Storage Arrays & Servers

FIREPROOF

Fireproof up to 1550? F for 30 minutes, the 1522+ will survive office and home fires - meaning you can get back up and running fast.

WATERPROOF

Waterproof up to 10 feet for 72 hours, the 1522+ protects data from broken pipes, floods, or the fire department's hose.

CAPACITY TO GROW

Prepared for the demands of business growth, the 1522+ stores up to 70 TB in its five bays, or up to 210 TB with optional expansion bays.

DATA RECOVERY SERVICE

Should disaster strike, whether in the form of fire, water, or failed hard drive, we'll help you recover your data so you can get back to business. We'll even provide forensic data recovery if necessary.

PRIVATE CLOUD

Store your data at 1/4 the cost of cloud services, without the privacy risks or downtime. You can set up your own private cloud for access to files and data from anywhere. If you want, you can integrate with cloud services.

BLAZING FAST NAS

Every 1522+ includes quad 1 GbE LAN with failover and link aggregation support. Plus, you can achieve exceptional network transfer speeds of up to 10 Gbps by upgrading to a 10 GbE LAN add-on.

The 2.5" Disk Array BPN-124K-SA to be set up in various configurations as RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 or JBOD as individual drives. The unit is featured with HDD hot-swappable, which can remove or add HDDs to the system without turning off the computers. The back plane connection include SATA connectors and each drive is equipped with power and drive activity LEDs.

Abstract

The Lenovo ThinkSystem DS4200 is a versatile storage system designed to provide simplicity, speed, scalability, security, and high availability for small to large businesses. The ThinkSystem DS4200 delivers enterprise-class storage management technology in a cost-effective solution with a wide choice of host connectivity options, flexible drive configurations, and enhanced data management features.

This product guide describes the Lenovo ThinkSystem DS4200 and provides essential pre-sales information to understand its structure, key features and specifications, components and options, and configuration guidelines.

This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, and IT architects who want to learn more about the Lenovo ThinkSystem DS4200 and consider its use in IT solutions.

Introduction

The Lenovo ThinkSystem DS4200 is a versatile storage system designed to provide simplicity, speed, scalability, security, and high availability for small to large businesses. The ThinkSystem DS4200 delivers enterprise-class storage management technology in a cost-effective solution with a wide choice of host connectivity options, flexible drive configurations, and enhanced data management features.

The ThinkSystem DS4200 is a perfect fit for a wide range of workloads, from specialized workloads such as big data and analytics, video surveillance, media streaming, and private clouds to general purpose workloads such as file and print serving, web serving, e-mail and collaboration, and OLTP databases. The DS4200 is also suited very well for secure archive storage or a consolidated backup solution.

The ThinkSystem DS4200 supports up to 240 drives with up to nine external expansion enclosures. It also offers flexible drive configurations with the choice of 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drive form factors, 10 K or 15 K rpm SAS and 7.2 K rpm NL SAS hard disk drives (HDDs) and self-encrypting drives (SEDs), and SAS solid-state drives (SSDs). The DS4200 can be scaled up to 1.84 PB of raw storage capacity.

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The ThinkSystem DS4200 supports Intelligent Real-time Tiering capabilities that help optimize system performance, reduce costs, and simplify management. The base software includes the ability to move data dynamically between SAS HDDs that are optimized for cost per IOPS and NL SAS HDDs that are optimized for cost per GB. With the optional software license, the DS4200 supports hybrid tiering across HDDs and SSDs.

The ThinkSystem DS4200 offers the flexible choice of 12 Gb SAS, 1/10 Gb iSCSI, and 4/8/16 Gb Fibre Channel (FC) host connectivity protocols, with support for hybrid iSCSI and Fibre Channel connectivity at the same time. The Converged Network Controller (CNC) design of the DS4200 makes the selection of iSCSI or FC host connectivity as simple as attaching corresponding transceivers or Direct-Attach Copper (DAC) cables to the SFP/SFP+ ports on the controller module.

The ThinkSystem DS4200 supports battery-free cache protection, which reduces maintenance costs and provides permanent backup of unwritten cache data if there is a power failure.

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 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.