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Dell VMAX 450F vs HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8450

Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell EMC VMAX 450F is a mid-tier all-flash enterprise storage director system supporting up to four V-Bricks and 8TB of global shared cache. 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 450FHPE 3PAR StoreServ 8450
BrandDellHPE
Statusend-of-supportend-of-sale
ReleasedFeb 2016Aug 2015
Form factorsystem bay / multi-rack4U rack all-flash array
Cpu platformUp to 4 V-Bricks (8 directors), Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 (12 cores per director, 96 cores total)—
Memory max (GB)8,192—
Drive baysUp to 240x 2.5-inch SAS SSDs across high-density DAE enclosures—
Raw capacityUp to 2.3 PB effective all-flash capacity—
Network onboardFront-end optical ports supporting 16Gb/8Gb Fibre Channel, 10GbE iSCSI, and FICON—
Power supplyRedundant AC power distribution panels with standby battery backup enclosures—
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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