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Lenovo Storage S3200

Product Guide

The Lenovo® Storage S3200 (shown in the following figure) is a versatile storage system that is designed
to provide simplicity, speed, scalability, security, and high availability for small to large businesses. The
S3200 SAN array delivers enterprise-class storage management technology in a cost-effective solution
with a wide choice of host connectivity options, flexible drive configurations, and enhanced data
management features.

The S3200 is a perfect fit for for a wide range of workloads, from specialized workloads such as big data
and analytics, video surveillance, media streaming, and private clouds to general purpose workloads such
as file and print serving, web serving, e-mail and collaboration, and OLTP databases. The S3200 is also
suited very well for secure archive storage or a consolidated backup solution.

Figure 1. Lenovo Storage S3200

The S3200 offers the flexible choice of storage connectivity protocols: 6/12 Gb SAS, 1 Gb or 10 Gb iSCSI,
and 4/8/16 Gb Fibre Channel (FC). Converged Network Controller (CNC) design of the S3200 makes the
selection of iSCSI or FC host connectivity (or both FC and iSCSI) as simple as attaching corresponding
transceivers or 10 GbE SFP+ Direct-Attach Copper (DAC) cables to the SFP/SFP+ ports on the RAID
controller.

The S3200 supports up to 192 drives with up to seven external expansion enclosures, and it offers flexible
drive configurations with the choice of 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drive form factors, 10K or 15K rpm SAS and

7.2K rpm NL SAS hard disk drives (HDDs) and self-encrypting drives (SEDs), and SAS solid-state drives
(SSDs). The S3200 can be scaled up to 960 TB of raw storage capacity.

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The S3200 supports Intelligent Real-time Tiering capabilities that help optimize system performance,
reduce costs, and simplify management. The base software includes the ability to move data dynamically
between SAS HDDs that are optimized for cost per IOPS and NL SAS HDDs that are optimized for cost
per GB. With the optional software license, the S3200 supports hybrid tiering across HDDs and SSDs.

With flexibility of the Converged Network Controllers, the S3200 supports hybrid iSCSI and Fibre Channel
connectivity at the same time.

The S3200 supports battery-free cache protection which reduces maintenance costs and provides
permanent backup of unwritten cache data in case of power failure.

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Key features

Key features and benefits provided by the S3200 storage system include:

Versatile, scalable storage with a single controller, or dual active/active controller configurations for
high availability and performance.

Flexible host connectivity to match diverse client needs with support for 6/12 Gb SAS (SAS
controller) or 1/10 Gb iSCSI or 4/8/16 Gb FC connectivity (FC and iSCSI controller) or both iSCSI
and FC at the same time.

6 Gb SAS drive-side connectivity with support for 12x 3.5-inch large form factor (LFF) or 24x 2.5­inch small form factor (SFF) drives in the controller enclosure; scalable up to 96 LFF drives per
system with the attachment of Lenovo Storage E1012 expansion enclosure (12x LFF drives each) or
up to 192 SFF drives per system with the attachment of Lenovo Storage E1024 expansion enclosure
(24x SFF drives each) to satisfy growing needs for storage capacity and performance.

Flexibility in storing data on high performance SAS SSDs, performance-optimized enterprise SAS
HDDs, or capacity-optimized enterprise NL SAS HDDs; mixing and matching drive types and form
factors within a single system to perfectly meet performance and capacity requirements for various
workloads.

Support for self-encrypting drives to allow clients to secure their sensitive data and to comply with
various security regulations when required.

Rich set of standard functions available at no additional cost, including virtualized storage pools,
snapshots, thin provisioning, rapid rebuild, real-time HDD tiering, and SSD read cache.

Optional licensed functions, including higher number of snapshots for more scalability, real-time
SSD tiering for boosting IOPS performance, and asynchronous replication for 24x7 data protection
and disaster recovery.

Intuitive, web-based GUI for easy system setup and management.

Designed to comply with NEBS and MIL-STD requirements.

Designed for 99.999% availability.

The S3200 is designed to support the complete range of data storage requirements, from highly utilized
applications to high-capacity, low usage applications.

The following 3.5-inch drives are supported:

High performance solid-state drives (10 drive writes per day [DWD]): 400 GB
Performance-optimized, enterprise class disk drives: 600 GB and 900 GB 10K rpm
High-capacity, archival-class nearline disk drives: 2 TB, 4 TB, 6 TB, 8 TB, and 10 TB 7.2K rpm

The following 2.5-inch drives are supported:

High performance solid-state drives (3 DWD and 10 DWD): 400 GB, 800 GB, and 1.6 TB

High performance self-encrypting solid-state drives (10 DWD): 400 GB and 800 GB

Capacity-optimized solid-state drives (1 DWD): 3.84 TB

Performance-optimized, enterprise class disk drives

300 GB and 600 GB 15K rpm
600 GB, 900 GB, 1.2 TB, and 1.8 TB 10K rpm

High-capacity, archival-class nearline disk drives: 1 TB and 2 TB 7.2K rpm

Additional drives and expansion units are designed to be dynamically added with virtually no downtime,
helping to quickly and seamlessly respond to ever-growing capacity demands.

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The S3200 storage system is designed to offer high levels of system and data availability with the following
technologies:

Dual-active RAID controllers with low latency cache mirroring

Dual-port drives (both HDDs and SSDs) with automatic drive failure detection and rapid RAID rebuild
with global hot spares

Redundant hardware, including host ports, controller modules, and power supplies and fans

Hot-swappable and customer replaceable components, including controllers, power supplies with
fans, and drives

Automated path failover support for the data path between the host and the drives with multipathing
software

Non-disruptive controller firmware upgrades for dual controller configurations with multipathing

The following functions are included with every S3200:

Intelligent Real-time Tiering for HDDs : Storage tiering helps optimize storage use with intelligent
data placement to improve system performance, reduce costs, and simplify management. The
S3200 automatically and dynamically moves frequently accessed data to higher performing HDDs in
the system without manually creating and managing storage tier policies.

RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10 : Provide the flexibility to choose the level of data protection required.

Virtualized storage pools: Enables rapid, flexible storage provisioning and simple configuration

changes. Stored data is distributed across all drive groups in the pool (wide striping) which helps
improve performance, lower latency, and achieve higher volume capacities. When a new drive
group is added to the pool, the system performs automatic rebalancing to utilize all drives in the
pool for better performance.

Thin provisioning: Optimizes efficiency by allocating drive storage space in a flexible manner
among multiple applications, based on the minimum space required by each application at any
given time. With thin provisioning, applications consume only the space they are actually using, not
the total space that has been allocated to them, which allows clients to purchase storage they need
today and add more as application requirements grow.

SSD Read Cache: An extension of the controller's cache to improve performance of read-centric
workloads

Rapid RAID Rebuild : Helps significantly decrease the time to recover lost data by only rebuilding
the stripe where the corruption occurred, not the empty space or other stripes

Snapshots: Enables creation of copies of data for backup, parallel processing, testing, and
development, and have the copies available almost immediately. Base software supports up to 128
snapshot targets per system.

The S3200 storage capabilities can be expanded with optional licensed functions. Each optional S3200
function is licensed on a per-system basis and covers both controller enclosure and all attached expansion
units.

Optional licensed functions include:

Intelligent Real-time Tiering for SSDs: The SSD tiering upgrade option allows the use of SSDs as
read and write storage. Also, this option makes it easy and economical to deploy hybrid storage by
dynamically moving frequently accessed data to SSDs in the system, resulting in flash drive
performance without manually creating and managing storage tier policies.

Snapshots upgrade: The snapshot upgrade options increase the supported number of snapshot
targets to 512 or 1,024 per system.

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Asynchronous Replication: The asynchronous replication feature provides storage system-based
data replication between two peers by using asynchronous data transfers over IP communication
links.

The replication is done at predetermined intervals (Now, 1 hour, 12 hour, 24 hour) and does not
require high-bandwidth network connection. For ultimate flexibility, S3200 asynchronous replication
interoperates with Lenovo Storage S2200.

The asynchronous replication option must be acquired (or licensed) for both primary (local) and
secondary (remote) systems.

The S3200 supports the following management interfaces:

Web-based graphical user interface (GUI) via HTTP that requires only a supported browser
(Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox), so there is no need for a separate
console or plug-in

Command line interface (CLI) via Telnet or SSH or through Direct Connect USB

HTTP scripting interface with XML encoding

SNMP and e-mail notifications

Components and connectors

The following figure shows the front of the S3200 SFF chassis and E1024 drive expansion enclosure.

Figure 2. Front view of the S3200 SFF chassis and E1024 drive enclosure

The following figure shows the front of the S3200 LFF chassis and E1012 drive expansion enclosure.

Figure 3. Front view of the S3200 LFF chassis and E1012 drive enclosure

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The following figure shows the rear of the S3200 with FC or iSCSI host interfaces with dual RAID
controllers. Single RAID controller configurations are also supported.

Figure 4. Rear view of the S3200 with FC or iSCSI host interfaces

The following figure shows the rear of the S3200 with SAS host interfaces with dual RAID controllers. Single
RAID controller configurations are also supported.

Figure 5. Rear view of the S3200 with SAS host interfaces

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The following figure shows the rear of the E1012 and E1024 drive enclosures with dual I/O expansion
modules. Single I/O module configurations are also supported with the single-controller S3200.

Figure 6. Rear view of the E1012 and E1024 drive enclosures

Note: The RAID controllers (shown in Figure 4 and Figure 5) and expansion modules (shown in Figure 6)
have additional service ports with a specialized connector, and these ports are reserved for use by a
Lenovo service technician.

System specifications

The following table lists the S3200 storage system technical specifications.

Table 1. System specifications

Components Specification

Form factor S3200 controller enclosure: 2U rack mount

E1012 or E1024 drive expansion enclosure: 2U rack mount

RAID controller
configuration

Two types of controllers:

S3200 SAS controller
S3200 FC and iSCSI controller

Single or dual RAID controller configurations supported. Single controller systems can be
upgraded to dual controller non-disruptively. Both controllers in the system must be the same.

RAID levels RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10

RAID controller
cache

6 GB per controller. Battery-free cache protection with flash memory and supercapacitors.
Low latency cache mirroring protection for dual controller configurations.

Drive bays Up to 192 SFF drive bays per system:

24 SFF drive bays in the S3200 controller enclosure
24 SFF drive bays in the E1024 drive expansion enclosure; up to 7x E1024 enclosures

Up to 96 LFF drive bays per system:

12 LFF drive bays in the S3200 controller enclosure
12 LFF drive bays in the E1012 drive expansion enclosure; up to 7x E1012 enclosures

Intermix of SFF and LFF enclosures is supported.

Drive
technologies

SAS and NL SAS HDDs and SEDs; eMLC SAS SSDs. Intermix of HDDs and SSDs is
supported. Intermix of SEDs with HDDs or SSDs is not supported.

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Drive connectivity

Dual-ported 6 Gb SAS drive attachment infrastructure.

Controller enclosure with one or two RAID controllers (ports per one controller):

24x 6 Gb SAS internal drive ports (SFF chassis)
12x 6 Gb SAS internal drive ports (LFF chassis)
1x 6 Gb SAS x4 (Mini-SAS SFF-8088) expansion port for the attachment of the
external drive enclosures

Drive expansion enclosure with one or two expansion modules (ports per one module):

24x 6 Gb SAS internal drive ports (SFF chassis)
12x 6 Gb SAS internal drive ports (LFF chassis)
2x 6 Gb SAS x4 (Mini-SAS SFF-8088) expansion ports (IN and OUT) for the daisy
chained attachment of the external drive enclosures

Drives SFF drives:

400 GB, 800 GB, and 1.6 TB SAS SSDs (3 DWD and 10 DWD)
400 GB and 800 GB SAS SED SSDs (10 DWD)

3.84 TB SAS SSDs (1 DWD)
300 GB and 600 GB 15K rpm SAS HDDs
600 GB, 900 GB, 1.2 TB, and 1.8 TB 10K rpm SAS HDDs
1 TB and 2 TB 7.2K rpm NL SAS HDDs

LFF drives:

400 GB SAS SSDs (10 DWD)
600 GB and 900 GB 10K rpm SAS HDDs
2 TB, 4 TB, 6 TB, 8 TB, and 10 TB 7.2K rpm NL SAS HDDs

Storage capacity Up to 960 TB (96x 10 TB NL SAS HDDs)

Host connectivity S3200 SAS controller: 4x 6/12 Gb SAS host ports (Mini-SAS HD, SFF-8644)

S3200 FC and iSCSI controller: 4x SFP/SFP+ host ports with two built-in dual-port CNCs
(each port on the same CNC must have the same connectivity type, different CNCs might have
different connectivity types)
CNC host port options (per each CNC on the RAID controller):

2x 1 Gb iSCSI SFP (1 Gb speed, UTP, RJ-45)
2x 10 Gb iSCSI SFP+ (1/10 Gb speeds, SW fiber optics, LC)
2x 8 Gb FC SFP+ (4/8 Gb speeds, SW fiber optics, LC)
2x 16 Gb FC SFP+ (4/8/16 Gb speeds, SW fiber optics, LC)
2x 10 Gb iSCSI SFP+ DAC cables

Host operating
systems

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2; Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and 7; SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10, 11, and 12; VMware vSphere 5.5 and 6.0.

Standard
software features

Intelligent Real-time Tiering for HDDs, Virtualized Storage Pools, Thin Provisioning, SSD Read
Cache, Rapid RAID Rebuild, Snapshots - up to 128 targets.

Optional software
features

Intelligent Real-time Tiering for SSDs, Snapshots - up to 1,024 targets, Asynchronous
Replication.

Performance Dual controller configuration:

Up to 120,000 random read IOPS (4 KB blocks)
Up to 6.4 GBps sequential read throughput (512 KB blocks)
Up to 5.3 GBps sequential write throughput (512 KB blocks)

Components Specification

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Configuration
maximums

Per system:

Maximum number of virtual storage pools: 2 (1 per controller)
Maximum number of logical volumes (total/mapped): 2,048/1,024
Maximum logical volume size: 128 TB
Maximum number of drives in a drive group: 16
Maximum number of drive groups: 32
Maximum global spares: 16
Maximum number of initiators: 8,192 (1,024 per port)
Maximum number of hosts in a host group: 256
Maximum number of host groups: 32
Maximum number of initiators per host: 128
Maximum number of snapshots: 1,024 (requires an optional license)
Maximum number of replication peers: 1 (requires an optional license)
Maximum number of replication volumes: 32 (requires an optional license)

Cooling Redundant cooling with two fans that are built into power supplies.

Power supply Two redundant hot-swap 595 W AC power supplies.

Hot-swap parts RAID controllers, expansion modules, SFP/SFP+ transceivers, drives, power supplies/fans.

Management
interfaces

Web-based graphical user interface (GUI); Telnet, SSH, or Direct Connect USB command-line
interface (CLI); HTTP scripting with XML encoding; SNMP and e-mail notifications

Security features Secure Socket Layer (SSL), Secure Shell (SSH), self-encrypting drives (SEDs)

Warranty Three-year customer-replaceable unit, parts only limited warranty with 9x5 next business day.

Service and
support

Optional warranty service upgrades are available through Lenovo: on-site support, 24x7
coverage, 4-hour response time, 1-year or 2-year warranty extensions, Hard Drive Retention.

Dimensions LFF chassis: Height: 87 mm (3.4 in), width: 447 mm (17.6 in), depth: 523 mm (20.6 in)

SFF chassis: Height: 89 mm (3.5 in), width: 447 mm (17.6 in), depth: 519 mm (20.5 in)

Weight S3200 LFF: Minimum: 18.4 kg (40.6 lb); Maximum: 28.2 kg (62.2 lb)

S3200 SFF: Minimum: 18.5 kg (40.8 lb); Maximum: 25.0 kg (55.2 lb)
E1012: Minimum: 16.8 kg (37.0 lb); Maximum: 26.6 kg (58.6 lb)
E1024: Minimum: 16.9 kg (37.2 lb); Maximum: 23.4 kg (51.6 lb)

Components Specification

Controller enclosures

The following table lists the relationship models of the S3200.

Table 2. Part numbers for ordering S3200 relationship models

Description Part number

LFF models

Lenovo Storage S3200 LFF Chassis SAS Single Controller, Rack Kit, 9x5NBD 64113B1*

Lenovo Storage S3200 LFF Chassis SAS Dual Controller, Rack Kit, 9x5NBD 64113B2

Lenovo Storage S3200 LFF Chassis FC/iSCSI Single Controller, Rack Kit, 9x5NBD 64116B1*

Lenovo Storage S3200 LFF Chassis FC/iSCSI Dual Controller, Rack Kit, 9x5NBD 64116B2

SFF models

Lenovo Storage S3200 SFF Chassis SAS Single Controller, Rack Kit, 9x5NBD 64113B3*

Lenovo Storage S3200 SFF Chassis SAS Dual Controller, Rack Kit, 9x5NBD 64113B4

Lenovo Storage S3200 SFF Chassis FC/iSCSI Single Controller, Rack Kit, 9x5NBD 64116B3*

Lenovo Storage S3200 SFF Chassis FC/iSCSI Dual Controller, Rack Kit, 9x5NBD 64116B4

* Not available for ordering in North America (United States and Canada).

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The part number for the S3200 includes the following items:

One S3200 chassis with two power supplies and fans:

With one or two SAS RAID controllers installed
With one or two FC and iSCSI RAID controllers installed

Two 4.3 m, 10 A/100 - 250 V, C13 to IEC 320-C14 Rack Power Cables
Lenovo Storage SAN Rack Mount Kit: Rails 25-inch to 36-inch
Lenovo 1.5 m USB console cable (USB to-Mini-USB)
Getting Started Guide
Warranty Flyer
Important Notices Flyer
Documentation CD-ROM

The following table lists the TopSeller models of the S3200.

Table 3. Part numbers for ordering S3200 TopSeller models

Description Part number

LFF models

S3200 LFF Dual FC/iSCSI Controller/4x 8Gb FC/Rack Kit/Base Warranty 6411E24*

SFF models

S3200 SFF Dual SAS Controller/4x 400GB SSDs/10x 600GB 10K HDDs/Rack Kit/Base Warranty 6411E25*

S3200 SFF Dual FC/iSCSI Controller/4x 8Gb FC/Rack Kit/Base Warranty 6411E29*

S3200 SFF Dual FC/iSCSI Controller/4x 8Gb FC/Rack Kit/Base Warranty 6411E37*

S3200 SFF Dual FC/iSCSI Controller/4x 8Gb FC/5x 300GB 15K HDDs/Rack Kit/Base Warranty 6411E26*

S3200 SFF Dual FC/iSCSI Controller/4x 8Gb FC/5x 600GB 10K HDDs/Rack Kit/Base Warranty 6411E27*

S3200 SFF Dual FC/iSCSI Controller/2x 8Gb FC/5x 900GB 10K HDDs/Rack Kit/Base Warranty 6411E28*

S3200 SFF Dual FC/iSCSI Controller/4x 8Gb FC/6x 600GB 10K HDDs/Rack Kit/Base Warranty 6411E36*

S3200 SFF Dual FC/iSCSI Controller/4x 8Gb FC/8x 600GB 10K HDDs/Rack Kit/Base Warranty 6411E33*

S3200 SFF Dual FC/iSCSI Controller/4x 8Gb FC/8x 900GB 10K HDDs/Rack Kit/Base Warranty 6411E31*

S3200 SFF Dual FC/iSCSI Controller/4x 8Gb FC/8x 900GB 10K HDDs/4x 400GB SSDs/Tiering 6411E2D

S3200 SFF Dual FC/iSCSI Controller/4x 16Gb FC/12x 600GB 10K HDDs/Rack Kit/Base Warranty 6411E35*

S3200 SFF Dual FC/iSCSI Controller/4x 16Gb FC/10x 600GB 10K HDDs/4x 400GB SSDs/Tiering 6411E34

* Not available for ordering in North America (United States and Canada).

Note: S3200 TopSeller models are country-specific; that is, not all listed models might be available for
ordering in a particular country or area. Ask a Lenovo representative for specifics.

The S3200 TopSeller model part numbers include the following items:

One S3200 chassis with two power supplies and fans:

With two SAS RAID controllers installed
With two FC/iSCSI RAID controllers installed (with 2x or 4x SFPs; see Table 3 for details)
Without drives, or with HDDs, or with HDDs and SSDs (see Table 3 for details)
Tiering license (part numbers 6411E2D and 6411E34 only)

Two 4.3 m, 10 A/100 - 250 V, C13 to IEC 320-C14 Rack Power Cables
Lenovo Storage SAN Rack Mount Kit: Rails 25-inch to 36-inch
Lenovo 1.5 m USB console cable (USB to Mini-USB)
Getting Started Guide
Warranty Flyer
Important Notices Flyer
Documentation CD-ROM

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