Lenovo ThinkSystem DG5200

Introduction

The Lenovo ThinkSystem DG5200 and DG7200 Unified Storage Arrays are an all-QLC flash storage system. The systems are available as unified and are designed to provide performance, simplicity, capacity, security, and high availability for medium-sized enterprises. Powered by the ONTAP storage management software, the DG5200 and DG7200 deliver enterprise-class storage management capabilities with a wide choice of host connectivity options and enhanced data management features. The DG5200 and DG7200 are a perfect fit for a wide range of enterprise workloads, including artificial intelligence, big data, and analytics.

The Lenovo ThinkSystem DG5200 and DG7200 models are 2U rack-mount controller enclosures that include two controllers.

Both systems can be combined with other DM and DG systems to create a clustered system.

Key features

The Lenovo ThinkSystem DG5200 and DG7200 Unified Storage Arrays offer the following key features and benefits:

• Available as a Unified storage (File, Block, Object) platform.
• Unified platform options are available with either the Essentials or Complete software feature offerings.
• Compact QLC Flash storage system delivering high-performance and low-latency at an affordable price point, enabling customers of all sizes to enhance their analytics and AI deployments and accelerate applications’ access to data.
• All-flash array capabilities to meet the demand for higher speed storage and provide higher IOPs and bandwidth with lower power usage and total cost of ownership than hybrid or HDD-based solutions.
• All-flash storage with dual active/active controller configurations for high availability and performance.
• A rich set of storage management functions available, including 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.
• 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 object storage protocols, including 10/25 Gbe and 40/100 GbE NAS, iSCSI, and NVMe/TCP 16/32/64 Fibre Channel connectivity, and 64 Gb NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC).
• NVMe drive-side connectivity with multipathing with up to 24x 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF) drives in the controller enclosure and expansion enclosure.
• Optional licensed functions, object storage tiering (FabricPool).
• Scale-out clustering of up to 4 ThinkSystem DG Series and DM Series storage systems for NAS and SAN connectivity.
• Intuitive, web-based GUI for easy system setup and management.
• Designed for 99.9999% availability with redundant hot-swap components, including controllers and I/O modules, drives, power supplies, and non-disruptive firmware upgrades.

The DG5200 and DG7200 offer high levels of system and data availability with the following features and for the following workloads:

• Dual-active controllers (high availability pair) with automatic load balancing and failover.
• Mirrored, battery-backed controller NVMEM, 8 GB per controller, 16 GB per system/HA-pair
• Hot-swappable drives and dual-port QLC SSDs with automatic drive failure detection and rebuild.
• Automated failover for the data path between the host and the drives with multipathing.
• Non-disruptive controller and drive firmware upgrades
• Scale-out clustering
• For workloads: ERP, Microsoft Exchange, Data lakes