How to get help and technical assistance

If you need help, service, technical assistance, or just want more information about Lenovo products, you will find a wide variety of sources available from Lenovo to assist you.

Help and service

Before calling for support, be sure to have your Customer Number available. If you are in the US or Canada, you can call 1 (800) 426-7378 for help and service. From other parts of the world, see http://www.ibm.com/planetwide for the number that you can call.

When calling from the US or Canada, choose the storage option. The agent decides where to route your call, to either storage software or storage hardware, depending on the nature of your problem.

If you call from somewhere other than the US or Canada, you must choose the hardware option when calling for assistance. When calling IBM for service regarding the product, follow these guidelines for the hardware:

Software option
Identify the Lenovo Storage V series product as your product and supply your customer number as proof of purchase. The customer number is a 7-digit number (0000000 to 9999999) assigned by Lenovo when the product is purchased. Your customer number should be located on the customer information worksheet or on the invoice from your storage purchase. If asked for an operating system, use Storage.
Hardware option
Provide the serial number and appropriate 4-digit machine type. For Lenovo Storage V3700 V2 and Lenovo Storage V3700 V2 XP, the machine type is 6535. For Lenovo Storage V5030, the machine type is 6536.

In the US and Canada, hardware service and support can be extended to 24x7 on the same day. The base warranty is 9x5 on the next business day.

Getting help online

You can find information about products, solutions, partners, and support on the Lenovo website.

To find up-to-date information about products, services, and partners, visit the following Lenovo Support website:

Before you call

Make sure that you have taken steps to try to solve the problem yourself before you call.

Some suggestions for resolving the problem before calling Lenovo Support include:

Using the documentation

Information about your Lenovo storage system is available in the documentation that comes with the product.

That documentation includes printed documents, online documents, readme files, and help files in addition to the information center. See the troubleshooting information for diagnostic instructions. The troubleshooting procedure might require you to download updated device drivers or software. Lenovo maintains pages on the web where you can get the latest technical information and download device drivers and updates. To access these pages, go to the following website and follow the instructions: