Lenovo has introduced the DX8200D, a new software-defined storage (SDS) appliance that combines the company’s x3650 M5 server platform with DataCore SANsymphony, an advanced storage virtualization software.
Lenovo plans to offer the DX8200D as a pre-integrated appliance, which promises to greatly simplify deployment and reduce management expenses while providing a single point of support.†The latest offering in the company’s SDS portfolio enables data centers to quickly deploy a turnkey solution that harnesses the capabilities of existing SAN arrays. The DX8200D can optimize heterogeneous storage infrastructures, allowing them to scale as needs grow and easily replace older storage arrays. It also provides data protection, replication, de-duplication, compression, and other enterprise storage capabilities through its centralized interface.
The DX8200D is designed to take isolated storage devices, sometimes spread between different locations, and places them under one common set of enterprise-wide services. This enables it to pool collective resources, managing the devices centrally and uniformly despite the differences and incompatibilities among manufacturers, models, and generations of equipment.
With the DX8200D, states Lenovo, data centers can see up to a 90-percent decrease in time spend on storage management and support tasks, up to a 75-percent reduction in storage costs, and up to 100-percent reduction in storage-related downtime. For more information including pricing and availability, visit www.lenovo.com.
Lenovo Storage DX8200D Specifications |
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Form factor |
2U Rack-mount (Machine Type 5135). |
Node type |
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Node configuration |
From 2 to 64 nodes per managed group for high availability and load balancing. |
Processor |
Two Intel Xeon processor E5-2620 v4 CPUs, each with:
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Memory |
24 DIMM sockets. Support 32 GB TruDDR4 RDIMMs. Memory speed up to 2133 MHz. |
Memory capacity |
Up to 768 GB with 24x 32 GB RDIMMs. |
Boot volume |
2x 600 GB 2.5-in. 10K rpm 12 Gbps SAS†hot-swap HDDs in a RAID-1 drive group connected to the M5210 RAID controller. |
Drive bays |
24x 2.5-inch (SFF) hot-swap†drive bays. |
Drives |
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Internal storage capacity |
Up to 32†TB of usable storage (4x RAID-5 drive groups with 5x 1 TB SFF NL SAS HDDs each) |
I/O expansion slots |
Seven slots:
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Connectivity interfaces |
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Storage protocols |
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Software |
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Ports |
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