What is new (July, 2023)

Lenovo introduces a new version of the VX Deployer and delivers additional hardware support.

Additional hardware support

Product	CTO model	Machine type	Base ThinkSystem model
VX630 V3 Integrated System	7D6XCTO1WW	7D6X	SR630 V3
VX650 V3 Integrated System	7D6WCTO1WW	7D6W	SR650 V3
VX645 V3 Integrated System	7D9KCTO1WW	7D9K	SR645 V3
VX635 V3 Certified Node	7D9VCTO2WW	7D9V	SR635 V3
VX665 V3 Integrated System	7D9LCTO1WW	7D9L	SR665 V3
VX655 V3 Certified Node	7D9WCTO2WW	7D9W	SR655 V3

Note

Refer to the ThinkAgile VX Best Recipe for the latest supported code levels.

The following updates have been made for Release 2.1.0:

Updated software support.
The ThinkAgile VX Deployer allows you to install and set up one of the following configurations:
Note
You cannot mix versions of VMware vCenter Server and VMware ESXi.
- VMware vSAN 7
  - VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3k, build 21290409
  - VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 3k, build 21313628
  - Lenovo XClarity Integrator (LXCI), version 8.1.0, build 681
- VMware vSAN 8
  - VMware vCenter Server 8.0 Update 1, build 21560480
  - VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 1, build 21495797
  - Lenovo XClarity Integrator (LXCI), version 8.1.0, build 681
VLAN support.
The ThinkAgile VX Deployer now allows you to specify a unique VLAN ID (1 to 4094) for each of the ESXi Management, the vMotion, and the vSAN networks. The physical switches must be configured to add the specified VLAN IDs in trunk mode for all the ports connecting the physical NICs of the ESXi hosts.
Export JSON from Excel.
You can use the Excel template to generate a .JSON configuration file to prepopulate the ThinkAgile VX Deployer. The Excel file does some validation when data are entered.
ThinkAgile VX Export Configuration XLS

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