Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6600F and DE6600H 2U Rackmout Scalable All Flash and Hybrid Mid-Range Storage Arrays

By Marlon Aguirre, senior technical specialist, Lenovo

The Lenovo Group Ltd.’s ThinkSystem DE6600F and DE6600H are scalable, all flash and hybrid mid-range storage systems designed to provide performance, simplicity, capacity, security, and HA.

ThinkSystem DE6600Ffront and rear

Designed for enterprise customers wanting to take advantage of the latest technology in flash to turbo charge their environment, the DE6600F and DE6600H deliver enterprise storage management capabilities in performance-optimized systems with a choice of host connectivity options, flexible drive configurations, and enhanced data management features.

The product guide provides essential technical and pre-sales information on the ThinkSystem DE6600F and DE6600H storage arrays, their key features and specs, components, options, and configuration guidelines.

This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, and IT architects who want to learn more about the DE6600F and DE6600H storage arrays and consider their use in their solutions.

ThinkSystem DE6600F and DE6600H are end to end NVMe storage solutions designed to provide performance, simplicity, capacity, security, and HA for midrange to highend block NVMe large segment.

They deliver enterprise storage management capabilities in performance-optimized systems with a choice of host connectivity options, flexible drive configurations, and enhanced data management features. These arrays deliver superior price for performance with sub-100ms response for user most-demanding enterprise applications. For target markets such as: AI, big data analysts, Oracle/SQL databases, HPC and real-time analytics.

They are available in a 2U rack form-factor with 24 small form-factor (2.5-inch SFF) NVMe drives and include 2 controllers, each with 32 or 128GB system memory for a system total of 64 or 256GB. Host interface cards provide 10/25Gb/s iSCSI, 16/32Gb FC/NVMe-FC, 100Gb/s IB/NVMe-RoCE host connections and 12Gb SAS expansions.

Thinksystem DE6600H hybrid flash array

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The DE6600F and DE6600H are the NVME offerings under the company’s enterprise flash storage systems, with unmatched value on performance and price.

A single DE6600F or DE6600H scales up to 367TB (NVMe) of raw storage capacity, expandable to 1.798PB all-SSD for an all-flash system and expandable to 7.741PB for a hybrid system.

The DE6600F and DE6600H are entry all-flash and hybrid systems for midsized businesses and remote offices that stream media and run-data analytics.

They support multiple storage connectivity protocols with a choice of iSCSI, FC, NVMe over FC, or NVMe over RoCE.

ThinkSystem DE6600F and DE6600H offer following features and benefits:

Scalable, performance mid-range all-flash and hybrid storage with dual active/active controller configurations with 32 or 128GB system memory per controller for high availability and performance.
Faster application response times with support for NVMe-oF.
Improved performance and data protection with Dynamic Disk Pools (DDP) technology, as well as support for traditional RAID-0, 1, 3, 5, 6, and 10.
Flexible storage protocols to match diverse client needs with support for 10/25Gb/s iSCSI, 16/32Gb/s FC/NVMe-FC, 100Gb/s IB/NVMe-RoCE host connectivity.
Dual controller enclosure scales up to 367TB (NVMe).
SAS expansion connectivity to expand scalability and capacity.
12Gb SAS drive-side connectivity with support for up to 24×2.5-inch small form factor (SFF) drives in the 2U24 SFF expansion enclosure, up to 12×3.5-inch large form factor (LFF) drives in the 2U12 LFF expansion enclosure, or up to 60×3.5-inch LFF drives in the 4U60 LFF expansion enclosure.
For ‘All-Flash’ a maximum scalability to up 120 SFF drives by attaching up to 4 ThinkSystem DE240S 2U24 SFF expansion enclosures.
For ‘Hybrid’ a maximum scalability to up 444 drives by attaching up to 7 ThinkSystem DE600S 4U60 LFF expansion enclosures to satisfy growing needs.
Standard storage management functions available at no extra cost, including Dynamic Disk Pools, snapshots, volume copy and encryption.
Optional licensed functions, including higher number of drives and snapshots for greater scalability for continuous data availability.
Web-based GUI for easy system setup and management.
Designed for 99.9999% availability with redundant hot-swap components, including controllers and I/O modules, power supplies, cooling modules (4U60 LFF enclosures only), proactive maintenance, and non-disruptive firmware upgrades.

The ThinkSystem DE6600F and DE6600H support the complete range of data storage requirements, from highly used applications to high-capacity, low usage applications.

The DE6600F and DE6600H 2U24 SFF expansion enclosure and expansion enclosures offer a variety of drives. Refer to the drives section for a list of supported drives. All drives are dual-port and hot-swappable. For the DE6600F system HDD Intermix (within enclosure) is not supported. For the DE6600H system HDD Intermix (within enclosure) is supported which provides the flexibility to address performance and capacity needs within a single enclosure.

Customers can intermix 2U24 SFF, 2U12 LFF, and 4U60 LFF expansion enclosures behind a 2U24 SFF controller enclosure. This configuration delivers the added flexibility to mix 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch drives within a single system.

More drives and expansion enclosures are designed to be dynamically added with virtually no downtime, which helps to quickly and seamlessly respond to ever-growing capacity demands.

ThinkSystem DE6600F and DE6600H offer 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, cooling modules (4U60 LFF only), 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

Note: HDD SAS 10,000rpm are not supported for the ThinkSystem DE6600F and DE6600H.

Resource:
Guide:Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6600F and DE6600H Storage Arrays, update May 22, 2023 (32 pages)