Lenovo ThinkSystem DB630S 32Gb FC SAN Switch

The Lenovo ThinkSystem DB630S FC SAN Switch delivers 32 Gb Gen 6 Fibre Channel technology with industry-leading port density and combines scalability, reliability, flexibility, simplicity, and enterprise-class functionality to meet the demands of hyper-scale, private cloud storage, and growing flash-based and NVMe storage environments.

The DB630S FC SAN Switch is a dense, 2U rack-mount storage networking switch that offers 96x SFP+ ports that support 4/8/10/16/32 Gbps speeds and 8x QSFP+ ports that support 128 Gbps (4x 32 Gbps) or 4x 4/8/16/32 Gbps speeds. The DB630S FC SAN switch offers a rich set of standard features with the options to expand its capabilities as needed, providing “pay-as-you-grow” scalability to meet the needs of an evolving storage environment.

The DB630S FC SAN Switch features the EZSwitchSetup wizard to simplify deployment, and it provides easy integration into the existing SAN environments while realizing the benefits of Gen 6 Fibre Channel connectivity. The switch provides full non-blocking performance with Ports On Demand scalability to support SAN expansion and enable long-term investment protection.

The following figure shows the Lenovo ThinkSystem DB630S 32Gb FC SAN Switch.

Figure 1. Lenovo ThinkSystem DB630S 32Gb FC SAN Switch

The DB630S FC SAN Switch leverages storage connectivity technologies from Brocade, a leader in Fibre Channel networking.

Fabric Vision technology, an extension of Gen 6 Fibre Channel, provides unprecedented insight and visibility across the SAN with powerful built-in monitoring, management, and diagnostic tools.

With Lenovo FC SAN Switch offerings, Lenovo can be your trusted partner that offers "one stop shop" and single point of contact for delivery of leading edge technologies and innovations from Lenovo and other leading IT vendors. These offerings can satisfy the wide range of your end-to-end IT infrastructure needs, including end-user devices, servers, storage, networking, services, management software, and financing.

The ThinkSystem DB630S FC SAN Switch offers the following features and benefits:

• Provides high scalability in a dense, 2U switch with 96 SFP+ ports and 8 QSFP+ ports (each QSFP+ port has 4x 32 Gb FC links for 128 Gb FC connectivity between the DB630S or DB620S FC SAN switches, or it can be broken out to four links to 4/8/16/32 Gbps SWL optics in a server HBA, storage device, or another FC switch, for a total of up to 128 connections) to support high-density server virtualization, cloud architectures, and flash-based storage environments.
• Enables cost-effective “pay-as-you-grow” scalability from 48 to 128 ports with Ports On Demand (POD).
• Increases performance for demanding workloads with support for 128 Gbps (4x 32 Gbps) and 32 Gbps FC links.
• Simplifies end-to-end management of large-scale environments by automating repetitive daily management tasks.
• Optimizes fabric behavior and ensure sufficient bandwidth for mission-critical applications with advanced traffic management capabilities and adaptive networking.
• Provides proactive, non-intrusive, real-time monitoring and alerting of VM and storage I/O health and performance with VM Insight and IO Insight through integrated network sensors.
• Leverages predefined MAPS policies to automatically identify and isolate devices that cause network performance issues.
• Protects existing device investments with auto-sensing 4, 8, 16, and 32 Gbit/sec capabilities and native operation with Brocade fabrics.
• Runs Fabric OS, which delivers distributed intelligence throughout the network and enables a wide range of value-added features.
• Leverages Fabric Vision technology’s powerful monitoring, management, and diagnostic tools to simplify administration, increase uptime, and reduce costs.
• Supplies a rich set of standard features at no extra cost, including fabric services, advanced zoning, adaptive networking, full fabric operations, integrated 10 Gb FC, and diagnostic tools.
• Expands fabric capabilities with optional licensed functions, including trunking, advanced monitoring and alerting, long-distance fabrics, and FC-FC routing.
• Compresses and encrypts in-flight data on up to 12 ports for more efficient link utilization and higher security.
• Virtualizes physical FC SAN switches and fabrics into logical entities for better flexibility, utilization, management, and efficiency.
• Allows organizations to seamlessly integrate Gen 6 Fibre Channel networks with the next generation of flash storage – NVMe over Fibre Channel – by being NVMe-ready, without a disruptive rip and replace, to achieve faster application response times and harness the performance of solid state drives for better scalability across virtual data centers with flash storage.
• Optimizes performance and ensures reliability with enhanced monitoring for NVMe.
• Maximizes resiliency with redundant hot-swap fan assembly units and power supplies.
• Accelerates troubleshooting with built-in advanced diagnostics tools featuring ClearLink Diagnostics with D_Ports and select adapters from QLogic and Emulex, which helps ensure optical and signal integrity for 16 Gb and 32 Gb Fibre Channel optics and cables.

The following figure shows the port-side view of the DB630S FC SAN Switch.

Figure 2. DB630S FC SAN Switch port-side view

The port-side panel of the DB630S FC SAN Switch includes the following components:

• 96x SFP+ ports to attach SFP+ transceivers for 4/8/10/16/32 Gb FC connections.
• 8x QSFP+ ports to attach QSFP+ transceivers for 128 Gb or 4x 32 Gb FC connections.
• One RJ-45 10/100/1000 Mb Ethernet port for out-of-band management.
• One RJ-45 RS-232 console port for configuring the switch.
• One USB port for mass storage devices.
• LEDs that display the status of the switch and the network.

The following figure shows the non-port side view of the DB630S FC SAN Switch.

Figure 3. DB630S FC SAN Switch non-port-side view

The non-port-side panel of the DB630S FC SAN Switch includes the following components:

• Two redundant hot-swap 1500 W AC power supplies (each with the IEC 320-C14 power connector).
• Three N+1 redundant hot-swap system fan assembly units (each with two fans).

The following table lists the ThinkSystem DB630S system specifications.

The following table lists the ThinkSystem DB630S FC SAN Switch models.

The DB630S FC SAN Switch models ship with the following items:

• One FC SAN Switch with 1-year firmware entitlement
  • Model CTO1: With 48 ports activated and no transceivers included
  • Models CTO2 and CTO5: With 48 ports activated and 48x 32 Gb FC SWL SFP+ transceivers included
  • Models CTO3 and CTO6: With 96 ports activated and 96x 32 Gb FC SWL SFP+ transceivers included
• Serial cable (DB-9/RJ-45 to RJ-45)
• Rubber feet for setting up the switch as a standalone unit
• Fixed rack mount kit
• EZSwitchSetup web pointer card
• Online Documentation web pointer card
• SANnav web pointer card

Note: The switch comes standard without power cords; two power cables must be purchased together with the switch (see Power supplies and cables for details).

DB630S Model CTO1 ships with 48 licensed ports (transceivers are not included), and the Models CTO2 and CTO5 ships with 48 licensed ports and 48x 32 Gb FC SWL SFP+ Transceivers. The remaining 48 SFP+ unlicensed ports can be activated by purchasing and installing the SFP+ Ports on Demand (POD) licenses that are available in 24-port increments. DB630S Models CTO3 and CTO6 ships with 96 licensed ports and 96x 32 Gb FC SWL SFP+ Transceivers.

Eight QSFP+ unlicensed ports on the DB630S FC SAN Switch can be activated by purchasing and installing the QSFP+ POD license that is available with or without QSFP+ transceivers.

With the flexibility of the DB630S FC SAN Switch, customers can choose the following connectivity technologies:

• QSFP+ ports
  • For 128 Gb (4x 32 Gb) FC links for connectivity between the DB630S or DB620S FC SAN Switches, customers can use 128 Gb FC QSFP+ SWL optical transceivers for distances up to 100 meters on OM4 or up to 70 meters on OM3 50 µ multimode fiber (MMF) optic cables. For longer distances, the 128 Gb (4x 32 Gb) FC 2KM LWL QSFP+ optical transceivers can support up to 2 kilometers on single-mode fiber (SMF) cables. The 4x 32 Gb FC links per QSFP+ port can be configured as 128 Gbps parallel FC [round robin 66-bit block distribution across four lanes] or in a 128 Gbps ISL trunk group.
  • For 32 Gb FC links, customers can use the 128 Gb (4x 32 Gbps) SWL QSFP+ Transceiver v2 with OM4 MMF MPO-4xLC breakout cables for distances up to 100 meters or OM3 MMF MPO-4xLC breakout cables for distances up to 70 meters.
  • For 16 Gb FC links, customers can use 50 µ MMF MPO-4xLC breakout cables for connectivity to other FC SAN switches or routers (E_Port or EX_Port) by using four independent 16 Gb FC links per QSFP+ port (no ISL trunking) with the following transceivers:
    • 128 Gb (4x 32 Gb) QSFP+ SWL v2 optical transceivers running at 4x 16 Gb speeds for distances up to 125 meters on OM4 or up to 100 meters on OM3 MMF cables.
    • 4x 16 Gb FC QSFP+ SWL optical transceivers for distances up to 100 meters on OM4 or up to 66 meters on OM3 MMF cables.
• SFP+ ports
  • For 32 Gb FC links, customers can use 32 Gb FC SFP+ SWL optical transceivers for distances up to 100 meters on OM4 or up to 70 meters on OM3 50 µ MMF cables. For longer distances, the 32 Gb FC LWL SFP+ optical transceivers can support up to 10 km on SMF cables. For extended distances, the 32 Gb FC ELWL SFP+ optical transceivers can support up to 25 kilometers on SMF cables. These transceivers can operate at 32 Gbps, 16 Gbps, or 8 Gbps speeds. (Except ELWL part number 4M27A65431 which can only operate at 32Gbps and 16 Gbps).
  • For 16 Gb FC links, customers can use 16 Gb FC SFP+ SWL optical transceivers for distances up to 125 meters on OM4 or up to 100 meters on OM3 50 µ MMF cables. For longer distances, the 16 Gb FC LWL SFP+ optical transceivers can support up to 10 kilometers on SMF cables. For extended distances, the 16 Gb FC ELWL SFP+ optical transceivers can support up to 25 kilometers on SMF cables. These transceivers can operate at 16 Gbps, 8 Gbps, or 4 Gbps speeds.
  • For 10 Gb FC links, customers can use 10 Gb FC SFP+ SWL transceivers for distances up to 550 meters on OM4 or up to 300 meters on OM3 50 µ MMF cables, or 10 Gb FC SFP+ LWL transceivers for distances up to 10 km on SMF cables. 10 Gb FC operations allow metro connectivity by directly utilizing a fiber optic cable between sites or by creating multiple channels on an optical cable between sites, utilizing Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology (the Extended Fabric feature is NOT required for long distance 10 Gb FC connectivity).
• 1 GbE RJ-45 management port: Customers can use UTP Category 5, 5e, or 6 cables for distances up to 100 meters.

The DB630S FC SAN Switch comes with 48x (Models CTO2 and CTO5) or 96x (Models CTO3 and CTO6) 32 Gb FC SWL SFP+ transceivers, or without any transceivers (Model CTO1). Additional SWL, LWL, and ELWL SFP+ and SWL and LWL QSFP+ transceivers can be ordered for the switch, if needed.

The following table lists the supported transceiver and cable options.

The following table lists the cabling requirements for the switch.

For details on the latest features supported with the FC SAN Switch see the Administration Guide for the latest available Fabric OS version 9.0 and above, available from:
https://www.broadcom.com/products/fibre-channel-networking/software/fabric-operating-system

The following optional features are available for the DB630S FC SAN Switch:

• Enterprise Bundle
  • ISL Trunking (TRK): Allows frame-based consolidation of up to 8 inter-switch links (ISLs) into fault-tolerant and load-balanced trunks with bandwidth of up to 256 Gbps.
  • Fabric Vision (FV)
    • Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS): Simplifies fabric-wide threshold configuration, monitoring, and alerting with pre-built, rule-based or policy-based templates. Administrators can configure the entire fabric (or multiple fabrics) at one time using common rules and policies, or customize policies for specific ports or switch elements. In addition, administrators can use IO Insight metrics to set thresholds in MAPS policies in order to be notified of application, VM, and storage IOI/O performance degradation.
    • Flow Vision: Enables administrators to identify, monitor, and analyze specific application flows in order to simplify troubleshooting, maximize performance, avoid congestion, and optimize resources. Flow Vision includes:
      • Flow Monitor: Provides comprehensive visibility, automatic learning, and non-disruptive monitoring of a flow’s performance. Administrators can monitor all flows from a specific host to multiple targets or volumes, from multiple hosts to a specific target/volume, or across a specific ISL. Additionally, they can perform volume-level monitoring of specific frame types to identify resource contention or congestion that is impacting application performance. With the IO Insight capability, administrators can monitor first I/O response time, I/O completion time, the number of pending I/Os, and IOPS metrics for a flow from a specific host to a target or volume running SCSI or NVMe over Fibre Channel traffic. With VM Insight, administrators can monitor network throughput and I/O statistics for each VM.
      • Flow Learning: Enables administrators to non-disruptively discover all flows that go to or come from a specific host port or a storage port, or traverse ISLs/IFLs (Inter-Fabric Links) or Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP) tunnels, to monitor fabric-wide application performance. In addition, administrators can discover top and bottom bandwidth-consuming devices and manage capacity planning.
      • Flow Generator: Provides a built-in traffic generator for pretesting and validating the data center infrastructure for robustness—including route verification and integrity of optics, cables, ports, back-end connections, and ISLs—before deploying applications.
      • Flow Mirroring: Enables administrators to non-disruptively create copies of specific application and data flows or frame types that can be captured for in-depth analysis.
    • VM Insight: Seamlessly monitors health and performance of individual Virtual Machines (VMs) to quickly identify abnormal VM behavior and enable administrators to proactively facilitate troubleshooting and fault isolation, helping to ensure performance and operational stability.
    • IO Insight: Proactively monitors I/O performance and behavior to gain deep insight into issues and ensure service levels by non-disruptively and non-intrusively gathering I/O statistics for storage traffic and applying this information within a policy-based monitoring and alerting suite to configure thresholds and alarms.
    • Fabric Performance Impact (FPI) Monitoring: Leverages predefined MAPS policies to automatically detect and alert administrators to different latency severity levels, and to identify slow drain devices that could impact network performance. This feature identifies various latency severity levels, pinpointing exactly which devices are causing or are impacted by a bottlenecked port, and quarantines slow drain devices automatically to prevent buffer credit starvation.
  • Extended Fabric (EF): Extends Fibre Channel SANs beyond 10 km distance limitations for replication and backup at full bandwidth.
• Integrated Routing: The FC-FC routing service provides Fibre Channel routing between two or more fabrics without merging those fabrics.

The Integrated Routing feature (7S0C0018WW) comes with its own 1-year firmware support entitlement. The options to extend entitlement for additional years of firmware support for the Integrated Routing feature are listed in the following table.

Lenovo offers optional Brocade SANnav™ Management Portal and SANnav Global View software license subscriptions that provide comprehensive visibility into the SAN environment, allow administrators to quickly identify, isolate, and correct problems, and accelerate administrative tasks by simplifying and automating workflows.

SANnav Management Portal is a next-generation SAN management application with a simple browser-based user interface (UI) and with a focus on streamlining common workflows, such as configuration, zoning, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, reporting, and analytics.

SANnav Management Portal supports all Brocade SAN switches and platforms that run the Fabric OS® version 7.4 or above, including Lenovo B300, B6505, B6510, DB610S, DB620S, DB400D, DB720S, DB800D, Brocade Directors, and FC5022.

With SANnav Global View, administrators can quickly visualize the health, performance, and inventory of multiple SANnav Management Portal instances using a simple, intelligent dashboard and can easily navigate from a global view down to local environments to investigate points of interest. SANnav Global View is designed to manage up to 20 SANnav Management Portal instances.

For more information, refer to the SANnav Management Portal documentation:
http://www.broadcom.com/products/fibre-channel-networking/software/sannav-management-portal#documentation

The following table lists ordering information for the optional SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View management tools. After a client has an active SANnav license, Lenovo offers a “license extension/renewal”. This offering provides our clients the flexible to extend their subscription down to a specific end date. This allows clients the ability to align to your company’s budget or align with warranty of your FC SAN switches/directors. Please engage directly with your Lenovo sales representative for more details.

The FC SAN Switch supports the standards listed at the following web page:

https://www.broadcom.com/support/fibre-channel-networking/san-standards/standards-compliance

The DB630S FC SAN Switch ships with two redundant hot-swap 1500 W AC power supplies. Each power supply has an IEC 309-C14 connector.

The switch comes standard without a power cord; two rack power cables or line cords must be ordered together with the switch (see the following table).

* Available for factory-built custom configurations and solutions only.

The DB630S FC SAN Switch comes standard with the fixed rack mount kit that can be used for 4-post rack installations. If needed, the DB630S FC SAN Switch can be mounted in a 2-post rack cabinet by using the optional mid-mount rack kit that is listed in the following table.

The optional mid-mount rack kit for the DB630S FC SAN Switch is shown in the following figure.

Figure 4. Lenovo DB630S Mid-mount Rack Kit

The DB630S FC SAN Switch has the following dimensions and weight (approximate):

• Height: 87 mm (3.4 in.)
• Width: 440 mm (17.3 in.)
• Depth: 610 mm (24.0 in.)
• Weight: 21.31 kg (47.0 lb) with two power supply FRUs, and three fan FRUs without transceivers

The DB630S FC SAN Switch is supported in the following environment:

• Air temperature:
  • Operating: 0°C to 40°C (32°F to 104°F)
  • Non-operating: -25°C to +70°C (-13°F to 158°F)
• Maximum altitude:
  • Operating: 3 000 m (9,842 ft)
  • Non-operating: 12 000 m (39,370 ft)
• Humidity:
  • Operating: 10% to 85% non-condensing
  • Non-operating: 10% to 90% non-condensing
• Electrical power:
  • Voltage range: 100 V AC - 240 V AC (nominal)
  • Frequency: 50 Hz / 60 Hz (nominal)
  • Power consumption:
    • Idle: 495 watts
    • Typical: 536 watts
    • Maximum: 942 watts
• Heat dissipation:
  • Idle: 1689 BTU per hour
  • Typical: 1829 BTU per hour
  • Maximum: 3215 BTU per hour
• Acoustical noise emission: 74.2 dB

The DB630S FC SAN Switch has a one-year customer-replaceable unit (CRU) limited warranty with standard call center support during normal business hours and 9x5 Next Business Day Parts Delivered.

Lenovo’s additional support services provide a sophisticated, unified support structure for a customer's data center, with an experience consistently ranked number one in customer satisfaction worldwide.

The following Lenovo support services are available:

• Warranty Upgrades (Preconfigured Support) are available to meet the on-site response time targets that match the criticality of customer's systems:
  • 1, 3, or 5 years of warranty service coverage.
  • 1-year or 2-year post-warranty extensions.
  • Foundation Service: 9x5 service coverage with next business day onsite response.
  • Essential Service: 24x7 service coverage with 4-hour onsite response or 24-hour committed repair (available only in select regions).
  • Advanced Service: 24x7 service coverage with 2-hour onsite response or 6-hour committed repair (available only in select regions).
• Managed Services

  Lenovo Managed Services provide continuous 24x7 remote monitoring (plus 24x7 call center availability) and proactive management of a customer's data center using state of the art tools, systems, and practices by a team of highly skilled and experienced Lenovo services professionals.

  Quarterly reviews check error logs, verify firmware and operating system device driver levels, and software as needed. Lenovo will also maintain records of latest patches, critical updates, and firmware levels, to ensure customer's systems are providing business value through optimized performance.

• Technical Account Management (TAM)

  A Lenovo Technical Account Manager helps customers optimize operations of their data centers based on a deep understanding of customer's business. Customers gain direct access to a Lenovo TAM, who serves as their single point of contact to expedite service requests, provide status updates, and furnish reports to track incidents over time. Also, a TAM helps proactively make service recommendations and manage service relationship with Lenovo to make certain that customer's needs are met.

• Health Check

  Having a trusted partner who can perform regular and detailed health checks is central to maintaining efficiency and ensuring that customer systems and business are always running at their best. Health Check supports Lenovo-branded server, storage, and networking devices, as well as select Lenovo-supported products from other vendors that are sold by Lenovo or a Lenovo-Authorized Reseller.

Some regions might have different warranty terms and conditions than the standard warranty. This is due to local business practices or laws in the specific region. Local service teams can assist in explaining region-specific terms when needed. Examples of region-specific warranty terms are second or longer business day parts delivery or parts-only base warranty.

If warranty terms and conditions include onsite labor for repair or replacement of parts, Lenovo will dispatch a service technician to the customer site to perform the replacement. Onsite labor under base warranty is limited to labor for replacement of parts that have been determined to be field-replaceable units (FRUs). Parts that are determined to be customer-replaceable units (CRUs) do not include onsite labor under base warranty.

If warranty terms include parts-only base warranty, Lenovo is responsible for delivering only replacement parts that are under base warranty (including FRUs) that will be sent to a requested location for self-service. Parts-only service does not include a service technician being dispatched onsite. Parts must be changed at customer’s own cost and labor and defective parts must be returned following the instructions supplied with the spare parts.

Lenovo support services are region-specific. Not all support services are available in every region. For information about Lenovo support services that are available in a specific region, refer to the following resources:

• Service part numbers in Data Center Solution Configurator (DCSC):
  http://dcsc.lenovo.com/#/services
• Lenovo Services Availability Locator
  https://lenovolocator.com/

Lenovo Services is a dedicated partner to your success. Our goal is to reduce your capital outlays, mitigate your IT risks, and accelerate your time to productivity.

Here’s a more in-depth look at what we can do for you:

• Asset Recovery Services

  Asset Recovery Services (ARS) helps customers recover the maximum value from their end-of-life equipment in a cost-effective and secure way. On top of simplifying the transition from old to new equipment, ARS mitigates environmental and data security risks associated with data center equipment disposal. Lenovo ARS is a cash-back solution for equipment based on its remaining market value, yielding maximum value from aging assets and lowering total cost of ownership for your customers. For more information, see the ARS page, https://lenovopress.com/lp1266-reduce-e-waste-and-grow-your-bottom-line-with-lenovo-ars.

• Assessment Services

  An Assessment helps solve your IT challenges through an onsite, multi-day session with a Lenovo technology expert. We perform a tools-based assessment which provides a comprehensive and thorough review of a company's environment and technology systems. In addition to the technology based functional requirements, the consultant also discusses and records the non-functional business requirements, challenges, and constraints. Assessments help organizations like yours, no matter how large or small, get a better return on your IT investment and overcome challenges in the ever-changing technology landscape.

• Design Services

  Professional Services consultants perform infrastructure design and implementation planning to support your strategy. The high-level architectures provided by the assessment service are turned into low level designs and wiring diagrams, which are reviewed and approved prior to implementation. The implementation plan will demonstrate an outcome-based proposal to provide business capabilities through infrastructure with a risk-mitigated project plan.

• Basic Hardware Installation

  Lenovo experts can seamlessly manage the physical installation of your server, storage, or networking hardware. Working at a time convenient for you (business hours or off shift), the technician will unpack and inspect the systems on your site, install options, mount in a rack cabinet, connect to power and network, check and update firmware to the latest levels, verify operation, and dispose of the packaging, allowing your team to focus on other priorities.

• Deployment Services

  When investing in new IT infrastructures, you need to ensure your business will see quick time to value with little to no disruption. Lenovo deployments are designed by development and engineering teams who know our Products & Solutions better than anyone else, and our technicians own the process from delivery to completion. Lenovo will conduct remote preparation and planning, configure & integrate systems, validate systems, verify and update appliance firmware, train on administrative tasks, and provide post-deployment documentation. Customer’s IT teams leverage our skills to enable IT staff to transform with higher level roles and tasks.

• Integration, Migration, and Expansion Services

  Move existing physical & virtual workloads easily, or determine technical requirements to support increased workloads while maximizing performance. Includes tuning, validation, and documenting ongoing run processes. Leverage migration assessment planning documents to perform necessary migrations.

The DB630S FC SAN Switch conforms to the following regulations:

• United States: FCC Part 15, Subpart B, Class A; UL 60950-1
• Canada: ICES-003
• European Union:
  • CE Mark (EN55032 Class A, IEC/EN60950-1, EN55024, EN61000-3-2, EN61000-3-3)
  • EN 300 386
  • EN 60825
• China: GB4943.1, GB9254
• Japan: VCCI
• Taiwan: BSMI CNS13438, CNS14336-1
• Korea: KN32, KN35
• Australia/New Zealand: AS/NZS CISPR 32, Class A
• Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)

For end-to-end storage configuration support, refer to the Lenovo Storage Interoperation Center (LSIC):
https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/us/en/lsic

Use the LSIC to select the known components of your configuration and then get a list all other supported combinations, with details about supported hardware, firmware, operating systems, and drivers, plus any additional configuration notes. View results on screen or export them to Excel.

Lenovo offers the ThinkSystem DE Series and ThinkSystem DM Series external storage systems for high-performance storage. See the DE Series and DM Series product guides for specific controller models, expansion enclosures and configuration options:

• ThinkSystem DE Series Storage
  https://lenovopress.com/storage/thinksystem/de-series#rt=product-guide
• ThinkSystem DM Series Storage
  https://lenovopress.com/storage/thinksystem/dm-series#rt=product-guide
• ThinkSystem DG Series Storage
  https://lenovopress.com/storage/thinksystem/dg-series#rt=product-guide

The following table lists the external backup options that are offered by Lenovo that can be used in Lenovo FC SAN solutions.

Note: Information provided in this section is for ordering reference purposes only. End-to-end LTO Ultrium configuration support for a particular tape backup unit must be verified through the System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC):
http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/ssic

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Tape Autoloaders and Libraries category:
https://lenovopress.com/storage/tape/library

The following table lists the supported rack cabinets.

For specifications about these racks, see the Lenovo Rack Cabinet Reference, available from:
https://lenovopress.com/lp1287-lenovo-rack-cabinet-reference

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Rack cabinets category:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/racks

The following table lists the power distribution units (PDUs) that are offered by Lenovo.

For more information, see the Lenovo Press documents in the PDU category:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/pdu

The following table lists the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units that are offered by Lenovo.

† Only available in China and the Asia Pacific market.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the UPS category:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/ups

The following sales training courses are offered for employees and partners (login required). Courses are listed in date order.

1. VTT Data Management How to sell storage - April 2024
   2024-04-10 | 60 minutes | Employees Only
   Details
   VTT Data Management How to sell storage - April 2024
   
   

   In this course, you will know:
   
   - Why do we sell storage?
   - What are the basics you need to get an opportunity rolling?
   - Why Lenovo for Storage?
   - What is happening in the market today?
   - How to determine traction?

   Published: 2024-04-10
   Length: 60 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Course code: DVDAT209
2. The Inherent Security of Fibre Channel SAN
   2024-03-08 | 20 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   The Inherent Security of Fibre Channel SAN
   
   

   In this course, you will learn the security benefits of dedicated FC Storage Area Networks.
   Course objectives:
   1. Be able to articulate some of the high level benefits of Fibre Channel SAN
   2. Understand the difference between Fibre Channel vs. IP Networks
   3. Learn about some of the security benefits in the Lenovo DB series hardware and software SAN offerings

   Published: 2024-03-08
   Length: 20 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   Course code: DDBS209
3. Simplify Selling Fibre Channel Storage Solutions
   2024-01-31 | 10 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Simplify Selling Fibre Channel Storage Solutions
   
   

   In this session we look at the benefits of Fibre Channel and the benefits to you and your customers of bundling FC networking with your storage arrays.
   Plus, we will take a closer look at some of the changes Lenovo has made to the Data Center Solutions Configurator to help you and the clients build bundled FC solutions.

   Published: 2024-01-31
   Length: 10 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   Course code: DNFP101
4. Family Portfolio: Storage Networking
   2023-10-27 | 15 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Family Portfolio: Storage Networking
   
   

   This course will provide you an overview of the Storage Networking family. After completing this course, you should be able to identify the products in the Storage Networking portfolio and their features, describe product family benefits, and recognize when a specific product should be used.

   Published: 2023-10-27
   Length: 15 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   Course code: SXXW1113r7
5. Lenovo Data Center Product Portfolio
   2023-07-21 | 15 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Lenovo Data Center Product Portfolio
   
   

   This course introduces the Lenovo data center portfolio, and covers servers, storage, storage networking, and software-defined infrastructure products. After completing this course about Lenovo data center products, you will be able to identify product types within each data center family, describe Lenovo innovations that this product family or category uses, and recognize when a specific product should be selected.

   Published: 2023-07-21
   Length: 15 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   Course code: SXXW1110r6

For more information, see the following resources:

• Interactive 3D Tour for the DB630S:
  https://lenovopress.com/LP1186
• Lenovo ThinkSystem DB630S FC SAN Switch product publications
  http://datacentersupport.lenovo.com
  • Hardware Installation Guide
  • Fabric OS Administration Guide
  • Fabric OS Extension Configuration Guide
  • Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide
  • Fabric OS Command Reference
  • Fabric OS Message Reference
  • Fabric OS MIB Reference
  • Web Tools Administration Guide
  • Flow Vision Configuration Guide
  • Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Configuration Guide
• Lenovo Data Center Support for the ThinkSystem DB630S FC SAN Switch:
  http://datacentersupport.lenovo.com
• Benefits of an End-to-End NVMe over FC Solution with Lenovo ThinkSystem
  http://lenovopress.com/lp0955