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Microsoft and Lenovo have been partners for over 25 years. Together we ensure that the latest Microsoft technologies work perfectly with Lenovo ThinkSystem infrastructure and ThinkAgile solutions to provide the most reliable, secure, and high-performing datacenters for our customers. Built with proven Lenovo innovation, Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and ThinkAgile solutions extend Microsoft's operating systems, virtualization technologies, and infrastructure platforms so you can build a highly productive IT environment that can help your business achieve true innovation.
Lenovo has proven experience in developing and delivering Microsoft-based solutions that help customers modernize and simplify their IT infrastructure to dramatically drive down operating costs and open the door to cutting-edge innovations. Built around the latest Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and networking hardware, the Lenovo solution with Microsoft provides businesses with an affordable, interoperable, and reliable industry-leading solution to manage their virtualized workloads.
Lenovo XClarity Integrator integrates Lenovo XClarity Administrator into Microsoft software, providing the functionality you need to manage Lenovo infrastructure right in the console of Microsoft software. Lenovo XClarity Administrator is a centralized resource management solution that reduces complexity, speeds up response, and enhances the availability of Lenovo ThinkSystem infrastructure and ThinkAgile solutions.
Lenovo offers XClarity Integrator for Windows Admin Center, Microsoft Azure Log Analytics and Microsoft System Center. For more information, refer to the Lenovo XClarity Administrator Product Guide, -lenovo-xclarity-administrator.
Lenovo offers various types and forms of Microsoft licensing so organizations and partners can leverage best in class Lenovo servers to build agile IT infrastructure that is reliable, secure, and high performing. Choosing a Microsoft OEM license from Lenovo for most customers is the simplest and most cost-effective license. Microsoft licenses from Lenovo are specifically pre-tested and optimized to install on Lenovo servers. Lenovo offers support for all of its Microsoft subscriptions offerings, giving customers a single point of support for their entire datacenter. For OEM licenses support, please ask for support plans to your Lenovo sales representative.
Lenovo holds more world record benchmarks than anyone with SQL Server from Microsoft. Lenovo is the first company to publish a non-clustered TPC-H@10,000GB benchmark performance result running Microsoft SQL Server. Refer to -sr950-tpch-benchmark-result-2017-07-11. When you purchase Microsoft SQL Server from Lenovo, you have support and access to the industry-leading Lenovo Engineering team that made this benchmark performance possible.
With Lenovo, customers have access to decades of datacenter expertise, industry leading support services and the option to leverage Lenovo consultative, professional, and managed service offerings. Lenovo provides customers with the best solution to generate the business results they are looking to achieve, while leveraging a single partner for all aspects of support and services.
Microsoft offers a variety of Windows Server and SQL server subscription licenses in in both 1-year and 3-years terms. Microsoft subscription licenses provide customers with latest software versions, complete mobility, and continuous support among other benefits. Below is a comparison between perpetual and subscription licenses from Microsoft:
For more information regarding features and applications for WS version, please visit the Microsoft Windows Server page at -us/windows-server/administration/server-core/server-core-roles-and-services. To order Windows Server subscriptions, please refer to the Microsoft Subscription Licenses section.
Please visit the following Azure page for a complete list of available Azure Cloud Services: -us/services/
All Azure Cloud Services are available by Lenovo through a single part number (PN). This PN registers customers to a Lenovo Azure Tenant portal. Through this portal, customers can activate and manage all Azure Cloud Services for their accounts. The following customer information is required at PoS (point of sale) for Lenovo to provide end-user access to Lenovo Azure Tenant portal:
All Azure Cloud Services are available by Lenovo through a single part number (PN). This PN registers customers to a Lenovo Azure Tenant portal. Through this portal, customers can activate and manage all Azure Cloud Services for their accounts. The following customer information is required at PoS (point of sale) for Lenovo to provide end-user access to Lenovo Azure Tenant portal:
The licensing of Windows Server 2022 Standard and Datacenter editions based on a per physical processor basis. A minimum of 8 cores per processor and 16 cores total must be licensed. All cores must be licensed, even if user-disabled.
The Base License for the Lenovo OEM Microsoft Windows Server Standard and Datacenter editions will cover up to 16 cores per system. Customers who need to license more than 16 cores can easily do so with Additional Licenses. Additional Licenses are available in 2 core packs and 16 core packs.
The Windows Server 2022 licensing model for Standard and Datacenter requires Client Access Licenses (CALs). Each user and/or device accessing a licensed Windows Server Standard or Datacenter edition requires a Windows Server CAL or a Windows Server and a Remote Desktop Services (RDS) CAL.
A Windows Server CAL is required when a user or device is directly or indirectly accessing Windows Server. A Remote Desktop Service (RDS) CAL is also required for users that need to access programs or the full desktop remotely using Remote Desktop Services (RDSs). Both Windows Server CAL (user or device) and RDS CAL (user or device) are required for remote desktop access. RDS CALs contain a product key for activation. As an exception to these rules, up to two users or devices may access the server software, only for server administration purposes, without requiring either a RDS CAL or a Windows Server CAL.
Each user CAL permits one user, using any device, to access instances of the server software on their licensed servers. Each device CAL permits one device, used by any user, to access instances of the server software on their licensed servers.
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 includes the optional right to use an earlier version of the software in place of the version you have licensed (e.g., downgrade from Windows Server 2022 to Windows Server 2019) by purchasing a applicable Downgrade Kit for the Server 2019 or Server 2016 version that Lenovo makes available.
Windows Server 2022 is built on the strong foundation of Windows Server 2019 and brings many innovations on three key themes: security, Azure hybrid integration and management, and application platform.
For IT professionals, security and compliance are primary concerns. The new security capabilities in Windows Server 2022 combine other security capabilities in Windows Server across multiple areas to provide defense-in-depth protection against advanced threats. Advanced multi-layer security in Windows Server 2022 provides the comprehensive protection that servers need today.
There are several platform improvements for Windows Containers, including application compatibility and the Windows Container experience with Kubernetes. A major improvement includes reducing the Windows Container image size by up to 40%, which leads to a 30% faster startup time and better performance.
With support for Intel Ice Lake processors, Windows Server 2022 supports business-critical and large-scale applications, such as SQL Server, that require up to 48 TB of memory and 2,048 logical cores running on 64 physical sockets. Confidential computing with Intel Secured Guard Extension (SGX) on Intel Ice Lake improves application security by isolating applications from each other with protected memory.
Each user CAL permits one user, using any device, to access instances of the server software on their licensed servers. Each device CAL permits one device, used by any user, to access instances of the server software on their licensed servers.
Note that the maximum compute capacity for SQL standard is 4 sockets / 24 physical or virtual cores and 128 GB Memory for DB engines. As such, please take this into consideration during configuration of the server hardware.
If the users / devices connecting to the database are large and unknown, Core based licenses should be considered. For Customer environments with a known number of user/ devices, Server + CAL licensing is recommended. The SQL CALs should be chosen based on the users/ devices connecting to database.
The Lenovo Server Operating System Interoperability Guide (OSIG) is a comprehensive source of information about operating system compatibility with Lenovo servers. It includes servers in the ThinkSystem, ThinkAgile, System x, ThinkServer, NeXtScale, Flex System and BladeCenter product families and covers servers that are currently supported by Lenovo under warranty.
For more information, please visit the OSIG page: . Use the dropdown menus to filter and finetune your search. In each of the search results, the support statement column contains clickable links that open a popup window with details about the support.
For Lenovo option compatibility, the Lenovo ServerProven program validates selected products for compatibility with all Lenovo ThinkSystem servers. Through the ServerProven Program, Lenovo works with industry leaders to test their equipment with Lenovo products.
Lenovo XClarity Integrator enables XClarity Administrator to integrate into your existing IT applications, providing the functionality you need to manage Lenovo infrastructure right in the console of the software tools that you already use. XClarity Administrator is a centralized resource management solution that reduces complexity, speeds response, and enhances the availability of Lenovo ThinkSystem infrastructure and ThinkAgile solutions.
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