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Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6600H Hybrid Flash Array

The Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6600H Hybrid Flash Array is a Controller enclosure: 2U rack mount storage system from Lenovo.

SKU: DE6600H Category: Brand:
Product SKU

DE6600H

Form Factor

Controller enclosure: 2U rack mount
Expansion enclosures:
• DE240S: 2U rack mount
• DE120S: 2U rack mount
• DE600S: 4U rack mount

Controller Memory

32GB or 128GB per controller

Drive Bays

• Up to 444 drives ( 24 x NVMe drives in DE6600H controller enclosure + 420 LFF hot-swap drive bays (7x 4U60 LFF expansion enclosures).

Maximum Drives

Up to 120 SSDs (SAS and NVMe) or 240 NL-SAS HDDs

Maximum Raw Capacity

4.7PB (240x 18TB NL-SAS) plus 367TB (24x 15.3TB SSD)

Maximum Expansion

Up to seven 2U12, 2U24 or 4U60 SAS drive shelves

Optional I/O

8x 100Gb NVMe/IB; 16x 32Gb NVMe/FC; 16x 25Gb iSCSI

Hosts and Partitions

1,024 hosts / 512 partitions

Software Features

Snapshots, drive encryption

Controller Configuration

Dual active-active controller configuration with automatic load balancing.

RAID Levels

RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6 and 10; Dynamic Disk Pools.
• RAID 3 can be configured only through the Storage Manager Command Line (SMcli).
• RAID 6, minimum six drives are required (five drives with one hot spare) for system functionality and data storage.

Controller System Memory

64 GB or 256 GB per system (32 GB or 128 GB per controller). Cache mirroring between the controllers. Flash-backed cache protection (includes battery for destaging to flash).

Expansion Enclosure Support

• 7x DE120S
• 4x DE240S
• 7x DE600S
• Expansion enclosures intermix up to a maximum of 7 expansion enclosures

Drive Technology

Controller enclosure
• NVMe only
Expansion enclosures:
• NL SAS HDDs (DE6600H only), 12 Gb SAS SSDs and FIPS SSDs drives are supported.
• A maximum of 120 SAS SSDs is supported.
• Intermix of drives is supported within a system.
• Intermix of FIPS drives and non-FIPS drives is supported within a system.
• Intermix of FIPS drives and non-FIPS drives is not supported within a volume group or disk pool.
• No intermix with NVMe and SAS SSD in volume group or disk pool.
• There is no support for expansion to a second enclosure containing NVMe drives.

Drive Expansion Connectivity

• 8x 12 Gb SAS host ports (Mini-SAS HD, SFF-8644) (4 ports per controller) for expansion scale-up, daisy chaining of the expansion enclosures.
• 2 x SAS expansion cards are required and must be installed in port1 only of the DE6600 enclosure controller. One in controller A, one in controller B.

Drives

Controller enclosure: 2U24 SFF drives:
• NVMe
DE240S Expansion enclosure: 2U24 SFF drives**:
• SAS SSDs (1 DWD)
• SAS SSDs (3 DWD)
• SAS FIPS SSDs (3 DWD)
DE120S Expansion enclosure: 2U12 LFF drives:
• 7.2K rpm NL SAS HDDs
• 7.2K rpm NL SAS FIPS HDDs
• SAS SSDs (3 DWD)
• SAS FIPS SSDs (3 DWD)
DE600S Expansion enclosure: 4U60 LFF drives:
• 7.2K rpm NL SAS HDDs
• 7.2K rpm NL SAS FIPS HDDs
• SAS SSDs (3 DWD)
• SAS FIPS SSDs (3 DWD)

Storage Capacity

• Controller enclosure (367.2TB) + 7 x DE600S (7560TB) = 7927.2 TB
• Scale up requires installation of a SAS expander card into slot 1

Storage Protocols

SAN (Block access): FC, iSCSI, iSER/IB, NVMe/FC, NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE, and SRP/IB.

Host Connectivity

Host connectivity ports provided using host interface cards (HICs). A controller enclosure has two controllers. Supported HICs are:
• 8x 10/25 Gb iSCSI SFP28 host ports (DAC or SW fiber optics, LC) (4 ports per controller)
• 8x 16/32 Gb FC SFP+ host ports (SW fiber optics, LC) (4 ports per controller)
• 2x 40/100 Gb NVMe/RoCE QSFP28 host ports (DAC cable or SW fiber optics, MPO) (1 port per controller, supported in bay 2/ port 2 only)
Note: The controllers no longer offers base ports. Host connectivity is provided with a pair of HICs.

Host Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), VMware vSphere. Reference LSIC for details.

Performance (NVMe Drives Only)

• Up to 2,000 000 random read IOPS (4 KB blocks).
• Up to 340 000 random write IOPS (4 KB blocks).
• Up to 44 GBps sequential read throughput.
• Up to 12.5 GBps sequential write throughput.
• Up to 24 GBps Full Stripe Write Acceleration (FSWA)

Configuration Maximums

• Maximum hosts/partitions: 512
• Maximum volumes per partition: 256
• Maximum volumes per system: 2048
• Maximum logical volume: 4PB
• RAID capacity: 24 drives
• Disks per volume group: 24
• RAID volumes per volume group: 256
• Disk pools per system: 20
• Volumes per disk pool: 2048

Cooling

Controller enclosure: Five cooling fans per enclosure controller.
DE600S expansion: Redundant cooling with two cooling modules
DE120S, DE240S: Fans that are built into power supplies

Power Supply

Two redundant hot-swap 1181 W (220 V) 2U24 controller enclosure. Each expansion enclosure also supports 2 power supply.

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

System Manager web-based GUI; SAN Manager standalone GUI; SSH CLI for service only; SMcli; SMI-S Provider; SNMP, email, and syslog alerts; XClarity integration supporting storage alerts.

Security Features

Secure Socket Layer (SSL), Secure Shell (SSH) for service only, user level security, role-based access control (RBAC), LDAP authentication.

Warranty and Support

Three-year customer-replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty with 9×5 next business day (NBD) parts delivered. Also available are 9×5 NBD onsite response, 24×7 coverage with 2-hour or 4-hour onsite response, or 6-hour or 24-hour committed repair (select areas), YourDrive YourData, Premier Support, and 1-year or 2-year post-warranty extensions.

Software

Included in the base warranty and any Lenovo warranty extensions.

Dimension (controller Enclosure)

2U24 SFF enclosure: Height: 87 mm, Width: 447 mm, Depth: 543 mm (3.4 x 17.6 x 21.4 inches)

Dimension (expansion Enclosure)

• 2U12 LFF enclosure: Height: 87 mm, Width: 447 mm, Depth: 536 mm (3.4 x 17.6 x 21.2 inches)
• 2U24 SFF enclosure: Height: 85 mm, Width: 447 mm, Depth: 511 mm (3.3 x 17.6 x 20.1 inches)
• 4U60 LFF enclosure: Height: 174 mm, Width: 449 mm, Depth: 922 mm (6.9 x 17.7 x 36.3 inches)

Weight

• DE6600F and DE6600H 2U24 SFF controller enclosure (7DB7): 25.07 kg (55.3 lb)
• DE120S 2U12 LFF expansion enclosure (7Y63): 27.12 kg (59.8 lb)
• DE240S 2U24 SFF expansion enclosure (7Y68): 24.59 kg (54.2 lb)
• DE600S 4U60 LFF expansion enclosure (7Y69): 112.2 kg (247.4 lb)

HDD Bay Type

2.5"

HDD Type

NVMe

HDD Bay Quantity

24

Maximum HDDs Per System (System = Controller Plus Expansion Enclosures)

444**

Overview

The Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6600H Hybrid Flash Array is a Controller enclosure: 2U rack mount storage system from Lenovo.

It provides 64 GB or 256 GB per system of system cache per HA pair. It provides up to 444 drives per HA pair. Host connectivity is provided by SAN (Block access): FC, iSCSI, iSER/IB, NVMe/FC, NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE, and SRP/IB. Data protection uses RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6 and 10; Dynamic Disk Pools.

Key Features

  • Form factor: Controller enclosure: 2U rack mount / Expansion enclosures: / DE240S: 2U rack mount …
  • Controller memory: 64 GB or 256 GB per system (32 GB or 128 GB per controller). Cache mirroring between the controllers. Flash-backed cache protection (includes battery for destaging to flash)
  • Drive bays: Up to 444 drives ( 24 x NVMe drives in DE6600H controller enclosure + 420 LFF hot-swap drive bays (7x 4U60 LFF expansion enclosures).
  • Expansion support: 7x DE120S / 4x DE240S / 7x DE600S …
  • RAID and data protection: RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6 and 10; Dynamic Disk Pools. / RAID 3 can be configured only through the Storage Manager Command Line (SMcli). / RAID 6, minimum six drives are required (five drives with one hot spare) for system functionality and data storage.
  • Host interfaces and protocols: SAN (Block access): FC, iSCSI, iSER/IB, NVMe/FC, NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE, and SRP/IB.
  • Management: System Manager web-based GUI; SAN Manager standalone GUI; SSH CLI for service only; SMcli; SMI-S Provider; SNMP, email, and syslog alerts; XClarity integration supporting storage alerts. • 1x 1 GbE port (UTP, RJ-45) per controller for out-of-band management. …
  • Security: Secure Socket Layer (SSL), Secure Shell (SSH) for service only, user level security, role-based access control (RBAC), LDAP authentication.
  • Power and cooling: Controller enclosure: Five cooling fans per enclosure controller. / DE600S expansion: Redundant cooling with two cooling modules / DE120S, DE240S: Fans that are built into power supplies Two redundant hot-swap 1181 W (220 V) 2U24 controller enclosure. Each expansion enclosure also supports 2 power …
  • Physical: 2U24 SFF enclosure: Height: 87 mm, Width: 447 mm, Depth: 543 mm (3.4 x 17.6 x 21.4 inches) • DE6600F and DE6600H 2U24 SFF controller enclosure (7DB7): 25.07 kg (55.3 lb) / DE120S 2U12 LFF expansion enclosure (7Y63): 27.12 kg (59.8 lb) / DE240S 2U24 SFF expansion enclosure (7Y68): 24.59 kg (54.2 lb) …

Applications

  • SAN and NAS consolidation for virtualized environments
  • Backup, archive and disaster recovery
  • Databases and business-critical application storage
  • Analytics, VDI and mixed workload consolidation

Configuration, availability and lead time depend on the required quantity, chassis and CPU platform, and delivery destination. Send your requirement to receive a quotation.

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