Dell Unity XT 880XT vs HPE Alletra 9000
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell Unity XT 880 is the top-tier hybrid flash storage platform in the Unity XT family, engineered to deliver maximum scalability, IOPS, and capacity for large enterprise data centers. 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 880XT | 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 16-core (2.1 GHz) per SP | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 768 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 25x 2.5-inch drives in base DPE; expands up to 1500 drives across SAS DAEs | — |
| Raw capacity | Up to 16.0 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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