ThinkSystem DM Series All-Flash Array
Accelerate your business with all-flash NVMe transformation
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Businesses must continually improve the speed and responsiveness of key business operations if they are to reduce time to market and increase customer satisfaction. One key ingredient of this effort is all-flash storage, which greatly accelerates critical workloads.
However, as all-flash becomes prevalent throughout the data center, it soon becomes apparent that enterprise-grade data management capabilities are critical in a shared environment. To deliver the ultimate solution, all-flash storage needs to offer robust data management, integrated data protection, and seamless scalability for hybrid cloud environments.
To meet enterprise storage requirements, ThinkSystem All-Flash DM Series systems provide high performance, superior flexibility, best-in-class data management, and includes the industry first full end-to-end NVMe capabilities.
DM Series data management software gives customers unified storage across block, file, and object workloads. It accelerates your business while improving the efficiency, flexibility, and reliability of your IT operations.
This enterprise-class solution accelerates, manages, and protects your business-critical data. Customers should now consider all-flash solutions because they simplify data management at the same or better cost as traditional HDD-based arrays.
ThinkSystem DM Series provides an easy and risk-free transition to all-flash. Customers can seamlessly cluster DM Series hybrid and flash as well as multi-generational systems together to ensure absolute investment protection. DM Series systems were purpose-built for flash to deliver industry leading performance, capacity, and density.
ThinkSystem Intelligent Monitoring is an intelligent and intuitive digital advisor which uses AI and predictive analytics to provide imperative insights, proactive care and optimization, and customized dashboards enabling users to manage multiple DM and DE Series systems in a single web-accessible platform. Preemptive system information and alerts will expose risk factors and prevent problems before they affect your business and cut down on support costs and engagements. Intelligent capacity and performance monitoring will allow you to stay ahead of the curve and plan accordingly to meet your business’s growth needs.
Flexible management is also possible through XClarity support. With Lenovo XClarity management software, you can manage your Lenovo ThinkSystem servers, storage, and networking together.
The DM Series all-flash systems are a feature rich and fast storage platform that will beat your expectations of how a storage system should be. They offer superior performance and investment protection and allow you to scale your system up and out as your needs grow.
When you use the NVMe over Fibre channel protocol you can reduce your latency up to 50%, eliminating the bandwidth bottlenecks inherent in other systems caused by flash storage exceeding the speed of the network.
With Lenovo’s all-flash DM Series systems, you can:
Accelerate the speed of business while increasing operational efficiency:
Simplify IT operations while transforming data center economics:
Deploy flash everywhere with maximum flexibility while retaining the control and security of your data:
ThinkSystem DM Series All-Flash is ideal for performance critical applications such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, VDI, and server virtualization. It is also a great choice for a variety of common data center workloads in shared environments.
ThinkSystem DM Series includes a suite of powerful integrated data protection software to help protect your competitive advantage. Key benefits include:
The inline data reduction technologies built into DM Series systems will provide 3x space savings, and the following benefits:
Whether your performance and capacity needs change or your cloud strategy evolves in the future, your investment is protected:
DM7100F | DM5100F DM5100F SAN |
DM5000F DM5000F SAN |
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NAS Scale-out** | 12 High Availability pairs | ||
Maximum SSDs | 5760 (1152 NVMe + 4608 SAS) | 576 NVMe | 1728 |
Maximum Raw Capacity: All Flash | 88PB* / 78.15PiB* | 8.84PB / 7.85PiB | 24.1PB / 21.5PiB |
Effective Capacity (based on 3:1) | 264PB / 234.45PiB | 26.43PB / 23.47PiB | 72.3PB / 64.2PiB |
Maximum Memory | 3072GB | 1536GB | 768GB |
SAN Scale-out | 6 High Availability pairs | ||
Maximum SSDs | 2880 (576 NVMe + 2304 SAS) | 288 NVMe | 864 |
Maximum Raw Capacity | 44PB / 39.08PiB | 4.42PB / 3.92PiB | 13.2PB / 11.7PiB |
Effective Capacity | 132PB / 117.24PiB | 17PB / 15.1PiB | 39.6PB / 35.17PiB |
Maximum Memory | 1536GB | 768GB | 384GB |
Cluster Interconnect | 2x 100GbE | 4x 25GbE | 4x 10GbE |
Per High Availability Array Specifications | Active-Active Controller | ||
Maximum SSDs | 480 (96 NVMe + 384 SAS) | 48 NVMe | 144 |
Maximum Raw Capacity: All-Flash | 7.37PB / 6.55PiB | 737.28TB / 670.29TiB | 2.2PB / 1.9PiB |
Effective Capacity | 22.11PB / 19.65PiB | 2.11PB / 1.87PiB | 6.6PB / 5.8PiB |
Controller Form Factor | 4U chassis with two High Availability controllers | 2U chassis with two High Availability controllers and 24 NVMe SSD slots | 2U chassis with two High Availability controllers and 24 SSD slots |
Memory | 256GB | 128GB | 64GB |
NVRAM | 32GB | 16GB | 8GB |
PCIe Expansion Slots (maximum) | 10 | 4 | Not applicable |
FC Target Ports (32Gb autoranging, maximum) | 24 | 16 | Not applicable |
FC Target Ports (16Gb autoranging, maximum) | 8 | Not applicable | 8 |
40GbE Ports (maximum) | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable |
25 GbE Ports | 20 | 16 | Not applicable |
10GbE Ports (maximum) | 32 | Not applicable | 8 |
100GbE ports (40GbE autoranging) | 12 | 4 | Not applicable |
10GbE BASE-T Ports (1GbE autoranging) (maximum) | 16 | 4 | 8 |
12Gb / 6Gb SAS Ports (maximum) | 24 | Not applicable | 4 |
Cluster Interconnect | 2x 100GbE | 4x 25GbE | 4x 10GbE |
Storage Networking Supported | FC, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, SMB, NVMe/FC, S3 | DM5100F: FC, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, SMB, NVMe/FC, S3 DM5100F SAN**: FC, iSCSI, NVMe/FC |
DM5000F: FC, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, SMB, S3 DM5000F SAN**: FC, iSCSI |
Software Version | 9.7 or later | 9.8 or later | 9.4 or later |
Shelves and Media | DM240N, DM240S | DM240N | DM240S |
Host/Client OSes Supported | Microsoft Windows, Linux, VMware ESXi | ||
DM Series All-Flash Software | The DM Series software bundles include 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. |
* SAS+NVMe SSD scale out
** An optional software license upgrade is available for the DM5100F SAN and DM5000F SAN models to enable NAS support (NFS, pNFS, SMB file and S3 object storage connectivity).
Feature | Function | Benefits |
Ransomware Protection | Provides built-in, robust features that detect ransomware activity, prevent its spread, and enable quick recovery – including automatically taking snapshots and alerting administrators when abnormal file activity is detected | Automatically protects against ransomware attacks and enables quick recovery to avoid paying the ransom |
Data Reduction | Utilizes data compaction, compression, and deduplication to reduce the storage space needed for your data | Reduces the amount of storage that you need to purchase and maintain |
Unified Data Management | Onboard management of Block, File and Object data | Flexibility to manage and store every type of data on one system and one management interface |
FlexClone® | Instantaneously creates file, LUN, and volume clones without requiring additional storage | Saves time in testing and development and minimize storage use |
FlexGroup™ | Enables a single namespace to scale up to 20PB and 400 billion files | Maintains consistent high performance and resiliency for compute-intensive workloads |
FlexVol® | Creates flexibly sized volumes across a large pool of disks and one or more RAID groups | Enables storage systems to be used at maximum efficiency and reduces hardware investment |
MetroCluster | Combines array-based clustering with synchronous mirroring to deliver continuous availability | Maintains business continuity for critical enterprise applications and workloads |
SnapMirror® Business Continuity | Non-disruptive failover active-active cross site clusters. Based on existing SnapMirror Synchronous Replication. | Zero data loss, zero downtime—with no more application failover. If there is a failure, the application will continue to run, with no need to restart. |
QoS (adaptive) | Easy setup of QoS policies; automatically adjusts storage resources based on work-load changes | Simplifies operations and maintains consistent workload performance within IOPS boundaries |
RAID-TEC and RAID DP Technologies | Provides triple parity or double-parity RAID implementation to protect against data loss | Protect data without the performance impact of other RAID implementations |
SnapCenter® | Provides host-based data management of Lenovo storage for databases and business applications | Offers application-aware backup and clone management; automates error-free data restores |
SnapMirror® | Enables automatic, incremental asynchronous and synchronous data replication | Provides flexibility and efficiency to support backup, data distribution, and disaster recovery |
SnapRestore® | Rapidly restores single files, directories, or entire LUNs and volumes from any Snapshot copy backup | Instantaneously recover files, and complete volumes from your backup with SnapCenter and supported database plugins |
SnapLock® | Provides WORM file-level locking, preventing changes and deletion of the file | Supports regulatory compliance and organizational data retention requirements. Enables air-gap separation of Snapshot copies for enhanced ransomware protection and quick recovery from an attack |
Volume and Aggregate Encryption | Provides built-in FIPS 140-2 data-at-rest encryption | Easily and efficiently protect at-rest data by encrypting any volume or aggregate on DM Series system |
There are several DM Series software bundles available:
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Document number DS0047, published May 2, 2022. For the latest version, go to lenovopress.lenovo.com/ds0047.