Lenovo ThinkSystem DM7000F vs NetApp AFF A320
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Lenovo ThinkSystem DM7000F is an enterprise-class 3U unified all-flash array powered by ONTAP enterprise software. The NetApp AFF A320 was an early NVMe-over-Fabrics midrange storage system designed for high density and low latency.
| Lenovo ThinkSystem DM7000F | NetApp AFF A320 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Lenovo | NetApp |
| Status | current | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2018 | Apr 2019 |
| Form factor | 3U rack | 2U rack |
| Controllers | Dual active-active 3U controller canisters with 128GB memory and 16GB NVRAM | — |
| Drive bays | External SAS expansion shelves supporting up to 384 SFF all-flash SSDs | Connects to NS224 NVMe shelves (up to 48 NVMe SSDs) |
| Host interfaces | Configurable with up to 16x 32Gb/16Gb FC ports or 16x 40GbE/10GbE network interfaces | — |
| Protocols | Fibre Channel, NVMe/FC, iSCSI, NFS v3/v4, SMB 3.x, S3 API | — |
| Features | Inline deduplication, inline compression, SnapMirror, SnapVault, MetroCluster active-active synchronization | — |
| Power supply | Quad redundant hot-swap AC power supplies in dual chassis canisters | — |
| Management | ONTAP System Manager (HTML5 web GUI) | NetApp ONTAP 9 |
| Controller configuration | — | Dual controllers in 2U enclosure (no internal drive bays) |
| Processor | — | Intel Xeon processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 128GB system memory per HA pair with NVRAM |
| Supported drives | — | NVMe TLC SSDs (1.9TB, 3.8TB, 7.6TB, 15.3TB) |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 88PB in a 24-node cluster |
| Host connectivity | — | PCIe slots supporting 100GbE, 40GbE, 25GbE, 10GbE, and 32Gb FC |
| Storage protocols | — | NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB |
| Clustering | — | Up to 24 nodes (12 HA pairs) |
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