HPE Alletra 5000 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6000H
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The HPE Alletra 5000 is an enterprise 4U adaptive hybrid storage array succeeding the Nimble Storage HF-Series. The Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6000H is a midrange hybrid storage array engineered to handle high-bandwidth enterprise streaming, large database consolidation, and high-performance computing storage tiers.
| HPE Alletra 5000 | Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6000H | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | Lenovo |
| Status | current | end-of-sale |
| Released | May 2022 | Sep 2018 |
| Form factor | 4U rack storage array | 2U rack |
| Form factor | 4U dual-controller base array | — |
| Architecture | Active-standby dual controllers with NVRAM and SSD cache | — |
| Raw capacity | Up to 294TB raw per base array, scalable past 1.2PB with expansion shelves | — |
| Host interfaces | 32Gb/16Gb Fibre Channel and 25GbE/10GbE iSCSI | Up to 8x 32Gb FC, 25Gb iSCSI, 100Gb NVMe-oF, or 12Gb SAS host ports per controller |
| Data reduction | Inline deduplication, inline variable-block compression, and thin provisioning | — |
| Availability | Guaranteed 99.9999% availability via InfoSight predictive analytics | — |
| Controllers | — | Dual active-active controller canisters with 64GB or 128GB total system cache |
| Drive bays | — | 24x 2.5-inch SFF or 60x 3.5-inch 4U chassis; expandable up to 480 drives via D1224/D3284 enclosures |
| Max performance | — | Up to 1,000,000 IOPS and up to 21 GB/s sequential read bandwidth |
| Features | — | Dynamic Disk Pools, snapshot copies, volume copy, synchronous and asynchronous replication |
| Power supply | — | Dual redundant hot-swap AC power supplies |
| Management | — | SANtricity System Manager (HTML5 web GUI) |
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