ThinkSystem DM
Series Hybrid Flash
Hybrid Flash - fast, flexible,
reliable, and secure
The Challenge The Solution
Enabling the data-driven business across flash, Unified scale-out hybrid storage with best-in-
disk, and cloud class data management
Storage has evolved from an IT afterthought to a A new approach to storage is needed that combines
crucial component within a company’s infrastructure. high-performance hardware and adaptive, scalable
Businesses are feeling the pressure to keep up with the storage software into an integrated solution. It must
explosive data growth. Standard hard disks are no support current workloads, yet also take advantage of
longer an acceptable medium to keep up with the the new applications and evolving IT models.
always-adapting needs a company has when it comes
to storage. DM Series Hybrid systems support a broad range of
unified workloads and can seamlessly scale
Shrinking budgets, overextended staff, and the never- performance and capacity, simplifying the task of
ending growth of data that must be stored and managing growth and complexity. This flexibility
accessed efficiently dictate the need for a new enables you to place your data in the precise storage
approach. environment that delivers the ideal combination of
performance, capacity, and cost-effectiveness so you
You still must consider storage uptime, scalability, and can keep up with changing business needs while
cost efficiency, but now you also need to take meeting your core IT requirements.
advantage of flash acceleration, cloud integration,
unified support for SAN and NAS, and simplified data For growing organizations that are concerned about
mining for competitive advantage. budgets and meeting challenging IT needs, Lenovo
ThinkSystem DM Series Hybrid systems are the perfect
For those data centers hampered by structural choice.
limitations in legacy storage and data architectures,
this can be problematic. Traditional storage arrays tend
to consist of isolated data silos and cannot meet
today’s service-level requirements or easily leverage
public or private clouds.
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Scale and adapt to meet changing needs Optimize hybrid cloud deployment
Expand from a base of two nodes to a 6-array cluster Many organizations today use cloud IT models as a
containing up to 13.8PB (SAN) or a 12-array cluster service-oriented IT architecture to enhance return on
containing up to 27.6PB(NAS).For flexible development investment and assets. For this reason, we optimized DM
as required by your organization, you can cluster DM Series hybrid arrays running for private and hybrid cloud
Series all-flash models. with secure multitenancy, quality of service (QoS),
nondisruptive operations, and easily defined tiers of
Adding and replacing storage systems and components is service.
non-disruptive. This enables you to perform updates while
running your usual workloads, without having to worry Simplified data management and
about maintenance windows.
monitoring
Extreme availability, non-disruptive Lenovo XClarity™ Administrator is a centralized resource
management solution that is aimed at reducing
operations complexity, speeding response, and enhancing the
Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series arrays are designed to availability of Lenovo® server systems and storage
meet high availability requirements for mission critical solutions*. Lenovo XClarity™ Administrator allows users to
operations. Through redundant hardware design and reduce complexity, speed response times, and enhance
advanced software availability features, including the availability of Lenovo storage and server systems and
snapshotting, replication, , and advanced ransomware solutions, providing automated agent-less discovery,
protection, ThinkSystem DM Series can be implemented inventory, monitoring, and additional platform-specific
to deliver high application availability. Software and functions across multiple systems.
firmware updates, hardware repair and replacement, and
load balancing are performed in real-time, with no need Lenovo XClarity Administrator runs as a virtual appliance
for planned downtime. Integrated data protection and provides agent-free hardware management that
technologies protect your data, accelerate recovery, and automates discovery, inventory, tracking, updates,
integrate with leading backup applications for easier monitoring, and provisioning for Lenovo® server systems,
management. storage, network switches, hyperconverged and
ThinkAgile solutions. A single XClarity Administrator
MetroCluster expands your data protection to eliminate instance supports managing a maximum of 1,000 devices.
the risk of data loss by synchronously mirroring data
between locations for nonstop availability of information. ThinkSystem Intelligent Monitoring is an intuitive digital
You can configure a MetroCluster storage array to mirror advisor for storage solutions that helps to monitors and
data within a single data center, or between two different predicts capacity usage, helping to uncover risk factors
locations up to 700 km away. and prevents issues before they affect your business.
Identify trends to proactively optimize protection,
Reduce your TCO and improve your ROI with efficiency, and upgrades through a single web-accessible
technologies such as deduplication, compression, platform. Intelligent capacity and performance monitoring
compaction, thin provisioning, and space-efficient will allow you to stay ahead of the curve and plan
snapshot copies — all leading to a lower cost per effective accordingly to meet your business’s growth needs.
gigabyte of storage.
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Specifications
Scale-Out DM7100H DM5000H DM3010H
NAS Scale-out: 12 arrays
Maximum Drives (HDD/SSD) 8640 1728 1728
Maximum Raw Capacity 134PB 27.4PB 27.6PB
Maximum onboard Flash Cache 48TB 24TB 24TB
Based on NVMe Technology
Maximum Flash Pool 288TB 288TB 288TB
Maximum Memory 3072GB 768GB 1536GB
SAN Scale-out: 6 Arrays
Maximum Drives (HDD/SSD) 4320 864 864
Maximum Raw Capacity 67PB 13.7PB 13.8PB
Maximum Onboard Flash Cache 24TB 12TB 12TB
Based on NVMe Technology
Maximum Flash Pool 144TB 144TB 144TB
Maximum Memory 1536GB 384GB 768GB
Cluster Interconnect 2x 100GbE 4x 10GbE 4x 25GbE
Per High Availability Pair Active-Active Dual Controller
Specifications
Maximum Drives (HDD/SSD) 720 144 144
Maximum Raw Capacity 11.2PB 2.3PB 2.3PB
Maximum Onboard Flash Cache 4TB 2TB 2TB
Based on NVMe Technology
Maximum Flash Pool 24TB 24TB 24TB
Controller Form Factor 4U 2U / 24 drives 2U / 12 drives
ECC Memory 256GB 64GB 128GB
NVRAM 32GB 8GB 16GB
PCIe Expansion Slots 10 0 0
Onboard I/O: UTA 2 (8Gb/16Gb 0 8 0
FC, 1GbE/10GbE/25GbE, or
FCVI ports MetroCluster Only
FC Target Ports (32Gb 32 Not Applicable 8
autoranging, maximum)
FC Target Ports (16Gb 8 Not Applicable Not Applicable
autoranging, maximum)
40GbE Ports (maximum) Not Applicable Not Applicable Not Applicable
25GbE Ports 24 Not Applicable 8
10GbE Ports (maximum) 32 8 0
10GbE BASE-T Ports (1GbE 16 8 8
autoranging) (maximum)
100GbE ports (40GbE 16 Not Applicable Not Applicable
autoranging)
12Gb / 6Gb SAS Ports 32 4 6
(maximum)
OS Version 9.7 and later 9.4 and later 9.13.1
Expansion Shelves DM240S, DM120S, DM600S
Protocols Supported FC, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, CIFS/SMB, S3
Host/Client Operating Systems Microsoft Windows, Linux, VMware ESXi
Supported
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DM Series Hybrid Software The DM Series software bundle includes a set of products that delivers leading data management,
storage efficiency, data protection, high performance, and advanced capabilities such as instant
cloning, data replication, application-aware backup and recovery, and data retention.
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Software Features
Feature Function Benefits
Ransomware Provides built-in, robust features that detect ransomware Automatically protects against ransomware attacks
Protection activity, prevent its spread, and enable quick recovery – and enables quick recovery to avoid paying the
including automatically taking snapshots and alerting ransom.
administrators when abnormal file activity is detected.
Data Utilizes data compaction, compression, and deduplication Reduces the amount of storage that you need to
Reduction to reduce the storage space needed for your data. purchase and maintain.
Unified Data Onboard management of Block, File, and Object data. Flexibility to manage and store every type of data on
Management one system and one management interface.
FlexClone® Instantaneously creates a file, LUN, and volume clones Saves time in testing and development and minimizes
without requiring additional storage. storage use.
FlexGroup™ Enables a single namespace to scale up to 20PB and 400 Maintains consistent high performance and resiliency
billion files. for compute-intensive workloads.
FlexVol® Creates flexibly sized volumes across a large pool of disks Enables storage systems to be used at maximum
and one or more RAID groups. efficiency and reduces hardware investment.
QoS Easy setup of QoS policies; automatically adjusts storage Simplifies operations and maintains consistent
(adaptive) resources based on work-load changes. workload performance within IOPS boundaries.
RAID-TEC Provides triple parity or double-parity RAID implementation Protect data without the performance impact of other
and RAID DP to protect against data loss. RAID implementations.
Technologies
SnapCenter® Provides host-based data management of Lenovo storage Offers application-aware backup and clone
for databases and business applications. management; automates error-free data restores.
SnapMirror® Enables automatic, incremental asynchronous, and Provides flexibility and efficiency to support backup,
synchronous data replication. data distribution, and disaster recovery.
SnapRestore® Rapidly restores single files, directories, or entire LUNs and Instantaneously recover files, and complete volumes
volumes from any Snapshot copy backup. from your backup with SnapCenter and supported
database plugins.
SnapLock® Provides WORM file-level locking, preventing changes and Supports regulatory compliance and organizational
deletion of the file. data retention requirements. Enables air-gap
separation of Snapshot copies for enhanced
ransomware protection and quick recovery from an
attack.
Volume and Provides built-in FIPS 140-2 data-at-rest encryption. Easily and efficiently protect at-rest data by
Aggregate encrypting any volume or aggregate on DM Series
Encryption system.
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