Dell PowerScale H7000 vs HPE Alletra 5000
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerScale H7000 is a dense 4U 4-node hybrid scale-out NAS enclosure engineered to balance multi-petabyte capacity with SSD-accelerated performance. The HPE Alletra 5000 is an enterprise 4U adaptive hybrid storage array succeeding the Nimble Storage HF-Series.
| Dell PowerScale H7000 | HPE Alletra 5000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jun 2021 | May 2022 |
| Form factor | 4U 4-node chassis | 4U rack storage array |
| Cpu platform | 4x Intel Xeon Silver 4210R (10 cores per node, 40 cores per 4U chassis) | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 768 | — |
| Drive bays | 80x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA HDDs (up to 1.6PB raw per chassis) + 4x to 8x cache SSDs | — |
| Raw capacity | 320TB to 1.6PB raw capacity per 4U chassis | Up to 294TB raw per base array, scalable past 1.2PB with expansion shelves |
| Network onboard | Front-end: Dual 25GbE / 100GbE per node; Back-end: Dual 25GbE / 100GbE per node | — |
| 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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