Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6000H vs NetApp E-Series E5700
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6000H is a midrange hybrid storage array engineered to handle high-bandwidth enterprise streaming, large database consolidation, and high-performance computing storage tiers. The NetApp E5700 is an enterprise hybrid SANtricity storage system delivering high-throughput block data storage for big data analytics, backup and recovery, and high-performance technical computing.
| Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6000H | NetApp E-Series E5700 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Lenovo | NetApp |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Sep 2018 | Sep 2017 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U/4U rack |
| Controllers | Dual active-active controller canisters with 64GB or 128GB total system cache | — |
| Drive bays | 24x 2.5-inch SFF or 60x 3.5-inch 4U chassis; expandable up to 480 drives via D1224/D3284 enclosures | Up to 480 drives using DE224C, DE212C, and DE460C expansion shelves |
| Host interfaces | Up to 8x 32Gb FC, 25Gb iSCSI, 100Gb NVMe-oF, or 12Gb SAS host ports per controller | — |
| Max performance | Up to 1,000,000 IOPS and up to 21 GB/s sequential read bandwidth | — |
| Features | Dynamic Disk Pools, snapshot copies, volume copy, synchronous and asynchronous replication | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-swap AC power supplies | — |
| Management | SANtricity System Manager (HTML5 web GUI) | NetApp SANtricity OS |
| Controller configuration | — | Dual active-active controllers in 2U (E5724) or 4U (E5760) enclosure |
| Processor | — | Intel Xeon multi-core processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 64GB system memory per HA pair with battery-backed cache |
| Supported drives | — | 12Gb SAS SSDs, 10K SAS HDDs, and 7.2K NL-SAS HDDs |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 7.6PB raw per HA pair |
| Host connectivity | — | HIC slots supporting 100Gb InfiniBand/RoCE, 32Gb FC, 25GbE, 10GbE, and 12Gb SAS |
| Storage protocols | — | FC, iSCSI, SAS, InfiniBand SRP |
| Clustering | — | Dual active-active controller HA pair |
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