Dell VMAX 450F vs HPE 3PAR StoreServ 9450
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 9450 is a high-density, quad-node all-flash array built on an upgraded multi-core processor architecture and the 3PAR Gen5 ASIC.
| Dell VMAX 450F | HPE 3PAR StoreServ 9450 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-support | end-of-sale |
| Released | Feb 2016 | May 2017 |
| Form factor | system bay / multi-rack | 4U rack all-flash array |
| Cpu platform | Up to 4 V-Bricks (8 directors), Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 (12 cores per director, 96 cores total) | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 8,192 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 240x 2.5-inch SAS SSDs across high-density DAE enclosures | — |
| Raw capacity | Up to 2.3 PB effective all-flash capacity | — |
| Network onboard | Front-end optical ports supporting 16Gb/8Gb Fibre Channel, 10GbE iSCSI, and FICON | — |
| Power supply | Redundant AC power distribution panels with standby battery backup enclosures | — |
| Controller nodes | — | 2 or 4 active controller nodes |
| Form factor | — | 4U controller footprint |
| Processors | — | Intel Xeon multi-core processors per controller node |
| Asic | — | 3PAR Gen5 ASIC with inline deduplication and compression engine |
| Max drives | — | Up to 576 enterprise SAS SSDs |
| Host connectivity | — | Up to 80 host ports supporting 32Gb/16Gb FC and 10GbE iSCSI |
| Max effective capacity | — | Up to 9.6PB effective capacity |
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