Drive
connectivity
Dual-ported 12 Gb SAS drive attachment infrastructure.
Controller unit with two controller modules (ports per one controller module):
24x 12 Gb SAS internal drive ports (SFF enclosure)
12x 12 Gb SAS internal drive ports (LFF enclosure)
1x 12 Gb SAS x4 (Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644) expansion port for the attachment of the
expansion enclosures
Expansion unit with two expansion modules (ports per one expansion module):
24x 12 Gb SAS internal drive ports (SFF enclosure)
12x 12 Gb SAS internal drive ports (LFF enclosure)
3x 12 Gb SAS x4 (Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644) expansion ports; two of these ports (Ports A
and C) are used for the daisy chained attachment of the expansion enclosures; Port B is
not used.
Drives
SFF drives:
300 GB, 600 GB, and 900 GB 15K rpm 12 Gb SAS HDDs
600 GB, 900 GB, 1.2 TB, and 1.8 TB 10K rpm 12 Gb SAS HDDs
1.2 TB 10K rpm 12 Gb SAS SED HDD
1 TB and 2 TB 7.2K rpm 12 Gb NL SAS HDDs
3.84 TB and 7.68 TB 12 Gb SAS SSDs (1 DWD)
400 GB, 800 GB, and 1.6 TB 12 Gb SAS SSDs (3 DWD and 10 DWD)
800 GB 12 Gb SAS SED SSD (10 DWD)
LFF drives:
900 GB 10K rpm 12 Gb SAS HDDs
2 TB, 4 TB, 6 TB, 8 TB, and 10 TB 7.2K rpm 12 Gb NL SAS HDDs
4 TB 7.2K rpm NL 12 Gb SAS SED HDD
400 GB 12 Gb SAS SSDs (3 DWD and 10 DWD)
Storage capacity
SFF drives: Up to 1.84 PB (240x 7.68 TB 2.5-inch SAS SSDs)
LFF drives: Up to 1.2 PB (120x 10 TB 3.5-inch NL SAS HDDs)
Host
connectivity
DS4200 SAS controller module: 4x 12 Gb SAS host ports (Mini-SAS HD, SFF-8644).
DS4200 FC/iSCSI controller module: 4x SFP/SFP+ host ports with two built-in dual-port CNCs
(each port on the same CNC must have the same connectivity type; different CNCs might have
different connectivity types).
CNC host port options (per each CNC on the controller module):
2x 1 Gb iSCSI SFP (1 Gb speed, UTP, RJ-45)
2x 10 Gb iSCSI SFP+ (1/10 Gb speeds, SW fiber optics, LC)
2x 8 Gb FC SFP+ (4/8 Gb speeds, SW fiber optics, LC)
2x 16 Gb FC SFP+ (4/8/16 Gb speeds, SW fiber optics, LC)
2x 10 Gb iSCSI SFP+ DAC cables
Host operating
systems
Microsoft Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, and 2016; Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and 7;
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 and 12; VMware vSphere 5.5 and 6.0; Citrix
XenServer 6.5.
Standard
software
features
Intelligent Real-time Tiering for HDDs, Virtualized Storage Pools, Thin Provisioning, SSD Read
Cache, Rapid RAID Rebuild, Snapshots (up to 128 targets), All Flash Array.
Optional
software
features
Intelligent Real-time Tiering for SSDs, Snapshots (up to 1024 targets), Asynchronous
Replication.
Performance
Dual controller configuration
Up to 250000 random disk read IOPS
Up to 7 GBps sequential disk read throughput
Up to 6 GBps sequential disk write throughput
Component
Specification
Lenovo ThinkSystem DS4200 Storage Array
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