Dell PowerMax 8000 vs HPE Alletra 9000
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 Alletra 9000 is an enterprise Tier-0 mission critical all-NVMe storage array inheriting the architectural DNA and dedicated ASIC technology of HPE Primera.
| Dell PowerMax 8000 | HPE Alletra 9000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | May 2018 | May 2021 |
| Form factor | system bay multi-cabinet | 4U rack mission-critical 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 | — |
| 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 | — |
| Form factor | — | 4U base chassis housing 2 or 4 controller nodes |
| Architecture | — | Active-active multi-node symmetric controller architecture |
| Drive type | — | All-NVMe enterprise SSDs |
| Maximum iops | — | Exceeding 2,000,000 IOPS |
| Host ports | — | 32Gb Fibre Channel and 100GbE / 25GbE NVMe-oF RoCEv2 |
| Availability guarantee | — | 100% data availability guarantee standard |
| Cloud management | — | HPE GreenLake Data Services Cloud Console |
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