User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Lenovo ThinkSystem DB730S FC SAN Switch Product Guide
- Did you know?
- Key features
- Components and connectors
- System specifications
- Models
- Port activation licenses
- Transceivers and cables
- Firmware
- Management software
- Fibre Channel standards
- Power supplies and cables
- Rack installation
- Physical specifications
- Operating environment
- Warranty and support
- Services
- Regulatory compliance
- Interoperability
- External storage systems
- External backup units
- Rack cabinets
- Power distribution units
- Uninterruptible power supply units
- Related publications and links
- Related product families
- Notices
- Trademarks
Design Services
Professional Services consultants perform infrastructure design and implementation planning to
support your strategy. The high-level architectures provided by the assessment service are turned
into low level designs and wiring diagrams, which are reviewed and approved prior to
implementation. The implementation plan will demonstrate an outcome-based proposal to provide
business capabilities through infrastructure with a risk-mitigated project plan.
Basic Hardware Installation
Lenovo experts can seamlessly manage the physical installation of your server, storage, or
networking hardware. Working at a time convenient for you (business hours or off shift), the
technician will unpack and inspect the systems on your site, install options, mount in a rack cabinet,
connect to power and network, check and update firmware to the latest levels, verify operation, and
dispose of the packaging, allowing your team to focus on other priorities.
Deployment Services
When investing in new IT infrastructures, you need to ensure your business will see quick time to
value with little to no disruption. Lenovo deployments are designed by development and engineering
teams who know our Products & Solutions better than anyone else, and our technicians own the
process from delivery to completion. Lenovo will conduct remote preparation and planning, configure
& integrate systems, validate systems, verify and update appliance firmware, train on administrative
tasks, and provide post-deployment documentation. Customer’s IT teams leverage our skills to
enable IT staff to transform with higher level roles and tasks.
Integration, Migration, and Expansion Services
Move existing physical & virtual workloads easily, or determine technical requirements to support
increased workloads while maximizing performance. Includes tuning, validation, and documenting
ongoing run processes. Leverage migration assessment planning documents to perform necessary
migrations.
Regulatory compliance
The DB730S FC SAN Switch conforms to the following regulations which can be found in the Hardware
Installation Guide, available from the following web page:
https://www.broadcom.com/products/fibre-channel-networking/switches/g730-switch
Interoperability
For end-to-end storage configuration support, refer to the Lenovo Storage Interoperation Center (LSIC):
https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/us/en/lsic
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.
External storage systems
Lenovo offers the ThinkSystem DE Series and ThinkSystem DM Series external storage systems for high-
performance storage. See the DE Series and DM Series product guides for specific controller models,
expansion enclosures and configuration options:
ThinkSystem DE Series Storage
https://lenovopress.com/storage/thinksystem/de-series#rt=product-guide
ThinkSystem DM Series Storage
https://lenovopress.com/storage/thinksystem/dm-series#rt=product-guide
External backup units
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