How Lenovo is delivering the difference in enterprise storage

Lenovo Storage Overview

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Gregg Shupe, Enterprise Product Marketing@ShupeOnStorage

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Introduction & Strategy

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We All Agree…Data Storage Needs Are Growing

Data collected by enterprises continues to grow between 40% – 60% per year1

1. Forbes.com “Are Your Systems Ready For The Big Data Explosion?”2. Csc.com “Big Data Just Beginning to Explode”3. StorageNewsletter.com “Long-Term Storage Solutions Heat Up to Manage Explosive Data Growth – IDC”

Individuals create 70% of all data. Enterprises store 80%2

Capacity-optimized, performance-optimized, and I/O-intensive disk storage systems is expected to reach 107EBs in 2016.3

http://www.forbes.com/sites/centurylink/2015/03/13/are-your-systems-ready-for-the-big-data-explosion-3-key-database-strategy-tips/

http://www.csc.com/big_data/flxwd/83638-big_data_just_beginning_to_explode_interactive_infographic

http://www.storagenewsletter.com/rubriques/market-reportsresearch/long-term-storage-solutions-heat-up-to-manage-explosive-data-growth-idc/


What’s Driving The GrowthAccording to a new study by Forrester Research

“What do you believe are the greatest drivers for data center capacity growth today?”

Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Digital Realty, February 2014


What Are The Challenges?

? Out of Control Data Growth

? Cost of doing business – small budgets

? Responsiveness to business challenges

? Skills of IT personnel

Just to name a few…


You Need A Trusted Partner That Can Help

Innovation at the Core

Comprehensive Portfolio

Strategic Partnerships

Worldwide Coverage

Lenovo Storage


Lenovo Storage Family of ProductsBringing enterprise features to affordable offerings

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Lenovo Storage Offers Value

High performance, high capacities

Simple management interfaces

Fortified data protection

Choice of products from top vendors

Flexible protocol fits in your network

Choice of architecture: SAN, NAS, DAS

Grows with your business needs

Reduce CapEx and OpEx

Budget friendly TCO

FLEXIBLE BUSINESS OPTIMIZED FEATURE-RICH


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Storage – Highlights

Leading the industry with the ONLY JBOD designed for tiered

workloads

#1

First Windows Storage Server appliance built on the latest E5-2600

v3 Intel platform

1st

Intelligent Real-time Tiering analyses and moves data to high performance drives

every 5 seconds

5 Seconds

More data compressed in the

same space

5xS2200 and S3200 listed

as CRN’s 10 Coolest Servers of 2015

Top 10


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Lenovo's Growing Enterprise Storage Portfolio

Archive

Low-cost long-term retention or

infrequent access

Tape Drive, Autoloader, Library

NAS

Shared unified storage for

Microsoft and other environments

Lenovo Storage N4610Lenovo Storage N3310

DAS

Capacity expansion for one server or Software Defined

Storage

ThinkServer SA120

SAN

Many servers requiring

performance and central

management

Lenovo Storage S2200Lenovo Storage S3200

IBM Storwize



Portfolio DetailsProduct Overviews, Specifications

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Feature-Rich designs combine high availability and great performance at low costs

Flexible configurations and features seamlessly integrate into your existing architecture

Products optimized for businesskeep you focused on what’s important

SAN Overview



Specifications – Lenovo Storage S2200 / S3200

S2200 S3200Max HDD 96 192Enclosures 2U24 / 2U12 2U24 / 2U12

Max Enclosures 1 + 3 1 + 7Controllers Single/Dual Single/Dual

Cache 12GB 12GB

Host Ports/Connectivity (2 per controller)6/12Gb SAS

1/10Gb iSCSI8Gb FC

Single Connectivity

(4 per controller)6/12Gb SAS1/10Gb iSCSI

8/16Gb FCHybrid Connectivity

SSD Support / Caching Base Base

Intelligent Real-Time Tiering

Base HDDOptional (HDD+SSD)

Base HDDOptional (HDD+SSD)

Snapshot Base 64Optional 256Optional 512

Base 128Optional 512

Optional 1024

Common Hardware Features Active / Active Controllers SSD / HDD Hybrid configurations Highly Scalable and Upgradable Choice in Connectivity High Performance Unified Chassis Design Designed for 99.999% Availability Battery Free Cache Protection

Common Software Features Intelligent Real-time tiering Rapid RAID Rebuild Rebalancing Large LUNs Thin Provisioning Snapshots Synchronous Caching


Benefits of Lenovo Storage S2200 & S3200

Simplified Storage Management• Setup in under an hour• Intuitive GUI makes administrative tasks simple• Instant access to performance data

Near All-Flash Array Performance• Hot Data is automatically moved every 5 seconds• Over 70% cost savings over All-Flash Arrays• Supports both Sequential and Random workloads

Increase Performance & Capacity• Upgrade from S2200 to S3200 without data migration• Increase max capacity from 96 drives to 192 drives• Increased users, snapshots, IOPS, and host ports

Built for Five “9’s” Availability• Reliable systems you can count on• No data migration saves time and money• NEBS Compliant, ruggedized development and components

Lenovo SAN ManagerEasy-to-use GUI simplifies complex operations

Intelligent Real-time Tiering with flash hybrid:Intelligent real-time data placement on SSDs

Upgradeable ControllersIn-chassis upgrades without data migration

Designed for 99.999% AvailabilityAlways-on availability when you want

Feature Benefit


Specifications – IBM® Storwize® FamilyV3700 V5000 V7000

Max HDD 240 480 504Enclosures 2U24 / 2U12 2U24 / 2U12 2U24 / 2U12

Max Enclosures

1 + 9 1 + 19 1+20

Controllers Dual (Active / Active)

Dual (Active / Active)

Dual (Active / Active)

Max Cache 16GB 16GB 128GBHost Connectivity

6Gb SAS1Gb iSCSI

Optional:8Gb FC

10Gb iSCSI/FCoE

6Gb SAS1Gb iSCSI

Optional:8Gb FC

10Gb iSCSI/FCoE

16Gb FC1Gb iSCSI

Optional:10Gb iSCSI/FCoE

Clustering Not Supported Yes (2-way) Yes (4-way)

IBM Easy Tier®

Optional License Optional License Optional License

External Virtualization

Not Supported Yes Yes

IBM Storwize V3700 Internal Virtualization Thin Provisioning Data Migration Advanced GUI Multi Host support VMware & MS Integration FlashCopy® (2040 Images) IBM® Easy Tier®

Remote Mirror Turbo Performance

IBM Storwize V5000V3700 plus… Clustering (2) Higher scalability Higher Performance Ext Virtualization

IBM Storwize V7000V5000 plus… Clustering (4) Higher scalability Higher Performance Compression Encryption

Feat

ures


Top of Rack FC SAN Switches

Brocade 651024 to 48-port 8/16Gbps Switch

Brocade 650512 to 24-port 8/16Gbps Switch

Brocade 30012 to 24-port 8Gbps Entry Switch

Entry to Enterprise Fibre Channel Switches

• Advance Performance , Availability, Diagnostic and Management upgrade options• Ports on Demand “Pay as you grow” Scalability• Entry-level to Enterprise-class switches• 8Gbps or 16Gbps, local and long range optics

Brocade SAN Switches combine simplicity, reliability, and flexibility


Direct Attached Storage


• Feature-Rich offering 4 SSDs in the rear of the chassis for optimized tiered storage

• Flexible configurations allows for cascaded, dual path or high availability configurations

• Optimized for business with hot-swap & redundant PSU, fans, I/O controllers all in a tool-less chassis

DAS Overview


Performance Oriented• 6 Gbps SAS interface connectivity• Single and Dual I/O controllers (1 standard)

Maximum Capacity and Scalability• Up to 12 3.5-inch SAS hot-swap hard drives• Optional – 4 rear 2.5-inch hot-swap SSD drives• Host RAID adapter enables expansion up to 8 enclosures (4 per port, single path)

High Quality• Hot-swap, dual controller, and redundant power supplies and fans• Think class quality with enterprise grade components• Three year warranty standard

Best-of-Breed• Interoperable with ThinkServer Racks & Towers and System x Servers• Optimal price-performance for entry-level storage users• Easy to use design with rack or tower orientation

The SA120 delivers superior capacity and high performance at an affordable price

ThinkServer SA120: Direct Attached Storage Enclosure


Network Attached Storage


• Feature-rich design combines enterprise features and high performance at low costs

• Flexible configurations enable centralized storage and unified data storage in a non-disruptive appliance

• Optimized for business to grow with your customer, allowing them to scale as they need.

NAS Overview


PROVEN enterprise-class storage appliance built on ThinkServer innovations Utilizes common software and hardware for server and storage simplifying deployment, management and support Enables centralized storage and file sharing using NAS file and iSCSI block technologies Expands storage capacity with ThinkServer SA120 for your growing business

OPTIMIZED storage with Microsoft Windows Storage Server Saves deployment time with Microsoft Windows Storage Server pre-loaded on the system Easy-to-use and well-known GUI shortens the learning curve to get you up and running quickly Brings enterprise-class functionality to SMB and Large Enterprise environments

RELIABLE shared storage for data management with faster data access Delivers integrated data protection for fault-tolerant storage ddesigned to reduce downtime Supports new Windows Storage Spaces capabilities Increases storage capacity and saves space with data de-duplication and compression

Lenovo Storage N4610 and N3310


Tape Archive Solutions


• Feature-Rich protects your customer’s information with reliable, long-term, secure media

• Flexible configurations enables easy off-site storage media or to DR sites

• Optimized for business with the most energy efficient, space saving, lowest cost per GB offering

Tape Overview


External LTO Tape Drive Portfolio

TS2250 Tape Drive TS2260 Tape Drive TS2360 Tape Drive

LTO5 half-high tape drive 1.5TB native; 3.0TB compressed

LTO6 T half-high tape drive 2.5TB native; 6.25TB compressed

LTO6 full-height tape drive 2.5TB native; 6.25TB compressed

Designed for capacity requirements of less than 6.25TB compressed Dual SAS port and one ethernet port External stand-alone or rack-mountable unit 1 tape drive and 1 cartridge


LTO Tape Autoloader/Library Portfolio

TS2900 Tape Autoloader TS3200 Tape Library

LTO6 support 22TB max. native capacity

o 56TB compressed 1 drive (max.) 9 cartridges (max.)


o 150TB compressed 2 drives (max.) 24 cartridges (max.)


o 300TB compressed 4 drives (max.) 48 cartridges (max.)

• Designed for capacity requirements greater than 6.25TB compressed• Automated tape backup for open system servers• Remote management through web interface• Supports systems managed and library managed encryption• External, stand-alone or rack-mountable units

TS3100 Tape Library


Summary


Lenovo Storage — Designed for your Business

We are your trusted partner to help control data growth• Provide feature-rich, flexible, and business optimized products• Non-disruptive integration into your environment• Affordable, high performing storage portfolio


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