Dell VMAX 400K vs HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20800
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The EMC VMAX 400K was the flagship enterprise director system of the VMAX3 generation, architected to scale up to 8 dual-director engines, 16TB of mirrored cache, and 5760 drives. The HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20800 is an enterprise highest-capacity Tier-1 storage system scalable up to eight active controller nodes in a massive point-to-point mesh active crossbar topology.
| Dell VMAX 400K | HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20800 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-support | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2014 | Jun 2015 |
| Form factor | system bay multi-cabinet | Enterprise multi-bay rack array |
| Cpu platform | Up to 8 VMAX3 Engines (16 directors), Intel Xeon Ivy Bridge multi-core processors (up to 192 cores) | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 16,384 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 5760x 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch SAS/NL-SAS/SSD drives across high-density DAEs | — |
| Raw capacity | Up to 6.0 PB raw hybrid storage capacity | Up to 15PB raw capacity (over 40PB effective) |
| Network onboard | Front-end I/O supporting 16Gb/8Gb Fibre Channel, 10GbE iSCSI, and 16Gb/8Gb FICON | — |
| Power supply | Redundant multi-cabinet high-amperage power distribution assemblies with SPS batteries | — |
| Controller nodes | — | Up to 8 active controller nodes |
| Form factor | — | Multi-rack enterprise system with dedicated controller frames |
| Interconnect | — | High-bandwidth active point-to-point mesh backplane |
| Max drives | — | Up to 1,920 SAS HDDs or SSDs |
| Host ports | — | Up to 160 host ports (32Gb/16Gb FC, 10GbE iSCSI) |
| Availability | — | Six-nines (99.9999%) availability standard |
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