Dell PowerMax 8500 vs HPE Alletra 9000
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 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 8500 | HPE Alletra 9000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | May 2022 | May 2021 |
| Form factor | system bay multi-enclosure | 4U rack mission-critical 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 | — |
| 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 | — |
| 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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