ThinkSystem DS Series All-Flash Array
Simple, powerful, and secure all-flash block storage
Datasheet
Published
11 Nov 2025Form Number
DS0201PDF size
4 pages, 2.6 MBThe Challenge
Organizations attempting to modernize their IT infrastructure with block (SAN) storage often struggle with balancing cost, complexity, and performance. Traditional block storage systems are designed to deliver high performance and reliability, but they have historically come with rigid architectures and management overhead that limit flexibility. IT teams face challenges when trying to scale systems to meet growing application demands without introducing bottlenecks or disrupting the existing workloads.
Additionally, integrating modern capabilities, such as automation or advanced data services, into legacy SAN environments can be difficult, requiring specialized skills and adding to operational costs. These barriers can slow down transformation initiatives and hinder the ability to fully align storage infrastructure with the evolving business needs.
Another challenge lies in managing risk while enabling innovation. Many organizations want the agility of modern block storage solutions that offer scale out architectures and built-in security, but achieving this often involves replacing or heavily reconfiguring existing systems. This creates uncertainty around data migration, application downtime, and potential performance trade-offs.
In some cases, IT leaders must choose between the simplicity of “good enough” solutions and the advanced data management capabilities that would deliver long-term efficiency and resiliency. These compromises have historically delayed modernization efforts, forcing organizations to pay for short-term stability over futureproofing their infrastructure.
The Solution
The Lenovo ThinkSystem DS Series removes the need for compromise by delivering streamlined, reliable, and secure all-flash storage equipped with advanced data services and protection capabilities. ThinkSystem DS Series systems empower organizations to modernize storage with ease, providing an intuitive experience for running virtual environments, mission-critical databases, and a wide range of SAN workloads.
Leveraging a scale-out, end-to-end NVMe design with active-active controllers, the ThinkSystem DS Series delivers exceptional availability, robust security, predictable performance, and simplified administration.
Organizations can transform their SAN infrastructure boosting application performance, ensuring continuous data access, and reducing management complexity.
The ThinkSystem DS Series offers models tailored for intensive, high-performance workloads, as well as a capacity-optimized system that supports large-scale, cost sensitive deployments. This flexibility also makes the ThinkSystem DS Series an excellent choice for secondary use cases such as backup and disaster recovery environments.
Integrated Data Protection
The Lenovo ThinkSystem DS Series software provides a comprehensive range of data protection features to fortify the security of your sensitive data. Anti-ransomware protection ensures comprehensive safeguarding of your critical data, both proactively and during post-attack recovery, mitigating the risk of potentially devastating financial ramifications.
With Lenovo ThinkSystem DS Series system software, businesses can achieve uninterrupted data availability with zero data loss and downtime. Your entire system can be safeguarded, ensuring comprehensive protection. Furthermore, the software offers a flexible and cost-effective solution for business continuity by enabling highly granular replication of specifically selected critical data, enhancing your data resilience strategies.
Simplified Monitoring and Management
ThinkSystem Intelligent Monitoring is a comprehensive, cloud-based digital advisor that simplifies managing and monitoring of performance, capacity, and health in Lenovo ThinkSystem Storage systems through features like events, alerts, performance troubleshooting, capacity reporting, and more.
Like any good advisor, ThinkSystem Intelligent Monitoring keeps you informed and highly efficient. It provides constant visibility into the health of your environment, lets you know when attention is required, and gives you clear guidance for any actions. ThinkSystem Intelligent Monitoring alerts, insights, and guidance are available in the web UI for full-featured visibility into system health, best next actions, upgrades, and more.
Specifications
A high-availability (HA) pair consists of two nodes in a single ThinkSystem DS Series system.
| DS3200 | DS5200 | DS7200 | DS5200C | |
| SAN Scale-out Maximum | 3 HA Pairs/Systems | 4 HA Pairs/Systems | 6 HA Pairs/Systems | 4 HA Pairs/Systems |
| Maximum Raw Capacity (PB) | 2.2PB | 4.4PB | 11.0PB | 5.88PB |
| Maximum Usable Capacity (PiB) | 1.7PiB | 3.4PiB | 8.3PiB | 4.4PiB |
| Maximum Effective Capacity (PiB) (based on 5:1) | 8.3PiB | 16.8PiB | 41.7PiB | 22.2PiB |
| Per-system specifications (high-availability dual controller HA pair) | ||||
| Controller Form Factor | 2U24 | 2U24 | 2U24 | 2U24 |
| Maximum SSDs | 48 | 72 | 120 | 48 |
| Maximum Raw Capacity (TB/PB) | 734TB | 1.1PB | 1.8PB | 1.47PB |
| Maximum Usable Capacity (TiB/PiB) | 567TiB | 858TiB | 1.4PiB | 1.11PiB |
| Maximum Effective Capacity (PiB) (based on 5:1) | 2.8PiB | 4.2PiB | 7.0PiB | 5.55PiB |
| PCIe Expansion slots | 8 | |||
| FC Target Ports (up to 64Gb) | 24 | |||
| Ethernet ports (100Gbps) | 12 | 16 | ||
| Storage Networking Supported | NVMe/TCP, NVMe/FC, FCP, iSCSI | |||
| OS Version | ONTAP 9.17.1 P1 or later | |||
| Shelves | DS240N | |||
| Host/Client OS Supported | Windows Server, Linux, VMware | |||
Some ports are reserved for Cluster Interconnect. Disk expansion will reduce host ports.
Software Features
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About Lenovo
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For More Information
To learn more more about the ThinkSystem DS Series All-Flash Array, contact your Lenovo representative or Business Partner, or visit lenovo.com/storage.
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Document number DS0201, published November 11, 2025. For the latest version, go to lenovopress.lenovo.com/ds0201.
