Dell VMAX 250F vs HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8450
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell EMC VMAX 250F is an entry-level all-flash enterprise storage array delivering VMAX-tier reliability, HYPERMAX OS data services, and sub-millisecond SAS SSD performance within a compact rack footprint. The HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8450 is a quad-node all-flash enterprise storage array delivering over 1 million IOPS and sub-millisecond response times at massive scale.
| Dell VMAX 250F | HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8450 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-support | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2016 | Aug 2015 |
| Form factor | system bay / standard rack | 4U rack all-flash array |
| Cpu platform | 1 or 2 V-Bricks (2 to 4 directors), Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 (10 cores per director) | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 4,096 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 100x 2.5-inch SAS SSDs across high-density DAE enclosures | — |
| Raw capacity | Up to 1.15 PB effective all-flash capacity | — |
| Network onboard | Front-end optical ports supporting 16Gb/8Gb Fibre Channel and 10GbE iSCSI | — |
| Power supply | Redundant hot-plug 2000W AC power supplies with external standby power supplies (SPS) | — |
| Controller nodes | — | 2 or 4 active controllers |
| Form factor | — | 2U to 4U controller footprint |
| Asic generation | — | 3PAR Gen5 ASIC |
| Max drives | — | Up to 480 enterprise SAS solid-state drives |
| Max capacity | — | Over 7.3PB effective capacity |
| Host ports | — | 16Gb FC and 10GbE iSCSI |
| Performance | — | Over 1,000,000 IOPS at sub-millisecond latency |
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