Dell Isilon H500 vs HPE Alletra 5000
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell EMC Isilon H500 is a versatile mid-tier hybrid scale-out NAS system delivering high throughput and solid enterprise capacity for rich media, healthcare PACS, and high-concurrency file environments. The HPE Alletra 5000 is an enterprise 4U adaptive hybrid storage array succeeding the Nimble Storage HF-Series.
| Dell Isilon H500 | HPE Alletra 5000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | May 2017 | May 2022 |
| Form factor | 4U 4-node chassis | 4U rack storage array |
| Cpu platform | 4x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4 (10 cores per node, 40 cores per chassis) | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 512 | — |
| Drive bays | 60x 3.5-inch SATA hard drives (up to 12TB drives) + 4x to 8x cache SSDs | — |
| Raw capacity | 120TB to 720TB raw capacity per 4U chassis | Up to 294TB raw per base array, scalable past 1.2PB with expansion shelves |
| Network onboard | Front-end: Dual 40GbE QSFP+ or Dual 10GbE SFP+ per node; Back-end: Dual 40GbE QSFP+ | — |
| Power supply | Quad redundant hot-plug 1450W power supplies | — |
| Form factor | — | 4U dual-controller base array |
| Architecture | — | Active-standby dual controllers with NVRAM and SSD cache |
| Host interfaces | — | 32Gb/16Gb Fibre Channel and 25GbE/10GbE iSCSI |
| Data reduction | — | Inline deduplication, inline variable-block compression, and thin provisioning |
| Availability | — | Guaranteed 99.9999% availability via InfoSight predictive analytics |
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