Lenovo ThinkSystem DM7100F vs NetApp AFF A800
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Lenovo ThinkSystem DM7100F is a 4U all-flash unified enterprise storage system powered by ONTAP enterprise software. The NetApp AFF A800 was NetApp's first end-to-end NVMe enterprise all-flash storage system, pairing internal NVMe SSDs with NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) front-end connectivity.
| Lenovo ThinkSystem DM7100F | NetApp AFF A800 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Lenovo | NetApp |
| Status | current | end-of-sale |
| Released | Apr 2020 | May 2018 |
| Form factor | 4U rack | 4U rack |
| Controllers | Dual active-active 4U controller canisters with 256GB memory and 16GB NVRAM | — |
| Drive bays | External drive shelves supporting up to 480 all-flash SSDs (NVMe and SAS options) | Up to 48x internal 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs in 4U chassis, plus NS224 shelves |
| Host interfaces | Up to 32x 32Gb FC, 16x 100GbE / 25GbE optical ports, and 10GBASE-T interfaces | — |
| Protocols | NVMe/FC, NVMe/TCP, Fibre Channel (32G), iSCSI, NFS v3/v4.1, SMB 3.x, S3 | — |
| Features | Unified block/file/object, MetroCluster IP, FabricPool cloud tiering, inline deduplication and compression | — |
| Power supply | Quad redundant hot-swap AC power supplies | — |
| Management | ONTAP System Manager and Lenovo XClarity | NetApp ONTAP 9 |
| Controller configuration | — | Dual controllers in 4U enclosure |
| Processor | — | Dual Intel Xeon Skylake processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 256GB 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 316PB 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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