Lenovo PX12-450R Information

Product Release Information
LENOVOEMC™ PX12-450R
DESCRIPTION-
The LenovoEMC™ px12-450r
Network Storage Array is a powerful network storage
solution offering the highest levels of performance and
advanced data protection for small- to medium-sized
businesses and the distributed enterprise. Powered by
™
LenovoEMC storage technology, the px12-450r is ideal
for production data stores, server virtualization, backup-to-
disk target and video surveillance. The px12-450r is
available in diskless, partially populated or fully populated
configurations from 0TB to 48TB in a single array. The
px12-450r provides the superior performance and
reliability that you need for your mission critical data, and
with built-in McAfee® VirusScan® Enterprise, your data is
safe from viruses and other malicious threats. The px12-
450r includes many enterprise-class features, such as
Integrated Virtualization Extensions (IVX), Snapshot
backup, the EMC Atmos Cloud Connector, EMC Avamar
data deduplication as well as device-to-device data
replication to ensure data integrity at both the source and
the replication target. Businesses will appreciate
extremely high throughput with quad-Gigabit Ethernet
connectivity and an Intel® Quad-Core Xeon®
Processor plus link aggregation (port bonding), Server
Class hard drives, and the option of solid state drives.
TOP 5 FEATURES
1. Up to 375 users
2. Top Performance Intel® Xeon and Server Class Hard
Drives
3. Integrated Virtualization Technology
4. Active Snapshot backup (.VSS & .VDS)
5. Active Directory High-Availability (ADHA) & hybrid
authentication
6. SSD caching for faster read & write
7. iSCSI LUN security for improved authentication &
connection
8. Video Surveillance (VGA port out, Milestone Arcus
and Mindtree SecureMind)
9. Built-in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise
COMPLETE FEATURES
High-Performance: Built around the Intel® Xeon
processor to support demanding workloads like
virtualization, deduplication, database management and
video surveillance.
• Intel Quad-Core 2.5GHz E3-1265Lv2 Xeon Processor
for enhanced performance and energy efficiency
• 8GB DDR3 RAM
• Server Class Hard Drives with support for SSD drives
• Quad GbE NICs
• Support for 1x 10GbE through optional dual-port 10GbE
PCI card (sold separately)
• Certified for Windows
®
, VMware
Capacity: Starting at 0TB (diskless), with a maximum
capacity of 48TB (12 x 4TB SATA HDDs)
• Server Class hard drives ensure higher reliability and
performance. These drives are designed to better
handle rotational vibration and continuous operation for
mission critical applications.
• 4-drive disk packs enable expansion to 8- or 12-drive
configurations
• 4-drive configurations are preconfigured RAID 5
• Fully-populated 12-drive configurations are
preconfigured RAID 5
Network Storage Array, Server Class
® ®
and Citrix
Scheduled Availability: June 2013
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Expandability: Add storage capacity by simply adding
drives in the unpopulated drive bays. Added drives can be
brought into an existing Storage Pool or made into a new
Storage Pool. Additionally, USB connected Hard Disk
Drives can be attached and used as shares. The px12
supports read and write on Fat32, NTFS, or ext2/ext3/ext4
formatted hard disks; read only of external HFS+
formatted drives.
RAID Support: RAID 1, 10, 5, 6, hot spare; automatic
RAID rebuild and hot swap. RAID 0 and JBOD mode also
available.
Integrated Virtualization Extensions (IVX): Run multiple
virtual machines (VMs) on a LenovoEMC device. Allows
Windows apps & Linux storage to run simultaneously.
Ideal for database read-write, print server, Exchange
server backup.
Snapshots: Point-In-Time backup of a complete volume
image including Active Snap capability. Also uses .VSS
and .VDS for compatibility with Windows & VMware hosts.
SSD Support: For I/O intensive applications, the px12-
450r can be fitted with solid state drives to boost
performance. SSD Cache Pools - Set up dedicated SSDs
for fast reads & writes of frequently accessed data,
providing improved performance for I/O intensive
applications such as databases. SSD drives sold
separately.
Redundant Power Supply: Ships with dual hot
swappable power supplies for 1+1 redundancy
Storage Pools: Storage Pools group drives of like size
and RAID protection together to simplify management.
Optimize block storage performance with dedicated iSCSI
storage pools.
Network File Protocols Supported: CIFS/SMB/Rally
(Microsoft), NFS (Linux/UNIX), AFP/Bonjour (Apple), FTP,
SFTP, TFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, Windows DFS,
SNMP.
iSCSI Target provides block-level access for the most
efficient storage utilization, especially for backup,
database and email application performance. It can be
used in parallel with file-level storage access via
CIFS/NFS. Includes support for SCSI-3 persistent
reservations.
Flexible Configurations
• Storage pools with RAID expansion, migration and hot
spares
• Advanced RAID levels including Hot Spare