Lenovo ThinkSystem DM7100H vs NetApp FAS Series FAS9500
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The ThinkSystem DM7100H is Lenovo's highest-capacity unified hybrid enterprise storage array running Lenovo ONTAP, based on NetApp FAS8300 and FAS8700 hardware architecture. The NetApp FAS9500 is an enterprise modular hybrid storage system engineered for massive scalability, high availability, and multi-petabyte consolidation.
| Lenovo ThinkSystem DM7100H | NetApp FAS Series FAS9500 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Lenovo | NetApp |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | May 2020 | Feb 2022 |
| Form factor | 4U rack | 8U modular rack |
| Raw capacity | Up to 8.64 PB raw capacity across up to 720 drives | — |
| Drive bays | 4U modular controller enclosure requiring external DM240S (2.5-inch) or DM120S (3.5-inch) expansion shelves | Connects to DS224C, DS212C, and DS460C SAS drive shelves (up to 1440 drives) |
| Power supply | Quad redundant hot-swap AC power supplies | — |
| Controller configuration | — | Dual modular controllers in 8U enclosure |
| Processor | — | Dual Intel Xeon processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 1024GB system memory per HA pair with NVRAM cache |
| Supported drives | — | 12Gb SAS SSDs, 10K SAS HDDs, and high-capacity 7.2K NL-SAS HDDs |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 172PB in a 24-node cluster |
| Host connectivity | — | Up to 20 PCIe Gen 4 expansion slots supporting 100GbE, 25GbE, 10GbE, 32Gb FC |
| Storage protocols | — | FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, S3 |
| Clustering | — | Up to 24 nodes (12 HA pairs) |
| Management | — | NetApp ONTAP 9 |
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