Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6000F vs NetApp EF-Series EF570
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 EF570 was a 2U all-flash SAS array powered by SANtricity OS, delivering up to 1 million sustained IOPS and 21GBps throughput for analytics, video streaming, and big data clusters.
| Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6000F | NetApp EF-Series EF570 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Lenovo | NetApp |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2018 | Sep 2017 |
| 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 12Gb SAS SSDs, expandable to 120 drives with DE224C shelves |
| 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 SANtricity OS |
| Controller configuration | — | Dual active-active controllers in 2U enclosure |
| Processor | — | Intel Xeon processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 64GB system memory per HA pair with battery-backed cache |
| Supported drives | — | 12Gb SAS SSDs (800GB to 15.3TB) |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 1.8PB raw per HA pair |
| Host connectivity | — | HIC slots supporting 100Gb NVMe/InfiniBand, 100Gb NVMe/RoCE, 32Gb FC, and 25GbE |
| Storage protocols | — | NVMe/IB, NVMe/RoCE, FC, iSCSI, SRP |
| Clustering | — | High-availability active-active dual controller pair |
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