Lenovo Lenovo Storage DS2200 vs NetApp ASA A20
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Lenovo Storage DS2200 is an entry-level 2U SAN storage array engineered for price-sensitive small and medium businesses. The NetApp ASA A20 is an entry-level active-active block storage system designed for branch offices, edge environments, and small-scale SAN installations.
| Lenovo Lenovo Storage DS2200 | NetApp ASA A20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Lenovo | NetApp |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | May 2017 | Oct 2024 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Controllers | Dual active-active controller canisters with 8GB total cache (4GB per controller) | — |
| Drive bays | 12x 3.5-inch LFF or 24x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap drive bays; expandable up to 96 drives | Up to 24x internal 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs |
| Host interfaces | 4x 16Gb FC, 10Gb iSCSI, or 12Gb SAS host ports per controller canister | — |
| Max performance | Up to 100,000 IOPS and up to 3.5 GB/s sequential throughput | — |
| Features | Rapid tiered caching, Rapid Rebuild, thin provisioning, snapshot copies (up to 128) | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-swap AC power supplies | — |
| Management | Lenovo Storage Management Console (SMC) web interface | NetApp ONTAP SAN-optimized |
| Controller configuration | — | Symmetrical active-active dual controllers in 2U chassis |
| Processor | — | Intel multi-core processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 64GB system memory per HA pair with NVRAM |
| Supported drives | — | NVMe TLC SSDs (960GB to 7.6TB) |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 15PB in a cluster |
| Host connectivity | — | Onboard 10GbE / 25GbE and optional 16Gb/32Gb FC host ports |
| Storage protocols | — | Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe/TCP |
| Clustering | — | Up to 12 HA pairs |
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