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Lenovo ThinkSystem DM5000H is a unified, hybrid storage system that is designed to provide performance, simplicity, capacity, security, and high availability for medium enterprises. Powered by the ONTAP software, ThinkSystem DM5000H delivers enterprise-class storage management capabilities with a wide choice of host connectivity options, flexible drive configurations, and enhanced data management features. The ThinkSystem DM5000H is a perfect fit for a wide range of enterprise workloads, including data analytics, artificial intelligence, engineering and design, enterprise applications, and other storage I/O-intensive applications.

ThinkSystem DM5000H models are 2U rack-mount controller enclosures that include two controllers, 64 GB RAM and 8 GB battery-backed NVRAM (32 GB RAM and 4 GB NVRAM per controller), and 24 SFF hot-swap drive bays (2U24 form factor). Controllers provide universal 1/10 GbE NAS/iSCSI or 4/8/16 Gb Fibre Channel (FC) ports, or 1/10 GbE RJ-45 ports for host connectivity.

A single ThinkSystem DM5000H Storage Array scales up to 144 drives with the attachment of Lenovo ThinkSystem DM240S 2U24 SFF, DM120S 2U12, and DM600S 4U60 LFF Expansion Enclosures. It also offers flexible drive configurations with the choice of 2.5-inch (SFF) and 3.5-inch (LFF) form factors, 7.2 K rpm NL SAS hard disk drives (HDDs), and SAS solid-state drives (SSDs).

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DM5000H

Hybrid Flash Array

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Lenovo ThinkSystem DM5000H is a unified, hybrid storage system that is designed to provide performance, simplicity, capacity, security, and high availability for medium enterprises. Powered by the ONTAP software, ThinkSystem DM5000H delivers enterprise-class storage management capabilities with a wide choice of host connectivity options, flexible drive configurations, and enhanced data management features. The ThinkSystem DM5000H is a perfect fit for a wide range of enterprise workloads, including data analytics, artificial intelligence, engineering and design, enterprise applications, and other storage I/O-intensive applications.

ThinkSystem DM5000H models are 2U rack-mount controller enclosures that include two controllers, 64 GB RAM and 8 GB battery-backed NVRAM (32 GB RAM and 4 GB NVRAM per controller), and 24 SFF hot-swap drive bays (2U24 form factor). Controllers provide universal 1/10 GbE NAS/iSCSI or 4/8/16 Gb Fibre Channel (FC) ports, or 1/10 GbE RJ-45 ports for host connectivity.

A single ThinkSystem DM5000H Storage Array scales up to 144 drives with the attachment of Lenovo ThinkSystem DM240S 2U24 SFF, DM120S 2U12, and DM600S 4U60 LFF Expansion Enclosures. It also offers flexible drive configurations with the choice of 2.5-inch (SFF) and 3.5-inch (LFF) form factors, 7.2 K rpm NL SAS hard disk drives (HDDs), and SAS solid-state drives (SSDs).

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A single ThinkSystem DM5000H can scale up to 1.96 PB of raw storage capacity. A cluster of the DM5000H storage systems can scale up to 23.5 PB for NAS or up to 11.7 PB for SAN environments.

The ThinkSystem DM5000H offers unified file and block storage connectivity with support for 1 GbE or 10 GbE NAS and iSCSI, and 8 Gb or 16 Gb Fibre Channel protocols at the same time.

Key features

The ThinkSystem DM5000H offers the following key features and benefits:

  • Unified, hybrid storage with dual active/active controller configurations for high availability and performance.
  • Improved performance and data protection with RAID-DP and RAID-TEC, as well as support for traditional RAID 4.
  • Flexible host connectivity to match diverse client needs with support for unified NAS and SAN storage protocols, including 1/10 GbE NAS and iSCSI, and 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel connectivity.
  • 12 Gb SAS drive-side connectivity with multipathing with up to 24x 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF) drives in the 2U24 SFF controller and expansion enclosures, up to 12x 3.5-inch large form factor (LFF) drives in the 2U12 LFF expansion enclosures, or up to 60x 3.5-inch LFF drives in the 4U60 LFF expansion enclosures.
  • Scalability to up to 144 SFF or 120 LFF and 24 SFF drives with the attachment of the ThinkSystem DM240S 2U24 SFF, DM120S 2U12 LFF, or DM600S 4U60 LFF expansion enclosures to satisfy growing needs for storage capacity and performance.
  • Flexibility in storing data on capacity-optimized SAS SSDs, performance-optimized enterprise SAS HDDs, or capacity-optimized enterprise NL SAS HDDs; mixing and matching drive types within a single system to perfectly meet performance and capacity requirements for various workloads.
  • Acceleration of read-centric workloads with the high-speed, low-latency onboard NVMe SSD caching.
  • A comprehensive set of advanced storage management features with the ONTAP software, including SSD read cache, hybrid storage pools, snapshots, volume copy, quality of service, thin provisioning, compression, deduplication, encryption, disk-based backup, application- and virtual machine-aware backup, quick data recovery, clustering, synchronous replication, asynchronous replication, and up to 84 drives.
  • A core set of storage management features with the ONTAP Fundamentals software, including SSD read cache, hybrid storage pools, snapshots, quality of service, thin provisioning, compression, deduplication, encryption, quick data recovery, and asynchronous replication.
  • Optional licensed functions, including WORM (write once, read many) data protection (SnapLock) and object storage tiering (FabricPool).
  • Scale-out clustering of up to 12 ThinkSystem DM Series storage systems for NAS connectivity or up to 6 DM Series storage systems for SAN connectivity.
  • Intuitive, web-based GUI for easy system setup and management.
  • Lenovo XClarity support for centralized systems management of Lenovo x86 servers, switches, and storage, which provides automated agent-less discovery, inventory, monitoring, and additional platform-specific functions across multiple systems.
  • Designed for 99.9999% availability with redundant hot-swap components, including controllers and I/O modules, power supplies, and non-disruptive firmware upgrades.
  • Certified storage for Oracle VM.
  • Certified storage for Citrix XenServer: http://hcl.xenserver.org/storage/910/Lenovo_DM_Series.

The ThinkSystem DM5000H supports the following drives:

  • 2U24 SFF capacity-optimized SSDs: 960 GB, 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB, and 15.36 TB
  • 2U24 SFF enterprise SAS HDDs: 900 GB, 1.2 TB, and 1.8 TB 10K rpm
  • 2U12 LFF and 4U60 LFF high-capacity nearline HDDs: 4 TB, 8 TB, 10 TB, and 16 TB 7.2K rpm

All drives are dual-port and hot-swappable.

The ThinkSystem DM5000H supports attachment of the following ThinkSystem DM Series expansion enclosures:

  • Up to 5 ThinkSystem DM240S 2U24 SFF enclosures.
  • Up to 9 ThinkSystem DM120S 2U12 LFF enclosures.
  • Up to 2 ThinkSystem DM600S 4U60 LFF enclosures.
  • A combination of the DM240S, DM120S, and DM600S enclosures for a maximum of 144 drives.

Customers can intermix 2U24 SFF, 2U12 LFF, and 4U60 LFF expansion enclosures behind a 2U24 controller enclosure. This configuration delivers the added flexibility to mix 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch drives within a single system (but not within the enclosure).

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 DM5000H offers high levels of system and data availability with the following technologies:

  • Dual-active controllers (high availability pair) with automatic load balancing and failover
  • Mirrored, battery-backed controller NVRAM
  • Dual-port SAS HDDs and SSDs with automatic drive failure detection and rebuild
  • Redundant, hot-swappable and customer replaceable hardware components, including SFP+ transceivers, controllers, I/O modules, power supplies, cooling modules (4U60 LFF only), and drives
  • Automated failover for the data path between the host and the drives with multipathing
  • Non-disruptive controller and drive firmware upgrades
  • Scale-out clustering

Components and connectors

The following figure shows the front of the ThinkSystem DM5000H or DM240S 2U SFF enclosure.

ThinkSystem DM5000H or DM240S enclosure front view
Figure 2. ThinkSystem DM5000H or DM240S enclosure front view

The front of the ThinkSystem DM5000H or DM240S 2U SFF enclosure includes the following components:

  • 24 SFF hot-swap drive bays.
  • Enclosure status LEDs.
  • Enclosure ID LED.

The following figure shows the rear of the ThinkSystem DM5000H 2U controller enclosure with universal SFP+ host ports.

ThinkSystem DM5000H 2U controller enclosure rear view: Universal SFP+ host ports
Figure 3. ThinkSystem DM5000H 2U controller enclosure rear view: Universal SFP+ host ports

The following figure shows the rear of the ThinkSystem DM5000H 2U controller enclosure with 10GBASE-T host ports.

ThinkSystem DM5000H 2U controller enclosure rear view: 10GBASE-T host ports
Figure 4. ThinkSystem DM5000H 2U controller enclosure rear view: 10GBASE-T host ports

The rear of the ThinkSystem DM5000H 2U controller enclosure includes the following components:

  • Two redundant hot-swap controllers, each with the following ports:
    • Two SFP+ interconnect ports for direct-attach HA pair or switched cluster connections.
    • Four SFP+ host ports for 1/10 Gb GbE or 4/8/16 Gb FC connectivity or four 1/10 GbE RJ-45 ports.
    • Two 12 Gb SAS x4 ports (Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644) for connections to the expansion enclosures.
    • One RJ-45 10/100/1000 Mb Ethernet port for out-of-band management.
    • Two serial console ports (RJ-45 and Micro-USB) for another means to configure the system.
    • One USB Type A port (for ONTAP software installation or booting)
  • Two redundant hot-swap 913 W (100 – 240 V) AC power supplies (IEC 320-C14 power connector) with integrated cooling fans.
  • Controller status LEDs.

The following figure shows the front of the ThinkSystem DM120S 2U LFF expansion enclosure.

ThinkSystem DM120S 2U LFF expansion enclosure front view
Figure 5. ThinkSystem DM120S 2U LFF expansion enclosure front view

The front of the ThinkSystem DM120S 2U LFF expansion enclosure includes the following components:

  • 12 LFF hot-swap drive bays.
  • Enclosure status LEDs.
  • Enclosure ID LED.

The following figure shows the rear of the ThinkSystem DM240S or DM120S 2U expansion enclosure.

ThinkSystem DM240S or DM120S 2U expansion enclosure rear view
Figure 6. ThinkSystem DM240S or DM120S 2U expansion enclosure rear view

The rear of the ThinkSystem DM240S or DM120S 2U expansion enclosure includes the following components:

  • Two redundant hot-swap I/O Modules; each I/O Module provides four 12 Gb SAS x4 expansion ports (Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644) for connections to the controller enclosures and for connecting the expansion enclosures between each other.
  • Two redundant hot-swap 913 W (100 – 240 V) AC power supplies (IEC 320-C14 power connector) with integrated cooling fans.
  • I/O Module status LEDs.

The following figure shows the front of the ThinkSystem DM600S 4U LFF expansion enclosure.

ThinkSystem DM600S 4U LFF expansion enclosure front view
Figure 7. ThinkSystem DM600S 4U LFF expansion enclosure front view

The front of the ThinkSystem DM600S 4U LFF expansion enclosure includes the following components:

  • Five drawers, each with 12 LFF hot-swap drive bays.
  • Enclosure status LEDs.
  • Enclosure ID LED.

The following figure shows the rear of the ThinkSystem DM600S 4U LFF expansion enclosure.

ThinkSystem DM600S 4U LFF expansion enclosure rear view
Figure 8. ThinkSystem DM600S 4U LFF expansion enclosure rear view

The rear of the ThinkSystem DM600S 4U LFF expansion enclosure includes the following components:

  • Two redundant hot-swap I/O Modules; each I/O Module provides four 12 Gb SAS x4 expansion ports (Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644) for connections to the controller enclosures and for connecting the expansion enclosures between each other.
  • Two redundant hot-swap 2325 W (200 – 240 V) AC power supplies (IEC 320-C20 power connector)
  • Two hot-swap cooling fan modules; each module has two fans.
    Note: The failed cooling module should be replaced as soon as possible.
  • I/O Module status LEDs.

System specifications

The following table lists the ThinkSystem DM5000H storage system specifications.

Note: The supported hardware options, software features, and interoperability listed in this product guide are based on the ONTAP software version 9.7. For details about specific software releases that introduced support for certain hardware options and software features, refer to the Release notes of the particular software release for the ThinkSystem DM5000H that can be found at:
http://datacentersupport.lenovo.com

Table 1. ThinkSystem DM5000H system specifications
Attribute Specification
Form factor
  • DM5000H controller enclosure (7Y57, 7D7V): 2U rack mount.
  • DM120S 2U12 LFF expansion enclosure (7Y59, 7D7X): 2U rack mount.
  • DM240S 2U24 SFF expansion enclosure (7Y58, 7D7Y): 2U rack mount.
  • DM600S 4U60 LFF expansion enclosure (7Y43, 7D7Z): 4U rack mount.
Controller configuration Dual active-active controller configuration (HA pair). Up to 6 HA pairs can be combined into a single SAN cluster, or up to 12 HA pairs can be combined into a single NAS cluster.
Note: The ONTAP Fundamentals software does not support clustering.
HA pair/cluster interconnect ports 4x 10 GbE SFP+ ports (DAC cables or SW fiber optics [LC]) (2 ports per controller).
RAID levels RAID-4, RAID-DP, RAID-TEC.
Controller memory 64 GB RAM per system (32 GB per controller). 8 GB battery-backed NVRAM per system (4 GB per controller) mirrored between the controllers.
Controller cache 2 TB NVMe-based Flash Cache (1 TB per controller).
Drive bays
  • Up to 144 SFF hot-swap drive bays (1x 2U24 controller enclosure + up to 5x 2U24 SFF expansion enclosures).
  • Up to 120 LFF and 24 SFF hot-swap drive bays (1x 2U24 controller enclosure + up to 2x 4U60 LFF or up to 9x 2U12 LFF expansion enclosures).

Intermix of 2U24 SFF, 2U12 LFF, and 4U60 LFF enclosures is supported.
Note: The ONTAP Fundamentals software supports up to 84 drives.

Drive technology 12 Gb SAS HDDs, 12 Gb NL SAS HDDs, 12 Gb SAS SSDs.
Drive expansion connectivity
  • 2x 12 Gb SAS x4 (Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644) expansion ports on each of two controllers in the controller enclosure for the attachment of the expansion enclosures.
  • 4x 12 Gb SAS x4 (Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644) expansion ports on each of two I/O modules in the expansion enclosure for the attachment to the controller enclosure and daisy chaining of the expansion enclosures.
Drives
  • 2U24 SFF drives:
    • 960 GB, 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB, and 15.36 TB SAS SSDs (1 DWD).
    • 900 GB, 1.2 TB, and 1.8 TB 10K rpm SAS HDDs.
  • 2U12 and 4U60 LFF drives: 4 TB, 8 TB, 10 TB, and 16 TB 7.2K rpm NL SAS HDDs.
Storage capacity Up to 1.96 PB (120x 16 TB LFF HDDs + 24x 1.8 TB SFF HDDs).
Storage protocols
  • NAS (File access): NFS and CIFS/SMB.
  • SAN (Block access): iSCSI and FC.
Host connectivity Base ports (per controller enclosure):

  • 8x 1 GbE (RJ-45 UTP)/10 GbE (DAC cable or SW fiber optic cable, LC) or 4/8/16 Gb FC (SW fiber optic cable, LC) SFP+ host ports (4 ports per controller); or
  • 8x 1/10 GbE RJ-45 UTP host ports (4 ports per controller).
Host operating systems Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019; Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, 7, and 8; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11, 12, and 15; VMware vSphere 6.0, 6.5, 6.7, and 7.0.
Performance* Up to 148 000 random read IOPS (8 KB blocks).
Configuration maximums**
  • Maximum raw storage capacity: 1.24 PB
  • Maximum flash pool cache size: 24 TB
  • Maximum aggregate size: 400 TB
  • Maximum number of FlexVol volumes per controller: 1000
  • Maximum volume size: 100 TB
  • Maximum number of LUNs per controller: 8192
  • Maximum number of LUNs per FlexVol volume: 512
  • Maximum LUN size: 16 TB
  • Maximum number of drives in a RAID group (data + parity drives):
    • RAID 4: 14 (13 + 1 SAS SSDs) or 7 (6 + 1 NL SAS HDDs)
    • RAID-DP: 28 (26 + 2 SAS SSDs) or 20 (18 + 2 NL SAS HDDs)
    • RAID-TEC: 29 (26 + 3 SAS SSDs or NL SAS HDDs)
  • Maximum number of initiators per controller: 2048
  • Maximum number of snapshots per FlexVol volume: 1023
Cooling Redundant cooling with two cooling modules (DM600S 4U60 LFF) or with the fans that are built into power supplies (DM5000H, DM240S 2U24 SFF, and DM120S 2U12 LFF).
Power supply Two redundant hot-swap 913 W (100 – 240 V) (DM5000H, DM240S 2U24 SFF, and DM120S SFF enclosures) or 2325 W (200 – 240 V) (DM600S 4U60 LFF enclosures) Platinum AC power supplies.
Hot-swap parts Controllers, I/O modules, drives, power supplies, cooling modules (DM600S 4U60 LFF only), and SFP+ transceivers and DAC cables.
Management ports
  • 1x 1 GbE port (UTP, RJ-45) per controller for out-of-band management.
  • 2x Serial console ports (RJ-45 and Micro-USB) for system configuration.
Management interfaces ThinkSystem Storage Manager web-based GUI; SSH CLI; Serial console CLI; SNMP, email, and syslog alerts; optional Lenovo XClarity.
Security features Secure Socket Layer (SSL), Secure Shell (SSH), user level security, role-based access control (RBAC), LDAP authentication.
Warranty and support 1-year or 3-year base warranty, customer-replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty with selectable service levels: 9×5 service coverage next business day (NBD) onsite response (Foundation) or 24×7 service coverage with 4-hour onsite response (Essential). Premier Support is also available. Software support is included in the Foundation or Essential Service for the duration of the warranty period.
Dimensions Controller enclosure:

  • Height: 85 mm (3.4 in.)
  • Width: 447 mm (17.6 in.)
  • Depth: 483 mm (19.0 in.)

2U24 SFF expansion enclosure:

  • Height: 85 mm (3.4 in.)
  • Width: 449 mm (17.7 in.)
  • Depth: 484 mm (19.1 in.)

2U12 LFF expansion enclosure:

  • Height: 85 mm (3.4 in.)
  • Width: 447 mm (17.6 in.)
  • Depth: 483 mm (19.0 in.)

4U60 LFF expansion enclosure:

  • Height: 174 mm (6.9 in.)
  • Width: 449 mm (17.7 in.)
  • Depth: 922 mm (36.3 in.)
Weight
  • Controller enclosure (fully configured): 27.6 kg (60.8 lb)
  • 2U24 SFF expansion enclosure (fully configured): 24.4 kg (53.8 lb)
  • 2U12 LFF expansion enclosure (fully configured): 28.7 kg (63.3 lb)
  • 4U60 LFF expansion enclosure (fully configured): 111.5 kg (245.8 lb)

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