devices.
Have legacy devices in your environment? You canconvert them to thin clients with Lenovo Fusion
Desktop. You can even temporarily convert laptops
and other devices with a USB port to a thin clientwith Cloud Desktop on the Go. The memory sticksolution will force the device to boot from it whenconnected. When the memory stick is removed, thelaptop will return to booting off its hard drive.

Lenovo Professional Services conduct hundreds of
VDI implementations a year and have extensive
expertise in VDI across multiple industries. To makesure customers understand the necessary steps in a
successful implementation, Lenovo offers acomplimentary VDI Workshop for qualifiedcustomers. The workshop is a white-boarding
session led by Lenovo Principal Consultants to help
you on your journey of achieving desktop
virtualization. This workshop can be held on-site orremotely.
If you have an existing VDI environment, Lenovo
Professional Services offers two new services thatcan be utilized remotely.VDI Architecture
Jumpstart Services provide a VDI architect toreview your current VDI strategy or VDI environment
to make adjustments to accommodate larger
volumes of employees, and VDI Residency
Services provide access to a VDI engineer toprovide guidance around the assessment, design
configuration, validation and knowledge transfer
needed in expanding your current VDI environment.
Regardless of your current environment, Lenovo
Services is a true business partner that will take youfrom where you are, to where you want to be. At
every stage, you’ll get our expertise and services tohelp you.

“Thanks to the Lenovo ThinkAgile VX
HCI solution, we are now runninghighly demanding applications suchas Autodesk AutoCAD smoothly invirtual desktop environments,
contributing to better experiences forour learners.”
Margherita Rabaglia, Headteacher,
Istituto di Istruzione Superiore, C. E.
Gadda

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Why Lenovo
Lenovo is a leading provider of data center infrastructure solutions. We
partner with you to identify, design, install and support the solution thatbest ensures your organization's needs are met throughout the IT
lifecycle. Lenovo complements a portfolio of leading x86 infrastructurewith a full range of storage, software, and comprehensive services thatprovides excellent performance, reliability, and security for your IT
environment from the edge to the cloud.

Lenovo provides a complete
end-to-end VMware VDI
offering with end points,
servers, software and services

For More Information
To learn more about Lenovo solutions for VMware Horizon, contact
your Lenovo sales representative or Business Partner or visit the Client
Virtualization solution page.

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