Lenovo ThinkSystem DG7000

Lenovo ThinkSystem DG7000 is a scalable, unified, all flash storage system that is designed to provide high performance, simplicity, capacity, security, and high availability for large enterprises. Powered by the ONTAP software, ThinkSystem DG7000 delivers enterprise-class storage management capabilities with a wide choice of host connectivity options, flexible drive configurations, and enhanced data management features, including end-to-end QLC AFA. Based on industry standard NVMe technology the DG7000 is a perfect fit for a wide range of enterprise workloads, including big data and analytics, artificial intelligence, engineering and design, hybrid clouds, and other storage I/O-intensive applications.

The ThinkSystem DG7000 4U controller enclosure is shown in the following figure.

Figure 1. Lenovo ThinkSystem DG7000

Up to 12 DG7000 Storage Arrays can be combined into a clustered system in a NAS environment, or up to 6 DG7000 Storage Arrays can be combined into a clustered system in a SAN environment.

The ThinkSystem DG7000 offers end-to-end QLC (quad-level cell) Flash drive storage solution.

QLC increases flash storage density and reduces costs because it stores four bits per cell compared to Triple-level cell (TLC) drives which store three bits per cell. 

QLC is ideal for replacing hard drive technology because it offers better performance, comparable cost, and better TCO due to increased density and lower power consumption.

A single ThinkSystem DG7000 Storage Array consists of the 4U rack-mount controller enclosure and one or more expansion enclosures. The controller enclosure includes two controllers, 256 GB RAM (128 GB RAM per controller), and 32 GB battery-backed NVRAM (16 GB NVRAM per controller). 25 GbE SFP28 NAS/iSCSI or 4/8/16 Gb Fibre Channel (FC) ports on the controller's mezzanine cards provide base host connectivity, with adapter card options for additional 1/10 GbE, 25 GbE, or 40/100 GbE NAS/iSCSI, 8/16/32 Gb FC, or 32 Gb NVMe/FC connections. The attachment of the Lenovo ThinkSystem DG240N 2U24 NVMe Expansion Enclosures to the controller enclosure provides scalability up to 96 QLC NVMe.

The Lenovo ThinkSystem DG7000 offers the following key features and benefits:

• All-flash array capabilities with end-to-end NVMe to meet the demand for higher storage performance at lower latency and provide higher IOPs and bandwidth with lower power usage and total cost of ownership than hybrid or HDD-based solutions.
• Scalability to up to 96 QLC NVMe solid-state drives with the attachment of the ThinkSystem DG240N 2U24 SFF expansion enclosures to satisfy growing needs for storage performance and capacity.
• Scalable, all flash storage with dual active/active controller configurations for high availability and performance.
• 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 customer needs with support for unified NAS and SAN storage protocols, including 1/10 GbE, 25 GbE, and 40/100 GbE NAS and iSCSI, 8/16/32 Gb Fibre Channel, and 32 Gb NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) connectivity.
• Rich set of standard storage management functions available at no extra cost, including snapshots, volume copy, 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.
• Optional licensed object tiering to public or private clouds (FabricPool).
• Scale-out clustering of up to 12 ThinkSystem DG Series and DM Series storage systems for NAS connectivity or up to six DG Series and DM Series storage systems for SAN connectivity.
• Intuitive, web-based GUI for easy system setup and management.
• Designed for 99.9999% availability with redundant hot-swap components, including controllers and I/O modules, power supplies, system fans (4U controller enclosures), and non-disruptive firmware upgrades.

The Lenovo ThinkSystem DG7000 supports the 2.5-inch QLC NVMe SSDs and all drives are dual-port and hot-swappable. The DG7000 supports attachment of four DG240N 2U24 SFF expansion enclosure and drives are designed to be added dynamically, which helps to respond to ever-growing capacity demands quickly and seamlessly.

The Lenovo ThinkSystem DG7000 offers high levels of system and data availability with the following technologies:

• Dual-active controllers (high availability pair) with automatic load balancing and failover
• Mirrored, battery-backed controller NVRAM. NVRAM is battery-backed memory used to protect inbound writes as they arrive. This fact allows write operations to be safely acknowledged without having to wait for a disk operation to complete, greatly reducing write latency.
• Automatic drive failure detection and rebuild
• Redundant, hot-swappable and customer replaceable hardware components, including SFP+/QSFP+ transceivers, controller and I/O modules, power supplies, system fans (4U controller enclosure), 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

The following figure shows the front of the ThinkSystem DG7000 4U controller enclosure without a front bezel.

Figure 2. ThinkSystem DG7000 4U controller enclosure front view

The front of the ThinkSystem DG7000 controller enclosure includes the following components:

• 8x Redundant hot-swap system fans.
• Enclosure status LEDs.

Figure 4. ThinkSystem DG7000 4U controller enclosure rear view: Slots

The following table lists the Lenovo ThinkSystem DG7000 storage system specifications.

Note: The supported hardware options, software features, and interoperability listed in this product guide are based on the ONTAP software version 9.12.1 P4 or later. For details about specific software releases that introduced support for certain hardware options and software features, refer to the Change History for the particular software release for the Lenovo ThinkSystem DG7000 that can be found at:
http://datacentersupport.lenovo.com

* Estimated theoretical performance based on the capacity planning for specific configurations and workloads.
** For a detailed list of configuration limits and restrictions for a specific version of the software, refer to the Lenovo Data Center Support website:
http://datacentersupport.lenovo.com

Factory-integrated models of the Lenovo ThinkSystem DG7000 are configured by using the Lenovo Data Center Solution Configurator (DCSC):
http://dcsc.lenovo.com

The following table lists the CTO base models for the Lenovo ThinkSystem DG7000.

Configuration note: Two DG7000 controllers (feature code B94T) are pre-selected in the configurator.

The Lenovo ThinkSystem DG7000 controller enclosure ships with two DG7000 controllers. A controller provides interfaces for host connectivity, management, and internal drives in supported expansion enclosures, and it runs ONTAP storage management software. Each ThinkSystem DG7000 controller enclosure provides 256 GB RAM and 32 GB battery-backed NVRAM (128 GB RAM and 16 GB NVRAM per controller).

The ThinkSystem DG7000 controller enclosures ship with four HA interconnect 25 GbE SFP28 ports (two ports per controller) to cable a directly-connected dual-controller HA pair, and four cluster interconnect 100 GbE QSFP28 ports using the onboard 100GbE QSFP ports on each controller (two per conteoller) to cable a directly connected (one HA pair) or switched (multiple HA pairs) cluster. Up to six HA pairs can be combined into a single SAN cluster or up to 12 HA pairs can be combined into a single NAS cluster.

The ThinkSystem DG7000 controller enclosure provides four QSFP28 ports for 100 GbE NVMe expansion connectivity using the 100GbE RoCE adapter installed in slot 4 or 5, and it also has two mezzanine slots (one slot per controller) for mezzanine cards and eight available expansion slots (four slots per controller) for adapter cards.

Two controllers are required for selection and must have the same HIC adapters installed. The use of a DG240N expansion enclosure requires a 100GbE HIC for connectivity installed in port 4 or 5 in each controller.

The ThinkSystem DG7000 controller enclosure provides a choice of the following interfaces on the mezzanine cards for base host connectivity (ports per mezzanine card): 

• 4x 25 GbE SFP28 ports for NAS or iSCSI connectivity (require optical transceivers or DAC cables that should be purchased for the mezzanine card).
• 4x 16 Gb FC SFP+ ports for FC connectivity (require SFP+ SW optical transceivers that should be purchased for the mezzanine card).

The following interfaces can be added to the ThinkSystem DG7000 controller enclosures with optional adapter cards (ports per adapter card):

• Host interfaces
  • 2x 1/10 GbE RJ-45 ports for NAS or iSCSI connectivity (require RJ-45 UTP Category 6 cables that should be purchased for the adapter card).
  • 4x 10 GbE SFP+ ports for NAS or iSCSI connectivity (require DAC cables that should be purchased for the adapter card).
  • 2x 25 GbE SFP28 ports for NAS or iSCSI connectivity (require optical transceivers or DAC cables that should be purchased for the adapter card).
  • 2x 40/100 GbE QSFP28 ports for NAS or iSCSI connectivity (require optical transceivers or DAC cables that should be purchased for the adapter card).
  • 4x 16 Gb FC SFP+ ports for FC connectivity, or NVMe/FC with 32 Gb ports (SW SFP+ transceivers with LC connectors included).
• Expansion interfaces:
  • 2x 100 GbE RoCE QSFP28 ports for NVMe/RoCE expansion connectivity.
• MetroCluster interfaces:
  • 2x 40/100 GbE iWARP QSFP28 ports for MetroCluster IP connectivity (require optical transceivers that should be purchased for the adapter card).
  • 2x 16 Gb FC SFP+ ports for MetroCluster FC connectivity (require SFP+ SW optical transceivers that should be purchased for the adapter card) (planned for the future).

Configuration notes:

• A pair of the mezzanine cards is required for selection.
• The optional adapter cards should be installed in pairs: Up to four pairs of the adapter cards are supported per controller enclosure (up to four adapter cards per controller), including a combination of the adapter card pairs.
• Both controllers must have matching configurations of the mezzanine ports (type and physical connections) and adapter cards (type, quantity, slot location, and physical connections).
• The optional adapter cards should be installed in the controller's expansion slots in the following order: Slot 2, Slot 4, Slot 1, Slot 5.
  Note: In the configurations with two DG240N expansion enclosures, a pair of additional 100 GbE RoCE adapter cards is required for dual HA direct connectivity to the expansion enclosures, and these cards must be installed in the Slot 5 of the DG7000 controllers.

The following table lists the controller for the Lenovo ThinkSystem DG7000 and supported connectivity options.

* Factory-installed only.
** RoCE QSFP28
† For 25G leverage: 4M27A67041 Lenovo 25Gb SR SFP28 Ethernet Transceiver

The ThinkSystem DG7000 controller enclosure supports attachment of up to four ThinkSystem DG240N 2U24 SFF NVMe expansion enclosures. The expansion enclosures can be added to the system non-disruptively.

Note: The addition of the second DG240N NVMe expansion enclosure to the storage arrays that were previously configured with one DG240N NVMe expansion enclosure requires planned system downtime.

The following expansion connectivity topologies are supported:

• NVMe expansion connectivity

The ThinkSystem DG7000 controller enclosure supports direct attachment of up to two DG240N NVMe expansion enclosures for a total of up to 48 NVMe drives. You must add a 2-Port 100GbE QSPF28 adapter to connect the DG240N expansion. For two NVMe expansion enclosures, an additional 2-port 100 GbE QSFP28 adapter card is required for the DG7000 controller.

The example expansion connectivity topologies for one and two enclosures with dual-path HA (high availability) are shown in the following figures.

Figure 7. DG7000 NVMe expansion connectivity topology: One enclosure

NVMe expansion cabling rules:

• On the Controller A, the Port 1 on the 100 GbE adapter card 1 (slot 4) is connected to the Port A on the NVMe I/O Module A in the second expansion enclosure, and the Port 2 on the 100 GbE adapter card is connected to the Port B in the NVMe I/O Module B in the first expansion enclosure.
• On the Controller B, the Port 1 on the 100 GbE adapter card 1 (slot 4) is connected to the Port A on the NVMe I/O Module B in the second expansion enclosure, and the Port 2 on the 100 GbE adapter card is connected to the Port B in the NVMe I/O Module A in the first expansion enclosure
• On the Controller A, the Port 1 on the 100 GbE adapter card 2 (slot 5) is connected to the Port A on the NVMe I/O Module A in the second expansion enclosure, and the Port 2 on the 100 GbE adapter card is connected to the Port B in the NVMe I/O Module B in the first expansion enclosure.
• On the Controller B, the Port 1 on the 100 GbE adapter card 2 (slot 5) is connected to the Port A on the NVMe I/O Module B in the second expansion enclosure, and the Port 2 on the 100 GbE adapter card is connected to the Port B in the NVMe I/O Module A in the first expansion enclosure.

The ThinkSystem DG7000 has no internal drives, however thru the supported DG240N expansion enclosures up to 24 SFF hot-swap drives, in packs of 2 drives are supported in each DG240N enclosure.

The following table lists supported drive packs for the controller and expansion enclosures.

Configuration notes:

• When ordering the systems, select the drives that match the ONTAP offering and bundle you are installing on the DM controller. Drive feature codes are specific to either the Unified Complete or Unified Essentials bundle. See the Software section for details.
• Drives are sold in packs. Supported quantities are as follows:
  • The DG240N 2U24 SFF expansion enclosure supports 8, 10, 12 etc up to 24 drives NVMe drives.
  • A minimum of 4 drive packs is required.
• For factory-installed drive packs, all drives in the enclosure must be of the same type and capacity.
• In DCSC, use "guided mode" to configure controller and add expansion/s accordingly. DCSC will auto display supported drives based on selected software bundle: unified complete or unified essential.

Note that the feature code varies, based on the software license Unified Essentials or Unified Complete with Unified.

Feature bundles

Controller software for the DG7000 is available in the following bundles of features:

* Requires the encryption version of ONTAP. See the ONTAP software section
** Not available in PRC

The features are summarized as follows: 

• RAID-4, RAID-DP, and RAID-TEC data protection: Provides the flexibility to choose the level of data protection required and helps improve performance and availability with built-in spare capacity and by distributing data across all physical drives in the aggregate, sustaining to up to one (RAID-4), two (RAID-DP), or three (RAID-TEC) concurrent drive failures. 
• Thin provisioning: Optimizes efficiency by allocating storage space based on the minimum space required by each application at any given time, so that applications consume only the space they are actually using, not the total space that has been allocated to them, which allows customers to purchase storage they need today and add more as application requirements grow. 
• Compression: Provides transparent inline and post-process data compression to reduce the amount of storage that customers need to purchase and manage. 
• Deduplication: Performs general-purpose deduplication for removal of redundant data to reduce the amount of storage that customers need to purchase and manage. 
• Snapshots: Enables creation of read-only copies of data for backup, parallel processing, testing, and development, and have the copies available almost immediately. 
• Encryption: Provides software-based encryption for data at rest for enhanced data security with the traditional drives and embedded key management (requires the encryption-capable version of the ONTAP software). 
• Balanced placement: Provides automated workload distribution across the cluster to help increase utilization and performance. 
• Dynamic capacity expansion: Allows the capacity of a volume or aggregate to be expanded by adding new physical drives. 
• Adaptive Quality of Service: Simplifies operations and maintains consistent workload performance by defining QoS policies and automatically adjusting storage resources to respond to workload changes. 
• SnapRestore: Enables quick recovery of data by reverting a local volume or file to its previous state from a particular snapshot copy stored on the file system. 
• FlexClone: References snapshot metadata to create writable point-in-time copies of a volume. 
• FlexVol: Provides abstraction layer between the logical volume and its physical location in the storage array. 
• FlexCache: Speeds up access to data and offloads traffic from heavily accessed volumes for read-intensive workloads by placing frequently used data in cache locally or remotely (closer to the point of client access) and serving the data to the clients directly from cache without accessing the data source. 
• SnapMirror asynchronous replication: Provides storage system-based data replication between the storage systems containing source (local) and destination (remote) volumes by using asynchronous (at specified regular intervals) data transfers over IP communication links. 
• SyncMirror data protection: Adds extra level of data protection and availability by mirroring a pair of RAID aggregates. 
• Trusted Platform Module (TPM): For encryption enabled systems.  The encryption keys for the onboard key manager (OKM) are no longer stored in the boot device, but instead are stored in the physical TPM for systems so equipped, offering greater security and protection. Moving to the TPM is a nondisruptive process.
• MetroCluster IP: Provides storage system-based clustering with online, real-time data mirroring between the local and remote sites by using synchronous data transfers over IP communication links to deliver continuous availability with zero RPO and near-zero RTO. All storage systems in a MetroCluster IP configuration must be of the same model. New to ONTAP 9.11: MetroCluster with Storage Virtual Machine Disaster Recovery (SVM-DR) can now use a third site for the SVM-DR
• NVMe over TCP Protocol: Enables NVMe over TCP
• Data Protection Optimized (DPO): Increases the amount of concurrent SnapMirror sessions per node, as well as improving SnapMirror performance to the cluster.
• SnapMirror synchronous replication: Provides storage system-based data replication between the storage systems containing source (local) and destination (remote) volumes by using synchronous (as soon as the data is written to the source volume)
• FlexGroup: Enables a single volume to span across multiple clustered storage arrays to maximize storage capacity and automate load distribution. New to ONTAP 9.11: FlexGroups can now be created as SnapLock volumes.
• SnapVault disk-based storage backup: Enables data stored on multiple systems to be backed up to a central, secondary system quickly and efficiently as read-only snapshot copies. 
• SnapCenter: Provides application- and virtual machine-aware backup and restoration of data by using the Snapshots technology and leverages the SnapMirror capabilities of storage systems to provide onsite or offsite backup set mirroring for disaster recovery. 
• ONTAP S3: Expands the DG/DM Series unified story and allows customers to manage, block, file, and object data from one interface. Customers can now natively store data in S3 buckets onboard the DG/DM Series. 
• SnapMirror S3 : Enables you to protect buckets in ONTAP S3 object stores using familiar SnapMirror mirroring and backup functionality. Requires ONTAP 9.11 or later on both source and destination clusters. Requires the Unified Premium Bundle.
• SnapMirror Cloud: A backup and recovery technology designed for ONTAP users who want to transition their data protection workflows to the cloud. SnapMirror Cloud is an extension to the family of SnapMirror replication technologies. While SnapMirror is frequently used for ONTAP-to-ONTAP backups, SnapMirror Cloud uses the same replication engine to transfer Snapshot copies for ONTAP to S3-compliant object storage backups.
• Multitenant Key Management (MTKM): Provides the ability for individual tenants or storage virtual machines (SVMs) to maintain their own keys through KMIP for NVE. With multitenant external key management, you can centralize your organization’s key management functions by department or tenant while inherently confirming that keys are not stored near the assets. This approach decreases the possibility of compromise.
• Anti-ransomware: Uses workload analysis in NAS (NFS and SMB) environments to proactively detect and warn about abnormal activity that might indicate a ransomware attack. When an attack is suspected, anti-ransomware also creates new Snapshot backups, in addition to existing protection from scheduled Snapshot copies. New to ONTAP 9.11: Optional multi-admin verification to approve administration functions that could result in data loss.

Optional Extended features also available via Feature on Demand (FoD) (see the Extended ONTAP features section)

• FabricPool: FabricPool is a hybrid storage solution that uses an all flash (all SSD) aggregate as the performance tier and an object store as the external capacity tier. Data in a FabricPool is stored in a tier based on whether it is frequently accessed or not. Using a FabricPool helps you reduce storage cost without compromising performance, efficiency, or protection. 
• No license is required when tiering to StorageGRID or ONTAP S3.

Extended ONTAP features

FabricPool is an optional extended feature. To obtain this feature license, order the part numbers as listed in the following table.

* Field upgrade only; no factory installation.

The Lenovo ThinkSystem DG7000 supports the following management interfaces:

• Lenovo ThinkSystem Storage Manager, a web-based interface via HTTPS for single-system management or centralized management of the cluster of systems, that runs on the storage system itself and requires only a supported browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox), so there is no need for a separate console or plug-in.
• Command line interface (CLI) via SSH or through serial console.
• Syslog, SNMP, and e-mail notifications.

The ThinkSystem DG7000 4U controller enclosure ships with four redundant hot-swap 1600 W (100 - 240 V) Platinum AC power supplies, each with an IEC 320-C14 connector.

The ThinkSystem DG240N 2U24 SFF expansion enclosures ship with two redundant hot-swap 1600 W (100 - 240 V) Platinum AC power supplies, each with an IEC 320-C14 connector.

Each ThinkSystem DG Series enclosure requires the selection of two or four power cables, depending on the quantity of the power supplies in the enclosure.

The following table lists the rack power cable and line cord options that can be ordered for the DG7000 4U and DG240N 2U24 SFF enclosures (four or two power cords per enclosure).

The individually shipped ThinkSystem DG Series enclosures come with the following rail kits:

• DG7000: ThinkSystem Storage Rail Kit 4U60
• DG240N 2U24 SFF: ThinkSystem NVMe Rail Kit 4 post

The rack mount kits are listed in the following table.

When the ThinkSystem DG Series enclosures are factory-integrated and shipped installed in a rack cabinet, the rack mount kits that support Ship-in-Rack (SIR) capabilities are derived by the configurator.

The following table summarizes the rack mount kit features and specifications.

* The majority of the enclosure components can be serviced from the front or rear of the enclosure, which does not require the removal of the enclosure from the rack cabinet.
** If a 0U PDU is used, the rack cabinet must be at least 1000 mm (39.37 in.) deep for 2U24 enclosures, or at least 1200 mm (47.24 in.) deep for 4U enclosures.
^ Measured when mounted on the rack, from the front surface of the front mounting flange to the rear most point of the rail.

The ThinkSystem DG7000 and DG240N  2U24 SFF enclosures are supported in the following environment:

• Air temperature:
  • Operating:
    • DG7000: 10 °C - 35 °C (50 °F - 95 °F)
    • DG240N 2U24 SFF: 5 °C - 45 °C (41 °F - 113 °F)
  • Non-operating: -40 °C - +70 °C (-40 °F - 158 °F)
  • Maximum altitude: 3050 m (10,000 ft)
• Relative humidity (non-condensing):
  • Operating:
    • DG7000: 8% - 80%
    • DG240N 2U24 SFF: 8% - 90%
  • Non-operating: 10% - 95%
• Electrical power:
  • DG7000
    • 100 to 127 (nominal) V AC; 50 Hz or 60 Hz; 16.12 A
    • 200 to 240 (nominal) V AC; 50 Hz or 60 Hz; 8.06 A
    • Maximum system power load: 1579 W
  • DG240N 2U24 SFF
    • 100 to 127 (nominal) V AC; 50 Hz or 60 Hz; 8.66 A
    • 200 to 240 (nominal) V AC; 50 Hz or 60 Hz; 4.33 A
    • Maximum system power load: 848 W
  • Heat dissipation:
    • DG7000: 5388 BTU/hour
    • DG240N 2U24 SFF: 2894 BTU/hour
• Acoustical noise emission:
  • DG7000: 8.5 bels
  • DG240N 2U24 SFF: 6.4 bels

The DG7000 and DG240N expansion have a  3-year warranty based on the machine type of the system:

• DG7000 controller enclosure: 7DE5 (3-year warranty)
• DG240N expansion enclosure: 7Y62 (3-year warranty)

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The ThinkSystem DG Series enclosures conform to the following regulations:

• FCC Part 15, Class A; UL 60950-1
• ICES-003, Class A; CAN/CSA-C22.2 60950-1
• NOM
• CE Mark (EN55032 Class A, EN55024, IEC/EN60950-1, IEC/EN62368-1); ROHS Directive 2011/65/EU
• EAC
• CCC GB 4943.1, GB 17625.1, GB 9254 Class A; CELP; CECP
• VCCI, Class A
• CNS 13438, Class A; CNS 14336-1
• KN32/35, Class A
• AS/NZS CISPR 22 Class A

Lenovo provides end-to-end storage compatibility testing to deliver interoperability throughout the network. The Lenovo ThinkSystem DG7000 supports attachment to Lenovo servers by using NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC), NAS (NFS and CIFS/SMB), iSCSI, and Fibre Channel storage connectivity protocols.

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Use the LSIC to select the known components of your configuration and then get a list all other supported combinations, with details about supported hardware, firmware, operating systems, and drivers, plus any additional configuration notes. View results on screen or export them to Excel.

The following table lists the Ethernet storage switch that can be used with the Lenovo ThinkSystem DG7000 for cluster interconnect configurations.

• BES-53248
• Nvidia SN2100
• Cisco 9336C-FX2 (Preferred Switch)

*For more information, see the BES-53248 Ethernet Storage Switch for Lenovo Product Guide:
http://lenovopress.com/lp1226

**The SN2100 switch can be used with the Lenovo ThinkSystem DG7000 for cluster interconnect.

For more information, see the NVIDIA SN2100 16-port 100Gb Ethernet Storage Switch Article:
https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/lp1756-nvidia-sn2100-100gb-ethernet-storage-switch

For more information, see the Cisco Nexus 9300 Series Network Switches Product Guide:
https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/lp2034-cisco-nexus-9300-series-network-switches

Lenovo offers the ThinkSystem DB Series of Fibre Channel SAN switches for high-performance storage expansion. See the DB Series product guides for models and configuration options:

• ThinkSystem DB Series SAN Switches:
  https://lenovopress.com/storage/switches/rack#rt=product-guide

The following table lists the supported rack cabinets.

For specifications about these racks, see the Lenovo Rack Cabinet Reference, available from:
https://lenovopress.com/lp1287-lenovo-rack-cabinet-reference

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

The following table lists the power distribution units (PDUs) that are offered by Lenovo.

For more information, see the Lenovo Press documents in the PDU category:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/pdu

The following table lists the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units that are offered by Lenovo.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the UPS category:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/ups

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The following sales training courses are offered for employees and partners (login required). Courses are listed in date order.

1. Family Portfolio: Storage
   2025-04-30 | 50 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Family Portfolio: Storage
   
   

   This course covers the Lenovo storage portfolio, from tape drives used for backups and archiving all the way through high-performance storage systems. After completing this course about the Storage family, the learner will be able to identify products and features within the family, describe the features of this Product Family, and recognize when a specific product should be selected.
   
   Tags: Storage, ThinkSystem

   Published: 2025-04-30
   Length: 50 minutes
   

   Start the training:
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   

   Course code: SXSW1201r17
2. Partner Technical Webinar - Storage Announcements
   2025-04-29 | 60 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Partner Technical Webinar - Storage Announcements
   
   

   In this 60-minute replay, the April 23 Storage Announcement was presented. Adam Mandelbloom, Lenovo Technical Marketing Manager, presented the ThinkAgile announcements. Next, Roger Yarosh, Senior Storage Product Manager, presented the DG and DM announcements.
   
   Tags: Data Management, ThinkAgile

   Published: 2025-04-29
   Length: 60 minutes
   

   Start the training:
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   

   Course code: 042525
3. Partner Technical Webinar - Cost Effective Storage Solutions
   2025-01-14 | 60 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Partner Technical Webinar - Cost Effective Storage Solutions
   
   

   In this 60-minute replay, Lenovo Storage Architect, Dan Beins presented Lenovo’s strategy, capabilities, and portfolio for Data Management. Dan did a super job going beyond the product feature / function and talking about where our products bring value to our customer’s Data Management.
   
   Tags: Data Management

   Published: 2025-01-14
   Length: 60 minutes
   

   Start the training:
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   

   Course code: 011025
4. Lenovo ThinSystem DG/DM Storage Series Portfolio Overview
   2024-09-10 | 60 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Lenovo ThinSystem DG/DM Storage Series Portfolio Overview
   
   

   This course builds on what you’ve learned in the Data Management Overview course. The course will help position the Lenovo ThinkSystem DG and DM series storage products. Completing this course will help you:
   - understand the advantages of each product line and
   - understand the key features and relate them to a range of customer business needs, whether small-scale or enterprise-level storage needs
   
   Tags: Data Management, Storage, ThinkSystem

   Published: 2024-09-10
   Length: 60 minutes
   

   Start the training:
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   

   Course code: DDMO103
5. Partner Technical Webinar - Commvault Data Protection and Resiliency
   2024-06-25 | 60 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Partner Technical Webinar - Commvault Data Protection and Resiliency
   
   

   In this 60-minute replay, Nate Saunders, Commvault Solution Director for Global Partners, reviewed the Commvault solutions for Data Protection and Resiliency and the Lenovo ThinkSystem offerings that support those solutions.
   
   Tags: Data Management

   Published: 2024-06-25
   Length: 60 minutes
   

   Start the training:
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   

   Course code: 062124
6. Lenovo Data Center Product Portfolio
   2024-05-29 | 20 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Lenovo Data Center Product Portfolio
   
   

   This course introduces the Lenovo data center portfolio, and covers servers, storage, storage networking, and software-defined infrastructure products. After completing this course about Lenovo data center products, you will be able to identify product types within each data center family, describe Lenovo innovations that this product family or category uses, and recognize when a specific product should be selected.
   
   Tags: Advanced DataCenter, DataCenter Products, ThinkAgile, ThinkEdge, ThinkSystem

   Published: 2024-05-29
   Length: 20 minutes
   

   Start the training:
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   

   Course code: SXXW1110r7
7. VTT Data Management How to sell storage - April 2024
   2024-04-10 | 60 minutes | Employees Only
   Details
   VTT Data Management How to sell storage - April 2024
   
   

   In this course, you will know:
   
   - Why do we sell storage?
   - What are the basics you need to get an opportunity rolling?
   - Why Lenovo for Storage?
   - What is happening in the market today?
   - How to determine traction?
   
   Tags: Data Management, Storage

   Published: 2024-04-10
   Length: 60 minutes
   

   Start the training:
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   

   Course code: DVDAT209
8. ONTAP Technical Positioning
   2024-03-14 | 45 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   ONTAP Technical Positioning
   
   

   This course focuses on enabling you to interpret the technical market trends and challenges that ONTAP customers face. You also learn to ask qualifying questions that identify which industries, companies, and customer contacts are appropriate targets for ONTAP software. Module two covers explaining ONTAP features and functionality and enabling you to strengthen ONTAP marketing claims with technical details.
   Learning Objectives:
   •Interpret the technical market trends and challenges that ONTAP customers face
   •Ask qualifying questions that identify which industries, companies, and customer contacts are appropriate targets for ONTAP software
   •Explain ONTAP features and functionality
   •Strengthen ONTAP marketing claims with technical details
   
   Tags: Data Management, Sales, Storage, Technical Sales, ThinkSystem

   Published: 2024-03-14
   Length: 45 minutes
   

   Start the training:
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   

   Course code: DDMT200r2
9. Data management Overview
   2024-03-14 | 25 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Data management Overview
   
   

   After completing this course you will be able to:
   1. Know more about the data management trends and challenges
   2. Understand the data management portfolio
   3. Find out how data drives business value
   
   Tags: Data Management, Storage, ThinkSystem

   Published: 2024-03-14
   Length: 25 minutes
   

   Start the training:
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   

   Course code: DSTOO201
10. VTT ONTAP 9.14.1 and Bundle Change Update - February 2024
    2024-03-07 | 25 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    VTT ONTAP 9.14.1 and Bundle Change Update - February 2024
    
    

    In this course, you will know more about:
    - The new Features of ONTAP 9.14.1 update
    - ONTAP Bundle Update
    
    Tags: Data Management, Storage

    Published: 2024-03-07
    Length: 25 minutes
    

    Start the training:
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    

    Course code: DVDAT207
11. VTT The Benefits of Scale Out Clustering with DM/DG - September 2023
    2023-09-12 | 60 minutes | Employees Only
    Details
    VTT The Benefits of Scale Out Clustering with DM/DG - September 2023
    
    

    In this course, you will know more about:
    - What is scale out?
    - Hardware benefits
    - Administrative benefits
    - Scale out Features
    
    Tags: Data Management, ThinkSystem

    Published: 2023-09-12
    Length: 60 minutes
    

    Start the training:
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    

    Course code: DVDAT204
12. VTT The new ThinkSystem DG storage product - August 2023
    2023-08-16 | 60 minutes | Employees Only
    Details
    VTT The new ThinkSystem DG storage product - August 2023
    
    

    Introduce and explore the new ThinkSystem DG storage product based on the NetApp DM. This product features QLC SSDs focused on improved sustainability standards and workload consolidation.
    
    Tags: Data Management, Storage, ThinkSystem

    Published: 2023-08-16
    Length: 60 minutes
    

    Start the training:
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    

    Course code: DVDAT203

For more information, see the following resources:

• Lenovo ThinkSystem DG and DM Series product page
  https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/c/data-center/storage/unified-storage
• Lenovo Data Center Solution Configurator
  http://dcsc.lenovo.com
• ThinkSystem DG and DM Series documentation
  http://thinksystem.lenovofiles.com/help/topic/ontap_software/overview.html
• ThinkSystem DG Series datasheet
  https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/datasheet/ds0170-thinksystem-dg-series
• ONTAP Ransomware Protection
  https://thinksystem.lenovofiles.com/storage/help/topic/ontap_anti-ransomware/anti-ransomware.pdf
• ThinkSystem DM Series Installation Videos and Video Tutorials
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLQcIfVNrqzcBW55-7IAe7_Our6nMQxak
• Lenovo Data Center Support
  http://datacentersupport.lenovo.com