Dell PowerMax 8500 vs HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20800
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerMax 8500 is Dell's ultimate enterprise scale-out storage director array, capable of interconnecting up to 16 active-active controllers across a high-speed internal NVMe-oF fabric. 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 8500 | HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20800 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | current | end-of-sale |
| Released | May 2022 | Jun 2015 |
| Form factor | system bay multi-enclosure | Enterprise multi-bay rack array |
| Cpu platform | Up to 8 node pairs (16 directors), Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake (up to 256 total processor cores) | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 16,384 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 192x 2.5-inch NVMe PCIe Gen4 SSDs across multiple system enclosures | — |
| Raw capacity | Up to 10 PB effective enterprise storage capacity | Up to 15PB raw capacity (over 40PB effective) |
| Network onboard | Modular front-end I/O supporting 64Gb/32Gb FC, 100GbE / 25GbE iSCSI, NVMe-oF, and FICON | — |
| Power supply | System bay dual power distribution units (PDUs) with integrated uninterruptible battery modules | — |
| 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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