HPE Nimble Storage Nimble Storage CS5000 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem DM5000H
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The HPE Nimble Storage CS5000 is a high-capacity 3U hybrid flash array engineered for demanding multi-workload enterprise environments. The ThinkSystem DM5000H is a 2U midrange unified hybrid storage system running Lenovo ONTAP, based on OEM NetApp FAS2750 hardware.
| HPE Nimble Storage Nimble Storage CS5000 | Lenovo ThinkSystem DM5000H | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Mar 2016 | Sep 2018 |
| Form factor | 3U rack hybrid array | 2U rack |
| Form factor | 3U rack chassis | — |
| Controllers | Dual hot-swappable controllers (active-standby) | — |
| Raw capacity | Up to 84TB raw in base chassis, expandable past 500TB | Up to 2.16 PB raw capacity across up to 144 drives |
| Flash cache | Up to 15.3TB SSD cache capacity | — |
| Network interfaces | 16Gb Fibre Channel, 10GbE optical SFP+, or 10GBASE-T | — |
| Operating system | NimbleOS with integrated CASL file system | — |
| Drive bays | — | 24x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap drive bays in 2U base chassis |
| Power supply | — | Dual redundant 913W AC hot-swap power supplies |
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