Lenovo ThinkSystem DM7100F vs NetApp AFF A900
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 A900 is an enterprise modular all-flash storage system engineered for maximum availability and non-disruptive upgrades.
| Lenovo ThinkSystem DM7100F | NetApp AFF A900 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Lenovo | NetApp |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Apr 2020 | Feb 2022 |
| Form factor | 4U rack | 8U modular 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) | Connects to external NS224 NVMe drive shelves (no internal storage bays in head unit) |
| 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 active-active modular controllers in 8U enclosure |
| Processor | — | Dual Intel Xeon processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 1024GB system memory per HA pair with NVRAM cache |
| Supported drives | — | NVMe TLC SSDs (1.9TB to 30.7TB) |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 702PB in a 24-node cluster |
| Host connectivity | — | Up to 20 PCIe Gen 4 expansion slots supporting 100GbE, 40GbE, 25GbE, 10GbE, and 32Gb FC |
| Storage protocols | — | NVMe/FC, NVMe/TCP, FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, S3 |
| Clustering | — | Up to 24 nodes (12 HA pairs) |
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