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AI-Ready Enterprise Platform
Unlocking AI for every enterprise with an end-to-end platformfrom Lenovo, NVIDIA and VMware

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming every industry, whether
it’s by improving customer relationships in financial services,
streamlining manufacturer supply chains, or helping doctorsdeliver better outcomes for patients. While most organizations
know they need to invest in AI to secure their future, theystruggle with finding the strategy and platform that can enablesuccess.
Unlike traditional enterprise applications, AI apps are a relatively
recent development for many IT departments. They’re anchoredin rapidly evolving, open-source, bleeding-edge code and lackproven approaches that meet the rigors of scaled production
settings in enterprises. In fact, just 53 percent of projects makeit from pilot to production, with the complexity of integrating AI
solutions with existing infrastructure among the top threebarriers to AI implementation.

Solution overview

Key challenges forenterprise AI workloads
Risk – It’s diﬃcult to pull
together an end-to-end AI
solution from disparate
products and integrate themwith existing infrastructure.
Performance – Highperformance is critical for AI,machine learning, and data
analytics workloads. Fast time
to deployment is also critical.
Scaling – Going from proof ofconcept to enterprise
deployments requires
eﬀective scaling—througheﬃcient use of resources toensure manageability andavailability—andinfrastructure costmanagement.

AI-Ready Platform
Lenovo VMware and NVIDIA have partnered to unlock the power of AI for every business by delivering an
end-to-end enterprise platform optimized for AI workloads. This fully integrated validated and supported
Lenovo AI solution delivers best-in-class AI software, the NVIDIA AI Enterprise Suite, optimized andexclusively certiﬁed for the industry’s leading virtualization platform, VMware vSphere®. Running on Lenovo
AI-Ready infrastructure. This platform accelerates the speed at which developers can build AI Infrastructureand high-performance data analytics, enables organizations to scale modern workloads on the same VMware
vSphere infrastructure they’ve already invested in, and delivers enterprise-class manageability, security andavailability.

Key Enabling Technologies ValidatedArchitecture
The solution consists of the following building blocks.

Lenovo ThinkSystem
AI-Ready Infrastructure
The Lenovo AI-Ready Infrastructure supporting NVIDIA AI Enterprise with VMWare vSphere Enterprise Plus
are optimum high performing, scalable servers designed for AI workloads with enterprise grade reliability.
The Lenovo AI-Ready Infrastructure includes the ThinkSystem SR650 V2 and the ThinkSystem SR670 V2
providing a two-socket design with the latest Intel Xeon 3rd generation scalable processors in a a 2U and 3U
footprint, respectively. The ThinkSystem SR650 V2 supports up to three NVIDIA A100 GPUs or up to eight
NVIDIA T4 GPUs while the ThinkSystem SR670 V2 supports up to 8 NVIDIA A100 GPUs with NVLink
Bridge or NVIDIA A100 HGX 4-GPU for the highest performance workloads. The ThinkSystem SR665
delivers the latest AMD EPYC™ processors in a 2U2S design supporting up three NVIDIA A100 GPUs oreight NVIDIA T4 GPUs. The Lenovo AI-Ready Infrastructure provides a solid foundation for:Transforming physical resources into services, using validated designs for hybrid cloud
Performing analytics on streaming data, using validated designs for Big Data
Increasing productivity of virtualized transactional systems, using validated designs for
OLTP databases.

Solution overview

Fully integrated, validated and supported Lenovo-AI solution
Data Center AI Training& Inference

Data Analytics &Machine Learning

Edge AI Inference

NVIDIA AI Enterprise
AI & Data Analytics Applications
Data Scientist/Developer/
AI Researcher

GPU Virtualization

Performance Scaling

VMware vSphere with Tanzu
Containers
On-Demand Kubernetes Clusters& Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Intrinsic Security & Lifecycle
Management

Live Migration & Load Balancing

IT Admin

AI-Ready Servers

ThinkSystem SR670 V2 SXMMulti-Cloud

ThinkSystem SR650

NVIDIA A100 PCIe

Hybrid Cloud

NVIDIA 100 SXMPrivate Cloud

VMware Tanzu support for NVIDIA AI Enterprise coming soon.

NVIDIA AI Enterprise Suite
NVIDIA AI Enterprise is an end-to-end, cloud native suite of AI
and data science applications and frameworks optimized andexclusively certiﬁed by NVIDIA to run on VMware vSphere withNVIDIA-Certiﬁed Systems. It includes key enabling technologies
and software from NVIDIA for rapid deployment, management
and scaling of AI workloads in the modern hybrid cloud. NVIDIAAI Enterprise is licensed and supported by NVIDIA.

VMware vSphere with Tanzu
VMware vSphere® with VMware Tanzu™ is the industry’s leadingvirtualization platform that runs over 70 million workloads acrosshundreds of thousands of organizations worldwide. VMware
vSphere transforms bare-metal servers (including CPU- andGPU-based resources) into centrally managed AI and machinelearning infrastructure pools that can quickly provision virtual
machines and containers on demand.
VMware vSphere optimizes performance, increases availability,
tightens security, streamlines maintenance, and reduces costs tocreate an agile, eﬃcient, resilient and intrinsically secure
infrastructure platform that supports existing workloads andnext-gen applications such as AI.
VMware vSphere has been enhanced to optimally run theNVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite leveraging NVIDIA’s latest
NVIDIA Ampere architecture-based GPUs.

Solution overview

Beneﬁts for Enterprises
Compute-intensive
workloads – ideal platform
for hyperconverged
infrastructure (HCI) or
software-deﬁned storage(SDS).
Comprehensive security –Lenovo ThinkShield is an
end-to-end approach tosecurity that begins with
development and continues
through supply chain and thefull life cycle of the device.
Easily manage – Lenovo
XClarity Administrator is avirtualized application that
centrally manages
ThinkSystem servers, storage,and networking. Via reusable
patterns and policies, it ramps
up and scales infrastructure
provisioning andmaintenance. It serves as acentral integration point toextend your data center
management processes tophysical IT.

NVIDIA-Certified Systems
The NVIDIA AI Enterprise Suite is certiﬁed to run on NVIDIA-Certiﬁed Systems, which include the following:
NVIDIA Ampere architecture-based GPUs such as the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU. The Tensor Core
technology included in the Ampere architecture has brought dramatic speedups to AI operations,bringing down training times from weeks to hours and providing massive acceleration to inference.
NVIDIA® Mellanox® ConnectX® SmartNICs and the NVIDIA BlueField® data processing unit (DPU) provide
a host of software-defined hardware engines for accelerating networking and security. These enable thebest of both worlds: best-in-class AI training and inference performance, with all the necessary levels ofenterprise data privacy, integrity and reliability.

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