Hardware requirements

This section lists minimum and recommended hardware requirements for the Lenovo XClarity Integrator Add-in and Lenovo hardware that the add-in can manage.

Hardware requirements for the Lenovo XClarity Integrator Add-in

Table 1. Minimum and recommended hardware requirements for the Lenovo XClarity Integrator Add-in

Item	Minimum requirements	Recommended requirements
Processor/core	Single x86-64	4 x86-64
RAM	2 GB	8 GB
Free hard drive space	20 GB	40 GB
Network card	100 MBPS	10,000 MBPS

Lenovo hardware

Although Lenovo XClarity Integrator Add-in for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager does not have hardware limitations, the hardware that it manages is limited to the Lenovo System x and Blade servers in the following tables.

Table 2. Lenovo supported hardware

Lenovo-supported hardware	Server number
NeXtScale	nx360 M5 (5465) nx360 M5 DWC (5467, 5468, 5469)
System x server	x3250 M6 (3633, 3943) x3500 M5 (5464) x3550 M4 (7914) x3550 M5 (5463, 8869) x3630 M4 (7158, 8103) x3650 M4 (7915) x3650 M5 (5462) x3750 M4 (8753) x3850 X6 / x3950 X6 (6241)
ThinkSystem	SD530 (7X20, 7X21, 7X22) SN550 (7X16) SN850 (7X15) SR150/SR158 (7Y54, 7Y55) SR250/SR258 (7Y51, 7Y52, 7Y53, 7Y72 and 7Y73) SR530 (7X07, 7X08) SR550 (7X03, 7X04) SR570 (7Y02, 7Y03) SR590 (7X98, 7X99) SR630 (7X01, 7X02) SR650 (7X05, 7X06) SR850 (7X18, 7X19) SR860 (7X69, 7X70) SR950 (7X11, 7X12, 7X13) ST250/ST258 (7Y45, 7Y46, and 7Y47) ST550 (7X09, 7X10) ST558 (7Y15, 7Y16)
Flex Compute Node	Flex System x240 Compute Node (7162, 2588) Flex System x240 M5 Compute Node (2591, 9532) Flex System x440 Compute Node (7167, 2590) Flex System x280,x480,x880 X6 Compute Node (7196, 4258)