Lenovo Storage DX8200C Object Storage

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C powered by Cloudian appliance provides affordable, highly efficient, high-capacity storage to meet the growth of unstructured data, including media images, video, backups, web content, and file shares. It makes it easy to build full-featured, on-premise Amazon S3-compliant storage at a cost of pennies per GB per month. The pre-validated Lenovo system that is based on the Cloudian HyperStore object-storage platform provides petabyte-level scalability, high resiliency, geographic independence, and multi-tenancy.

The Cloudian HyperStore software provides enterprise-grade, scalable, secure and cost-effective object storage solutions for on premise, private and hybrid clouds. It delivers multi-data center storage with no constraints on data size; unlimited scale; optional, fully automated data tiering to any S3 cloud; and support for all S3 ecosystem applications (1000+ and growing). HyperStore ensures seamless S3 integration with every available AWS/S3 application.

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C is shown in the following figure.

Figure 1. Lenovo Storage DX8200C

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C is built on industry-leading Lenovo servers that feature enterprise-class reliability, management, and security.

HyperStore’s peer-to-peer architecture allows almost endless scaling from as few as three servers to many hundreds of servers, across data centers and geographic regions.

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C is designed for always-on data storage with protection using Erasure Coding and Replication. It is secured with encryption, certificate-based access controls, and multi-tenancy controls.

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C powered by Cloudian solution is part of the Lenovo StorSelect Software Defined Storage (SDS) program, which provides quality, engineering expertise, and Lenovo’s worldwide global services. You can quickly and confidently deploy new SDS technologies using preloaded appliances with software from best-of-breed Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) on proven Lenovo systems.

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C powered by Cloudian HyperStore provides an affordable, highly efficient and durable storage platform to meet the growth of unstructured data. It has virtually unlimited scalability with native support of hundreds of S3 applications.

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C infrastructure is shown in the following figure.

Figure 2. Lenovo Storage DX8200C infrastructure

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C offers the following features:

• Hybrid storage cloud

  Builds highly cost effective data storage by securely moving data between public and private clouds.

• Lower cost

  Uses industry-leading Lenovo servers to deliver highly scalable and durable software defined storage with modular architecture that accommodates hot-swappable, redundant, and highly available components to eliminate downtime, data migration, and forklift upgrades.

• Limitless scalability

  Scales on demand with your business. Lenovo Storage DX8200C systems can grow from tens of terabytes to petabyte scale and beyond.

• Always on

  Designed to tolerate all disk, server, rack, network and datacenter failures and automatically fixes inconsistent data.

• Data protection

  Choose from various data protection options via storage policies based on cost efficiency and security levels.

• Data analytics

  The intelligent storage system can capture additional information about your data and run in-place analytics on that data.

• Multi-tenancy architecture

  Designed from the ground up to support multi-tenant applications and to isolate and protect tenant data with built in quality of service (QoS), billing and reporting.

• Billing and reporting

  Configure chargeback, rate plans and report storage utilization based on users, department and applications.

• Agility

  100% software-defined storage architecture which dynamically adjusts to changing demands and allows your storage to scale with your business needs.

• Natively S3

  Fully S3 compliant API deliver broadest range of S3 feature coverage and 100% fidelity with AWS S3 API.

• Geo distribution

  Automatically distribute data in one or multiple data center across the globe with single global namespace.

The following figure shows the front view of the Lenovo Storage DX8200C.

Figure 3. Lenovo Storage DX8200C front view

The following figure shows the rear view of the Lenovo Storage DX8200C.

Figure 4. Lenovo Storage DX8200C rear view

The following table lists the system specifications of the Lenovo Storage DX8200C appliances.

The following table lists the base models of the Lenovo Storage DX8200C nodes. Custom factory-build models can also be used.

Note: A minimum of three nodes are required per solution; each model number represents one node.

Note: The following region- or geo-specific letters are used:

• A = Asia Pacific (US English documentation)
• M = Australia and New Zealand (US English documentation)
• C = China (Simplified Chinese documentation)
• G = Europe, Middle East, Africa (UK English documentation)
• B = Hong Kong (Traditional Chinese documentation)
• J = Japan (Japanese documentation)
• K = Korea (Korean documentation)
• U = North America, Latin America (US English documentation)
• V = Taiwan (Traditional Chinese documentation)

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C ships with one Intel Xeon processor E5-2630 v4. The processor specifications are listed in the following table.

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C supports Lenovo TruDDR4 memory. TruDDR memory is selected, tested and tuned to maximize performance and reliability, and it enables extended memory performance features to support memory speeds that exceed industry standards.

The appliance supports up to 12 DIMMs with one processor. The processor has four memory channels, and there are three DIMMs per channel.

Note: The appliance has 24 DIMM slots, however, it supports only up to 12 DIMMs.

The following memory protection technologies are supported:

• ECC
• Chipkill

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C supports the internal drive bay configurations that are listed in the following table. The SSD boot drives are configured in a RAID 1 array.

The following table summarizes features of the storage controllers used in the Lenovo Storage DX8200C.

* Connected via the SAS expander that is built into the 3.5-inch drive backplane.

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C provides two-port 10 GbE and four-port 1 GbE network connectivity. The Intel X520 10 GbE Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapter that is based on the Intel 82599 network interface controller (NIC) provides two 10 GbE ports with SFP+ connectors. The onboard 1 GbE solution that is based on the Broadcom BCM5719 chip provides four 10/100/1000 Mb Ethernet ports with RJ-45 connectors.

The 10 GbE SFP+ ports require SFP+ transceivers or direct-attach copper (DAC) cables that should be ordered together with the appliance (up to two SFP+ transceivers or DAC cables per appliance). The following table lists supported SFP+ transceiver and cable options.

Note: The Lenovo Storage DX8200C ships with one 1.5 m SFP+ Passive DAC Cable (00AY764).

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C supports up to two redundant power supplies, and is capable of N+N redundancy. If a model comes with one power supply, the second power supply can be ordered as an option. The following table lists the power supply options.

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C models listed in Models ship with two 1.5m, 10A/100-250V, C13 to IEC 320-C14 rack power cables. A hot-swap power supply option comes with one 2.8m, 10A/100-250V, IEC 320-C13 to C14 rack power cable.

Other line cords or rack power cables can be ordered with the Lenovo Storage DX8200C, if needed (see the following table).

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C runs preloaded Cloudian HyperStore software that offers the following features:

• 100% S3 API compatibility

  Allows developers continued use of Amazon’s S3 SDK without any changes to S3 APIs in development.

• Scale-out peer-to-peer cloud storage platform

  Scales to thousands of nodes and billions of objects in a bucket for reliable, affordable and scalable hybrid, private and public cloud storage solutions with granular storage policy management, reporting and administration.

• Multi-tenancy

  Multiple users and applications can use and share a single scale-out storage infrastructure with Role Based Access Control (RBAC) to control access to users’ data.

• Self-service portal

  Users can select and provision storage services on demand from a service catalog through a self-service portal.

• Quality of Service (QoS)

  Uses QoS to vigorously control usage rate limits for each group or on a per user basis.

• Quotas

  Dynamically controls storage quotas for each group or on a per user basis.

• Data protection

  Creates logical storage policies for groups or users with either replication or erasure coding storage policies, or a combination of both to easily meet your IT requirements for data protection and data availability.

• Smart storage policies

  Users can define their own policies for data protection to allow IT administrators to focus on providing Storage as a Service (STaaS) and giving users the self-service look and feel of an AWS S3 service while providing IT oversight and control.

• Smart tiering

  Defines tiering policy on a per bucket level and automatically tiers to Amazon S3, Glacier or other S3 endpoints such as tape libraries.

• Single or multi-datacenter

  Supports geo-distributed model that enables lower latency and provides better cloud services performance with a single global namespace.

• Chargeback and accounting

  Built-in analytics easily performs chargeback at the group or user level and creates usage and storage reports for accounting purposes.

• Security and encryption

  SSL support for secure access and supports AES 256 encryption for data-at-rest on premise and on public clouds.

• Tunable consistency levels

  Supports logical storage policies with the data consistency levels to meet your IT and data protection requirements.

• Store files as objects

  Granular metadata management at the object level with metadata and file that are bundled into an object for near-infinite scalability of highly available shared storage.

• Object lifecycle management

  Users can dynamically manage their own data and object retention period with IT having the management oversight for security and long term data protection.

• Data compression

  Reduces storage usage and increases your storage capacity savings with built-in data compression

• Proactive rebuild

  Tracks and logs signs of problems with a node, disk, or network failure, or incomplete I/O to quickly pinpoint the problem and rebuild the data in a matter of hours instead of days.

• Object locator

  Enables an administrator to easily locate any object and determine the number of copies that exist, as well as their exact storage location across geographically dispersed data centers to meet compliance regulations.

• Rebuild on read

  Objects are checked on a read request and missing or out-of-date replicas are automatically replaced or updated.

• Version control

  Users can access different revisions of the same file stored on the system with a S3 client.

• Event notifications

  Uses secure SNMP traps and JMX for system monitoring and for charge back reporting.

• Geo clusters

  Deploy multi-site clusters for disaster recovery purposes and to ensure your data is highly available and always on.

• Replication

  Provides the ability to replicate objects to other S3 endpoints such as another Cloudian HyperStore for disaster recovery (DR).

The models of the Lenovo Storage DX8200C listed in Models come with a 3-year software support and subscription license for the total internal storage capacity of the particular model.

For custom models of the Lenovo Storage DX8200C, software licenses must be purchased together with the appliances. The number of licenses required is based on the total storage capacity of the entire solution.

The software license options are listed in the following table.

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C supports the following systems management tools:

• Integrated Management Module 2.1
• Light path diagnostics
• Lenovo XClarity
• Cloudian Management Console
• Lenovo XClarity Energy Manager

Integrated Management Module 2.1

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C contains Integrated Management Module II (IMM2.1), which provides advanced service-processor control, monitoring, and an alerting function. If an environmental condition exceeds a threshold or if a system component fails, the IMM2.1 lights LEDs to help you diagnose the problem, records the error in the event log, and alerts you to the problem. The Integrated Management Module Advanced Upgrade comes standard with the appliances, and it provides a virtual presence for remote management capabilities of the appliances.

The IMM provides remote appliance management through industry-standard interfaces:

• Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Version 2.0
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Version 3
• Common Information Model (CIM)
• Web browser

The remote presence feature provides the following functions:

• Remotely viewing video with graphics resolutions up to 1600x1200 at 75 Hz with up to 23 bits per pixel colors, regardless of the system state
• Remotely accessing the appliance using the keyboard and mouse from a remote client
• Mapping the CD or DVD drive, diskette drive, and USB flash drive on a remote client, and mapping ISO and diskette image files as virtual drives that are available for use by the appliance
• Uploading a diskette image to the IMM memory and mapping it to the appliance as a virtual drive

Lenovo XClarity

Lenovo XClarity is a centralized systems management solution that helps administrators deliver infrastructure faster. This solution integrates easily with Lenovo System x M5 and X6 rack servers, Lenovo Storage DX Series, Converged HX Series appliances, and Flex System, providing automated agent-less discovery, monitoring, firmware updates, configuration management, and bare metal deployment of operating systems and hypervisors across multiple systems.

Lenovo XClarity Administrator is an optional software component for the Lenovo Storage DX8200C which can be downloaded and used at no charge to discover and monitor Lenovo Storage DX Series and manage firmware upgrades for them.

If software support and subscription is required for Lenovo XClarity Administrator, Lenovo XClarity Pro software subscription must be ordered. Lenovo XClarity Pro is licensed on a per managed system basis, that is, each managed Lenovo Storage DX8200C system requires a license.

Lenovo XClarity Administrator offers the following features:

• Auto-discovery and monitoring of Lenovo Storage DX Series
• Firmware updates and compliance enforcement
• External alerts and notifications via SNMP traps, syslog remote logging, and e-mail
• Secure connections to managed endpoints
• NIST 800-131A or FIPS 140-2 compliant cryptographic standards between the management solution and managed endpoints
• Integration into existing higher level management systems such as cloud automation and orchestration tools through REST APIs, providing extensive external visibility and control over hardware resources
• An intuitive, easy-to-use GUI
• Scripting support with Windows PowerShell, providing command-line visibility and control over hardware resources

Cloudian Management Console

The Cloudian Management Console (CMC) is a web-based user interface for Cloudian HyperStore
system administrators, group administrators, and end users. The functionality available through
the CMC depends on the user type associated with a user account.

Lenovo XClarity Energy Manager is an optional, separately orderable software component for the Lenovo Storage DX8200C that is licensed on a per managed node basis; that is, each managed Lenovo Storage DX8200C system requires a license.

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C has the following dimensions and weight (approximate):

• Height: 87 mm (3.4 in.)
• Width: 446 mm (17.5 in.)
• Depth: 800 mm (31.5 in.)
• Weight (maximum): 34 kg (75 lb)

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C is supported in the following environment:

• Air temperature:
  • System on: 5 °C to 40 °C (41 °F to 104 °F); altitude: 0 to 950 m (3,117 ft); decrease the maximum system temperature by 1 °C for every 175-m increase in altitude above 950 m.
  • System off: 5 °C to 45 °C (41 °F to 113 °F)
  • Shipment: -40 °C to +60 °C (-40 °F to 140 °F) at up to 10,700 m (35,105 ft)
• Maximum altitude: 3,050 m (10,000 ft) at 5 °C to 28 °C (41 °F to 82 °F)
• Humidity:
  • System on: 8% to 85%, maximum dew point 24 °C, maximum rate of change 5 °C/hr
  • System off: 8% to 85%, maximum dew point 27 °C
• Design to ASHRAE Class A3, ambient of 36 °C to 40 °C (96.8 °F to 104 °F), with relaxed support:
  • Supports cloud-like workload with no performance degradation acceptable (Turbo-Off).
  • Under no circumstance can any combination of worst-case workload and configuration result in system shutdown or design exposure at 40 °C.
  • The worst-case workload (like Linpack, Turbo-On) might have performance degradation.
• Electrical:
  • 100 to 127 (nominal) V AC; 50 Hz or 60 Hz; 8.6 A
  • 200 to 240 (nominal) V AC; 50 Hz or 60 Hz; 4.2 A
  • Input kilovolt-amperes (kVA) (approximately): 1.047 kVA
• BTU output (maximum): 3572 Btu/hr (1047 watts)
• Noise level:
  • 6.6 bels (operating)
  • 6.4 bels (idle)

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C conforms to the following regulations:

• AS/NZS CISPR 22, Class A (Australia/New Zealand)
• BSMI CNS 13438, Class A; CNS 14336 (Taiwan)
• CCC GB 4943.1, GB 17625.1, GB 9254 Class A (China)
• CE Mark (European Union)
• CISPR 22, Class A
• EAC (Russia)
• EN 55022, Class A
• EN 55024
• EN/IEC 61000-3-2
• EN/IEC 61000-3-3
• EN/IEC/CSA/UL 60950-1
• Energy Star 2.0
• FCC Part 15, Class A (United States)
• GS/TUV (Germany)
• ICES-003/NMB-03, Class A (Canada)
• MSIP (Korea)
• NOM-019 (Mexico)
• Reduction of Hazardous Substances (ROHS)
• TUV S (Argentina)
• VCCI, Class A (Japan)

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C has a three-year customer-replaceable unit (CRU) and onsite (for field-replaceable units [FRUs] only) limited warranty with standard call center support during normal business hours, 9x5 Next Business Day replacement parts delivery, and Remote Technical Support (RTS) services. Also available are Lenovo Services warranty maintenance upgrades and post-warranty maintenance agreements, with a well-defined scope of services, including service hours, response time, term of service, and service agreement terms and conditions.

The Lenovo local support centers perform problem determination and resolution for hardware-related issues and escalate to Cloudian, on behalf of the customer, for software-related problem determination. Cloudian will contact the customer and will own the software-related problem resolution until closure.

Lenovo warranty service upgrade offerings are region-specific. Not all warranty service upgrades are available in every region. For more information about Lenovo warranty service upgrade offerings that are available in your region, go to the Lenovo Enterprise Solutions Configurator (LESC):
http://lesc.lenovo.com

The following table explains warranty service definitions.

The following Lenovo warranty service upgrades are available:

• Warranty and maintenance service upgrades:
  • Three, four, or five years of 9x5 or 24x7 service coverage
  • Parts delivered or technician installed parts from next business day to 4 or 2 hours
  • Committed repair service from 24 to 8 or 6 hours
  • Warranty extension of up to 5 years
  • Post warranty extensions
• Committed Service Repair

  Committed Service Repair (CSR) enhances the level of Warranty Service Upgrade or Post Warranty/Maintenance Service offering associated with the selected systems. Offerings vary and are available in select regions.

  • Priority handling to meet defined time frames to restore the failing machine to good working condition
  • Service performed 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, and within 6 hours, 8 hours, or 24 hours
• YourDrive YourData

  Lenovo’s YourDrive YourData service is a multi-drive retention offering that ensures your data is always under your control, regardless of the number of drives that are installed in your Lenovo server. In the unlikely event of a drive failure, you retain possession of your drive while Lenovo replaces the failed drive part. Your data stays safely on your premises, in your hands. The YourDrive YourData service can be purchased in convenient bundles with Lenovo warranty upgrades and extensions.

• Hardware Installation Services

  Lenovo experts can seamlessly manage the physical installation of your server, storage, or networking hardware. Working at a time convenient for you (business hours or off shift), the technician will unpack and inspect the systems on your site, install options, mount in a rack cabinet, connect to power and network, check and update firmware to the latest levels, verify operation, and dispose of the packaging, allowing your team to focus on other priorities.

The Lenovo Storage DX8200C includes three-year, four-year, or five-year software support and subscription (depending on the selected warranty service upgrade and software license) that entitles you to submit service requests to troubleshoot Cloudian software issues and receive code updates, including fixes, patches, and new software releases.

The Lenovo local support centers perform problem determination and resolution for hardware-related issues and escalate to Cloudian, on behalf of the customer, for software-related problem determination. Cloudian will contact the customer and will own the software-related problem resolution until closure.

Software support that is provided by Cloudian includes 24x7 (for critical errors) or 9x5 (for errors other than critical) phone and web coverage with the following target response times (priorities are determined by Cloudian based on the impact on functionality):

• Priority 1 Error (Critical: Complete inability to store and retrieve data): 30 minutes
• Priority 2 Error (Major: Severe loss of any major functionality): 4 business hours
• Priority 3 Error (Minor: Any error that is not Critical or Major): 24 business hours

The following table lists the top-of-rack Ethernet switches that are offered by Lenovo that can be used in Lenovo Storage DX8200C solutions.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Top-of-rack Switches category:
http://lenovopress.com/servers/options/switches#rt=product-guide

The following table lists the rack cabinets that are offered by Lenovo that can be used in Lenovo Storage DX8200C solutions.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Rack Cabinets category:
http://lenovopress.com/servers/options/racks

The following table lists the power distribution units (PDUs) that are offered by Lenovo that can be used in Lenovo Storage DX8200C solutions.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the PDU category:
http://lenovopress.com/servers/options/pdu#rt=product-guide

The following table lists the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units that are offered by Lenovo that can be used in Lenovo Storage DX8200C solutions.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Uninterruptible Power Supply Units category:
http://lenovopress.com/servers/options/ups#rt=product-guide

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For more information, see these resources:

• Lenovo Storage DX8200C product page
  https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/p/77X2SHESH06
• Lenovo Enterprise Solutions Configurator (LESC):
  http://lesc.lenovo.com
• Standalone Solution Configuration Tool:
  http://lesc.lenovo.com/ssct
• System x and Cluster Solutions Configurator (x-config)
  http://lesc.lenovo.com/products/hardware/configurator/worldwide/bhui/asit/
• Support Portal - Lenovo Storage DX8200C
  https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/storage/storselect/dx8200c/5120