Flex System Enterprise Chassis Patrick Moakley Director of

Flex System Enterprise Chassis Patrick Moakley – Director of Product Marketing, Flex System June, 2015 Lenovo Internal. All rights reserved. pmoakley@lenovo. com

Flex System Portfolio overview No compromise portfolio across servers, networking, storage Mission critical 8 S x 880 X 6 Dense 4 S x 440 Enterprise Chassis w/ AC and DC power Mission critical x 480 X 6, x 880 X 6 Ethernet – i. SCSI – Fibre Channel FCo. E – Infini. Band 2 S Enterprise Mission-critical x 240 x 280 X 6, x 480 X 6, x 880 X 6 2015 LENOVO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Open Interoperability with SANs including EMC VNX, IBM Storwize® V 7000, V 3700 2

Flex System Target Markets Enterprise Chassis Flex Nodes Family Where Flex Excels Primary Workloads Banking/Finance Research Virtualization Business Value 1. Uncompromised design for the next 10+ year generations of IT 2. Innovative design delivers up to 40% less energy cost vs. pervious generation 1 3. Networking architecture enables 30% less cost than competitive offerings 2 2015 LENOVO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Education Cloud Reduce Cost Flex System X 6 Flex System x 440 Flex System x 240 M 5 Government Telecom Database Manufacturing Analytics Increase Agility Improve Efficiency 1. First-in-industry: Highest scalability blade platform featuring Intel Xeon E 7 enables 3 X higher performance than previous generations 2. Support for broad range of systems: Choice of 2, 4 or 8 processor systems using latest Intel Xeon processors in the same chassis. 3. Network design that offers consistent SLAs for cloud workloads and up to 2. 5 X faster VM migration compared to competitive blade offerings 3 1. Do more with less systems: 32% more virtual machines than competition 4 2. Network management for up to 9 Flex System chassis compared to 38 for competition 5 3. Faster performance to allow more transactions for businesses critical applications with up to 4. 8 X more backplane through-put 6 3

Flex System Enterprise Chassis Flex System Chassis have been designed and built specifically to provide the efficiency you need now, along with the growth path necessary to protect your investment into the future Agile • Simplified deployment and system management • Lenovo XClarity delivers systems management on your terms by enabling you to view and manage physical infrastructure from a variety of tools and interfaces Resilient § No single point of failure to maintain high availability § The system monitors and manages power usage on all major chassis components so you have total control over power consumption § Designed to scale to meet the needs of your future workloads Flexible § Add any combination of compute, storage, networking, and management nodes § Power supplies are 80 PLUS Platinum certified indicating high energy efficiency, and the chassis design optimizes cooling with cooling zones within the chassis 2015 LENOVO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Key Attributes Long life platform Open ecosystem Simplified deployment 4

Flex System Enterprise Chassis - Product Overview Front View Rear View 4 switch modules Redundant CMMs Redundant power Redundant cooling 10 U chassis 14 bays Standard and full Storage • • • High physical density Positional awareness Virtual FC and NIC address Mixed processor support Hot add, hot swap 2015 LENOVO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. • • • Ease of cabling Ease of insertion and removal High bandwidth, low latency networking Integrated management Ethernet Designed to support the future 5

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Power supply flexibility Key functions: • Power management monitors and controls power usage on all major chassis components • N+N or N+1 redundant power supplies • Single three-phase power domain • Hot-swappable • 80 PLUS® Platinum certified • Available 2500 W Power Supplies ü 200 - 240 V AC power supply ü 380 V HVDC power supply ü -48 V DC power supply 2015 LENOVO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 7

Cooling optimization Zoned Cooling with industry leading fan efficiency • Cooling zones are separated by compute nodes (right / left) and switches • Fans are added according to chassis configuration • More fans can be added as more compute nodes are added • Easy path fan upgrade – standardized fan interface to code (no code change if fan is changed) Enhanced acoustic optimization with multi select states • State 1 – 5 Customer selectable acoustic states to balance acoustic and performance needs • Ambient health awareness counsel detects hot air recirculation to the chassis • 100% heat removal rear door heat exchanger (RDHX) - up to 30 k. W 2015 LENOVO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 8

Chassis Management Module Key functions: • Power control • Fan management • Chassis and compute node initialization • Switch management • Diagnostics: chassis, I/O options, and compute nodes • Resource discovery and inventory management • Resource alerts and monitoring management • Chassis and compute node power management • Security policy management • Role-based access control • Support for up to 84 local CMM user accounts • Support for up to 32 simultaneous sessions 2015 LENOVO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 9