Lenovo ThinkSystem DM3010H

Introduction

Lenovo ThinkSystem DM3010H is a unified, hybrid storage system that is designed to provide performance, simplicity, capacity, security, and high availability for small to large enterprises. ThinkSystem DM3010H delivers enterprise-class storage management capabilities with a wide choice of host connectivity options, flexible drive configurations, and enhanced data management features.

The ThinkSystem DM3010H is a perfect fit for small offices, edge locations and remote offices that demand a wide range of general-purpose workloads: including backup and archiving, file services, Hybrid Cloud, Integrated ransomware, Microsoft applications, unified data management, virtualization and other storage I/O-intensive applications.

A single Lenovo ThinkSystem DM3010H Storage Array scales up to 144 drives with the attachment of ThinkSystem DM120S 2U12 LFF, DM600S 4U60 LFF, and DM240S 2U24 SFF Expansion Enclosures.

Key features

The ThinkSystem DM3010H offers the following key features and benefits:

• Unified, hybrid storage with dual active/active controller configurations for high availability and performance.
• A comprehensive set of advanced storage management features, including SSD read cache, hybrid storage pools, snapshots, volume copy, quality of service, thin provisioning, compression, deduplication, encryption, disk-based backup, application- and virtual machine-aware backup, quick data recovery, clustering, synchronous replication, and asynchronous replication.
• DM Series is designed to meet high availability requirements for mission critical operations. Through redundant hardware design and advanced software availability features, including snapshotting, replication, and autonomous ransomware protection. DM Series can be implemented to deliver high application availability.
• Improved performance and data protection with RAID-DP and RAID-TEC, as well as support for traditional RAID 4.
• Flexible host connectivity to match diverse client needs with support for unified NAS, SAN, and S3 storage protocols, including 10/25 GbE for Ethernet and 8/16/32 Gb for Fibre Channel connectivity.
• Supports two controllers. A controller provides interfaces for host connectivity, internal drives, and runs Lenovo ThinkSystem Storage Manager.
• 12 Gb SAS drive-side connectivity with multipathing with up to 12x 3.5-inch large form factor (LFF) drives in the 2U12 LFF enclosures, up to 60x 3.5-inch LFF drives in the 4U60 LFF expansion enclosures, or up to 24x 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF) drives in the 2U24 SFF expansion enclosures.
• Scalability to up to 132 drives for the DM3010H with the attachment of 5x DM240S 2U24 SFF expansion enclosures or 2x DM600S 4U60 LFF expansion enclosures to satisfy growing needs for storage capacity.
• Flexibility in storing data on capacity-optimized SAS SSDs, performance-optimized enterprise SAS HDDs, or capacity-optimized enterprise NL SAS HDDs; mixing and matching drive types within a single system to perfectly meet performance and capacity requirements for various workloads.
• Acceleration of read-centric workloads with the high-speed, low-latency onboard NVMe SSD caching.
• Scale-out clustering of up to 12 ThinkSystem DM Series storage systems for NAS connectivity or up to six DM Series storage systems for SAN connectivity.
• Intuitive, web-based GUI for easy system setup and management.
• Lenovo XClarity support for centralized systems management of Lenovo x86 servers, switches, and storage, which provides automated agent-less discovery, inventory, monitoring, and additional platform-specific functions across multiple systems.
• Designed for 99.9999% availability with redundant hot-swap components, including controllers and I/O modules, power supplies, cooling modules (4U60 LFF enclosures only), and non-disruptive firmware upgrades.

The ThinkSystem DM3010H supports the following drives either directly or with storage attachments. See a further explanation below:

• 2U12 LFF and 4U60 LFF high-capacity nearline HDDs: 4 TB, 8 TB, 10 TB, and 16 TB 7.2K rpm
• Supported drives of type: 3.5" large form factor (LFF) drives ( NL SAS )
• 2U24 SFF capacity-optimized SSDs: 960 GB, 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB, and 15.36 TB
• Supported drives of type: 2.5" small form factor (SFF) drives ( SAS SSD )
• 2U24 SFF enterprise SAS HDDs: 900 GB, 1.2 TB, and 1.8 TB 10K rpm
• Supported drives of type: 2.5" small form factor (SFF) drives ( SAS )

All drives are dual-port and hot-swappable.

The ThinkSystem DM3010H supports attachment of the following ThinkSystem DM Series expansion enclosures:

• Up to 9x DM120S 2U12 LFF enclosures.
• Up to 2x DM600S 4U60 LFF enclosures.
• Up to 5x DM240S 2U24 SFF enclosures.
• A combination of DM3010H , 5x DM240S expansions and 1x DM120S expansion for a maximum of 144 drives
• A combination of DM3010H , 2x DM600S expansions and 1x DM120S expansion for a maximum of 144 drives

Customers can intermix 2U12 LFF, 4U60 LFF, and 2U24 SFF expansion enclosures behind a 2U12 LFF enclosure. This configuration delivers the added flexibility to mix 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch drives within a single system (but not within the enclosure).

More drives and expansion enclosures are designed to be dynamically added with virtually no downtime, which helps to respond to ever-growing capacity demands quickly and seamlessly.

The ThinkSystem DM3010H offers high levels of system and data availability with the following technologies:

• Dual-active controllers (high availability pair) with automatic load balancing and failover
• Mirrored, battery-backed controller NVRAM
• Dual-port SAS HDDs with automatic drive failure detection and rebuild
• Redundant, hot-swappable and customer replaceable hardware components, including SFP+ transceivers, controllers, I/O modules, power supplies, cooling modules (4U60 LFF only), and drives
• Automated failover for the data path between the host and the drives with multipathing
• Non-disruptive controller and drive firmware upgrades
• Scale-out clustering