Form factor | Lenovo Storage V3700 V2 Expansion Enclosure: 2U rack mount |
Controller configuration | Dual controller (known asnode canister) configuration. |
RAID levels | RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10; Distributed RAID 5 and 6. |
Controller cache | 16 GB per system (8 GB per node canister). V3700 XP is upgradeable to 32 GB (16 GB per node canister). Cache mirroring between the node canisters. Flash-backed cache protection (includes battery). |
Drive bays | Up to 240 SFF drive bays per storage system:- 24 SFF drive bays in the control enclosure
- 24 SFF drive bays in the expansion enclosure; up to 9 expansion enclosures
Up to 120 LFF drive bays per storage system:- 12 LFF drive bays in the control enclosure
- 12 LFF drive bays in the expansion enclosures; up to 9 expansion enclosures
Intermix of SFF and LFF enclosures is supported. |
Drive technology | SAS and NL SAS HDDs and SAS SSDs. Intermix of HDDs and SSDs is supported. |
Drive connectivity | Dual-ported 12 Gb SAS drive attachment infrastructure. Controller unit with two node canisters (ports per one node canister):- 24x 12 Gb SAS internal drive ports (SFF enclosure)
- 12x 12 Gb SAS internal drive ports (LFF enclosure)
- 1x 12 Gb SAS x4 (Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644) expansion port for the attachment of the expansion enclosures
Expansion unit with two expansion canisters (ports per one expansion canister):- 24x 12 Gb SAS internal drive ports (SFF enclosure)
- 12x 12 Gb SAS internal drive ports (LFF enclosure)
- 2x 12 Gb SAS x4 (Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644) expansion ports for the daisy chained attachment of the expansion enclosures
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Drives | SFF drives:- 300 GB and 600 GB 15K rpm SAS HDDs
- 900 GB, 1.2 TB, and 1.8 TB 10K rpm SAS HDDs
- 2 TB 7.2K rpm NL SAS HDDs
- 400 GB, 800 GB, 1.6 TB, and 3.2 TB SAS SSDs
- 1.92 TB and 3.84 TB read-optimized SAS SSDs
LFF drives:- 300 GB and 600 GB 15K rpm SAS HDDs
- 900 GB, 1.2 TB, and 1.8 TB 10K rpm SAS HDDs
- 4 TB, 6 TB, and 8 TB 7.2K rpm NL SAS HDDs
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Storage capacity | Up to 960 TB (120x 8 TB NL SAS HDDs) |
Host connectivity | Standard ports (per control enclosure with two node canisters):- 4x 1 Gb iSCSI host ports (UTP, RJ-45) (2 ports per node canister)
- 4x 12 Gb SAS host ports (Mini-SAS HD, SFF-8644) (2 ports per node canister; V3700 V2 XP only)
Optional additional ports on host interface cards (per control enclosure with two node canisters):- 8x 12 Gb SAS host ports (Mini-SAS HD, SFF-8644) (4 ports per node canister)
- 8x 1 Gb iSCSI host ports (UTP, RJ-45) (4 ports per node canister)
- 8x 10 Gb iSCSI or FCoE SFP+ host ports (SW fiber, LC) (4 ports per node canister)
- 8x 16 Gb FC SFP+ host ports (SW or LW fiber, LC) (4 ports per node canister)
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Host operating systems | Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2; Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and 7; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 and 12; VMware vSphere 5.1, 5.5, and 6.0. |
Standard software features | Virtualization of internal storage, Thin Provisioning, One-way Data Migration, FlashCopy snapshots (up to 64 targets), and Embedded GUI. |
Optional software features | FlashCopy snapshots upgrade (up to 2048 targets), Easy Tier, and Remote Mirroring. |
Performance (V3700 V2 / V3700 V2 XP)* | - Up to 168,000 / 390,000 cache read IOPS
- Up to 51,000 / 112,000 disk read IOPS
- Up to 13,000 / 28,000 disk write IOPS
- Up to 27,000 / 55,000 disk mixed (70% read/30% write) IOPS
- Up to 3.4 / 6.2 GBps sequential disk read throughput
- Up to 0.96 / 1.7 GBps sequential disk write throughput
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Configuration maximums** | Per system:- Maximum number of storage pools: 1,024
- Maximum number of logical volumes: 2,048
- Maximum logical volume size: 256 TB
- Maximum number of drives in a RAID array: 16
- Maximum number of RAID arrays: 128
- Maximum number of drives in a distributed RAID array: 128 (including up to 4 spares)
- Maximum number of distributed RAID arrays: 10
- Maximum hot spare drives: No limit
- Maximum number of host ports: 2,048
- Maximum number of hosts: 256
- Maximum number of host ports per one host: 32
- Maximum number of snapshots: 2,048 (requires an optional license)
- Maximum number of remote mirroring relationships: 2,048 (requires an optional license)
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Cooling | Redundant cooling with the fan modules that are built into power supplies. |
Power supply | Two redundant hot-swap 800 W AC power supplies. |
Hot-swap parts | Node canisters, expansion canisters, SFP/SFP+ transceivers, drives, power supplies with fans. |
Management interfaces | 2x 1 GbE ports (UTP, RJ-45) in a primary/redundant configuration. Web-based GUI; SSH CLI; SMI-S; SNMP and email notifications. |
Security features | Secure Socket Layer (SSL), Secure Shell (SSH), user level security, LDAP authentication |
Warranty | Three-year customer-replaceable unit and onsite warranty with 9x5 next business day terms. Optional warranty service upgrades are available through Lenovo: 24x7 coverage, 2-hour or 4-hour response time, 6-hour or 24-hour committed repair, 1-year or 2-year warranty extensions, Hard Drive Retention. |
Dimensions | Height: 87 mm (3.4 in.); width: 483 mm (19.0 in.); depth: 556 mm (21.9 in.) |
Weight | - Control enclosure (fully configured): 26 kg (57.3 lb)
- Expansion enclosure (fully configured): 26.7 kg (58.9 lb)
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