Lenovo Distributed Storage Solution for IBM Spectrum Scale

Scalable Solution for HPC, Analytics, and Cloud Storage

The Lenovo Distributed Storage System for Spectrum Scale is a complex solution made simple. Lenovo leverages advanced technology to create an optimized solution. This storage system increases results with quick rebuild times. Lenovo provides an end-to-end solution with end-to-end support.

Lenovo Distributed Storage Solution for IBM Spectrum Scale

A high-capacity, high-performance technical storage solution that uses a building-block approach to create highly scalable storage.

Simple, Secure, and Scalable

• Single, integrated storage solution
• Built to leverage a strong IBM Spectrum Scale software market
• High-capacity, scalable building-block approach—performance and capacity increase as you add multiple building blocks
• Unique, innovative Spectrum Scale RAID capability providing extreme data integrity and reduced latency with faster rebuild times and enhanced data protection
• Cost competitive

Solutions Made Simple

Deploying solutions for Technical Computing, high-performance computing (HPC), Analytics, and Cloud environments can place a significant burden on IT. The Lenovo Distributed Storage Solution for IBM® Spectrum Scale™ (DSS-G) fulfilled through Lenovo Scalable Infrastructure (LeSI) leverages decades of experience to reduce the complexity of deployment with integrated, delivered, and fully supported solutions that match best-in-industry components with optimized solution design. With Lenovo DSS-G, clients can focus their efforts on maximizing business value instead of consuming valuable resources to design, optimize, install, and support the infrastructure required to meet business demands. DSS will be a family of solutions that address the high-performance technical computing storage needs of customers. DSS-G is the first in this family of products to come to market.

Great Combination

Lenovo DSS-G combines the performance of Lenovo servers and Lenovo disk enclosures with industry-leading Spectrum Scale software to offer a high-performance, scalable building-block approach to modern storage needs. Lenovo DSS-G allows organizations to start small and build via incremental additions, providing expanded capacity and bandwidth with each additional DSS-G building block. Clients now have the ability to handle small to very large capacity storage workloads with high performance in HPC environments.

Optimized Design

The Lenovo DSS-G features industry-leading Lenovo servers with powerful Intel® Xeon® processors, Lenovo 12Gbps SAS storage enclosures and drives, software, and networking components that allow for a wide choice of technology within an integrated, delivered solution. Each solution is tested and optimized for reliability, interoperability, and maximum performance so clients can quickly deploy the system and get to work achieving their business goals. With DSS-G‘s high storage density and I/O performance, you gain all the reliability, integration and interoperability of a high-capacity, Spectrum Scale-based storage architecture.

Increase Results

Clients who are expanding the use of Technical Computing and HPC to solve complex problems need high-capacity storage and low-latency data access with quick rebuild times in the event of disk failure. Clients are looking for a low per-terabyte price. As an integral part of the Lenovo Scalable Infrastructure (LeSI) portfolio, the Declustered RAID capability of the Lenovo DSS-G provides extreme data integrity, reliability, and flexibility. The Declustered RAID technology of the Lenovo DSS-G delivers rebuild times up to 8 times faster than previous controller-based storage. These features let clients quickly put the system to work and increase productivity.

Tech Specs

Lenovo DSS-G Features Include:

• Scalable building-block approach to Technical Computing storage
• Configurations with two, four, or six disk storage enclosures
• Powerful Intel® Xeon® processors
• Lenovo D3284 high-density storage enclosures with 84x 4, 6, 8 and 10TB NL SAS drives (3.5-inch form factor)
• Lenovo D1224 storage enclosures (2.5-inch form factor) with 24x SAS drives (300GB - 1.8TB) or SSDs (400GB - 3.8TB)
• Choice of 10GbE/25GbE/40GbE/100GbE, FDR /EDR InfiniBand, OmniPath 100 interconnects
• Declustered RAID for sustained, predictable performance and rapid rebuilds
• No hardware controllers—Disk management and RAID performed by the Spectrum Scale RAID feature
• Outstanding capacity and performance