Dell PowerMax 8000 vs HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20800
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerMax 8000 is an enterprise multi-brick director array engineered for high-volume transactional workloads, mainframe computing, and consolidated multi-petabyte virtual environments. The HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20800 is an enterprise highest-capacity Tier-1 storage system scalable up to eight active controller nodes in a massive point-to-point mesh active crossbar topology.
| Dell PowerMax 8000 | HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20800 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | May 2018 | Jun 2015 |
| Form factor | system bay multi-cabinet | Enterprise multi-bay rack array |
| Cpu platform | Up to 8 PowerMax Bricks (16 directors), Intel Xeon Broadwell multi-core processors | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 16,384 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 384x 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs and SCM drives across Brick enclosures | — |
| Raw capacity | Up to 4.5 PB effective storage capacity | Up to 15PB raw capacity (over 40PB effective) |
| Network onboard | Front-end I/O supporting 32Gb/16Gb FC, 10GbE iSCSI, NVMe-oF, and IBM z/OS FICON | — |
| Power supply | Integrated dual-bay AC power distribution assemblies with redundant battery enclosures | — |
| Controller nodes | — | Up to 8 active controller nodes |
| Form factor | — | Multi-rack enterprise system with dedicated controller frames |
| Interconnect | — | High-bandwidth active point-to-point mesh backplane |
| Max drives | — | Up to 1,920 SAS HDDs or SSDs |
| Host ports | — | Up to 160 host ports (32Gb/16Gb FC, 10GbE iSCSI) |
| Availability | — | Six-nines (99.9999%) availability standard |
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