HPE MSA 2050 vs Lenovo Lenovo Storage DS6200
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The HPE MSA 2050 is a 2U hybrid and all-flash SAN array delivering over 200,000 IOPS for small-to-midsize business application consolidation. The Lenovo Storage DS6200 is a midrange 2U SAN storage array engineered for I/O-intensive database and virtualized datacenter workloads.
| HPE MSA 2050 | Lenovo Lenovo Storage DS6200 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jul 2017 | May 2017 |
| Form factor | 2U rack enterprise SAN | 2U rack |
| Form factor | 2U rack mount (12 LFF or 24 SFF) | — |
| Controllers | Dual active-active converged controllers with 16GB total system cache | Dual active-active controller canisters with 32GB total cache (16GB per controller) |
| Host ports | 4 ports per controller (16Gb/8Gb FC or 10GbE/1GbE iSCSI SFP+) | — |
| Performance | Up to 200,000 IOPS | — |
| Max drives | Up to 192 SFF or 96 LFF drives with seven disk enclosures | — |
| Data protection | 512 snapshots included standard with asynchronous remote replication | — |
| Drive bays | — | 24x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap drive bays; expandable up to 240 drives via expansion units |
| Host interfaces | — | Up to 8x 16Gb FC, 10Gb iSCSI, or 12Gb SAS host ports per controller canister |
| Max performance | — | Up to 250,000 IOPS and up to 14 GB/s sequential throughput |
| Features | — | Automated storage tiering, SSD read caching, asynchronous replication, snapshots (up to 1,024) |
| Power supply | — | Dual redundant hot-swap AC power supplies |
| Management | — | Storage Management Console (SMC) |
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