Dell VMAX 200K vs HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8400
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 8400 is a modular 2-node or 4-node enterprise storage system powered by the 3PAR Gen5 ASIC.
| Dell VMAX 200K | HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8400 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-support | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2014 | Aug 2015 |
| Form factor | system bay multi-rack | 4U rack enterprise 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 controller nodes |
| Form factor | — | 4U for 4-node configurations |
| Asic | — | 3PAR Gen5 ASIC |
| Max drives | — | Up to 576 SAS, NL-SAS, and SSD drives |
| Max raw capacity | — | Up to 4PB raw capacity |
| Connectivity | — | 16Gb FC, 10GbE iSCSI, and 10GbE FCoE |
| Data reduction | — | Hardware-accelerated inline deduplication and compression |
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