Dell Unity XT 680XT vs HPE Alletra 9000
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell Unity XT 680 is a high-performance hybrid flash storage array engineered for enterprise data centers consolidating massive transactional workloads, large-scale virtualization, and multi-tenant file services. 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 Unity XT 680XT | HPE Alletra 9000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | May 2019 | May 2021 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 4U rack mission-critical array |
| Cpu platform | Dual active-active storage processors (SPs), Intel Xeon Skylake 12-core (1.9 GHz) per SP | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 384 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 25x 2.5-inch drives in base DPE; expands up to 1000 drives across SAS DAEs | — |
| Raw capacity | Up to 8.0 PB raw capacity | — |
| Network onboard | 4-port 10GbE / 1GbE embedded; 2x I/O module slots per SP supporting 16Gb/32Gb FC or 25GbE optical | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 1800W Platinum power supplies | — |
| 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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