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Lenovo Storage D3284 Enclosure

D3284 High Density

Expansion Enclosure LFF

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The Lenovo Storage D3284 High Density Expansion Enclosure offers 12 Gbps SAS direct-attached storage expansion capabilities that are designed to provide density, speed, scalability, security, and high availability for medium to large businesses. The D3284 delivers enterprise-class storage technology in a cost-effective dense solution with flexible drive configurations of up to 84 drives in 5U rack space and RAID or JBOD (non-RAID) host connectivity or Lenovo ThinkSystem DS Series storage area network (SAN) array expansion (EBOD connectivity).

The D3284 expansion unit is designed for a wide range of workloads, including big data and analytics, video surveillance, private and hybrid clouds, file and print serving, and backup and archiving. The D3284 is also well-suited for software defined storage (SDS) and Windows Storage Spaces.

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Lenovo Storage D3284 Enclosure

D3284 High Density

Expansion Enclosure LFF

DATA SHEET

The Lenovo Storage D3284 High Density Expansion Enclosure offers 12 Gbps SAS direct-attached storage expansion capabilities that are designed to provide density, speed, scalability, security, and high availability for medium to large businesses. The D3284 delivers enterprise-class storage technology in a cost-effective dense solution with flexible drive configurations of up to 84 drives in 5U rack space and RAID or JBOD (non-RAID) host connectivity or Lenovo ThinkSystem DS Series storage area network (SAN) array expansion (EBOD connectivity).

The D3284 expansion unit is designed for a wide range of workloads, including big data and analytics, video surveillance, private and hybrid clouds, file and print serving, and backup and archiving. The D3284 is also well-suited for software defined storage (SDS) and Windows Storage Spaces.

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Did you know?

The D3284 expansion enclosures support 12 Gbps SAS connectivity, which doubles the data transfer rate compared to 6 Gb SAS solutions to maximize performance of storage I/O-intensive applications.

With support for daisy chaining, the D3284 expansion enclosures can be scaled up to 2.58 PB for capacity-optimized configurations.

The D3284 expansion enclosures allow daisy chaining with D1212 and D1224 expansion enclosures: Up to two D3284 and two D1212 or one D1224 drive enclosures is supported in a single chain.

The D3284 expansion enclosures are universal enclosures that can be used with Lenovo servers as direct attach storage (DAS) or as expansion for the Lenovo ThinkSystem DS4200 and DS6200 storage systems.

Key features

Key features and benefits provided by the D3284 storage expansion enclosures include:

  • Versatile, scalable storage expansion with dual Environmental Service Module (ESM) configurations for high availability and performance
  • Flexible host connectivity to match diverse client needs for direct attach storage with support for 6 Gb or 12 Gb SAS RAID adapters for advanced data protection or 6 Gb or 12 Gb SAS Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) for maximum JBOD performance
  • Provide expansion capabilities for the ThinkSystem DS4200 and DS6200 storage arrays
  • 12 Gb SAS drive-side connectivity and storage density with support for 84x 3.5-inch large form factor (LFF) drives in a 5U rack space
  • Scalability of up to 336 drives per HBA with the attachment of up to four D3284 daisy-chained expansion enclosures to satisfy growing needs for storage capacity and performance
  • Flexibility in daisy chaining of up to two D3284 and two D1212 or one D1224 drive enclosures
  • Flexibility in storing data on high performance SAS SSDs or capacity-optimized enterprise NL SAS HDDs; mixing and matching drive types on a single HBA to perfectly meet performance and capacity requirements for various workloads
  • Support multiple host attachments (application-specific)

The D3284 drive enclosures are designed to support a wide range of data storage requirements, from highly utilized applications to high-capacity, low usage applications.

The following SAS drives are supported by the D3284:

  • High-capacity, archival-class nearline HDDs, up to 20 TB 7.2K rpm
  • High performance SSDs (10 drive writes per day [DWD]): 400 GB
  • Mainstream SSDs (3 DWD): 800 GB
  • Capacity-optimized SSDs (1 DWD): 3.84 TB, and 7.68 TB

Additional drives and expansion units are designed to be dynamically added with virtually no downtime (operating system dependent), helping to quickly and seamlessly respond to growing capacity demands.

The D3284 expansion enclosures are designed to offer high levels of system and data availability with the following technologies:

  • Dual ESMs provide redundant paths from a supported HBA to the drives in the enclosures for I/O load balancing and failover
  • Dual-port drives (both HDDs and SSDs) with automatic drive failure detection
  • Redundant hardware, including host ports, ESMs, power supplies, and cooling fans
  • Hot-swappable and customer replaceable components, including ESMs, power supplies, cooling fans, and drives

Components and connectors

The following figures show the front of the D3284 drive expansion enclosure.

Front view of the D3284 drive enclosure
Figure 2. Front view of the D3284 drive enclosure

The following figures show the rear of the D3284 drive expansion enclosure.

Rear view of the D3284 drive enclosure
Figure 3. Rear view of the D3284 drive enclosure

Notes:

  • The ESMs (shown in the previous figure) have additional service ports with a specialized connector, and these ports are reserved for use by a Lenovo service technician.
  • The Ethernet management port on the ESMs is not used in the EBOD mode.

System specifications

The following table lists the D3284 system specifications.

Table 1. System specifications
Attribute Specification
Form factor 5U rack mount
Number of ESMs 2
Expansion ports 3x 12 Gb SAS x4 (Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644) ports (A, B, C) per ESM
Drive bays 84 LFF hot-swap drive bays in two drawers. Each drawer has three drive rows, and each row has 14 drives. Up to 4x D3284 enclosures can be daisy chained on a supported adapter for a total of up to 336 LFF drives.
Drive technologies NL SAS HDDs and SAS SSDs. Intermix of HDDs and SSDs is supported within an enclosure/drawer, but not within a row.
Drive connectivity Dual-ported 12 Gb SAS drive attachment infrastructure.
Drives
  • 4 TB, 6 TB, 8 TB, 10 TB, 12 TB, 14 TB, 16 TB, 18 TB, and 20TB 7.2K rpm 12 Gb NL SAS HDDs
  • 400 GB 12 Gb SAS SSDs (10 DWD)
  • 800 GB 12 Gb SAS SSDs (3 DWD)
  • 3.84 TB and 7.68 TB 12 Gb SAS SSDs (1 DWD)
Host adapters RAID controllers:

  • ThinkSystem RAID 930-8e (8-port 12 Gb SAS, 2x SFF-8644 connectors)
  • M5120 (8-port 6 Gbps SAS, 2x SFF-8088 connectors)
  • M5225 (8-port 12 Gbps SAS, 2x SFF-8644 connectors)
  • 9286CV-8e (8-port 6 Gbps SAS, 2x SFF-8088 connectors)
  • 9380-8e (8-port 12 Gbps SAS, 2x SFF-8644 connectors)

Host bus adapters (non-RAID):

  • ThinkSystem 430-8e HBA (8-port 12 Gb SAS, 2x SFF-8644 connectors)
  • ThinkSystem 430-16e HBA (16-port 12 Gb SAS, 4x SFF-8644 connectors)
  • N2125 (8-port 6 Gbps SAS, 2x SFF-8088 connectors)
  • N2225 (8-port 12 Gbps SAS, 2x SFF-8644 connectors)
  • N2226 (16-port 12 Gbps SAS, 4x SFF-8644 connectors)
  • 9300-8e (8-port 12 Gbps SAS, 2x SFF-8644 connectors)
Host operating systems Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019; Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and 7; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11, 12 and 15; VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0, 6.5, and 6.7.
Cooling N+1 redundant cooling with five hot-swap fans.
Power supply Two redundant hot-swap 2214 W AC power supplies.
Hot-swap parts ESMs, drives, sideplanes, power supplies, and fans.
Management interfaces SAS Enclosure Services, 10/100 Mb Ethernet for external management (the Ethernet port is not used in the EBOD mode).
Partitioning SAS zoning.
Warranty Three-year customer-replaceable unit, parts delivered limited warranty with 9×5 next business day response.
Service and support Optional warranty service upgrades are available through Lenovo: Technician installed parts, 24×7 coverage, 2-hour or 4-hour response time, 6-hour or 24-hour committed repair, 1-year or 2-year warranty extensions, YourDrive YourData, hardware installation.
Dimensions Height: 221 mm (8.7 in), width: 447 mm (17.6 in), depth: 933 mm (36.7 in)
Maximum weight 131 kg (288.8 lb)

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