Introduction:
The Lenovo ThinkSystem DM3200F, DM5200F and DM7200F are all-NVMe flash unified storage systems designed to provide performance, simplicity, capacity, security, and high availability for medium-sized enterprises. Powered by ONTAP storage management software, the DM3200F, DM5200F and DM7200F deliver enterprise-class storage management capabilities with a wide choice of host connectivity options and enhanced data storage solutions. The DM3200F, DM5200F and DM7200F are a perfect fit for a wide range of enterprise workloads, including big data and analytics, artificial intelligence, engineering and design, enterprise applications, and other storage I/O-intensive applications.
The ThinkSystem DM3200F, DM5200F and DM7200F models are 2U rack-mount enclosure that includes two controllers, with memory of up to: 256 GB RAM per HA Pair for DM7200F, 128 GB RAM per HA Pair for DM5200F, 128 GB RAM per HA Pair for DM3200F and 24x NVMe U.2 SFF drives. Each controller provides adapter support for 10/25 GbE, 40/100 GbE or 16/32/64 Gb Fibre Channel (FC) ports for host connectivity, depending on the configuration.
A single ThinkSystem DM3200F Storage Array scales up to 48 NVMe SSDs per HA Pair with the attachment of one Lenovo ThinkSystem DM242N 2U24 SFF Expansion Enclosure. A single ThinkSystem DM5200F Storage Array scales up to 72 NVMe SSDs per HA pair with the attachment of two Lenovo ThinkSystem DM242N 2U24 SFF Expansion Enclosure. A single ThinkSystem DM7200F Storage Array scales up to 120 NVMe SSDs per HA Pair with the attachment of four Lenovo ThinkSystem DM242N 2U24 SFF Expansion Enclosure. Four expansions will require a supported 100Gb capable switch.
Key features :
The ThinkSystem DM3200F, DM5200F and DM7200F offer the following key features and benefits:
- A true unified storage platform - allowing NAS, SAN, and Object workloads
- Available with either the Essentials or Complete software feature offerings which provide feature flexibility
- Compact NVMe 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 meet the demand for higher speed storage and provide higher IOPs and bandwidth with lower 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 cloning, 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
- 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, and non-disruptive firmware upgrades
The DM3200F, DM5200F and DM7200F support 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs. All drives are dual-port and hot-swappable. Base units support attachment of DM242N 2U24 SFF expansion enclosures and drives are designed to be added dynamically, which helps to quickly and seamlessly respond to ever-growing capacity demands.
The base units offer high levels of system and data availability with the following features:
- Dual-active controllers (high availability pair) with automatic load balancing and failover
- Mirrored, battery-backed controller NVMEM. 8GB per controller on the DM3200F or on the DM5200F and 16GB per controller on the DM7200F
- Dual-port, SED, NVMe SSDs with automatic drive failure detection and rebuild
- Redundant, hot-swappable and customer replaceable hardware components, including transceivers, controllers, I/O modules, power supplies, 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, cluster any DM and DG systems together
