HPE Alletra 9000 vs NetApp AFF A800
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The HPE Alletra 9000 is an enterprise Tier-0 mission critical all-NVMe storage array inheriting the architectural DNA and dedicated ASIC technology of HPE Primera. The NetApp AFF A800 was NetApp's first end-to-end NVMe enterprise all-flash storage system, pairing internal NVMe SSDs with NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) front-end connectivity.
| HPE Alletra 9000 | NetApp AFF A800 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | NetApp |
| Status | current | end-of-sale |
| Released | May 2021 | May 2018 |
| Form factor | 4U rack mission-critical array | 4U rack |
| Form factor | 4U base chassis housing 2 or 4 controller nodes | — |
| Architecture | Active-active multi-node symmetric controller architecture | — |
| Drive type | All-NVMe enterprise SSDs | — |
| Maximum iops | Exceeding 2,000,000 IOPS | — |
| Host ports | 32Gb Fibre Channel and 100GbE / 25GbE NVMe-oF RoCEv2 | — |
| Availability guarantee | 100% data availability guarantee standard | — |
| Cloud management | HPE GreenLake Data Services Cloud Console | — |
| Controller configuration | — | Dual controllers in 4U enclosure |
| Processor | — | Dual Intel Xeon Skylake processors per controller |
| Memory | — | 256GB system memory per HA pair with NVRAM |
| Drive bays | — | Up to 48x internal 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs in 4U chassis, plus NS224 shelves |
| Supported drives | — | NVMe TLC SSDs (1.9TB, 3.8TB, 7.6TB, 15.3TB) |
| Maximum raw capacity | — | Up to 316PB in a 24-node cluster |
| Host connectivity | — | PCIe slots supporting 100GbE, 40GbE, 25GbE, 10GbE, and 32Gb FC |
| Storage protocols | — | NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB |
| Clustering | — | Up to 24 nodes (12 HA pairs) |
| Management | — | NetApp ONTAP 9 |
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