Overview
The Lenovo® EMC® px12-400r Network Storage Array offers high end, enterprise-class network storage features at price points suited for smaller businesses. Powered by LenovoEMC™ storage technology, the px12-400r is ideal for production data stores, server virtualization, backup-to-disk target and video surveillance. The px12-400r is available in diskless, partially populated or fully populated configurations from 0TB to 48TB in a single array. The px12-400r provides the superior features 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 px12-400r 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® Core i3 Processor plus link aggregation (port bonding), Server Class hard drives, and the option of solid state drives.
Features
- Up to 250 users
- Power and Reliability: Built around the Intel Core i3 processor to support demanding workloads like virtualization, deduplication, database management and video surveillance.
- Intel® Core i3 3.3Ghz E3-1265Lv2 Processor for enhanced performance and energy efficiency
- 4GB DDR3 RAM
- Server Class Hard Drives with support for SSD drives
- Quad GbE NICs
- Support for 2x 10GbE through optional 10GbE PCI card (sold separately)
- Certified with Windows®, VMware® and Citrix®
- 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
- 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 LenovoEMC 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 and 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.
- SSD Support: For I/O intensive applications, the px12-400r 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
- Server-class Pedigree: Server class drives; certified for VMware® vSphere 5.1, Citrix® XenServer™ ESX 5.1, Windows® Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012.
- Business-class Features: Windows Active Directory including Active Directory Hybrid Authentication (ADHA), Trusted Domains, Microsoft Cluster Server and Hyper-V Live Migration support
- Advanced Networking Capabilities:
- NIC bonding for failover and load balancing including 802.3ad link aggregation.
- Jumbo frame support for 4000 and 9000 byte payloads. VLAN Tagging capability to IEEE 802.1Q standard.
- VLAN Tagging capability to IEEE 802.1Q standard.
- iSCSI persistent reservations for clustered Microsoft environments.
- Data Replication / Device to Device Data Copy Jobs:
- Easily copy files to and from attached USB drives or any network share - including LenovoEMC Personal Cloud locations - using the secure rsync or CIFS protocol.
- Define your Copy Job to copy/synchronize files to and from connected drives and/or any other shared storage on your network
- Schedule jobs to run on a predetermined schedule
- Application Manager: Third party applications can be installed using the embedded application manager.
- Data organization and access: Windows DFS organizes folders and files on a network, such that they appear to be all in one directory tree on a single LenovoEMC network storage device , even if the folders reside on many devices in many different locations. WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) enables viewing, adding, or deleting files on a Lenovo network storage device from the web, via HTTP or HTTPS for added security.
- Power Savings:
- Automatically power on or turn off your LenovoEMC network storage device at a pre-selected time schedule.
- Scheduled Power: Automatically power on or turn off your LenovoEMC device at a pre-selected time schedule.
- Wake-On-LAN: Powers on your LenovoEMC network storage device when a "magic-packet" wake-up signal is sent over the network. (Wake-On-LAN magic packet application not included)
- Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) Support: Enables unattended system shutdown via the USB port without data loss in the case of power failure.
- Simple Management:
- Simple set up with an intuitive web-based interface. Web interface can be accessed locally or remotely.
- Feature Selection gives admin ability to customize the viewable features.
- Configuration Backup and Restore: Allows you to back up and restore system configuration information. Backing up a configuration saves various system properties, including users, groups, device identification, and share names and permissions.
- System Status: Consolidated resource on space utilization, device information, and status. In addition, you can manage controls such as device restart from here.
- SMART Hard Drive Monitor: Continually monitors and reports on the health of all drives in the LenovoEMC network storage device.
- Built-in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise: LenovoEMC's px Network Storage Family now includes virus scanning natively in the storage device. McAfee® VirusScan® Enterprise with px12-400r gives small businesses the ability to safely deploy network storage in places where previously there was the possibility of virus and/or malware vulnerability. McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Linux permits on-access scanning of local file systems, mounted NFS and Samba/CIFS shares as well as a kernel-level scan cache to enhance performance. In addition, a secure browser interface with authentication and HTTPS (SSL) support is included to aid in administration. This delivers robust reporting features, including the ability to query the database by date range or individual field values, such as by virus name. Results of query can be exported to a CSV file and a diagnostic report can be generated for reporting a problem with the product.
- LenovoEMC™ Personal Cloud: LenovoEMC Personal Cloud is a web-based computing architecture that connects your LenovoEMC Network Storage devices to other individuals and/or devices via the Internet.
- LenovoEMC™ Link iOS & Android application: LenovoEMC™ Link gives you a direct link to your px12-400r via your iOS or Android device. You have the ability to upload, download, browse and copy content on your network storage devices using LenovoEMC Link mobile app. (download app from iTunes or Android Market)
- Software Compatibility: Compatible with today's most common backup software, web browsers, media devices and computers.
Solutions
- Virtualization: LenovoEMC network storage devices are certified for Citrix® XenServer™ 5.6, Windows® Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, and VMware® vSphere ESX 5.1 which makes them the most cost-effective solution for server virtualization.
- Video Surveillance: Protecting your home or business has never been easier than with LenovoEMC storage's built-in Video Surveillance Management software.
- Mindtree® SecureMind VSMS Software
- One free camera license included, supports up to 48 cameras. (Additional licenses available for purchase)
- Built in support for hundreds of popular IP cameras
- Record, store and manage surveillance video
- Support for high-definition and configurable resolution and frame rate settings, e-mail alerts, and secure access
- Axis Video Hosting Solution (AVHS) for local to hosted cloud video storage and management.
- Powerful Backup Functionality:
- Symantec Backup: Lenovo network storage products are identified as compatible disk targets for Backup Exec software.
- LenovoEMC™ Personal Cloud Backup: Synchronize data between Personal Cloud member systems and the px12-400r.
- Public Cloud Backup: Use one of the integrated 3rd. party cloud-based storage services such as Amazon S3 or Mozy™ to replicate data from your px12-400r to your public cloud account.
- Active Snapshot (.VSS & .VDS provider)
- Cloud Disaster Recovery: Utilize two px12-400r devices in different locations and the LenovoEMC Personal Cloud function to create your own disaster recovery scheme.
- EMC Atmos Cloud Connector: The Atmos Connector software lets a user backup and share data using Lenovo network storage devices as the source and Atmos cloud technology as the target. Enabled by the integrated copy job utility, customers can set up cloud folders and configure jobs to automatically copy data to any Atmos cloud.
- Deduplicating Backup with EMC Avamar - With Avamar support on the px12-400r, users have the industry's first storage product that natively supports EMC's industry-leading Avamar sub-file deduplication for remote office/branch office (RoBo) backup.
- PC Backup with True Image Lite 2013 by Acronis (3 licenses included)
- Apple® Time Machine™ Backup: Compatible backup target
- Total Data Protection:
- Native Security Support with robust username and password authorized access. Create additional users and secure their content with password protection.
- Encrypted Volume: Allows you to create an encrypted volume with an assigned password; thus securing the data on the encrypted volume.
- User Quotas: Easily manage capacity by setting maximum limits per user.
Specifications
- 2U form factor, supports up to twelve (12) 3.5 inch SATA Hard Disk Drives (trays already)
- Intel Core i3 Dual Core 3.3GHz E3-1265Lv2 processor 4GB DDR3 Memory
- Four (4) 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet ports (RJ 45 connector)
- Support for 1x 10GbE through optional 10GbE PCI card (sold separately)
- 4-drive or 12-drive configurations include SATA-II Server Class 7200rpm hard disk drives
- RAID Support: RAID 1, 10, 5, 6, hot spare; automatic RAID rebuild and hot swap. RAID 0 and JBOD mode also available. (RAID/storage pool should be the same capacity, speed, and manufacturer. Mixing different types of drives may result in unpredictable behavior).
- Power Consumption
- Max: 190W
- Min: 55W (drives spun down)
- Peak: 260W for 10s
NOTE: These values represent a fully loaded device with the highest capacity HDD. Values may vary with other configurations.
- iSCSI: supports both file and block storage pools, 256 hosts maximum with the following parameters:
- Block storage pools; 32 LUNS maximum per pool. 128 LUNs maximum per device.
- File storage pools; 256 LUNs Maximum per pool. 256 LUNs maximum per device.
- Three USB 2.0 ports; One front, two rear
- LAN standards: IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u
- AC Voltage 100-240 VAC, 50-60 Hz
- Acoustic noise - 48.5 dBA maximum
- Temperature, Humidity and Altitude:
- Ambient Temperature Operating: 10°C to 35°C
- Ambient Temperature Non-Operating: -40°C to 60°C
- Temperature Gradient Operating: 12°C per hour
- Temperature Gradient Non-Operating: n/a
- Humidity (non-condensing) Operating: 8% to 85% R.H
- Humidity (non-condensing) Non-Operating: 5% to 95% R.H
- Max Wet Bulb Operating: 26.6°C
- Max Wet Bulb Non-Operating: 29.4°C
- Altitude Operating: to 7,500 ft
- Altitude Non-Operating: to 40,000 ft
- VGA port for local display of video management signal on screen
- Warranty: Three year limited warranty
- User interface localized for English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Swedish, Dutch, and Polish.
Certifications:
- Windows® Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012
- VMware vSphere ESX 5.1 iSCSI and NAS
- XenServer™ 5.5, 5.6 (w/ MPIO), iSCSI & NFS
Contents
- Lenovo® EMC® px12-400r Network Storage Array
- Sliding rail kit for standard 19" rack
- Ethernet cable
- Power supply cables (support for worldwide distribution - cable for: USA, EU, UK, AUST, China, Switzerland)
- Printed Quick Start Guide
- Service & Support: Three year standard service. Extended Service Plan is available.
View the qualified hard drive list.
(Note: All disks within a single RAID/storage pool should be the same capacity, speed and manufacturer. Mixing different types of drives may result in unpredictable behavior.)
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