Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6000F vs NetApp AFF A250
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6000F is a high-performance all-flash midrange 2U block storage array designed for demanding databases, real-time analytics, and enterprise private clouds. The NetApp AFF A250 is an entry enterprise all-NVMe storage array packing 24 hot-swap NVMe drive bays into a 2U dual-controller enclosure.
| Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6000F | NetApp AFF A250 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Lenovo | NetApp |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2018 | Oct 2020 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Controllers | Dual active-active controller canisters with 64GB or 128GB total system cache | — |
| Drive bays | 24x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap all-flash SAS SSD bays; expands up to 120 all-flash SSDs | Up to 24x internal 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs in 2U chassis, expandable with 1x NS224 shelf |
| Host interfaces | Up to 8x 32Gb FC, 25Gb iSCSI, 100Gb NVMe-oF (RoCE/InfiniBand), or 12Gb SAS host ports per canister | — |
| Max performance | Up to 1,000,000 IOPS and up to 21 GB/s sequential throughput | — |
| Features | Dynamic Disk Pools (DDP), hardware encryption (SED support), snapshots, remote replication | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-swap AC power supplies | — |
| Management | SANtricity System Manager (embedded HTML5 web GUI) | NetApp ONTAP 9 |
| Controller configuration | — | Dual controllers in 2U enclosure |
| Processor | — | Intel Xeon processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 128GB system memory per HA pair with NVRAM |
| Supported drives | — | NVMe TLC SSDs (960GB, 1.9TB, 3.8TB, 7.6TB, 15.3TB) |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 57PB in a 24-node cluster |
| Host connectivity | — | Onboard 25GbE/10GbE and PCIe expansion for 32Gb FC, 25GbE, 10GbE |
| Storage protocols | — | NVMe/FC, NVMe/TCP, FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB |
| Clustering | — | Up to 24 nodes (12 HA pairs) |
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