HPE Alletra 5000 vs NetApp ASA A250
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 NetApp ASA A250 was a 2U entry enterprise all-SAN array housing 24 internal NVMe solid-state drives with symmetrical active-active controller processing.
| HPE Alletra 5000 | NetApp ASA A250 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | NetApp |
| Status | current | end-of-sale |
| Released | May 2022 | Feb 2021 |
| 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 | — |
| Data reduction | Inline deduplication, inline variable-block compression, and thin provisioning | — |
| Availability | Guaranteed 99.9999% availability via InfoSight predictive analytics | — |
| Controller configuration | — | Symmetrical active-active dual controllers in 2U enclosure |
| Processor | — | Intel Xeon processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 128GB system memory per HA pair with NVRAM |
| Drive bays | — | Up to 24x internal 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs in 2U chassis, expandable with 1x NS224 shelf |
| Supported drives | — | NVMe TLC SSDs (960GB to 15.3TB) |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 57PB in a cluster |
| Host connectivity | — | Onboard 25GbE/10GbE and PCIe expansion for 32Gb FC, 25GbE, 10GbE |
| Storage protocols | — | NVMe/FC, NVMe/TCP, Fibre Channel, iSCSI |
| Clustering | — | Up to 12 HA pairs |
| Management | — | NetApp ONTAP SAN-optimized |
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