Dell PowerStore 3000X vs HPE Alletra 6000
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerStore 3000X is a 2U converged storage platform equipped with Dell's AppsON capability, running VMware ESXi hypervisors directly on the dual storage controller hardware. The HPE Alletra 6000 is an all-NVMe enterprise storage array derived from HPE's Nimble Storage DNA and CASL/NimbleOS architecture.
| Dell PowerStore 3000X | HPE Alletra 6000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | May 2020 | May 2021 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 4U rack |
| Cpu platform | Dual active-active storage nodes, Intel Xeon Gold 6248 (20 cores per node, 40 cores per appliance) | Dual Active/Standby Controllers running Nimble OS architecture on AMD EPYC processors |
| Memory max (GB) | 768 | 512 |
| Drive bays | Up to 25x 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs / NVMe SCM drives in base enclosure; expands up to 96 NVMe drives across DAEs | Up to 24 NVMe SSDs in a 4U dual-controller array enclosure; optional NVMe expansion shelves |
| Raw capacity | Up to 3.5 PB effective capacity per appliance | Scales from 23TB up to over 4PB effective capacity with inline deduplication and compression |
| Network onboard | 4-port 25GbE Mezzanine; 2x I/O module slots per node supporting 32Gb FC or 25GbE optical | Dual 10GbE management/data ports plus optional 10GbE/25GbE iSCSI or 16Gb/32Gb Fibre Channel host cards |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 1800W Platinum power supplies | Dual redundant 1600W hot-plug Platinum power supplies |
| Cpu sockets | — | 2 |
| Memory slots | — | 16 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4 ECC Registered RDIMM with NVDIMM cache protection |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 6 host interface card slots per controller pair |
| Gpu support | — | — |
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