Description

Scalable and Reliable Hybrid Storage for Growing Businesses

Flexible and cost-effective hybrid storage with up to 1.47PB of raw storage capacity, balancing performance and scalability for businesses of all sizes.

The ThinkSystem DE2000H is a low-cost, hybrid entry-level storage system designed for small to large businesses. It offers enterprise-class storage management capabilities, high availability, and a wide range of host connectivity options.

Key Features:

• Low-Cost, Entry-Level Storage: Dual active/active controller configurations with 8 GB system memory per controller for high availability and performance.
• Improved Performance and Data Protection: Dynamic Disk Pools (DDP) technology and support for traditional RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, and 10.
• Flexible Host Connectivity: Support for 1/10 Gb iSCSI, 4/8/16 Gb FC, 12 Gb SAS, 10/25 Gb iSCSI, and 8/16/32 Gb FC connectivity.
• Scalability: Up to 96 SFF or 48 LFF drives with the attachment of up to three expansion enclosures.
• Drives are dual-port and hot-swappable.
• Drives of the same form factor can be intermixed within the appropriate enclosure.
• More drives and expansion enclosures can be dynamically added with virtually no downtime.

Ideal Use Cases:

• Small offices
• Remote and branch offices of large enterprises
• Big data and analytics
• Video surveillance
• Technical computing
• Backup and recovery
• Storage I/O-intensive applications

Additional Benefits

Rich Set of Standard Storage Management Functions: Dynamic Disk Pools, SSD read cache, snapshots, volume copy, thin provisioning, and encryption (requires optional FIPS drives).
Optional Licensed Functions: Higher number of snapshots and asynchronous mirroring for continuous data availability.
Intuitive GUI: Easy system setup and management through a web-based interface.
High Availability: Designed for 99.9999% availability with redundant hot-swap components and non-disruptive firmware upgrades.

ThinkSystem DE2000H Storage Capabilities

The ThinkSystem DE2000H supports a wide range of data storage requirements, from high-usage applications to low-usage applications with high capacity needs.

Supported Drives

2U24 SFF Enclosures

• Capacity-optimised SSDs: 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB, and 15.36 TB (1 drive write per day [DWD])
• Performance-optimized HDDs: 1.2 TB and 1.8 TB, 10K rpm
• Performance-optimized self-encrypting FIPS HDDs**: 1.8 TB, 10K rpm

2U12 LFF Enclosures

• High-capacity nearline HDDs: 4 TB, 8 TB, 10 TB, 12 TB, 18 TB, and 22 TB, 7.2K rpm
• High-capacity self-encrypting FIPS HDDs: 10 TB, 7.2K rpm

Expansion Enclosures

Up to three 2U expansion enclosures (ThinkSystem DE240S or ThinkSystem DE120S) are supported by a single ThinkSystem DE2000H system.
Customers can intermix 2U24 SFF and 2U12 LFF expansion enclosures behind a 2U24 SFF or 2U12 LFF controller enclosure.

The ThinkSystem DE2000H 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 HDDs and 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