User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6000F All Flash Storage Array Product Guide
- Did you know?
- Key features
- Components and connectors
- System specifications
- Controller enclosures
- Controllers
- Expansion enclosures
- Drives
- Software
- Management
- Power supplies and cables
- Rack installation
- Physical specifications
- Operating environment
- Warranty and support
- Services
- Regulatory compliance
- Interoperability
- Fibre Channel SAN switches
- Rack cabinets
- Power distribution units
- Uninterruptible power supply units
- Lenovo Financial Services
- Related publications and links
- Related product families
- Notices
- Trademarks
Key features
The ThinkSystem DE6000F offers the following key features and benefits:
All-flash array capabilities and NVMe over Fabrics to meet the demand for higher speed storage and
provide higher IOPs and bandwidth with lower power usage and total cost of ownership than hybrid
or HDD-based solutions.
Scalable, high performance mid-range storage with dual active/active controller configurations with
64 GB system memory per controller for high availability and performance.
Improved performance and data protection with Dynamic Disk Pools (DDP) technology, as well as
support for traditional RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, and 10.
Flexible storage protocols to match diverse client needs with support for 10 Gb iSCSI or 4/8/16 Gb
FC and 12 Gb SAS, 10/25 Gb iSCSI, or 8/16/32 Gb FC host connectivity, or 8/16/32 Gb NVMe/FC
host connectivity, or 25/40/100 Gb NVMe/RoCE host connectivity.
12 Gb SAS drive-side connectivity with support for up to 24x 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF) drives
in the 2U24 SFF enclosures.
Scalability to up to 120 SFF drives with the attachment of up to four ThinkSystem DE240S 2U24 SFF
expansion enclosures to satisfy growing needs for storage capacity and performance.
Full set of storage management functions comes with the system, including Dynamic Disk
Pools, snapshots, volume copy, thin provisioning, synchronous mirroring, and
asynchronous mirroring.
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, proactive maintenance, and non-disruptive firmware upgrades.
The following solid-state drives are supported in the 2U24 SFF enclosures:
Capacity-optimized SSDs (1 drive write per day [DWD]): 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB, and 15.36 TB
High performance SSDs (3 DWD): 800 GB, 1.6 TB
High performance self-encrypting FIPS SSDs (3 DWD): 1.6 TB
All drives are dual-port and hot-swappable. Drives of the same form factor can be intermixed within the
appropriate enclosure, which provides the flexibility to address performance and capacity needs within a
single enclosure.
Up to four ThinkSystem DE240S 2U24 SFF expansion enclosures are supported by a single ThinkSystem
DE6000F system. More drives and expansion enclosures are designed to be dynamically added with
virtually no downtime, which helps to quickly and seamlessly respond to ever-growing capacity demands.
The ThinkSystem DE6000F offers high levels of system and data availability with the following technologies:
Dual-active controller modules with automatic load balancing and failover
Mirrored data cache with flash backup (battery-backed destaging to flash)
Dual-port SAS SSDs with automatic drive failure detection and rebuild with global hot spares
Redundant, hot-swappable and customer replaceable hardware components, including SFP/SFP+
transceivers, controller and I/O modules, power supplies, and drives
Automated path failover support for the data path between the host and the drives with multipathing
software
Non-disruptive controller and drive firmware upgrades
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