Back to All Partners Lenovo INVITE Networks is a Lenovo partner, delivering enterprise server, storage, and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions for enterprise and mid-market organizations in Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and the greater Mountain West. INVITE handles Lenovo ThinkSystem server procurement, configuration, deployment, and ongoing hardware management — so IT teams get the performance and reliability of Lenovo infrastructure without the procurement complexity or internal capacity constraints of managing a refresh cycle in-house. TL;DR: INVITE Networks designs, procures, and deploys Lenovo enterprise infrastructure — ThinkSystem servers, ThinkAgile hyperconverged systems, and enterprise storage — for organizations refreshing aging hardware or modernizing their data center footprint. INVITE handles configuration, imaging, rack-and-stack, and integration with existing virtualization and storage platforms. This page is for IT directors and VPs of Infrastructure evaluating a Lenovo partner who can own the full infrastructure lifecycle, not just the purchase order. What does INVITE Networks deliver as a Lenovo partner? Lenovo is one of the world’s largest enterprise hardware manufacturers, producing the ThinkSystem server line, ThinkAgile hyperconverged infrastructure platforms, and enterprise-class storage systems that power data centers globally. INVITE Networks delivers Lenovo infrastructure as part of its managed services portfolio — covering hardware sizing and configuration design, procurement, imaging and configuration, data center deployment, and post-deployment hardware lifecycle management. INVITE’s Lenovo practice removes the internal burden of infrastructure procurement and deployment from IT teams that are already stretched across operations and strategic projects. INVITE’s engineers are experienced across the Lenovo ThinkSystem portfolio — including rack servers, tower servers, and blade systems — and integrate Lenovo hardware with VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Red Hat OpenShift, and Nutanix environments. INVITE designs infrastructure architectures around the workloads they need to support, not around vendor defaults, resulting in right-sized deployments that perform at scale without over-provisioning. Why do Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and Mountain West organizations choose INVITE for Lenovo infrastructure? Enterprise hardware procurement and deployment is operationally intensive — configuration design, vendor coordination, imaging, rack-and-stack, and integration testing require dedicated resources that most mid-market IT teams don’t have available. Organizations in Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and the greater Mountain West choose INVITE because INVITE handles the entire Lenovo infrastructure lifecycle as a managed engagement, from initial design through ongoing hardware support and warranty management. A 350-person manufacturing company in Salt Lake City engaged INVITE to replace an aging server and SAN infrastructure that had exceeded vendor support. INVITE designed a Lenovo ThinkSystem refresh — six rack servers and a ThinkSystem DE-series storage array — configured the environment for VMware vSphere 8, migrated 40 production virtual machines with zero data loss during a planned maintenance window, and brought the full environment under INVITE’s hardware management service. The organization eliminated its aging infrastructure risk and reduced unplanned downtime by over 80% in the first year post-deployment. How does INVITE deploy and manage Lenovo infrastructure as part of its managed services? INVITE’s Lenovo engagement model covers the full infrastructure lifecycle. The process begins with a workload assessment — INVITE evaluates current and projected compute, memory, storage, and network requirements to right-size the Lenovo configuration before any hardware is ordered. Configuration design is documented and reviewed before procurement, ensuring the hardware that arrives matches the architecture the environment actually needs. Post-procurement, INVITE handles all physical deployment work: rack-and-stack, cabling, firmware updates, BIOS configuration, and OS imaging. For ThinkAgile HCI deployments, INVITE handles the full cluster initialization, VMware vSAN or Microsoft Azure Stack HCI configuration, and integration with existing networking and backup infrastructure. Once deployed, Lenovo hardware is managed under INVITE’s managed services umbrella — including hardware health monitoring, firmware lifecycle management, warranty tracking, and vendor case management for hardware failures. INVITE maintains visibility into Lenovo warranty and support status for all managed assets, ensuring organizations are never caught with unprotected hardware in production. What Lenovo products does INVITE deploy and manage? INVITE’s Lenovo practice covers the enterprise hardware portfolio that data center environments depend on for compute, storage, and converged infrastructure. The Lenovo ThinkSystem server line is the foundation of most INVITE Lenovo deployments — including the SR630 and SR650 rack servers for virtualization workloads, the SR860 and SR950 for memory-intensive database and analytics environments, and the ST series tower servers for edge and remote office deployments where rack infrastructure isn’t practical. Lenovo ThinkAgile is the hyperconverged infrastructure platform INVITE architects for organizations consolidating separate compute and storage silos — available in VMware vSAN and Microsoft Azure Stack HCI configurations. INVITE designs ThinkAgile environments for organizations that want HCI simplicity with the proven reliability of Lenovo hardware. For storage, INVITE deploys Lenovo ThinkSystem DE-series and DM-series storage arrays in environments where dedicated SAN or NAS infrastructure is required alongside compute. INVITE also works with Lenovo TruScale as an infrastructure-as-a-service model for organizations that prefer an opex consumption model over capital hardware purchases — providing enterprise Lenovo infrastructure on a per-use basis with INVITE handling all operational management. These deployments integrate naturally with INVITE’s cybersecurity services to ensure hardware environments meet compliance and security baselines from day one. Looking for a Lenovo partner who manages the infrastructure lifecycle, not just the hardware purchase? Contact INVITE to discuss a Lenovo infrastructure engagement for your organization. Frequently Asked Questions: Lenovo Enterprise Infrastructure Is INVITE Networks an authorized Lenovo partner? Yes. INVITE Networks is an authorized Lenovo partner with the engineering credentials and partner standing to procure, configure, and support Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile infrastructure. INVITE can source Lenovo hardware with full manufacturer warranty and provides an additional managed services layer on top of standard Lenovo warranty coverage for comprehensive hardware lifecycle management. Can INVITE manage our Lenovo infrastructure if we don’t have dedicated server hardware engineers? Yes — this is the standard model for INVITE’s Lenovo infrastructure customers. INVITE provides hardware lifecycle management as a managed service, covering firmware monitoring, health alerting, warranty management, and vendor escalation for hardware failures. Organizations without dedicated infrastructure engineers get proactive hardware management without the cost of internal resources, with INVITE acting as the single point of contact for all Lenovo hardware issues. How does INVITE handle Lenovo firmware and driver management? INVITE manages Lenovo firmware updates through Lenovo XClarity Administrator (LXCA) where deployed, or through a defined manual update process for standalone systems. Firmware updates are evaluated against vendor release notes and tested in non-production environments before production deployment. INVITE monitors Lenovo security advisories and coordinates firmware remediation for critical vulnerabilities within defined SLA windows — ensuring hardware stays current without disrupting production workloads. How long does a Lenovo server infrastructure deployment take with INVITE? Standard Lenovo ThinkSystem rack server deployments — including configuration, imaging, and integration with existing virtualization platforms — typically complete within two to four weeks from hardware arrival. ThinkAgile HCI cluster deployments, including cluster initialization and vSAN or Azure Stack HCI configuration, typically require three to five weeks. Larger data center refresh projects spanning multiple server generations and storage migrations are scoped on a project basis, with timelines typically ranging from six to sixteen weeks depending on environment complexity and migration risk tolerance.
