Dell VMAX 200K vs HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7450c
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The EMC VMAX 200K is a mid-tier enterprise director array in the VMAX3 family, supporting up to 4 engines, 8 directors, and 4TB of global memory cache. The HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7450c is a purpose-built Tier-1 all-flash storage array engineered to provide sub-millisecond response times and predictable IOPS for high-transaction enterprise workloads.
| Dell VMAX 200K | HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7450c | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-support | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2014 | Jun 2014 |
| Form factor | system bay multi-rack | 4U rack all-flash array |
| Cpu platform | Up to 4 VMAX3 Engines (8 directors), Intel Xeon Ivy Bridge multi-core processors (up to 96 cores) | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 4,096 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 2880x 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch SAS/NL-SAS/SSD drives across high-density DAEs | — |
| Raw capacity | Up to 3.0 PB raw hybrid storage capacity | — |
| Network onboard | Front-end I/O supporting 16Gb/8Gb Fibre Channel, 10GbE iSCSI, and 16Gb/8Gb FICON | — |
| Power supply | Redundant AC power distribution systems with dedicated battery backup vaults | — |
| Controller nodes | — | 2 or 4 active controllers |
| Form factor | — | 2U to 4U controller enclosure |
| Drive type | — | All-SSD flash configuration |
| Max drives | — | Up to 240 enterprise SSDs |
| Deduplication | — | Hardware-accelerated inline deduplication via 3PAR Gen4 ASIC |
| Host ports | — | 16Gb FC and 10GbE iSCSI/FCoE |
| High availability | — | Persistent Cache and Persistent Ports standard |
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