SAN Midrange Comparison Matrix

9/19/2023

Vendor Dell EMC HPE HPE Hitachi IBM

System Dell EMC PowerStore HPE Alletra 5000 HPE Alletra Storage MP Hitachi VSP E Midrange IBM FlashSystem 7300
Basics
1200 / 3200 / 5200 /9200 Alletra Storage MP - Block VSP E1090 / E790 / E590
Models 5010 / 5030 / 5050 7300
(T and X models) Persona H models are hybrid

2 - 8 in pairs - must all be 2 - 8 (4 controller pair

Number of Controllers 2 / 2 /2-8 2 2
same type (T or X models) clusters)

Controller HA - Active/Active Yes Active / Passive Yes Yes Yes

24 internal plus 368 in

Flash Device Number - max 93 - 372 for 4 node cluster 30 / 42 / 168 24 devices per node SSD: 864 / 264 / 264 expansion per controller
pair (1,568 in cluster)

368 in expansion per

Disk Device Number - max N/A 147 / 147 / 588 N/A 960 / 552 / 552 controller pair (1,472 in
cluster)
1,430 TB per appliance, 25.9 PB / 7.94 PB / 7.94 PB 32 PB w/ external
Max Flash Capacity (Raw) 28 / 48 / 624 TB 368 TB
5.72 PB clustered (30 TB NVMe SSD) virtualization
H models: 25.9 PB / 8.74 32 PB w/ external
Max Hybrid Capacity (Raw) N/A 210 / 504 / 5040 TB N/A
PB / 8.74 PB virtualization
Drives Currently Available
NVMe - FCM: 4.8, 9.6,
19.2, 38.4 TB NVMe SSD:
1.92, 3.84, 7.68, 15.36 TB
480, 960 Gb, 1.92, 3.84, 1.92, 3.84, 7.68, 15.36, 30 1.92, 3.84, 7.6, 15.36,
SSD / Flash Device NVMe SSD; 750 GB SCM 1.92, 3.84, 7.68, 15.36 TB
7.68 TB NVMe or SAS SSD 30.72 TB SCM: 1.6 TB
Optane
SAS exp: 1.92, 3.84, 7.68,
15.36, 30.72 TB

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Vendor Dell EMC HPE HPE Hitachi IBM

System Dell EMC PowerStore HPE Alletra 5000 HPE Alletra Storage MP Hitachi VSP E Midrange IBM FlashSystem 7300

590 and 790 only: 2.4TB 1.2, 1.8, 2.4 TB SAS 10K
Spinning Disk Devices N/A 2, 4, 6, 10 TB SAS N/A SAS 10K, 6, 14, 18 TB NL- 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20
SAS TB NL-SAS

Drive intermix (per drive encl) Yes No No Yes Yes

Guarantees
Warranty 3 Years 1 year No Spec 3 Years 3 Years Controller
Controller Evergreen Program Anytime upgrade program No Yes No Yes - 3 years
5 Years, up to 7 years with
Flash guarantee Lifetime 1 year No spec 3 Years
FCM
Yes - 100% with
Availability Guarantee No 6x9s 100% availability 100% Guarantee
Hyperswap
RAID Configurations
RAID Levels 5 (4+1 or 8+1), 6 Triple Parity RAID 6 1, 5, 6, 10 0, 1, 5, 6, 10
Cache

Data Cache Max - per HA 384 / 768 / 1,152 / 2,560 up to 28 / 48 / 156 TB flash
256 GB 1,024 / 768 / 768 GB 1.5 TB
controller pair GB Plus NVRAM cache

Cache binding option No No No Yes No

Performance
50 GB/s per node pair, 200
Total bandwidth (Gbsec) 25 GB/s (per pair) No Spec No Spec 43 / 32 / 22 GB/s
GB/s max
Random Read: 8.4M / 1M 4K read miss per HA
Max vendor reported IOPs No Spec No Spec No Spec
6.8M / 4.0M Pair, 4M scaled out
Latency 70μs No Spec No Spec 41 µs <50μs
Benchmarks None None None None None
LUNs

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Vendor Dell EMC HPE HPE Hitachi IBM

System Dell EMC PowerStore HPE Alletra 5000 HPE Alletra Storage MP Hitachi VSP E Midrange IBM FlashSystem 7300

Max LUNs / System 2,000 Capacity limited Capacity limited 65,280 / 49,152 / 32,768 10,000
Max LUN size 256 TB 2 TB 2 TB 256 TB 256 TB
Host Connectivity

16 / 24 / 24 @ 16 Gbs or 8
Max Fibre Channel Ports 16 @ 32 Gbs per pair 8 @ 32 Gbs 80 / 24 / 24 @ 32 Gb/s 24 @ 32 Gbs per controller
/ 12 / 12 @ 32 Gbs

8 @ 10, 12 @ 25/10 Gbps,

16 / 24 / 24 @ 10 Gbs or 8
Max iSCSI Ports 24 @ 10 or 25 Gbs 8 @ 100Gbs 40 / 12 / 12 @10Gbs 12 @ 100 Gbps per
/ 12 /12 @ 25 Gbs
controller

Max InfiniBand No N/A No No No

Max SAS No N/A N/A No No

Fibre Channel, iWARP,

NVMe over Fabric Yes - FC, TCP (100GigE) No Yes - FC and TCP Yes - FC
RoCE
Yes as a separate file
persona running VAST
NAS Capability - see NAS matrix Yes (T models only) No No No
Software. Not a unified
system.
Back-end Connectivity
PCIe 4.0 NVMe, SAS
Added enclosures - 4 @ 4
Max back-end interfaces and type 2 four lane @ 12 Gbs SAS No spec 64 NVMe / 64 12 Gbs SAS expansion: 2 @ 12 Gbs 4
lane 12 Gbs SAS
lanes
Physical
Min / Max Controller Size (U) 2U 4U 2U 4U / 2U / 2U 2U
2U: 24 SFF, 12 LFF 2U - 2.5" / 3U - 3.5"
Device Chassis Size (U) 24: 2.5" drives - 2U 4U 2U
4U: 60 LFF devices / 5U - SFF, LFF
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System Dell EMC PowerStore HPE Alletra 5000 HPE Alletra Storage MP Hitachi VSP E Midrange IBM FlashSystem 7300

24 - 2.5" , 12 - 3.5", 92 -
Device Density per enclosure 24 21 HDD and 3 or 6 SSD 24 SSDs 24
either

Controller enclosure may hold Yes - 21 NVMe devices + up

Yes Yes No / 24 / 24 Yes
disks to 4 NVRAM devices
Storage Management
HPE Data Services Cloud
Element Mgr. PowerStore Manager HPE Data Ops Manager Ops Center Web GUI
Console
Remote Monitoring Yes - CloudIQ Yes Yes - Infosight Yes - Storage Insights
Data Protection
Yes - Shadow Image and
Point In Time Snapshots (PIT) Redirect on Write Redirect on Write Redirect on Write Redirect on Write
copy on write
1,048,575 / 786,432 /
Max # PIT Copies per array 10,000 300,000 300,000 1,024 per IOGroup
524,288
Max # PIT copies per LUN To max number 1,000 1,000 1,024 256
Security
Yes - internal and external
Data at rest Encryption Yes - SEDs Yes Yes Yes
storage

Key Handling Internal or external KMIP KMIP KMIP KMIP

Logical Airgapped Copy No No No No Yes - Safeguarded Copy
2 Person Concurrence No No No No No
Multi-Factor Authentication No No No No Yes
Local Replication (within array)
# Local Clones 2,000 Unlimited Unlimited 16,384 10,000
Resync Clone Yes Unlimited Unlimited Yes Yes
Read / Write Clones Yes Unlimited Unlimited Yes Yes

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Vendor Dell EMC HPE HPE Hitachi IBM

System Dell EMC PowerStore HPE Alletra 5000 HPE Alletra Storage MP Hitachi VSP E Midrange IBM FlashSystem 7300
Remote Replication (array to
array)
Replication Connectivity Async - IP IP FC or IP FC or IP FC, IP
Synchronous Replication MetroSync , Metro Volumes Yes - Peer Copy Yes Peer Copy Yes MetroMirror
Async Replication Yes Yes Yes Yes GlobalMirror
In-flight Encryption (via 3rd party
Yes - 3rd Party No No No Yes - Integrated
or Integrated)
In flight deduplication of
No No No No No
replicated data
N Way replication 3 3 3 3 3
Other Advanced Features
Yes - hardware
Yes - Inline compression, Yes - Inline Deduplication,
Yes - Compression and Yes - Compression and compression accelerator,
Data Reduction deduplication using Intel Compression and
deduplication deduplication software compression and
QuickAssist Compaction
deduplication
With added hardware
Stretched Clusters Yes - Peer Persistence Yes - Peer Persistence Yes Yes - HyperSwap
(PowerStore metro node)
Reclamation - unmap APIs No No Yes APIs

Automated Tiering within box N/A N/A N/A Yes Yes-Easy Tier

Frequency of Tiered Movement N/A N/A N/A Dynamic Policy

Level of Tiered Movement N/A N/A N/A Sub-LUN 42 MB Sub-LUN
Number of Tiers N/A N/A N/A 3 3
QoS Feature Yes - LUN, vVol level Yes Yes Yes - LUN level Yes - LUN level
Garbage Collection Internal Internal Internal Internal Internal
Cascade multistage Cascade multistage
Data Integrity Yes - T10-DIF Yes - T10-PI + DIF Yes - T10-DIF
checksums checksums
Disk Scrubbing N/A Yes Yes Yes - Automatic Yes - Automatic

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Vendor Dell EMC HPE HPE Hitachi IBM

System Dell EMC PowerStore HPE Alletra 5000 HPE Alletra Storage MP Hitachi VSP E Midrange IBM FlashSystem 7300
Cloud Support (Excluding
External Gateway)
Name N/A HPE Cloud Volumes HPE Cloud Volumes Cloud Connected Flash Transparent Cloud Tiering

Hitachi Content Platform, IBM Cloud, OpenStack

Clouds Supported N/A Nimble Cloud Nimble Cloud
Azure, Amazon S3 Swift, Amazon S3

Tier To Cloud No No - backup No - backup Yes - Policy Based Yes - Policy Based
Protocols N/A N/A N/A S3 Swift, IBMCOS, S3
Yes - CSI, up to 50
Container Support CSI CSI CSI CSI
containers
Notes
Virtualization of external
VMware w/ ESXi in storage
Available as HPE Virtualization of external storage, Safeguarded Copy
for running apps (AppOn), Available as a service via
GreenLake for Block storage, Supports for ransomware
Policy-based file tiering for HPE Greenlake
Storage. bandwidth throttle protection, WAM
NAS
acceleration

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Vendor IBM Lenovo NetApp NetApp NetApp

Lenovo ThinkSystem DM NetApp AFF A400, A250,

System IBM FlashSystem 5200 NetApp FAS8300, FAS500f NetApp E5700
Series A150, C400, C250
Basics
DM3000H / DM5000H,F /
5200 - (5015 and 5035 AFF A400 / A250 / A150/
Models DM5100F / DM7000H,F / FAS8300 / FAS500f 5760, 5724
models are entry-level) C400 / C250
DM7100H,F
2 - 8 (4 controller pair 2 - 12 (6 controller pair
Number of Controllers 2-24 NAS and 2-12 SAN 2-24 NAS and 2-12 SAN 2
cluster) cluster)

Controller HA - Active/Active Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

H: 144 / 144 / 480 / 720
per pair, 864 / 864 / 2880 /
748 per controller pair 5,760 / 576 / 864 / 1,152 /
Flash Device Number - max 4320 in cluster F: 144 / 720 / 48 per HA pair 5760: 120, 5724: 120
(2,992 total) 576
384 / 48 / 480 per pair, 864
/ 2304 / 288 / 2880
H: 144 / 144 / 480 / 720
748 per controller pair
Disk Device Number - max per pair, 864 / 864 / 2880 / N/A 720 / 0 5760: 480, 5724: 192
(2,992 total)
4320 in cluster
32 PB w/ external F: 13.2 / 5.9 / 35.3 / 7.4 PB 176.9 / 17.69 / 26 / 71 / 35
Max Flash Capacity (Raw) 7.3 PB / 734 TB per HA Pair 1.8 PB
virtualization - SAN Scale out PB
32 PB w/ external H: 13.8 / 11.7 / 46 / 67 PB -
Max Hybrid Capacity (Raw) N/A 7.3 PB / N/A 4.8 PB, 345.6 TB
virtualization SAN Scale out
Drives Currently Available
NVMe - FCM: 4.8, 9.6,
960 GB. 1.92, 3.84, 7.68.
19.2, 38.4 TB SSD: 800 GB, .96, .8, 1.6, 3.8, 7.65,
960 GB, 3.84, 7.68, 15.36, 15.36, 30.72 TB 800 GB, 1.6, 3.8, 7.6, 15.3
SSD / Flash Device 1.92, 3.84, 7.6, 15.36 TB 15.36, 30 TB / 15.3 TB
30.72 TB SAS SSDs C Models use NVMe QLC TB
SAS exp: 1.92, 3.84, 7.68, NVMe QLC SSDs
devices
15.36, 30.72 TB

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Vendor IBM Lenovo NetApp NetApp NetApp

Lenovo ThinkSystem DM NetApp AFF A400, A250,

System IBM FlashSystem 5200 NetApp FAS8300, FAS500f NetApp E5700
Series A150, C400, C250
600, 900 TB SAS 15K
450, 600, 900 GB, 1.2, 1.8
600, 900 GB, 1.2, 1.8, 2.4
900 GB, 1.2, 1.8 TB SAS 10K TB SAS 15K 1.2, 1.8 TB SAS 10K
Spinning Disk Devices TB SAS 10K N/A
4, 8, 10, 16 TB NL-SAS 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 16 TB SATA 4, 8, 10, 12 TB NL-SAS
6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20
N/A for f model
TB NL-SAS
Drive intermix (per drive encl) Yes No Yes No Yes
Guarantees
Warranty 3 Years Controller 3 Years 3 Years 3 Years 3 Years
Controller Evergreen Program Yes - 3 years No Yes - 3 years No No
5 Years, up to 7 years with
Flash guarantee 3 Years 6 Years 6 Years 6 Years
FCM
Yes - 100% with
Availability Guarantee No No No No
Hyperswap
RAID Configurations
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10 (RAID 6
RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 4, DP (6), Triple parity 4, DP (6), Triple parity 4, DP (6), Triple parity
with DDP)
Cache
64 / 64 / 128 / 256/ 256 GB
256 GB DRAM, 32 GB
Data Cache Max - per HA RAM; 356 / 128 GB DRAM, 32 /
64 - 512 GB NVRAM / 64 GB DRAM, 8 128 GB
controller pair 8 / 8 / 16 / 16 / 32 GB 16 GB NVRAM
GB NVRAM
NVRAM
Cache binding option No No Yes - included Yes - included No
Performance
Total bandwidth (Gbsec) 21GB/s No Spec 37.5/HA Pair No Spec 21 Gbs read, 14 Gbs write

Max vendor reported IOPs 1.5M 4M (F series) 1.4M/HA Pair No Spec 1M

Latency <70μs No spec 1ms No spec / 2-4ms < 100 us
Benchmarks None None None None None
LUNs

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Vendor IBM Lenovo NetApp NetApp NetApp

Lenovo ThinkSystem DM NetApp AFF A400, A250,

System IBM FlashSystem 5200 NetApp FAS8300, FAS500f NetApp E5700
Series A150, C400, C250
8,192 / 8,192 / 12,288 /
Max LUNs / System 10,000 12,288 / 4,096 12,288 1,024
8,192 / 12,288
Max LUN size 256 TB 16 TB 100 TB: A150: 60TB 100 TB 64TB
Host Connectivity
8 / 8 / 8 / 8 / 24 @ 16 Gbs ,
DM7000H/F, 24 / 16 @ 32 Gbs , A150: 8 / 24 @ 32 Gbs Plus
Max Fibre Channel Ports 16 @ 32 or 16 Gbs 12 @ 16 Gbs, 8 @ 32 Gbs
DM7100F,DM5100F: 8 @ None Expansion to 24 @ 16Gbs
32 Gbs
Standard: 8 @ 40 Gbs
8 / 8 / 8 / 8 / 32 @ 10Gbs,
16/4 @ 100 GbE or 16/20 Plus Expansion to 40 @
DM7000H, DM7100F/H,
Max iSCSI Ports 16 @ 25Gbs @ 25 Gbs, A150: 10Gbs 4 @ 10 Gbs, 8 @ 25 Gbs
DM5100F: support 40/100
4@10Gb/s
Gbs
FAS500f: 28 @ 25Gbs
Max InfiniBand No No No No 4 @ 100 Gbs
Max SAS No 4 / 4 / 8 / 4 / 24 @ 12 Gbs 32 / 8 @ 12 Gbs No 8 @ 12 Gbs

25 Gb/s Ethernet RoCE, Yes - DM7000F, DM7100F,

NVMe over Fabric Yes - FC, TCP No / yes 100 Gbs Ethernet RoCE
iWARP, 32 or 16Gb/s FC DM5100F (NVMe/FC)

NAS Capability - see NAS matrix No Yes Yes - details in NAS Matrix Yes - details in NAS Matrix No

Back-end Connectivity
PCIe 3.0 NVMe, SAS PCIe / SAS: 24 @ 12 Gbs /
SAS: 4 @ 12 Gbs
Max back-end interfaces and type expansion: 2 @ 12 Gbs 4 SAS: 4 @ 12 Gbs 4 lanes SAS: 24 @ 12 Gbs 4 @ 12 Gbs SAS
lanes
Physical
2 controllers are contained
Min / Max Controller Size (U) 1U 2U / 2U / 3U / 2U / 3U 4U / 2U 4U / 2U
in 4U / 2U
Device Chassis Size (U) 2U or 5U 2U 2U 2U or 3U / 2U 4U / 2U

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Vendor IBM Lenovo NetApp NetApp NetApp

Lenovo ThinkSystem DM NetApp AFF A400, A250,

System IBM FlashSystem 5200 NetApp FAS8300, FAS500f NetApp E5700
Series A150, C400, C250
up to 12 in controller
enclosure. Up to 12, 24, or 24 - 2.5", 12 - 3.5", 60 -
Device Density per enclosure 24 2.5" 24 - 2.5" 60 - 2.5" or 3.5" / 24 - 2.5"
96 in expansion 3.5" / 24
enclosures.
Controller enclosure may hold
Yes Yes A250, A150 - yes, 24 yes Yes
disks
Storage Management
Web GUI - ThinkSystem
Element Mgr. Web GUI Multiple Multiple SANtricity
Storage Manager
Remote Monitoring Yes - Storage Insights Yes Yes Yes No
Data Protection
Point In Time Snapshots (PIT) Copy on write Redirect on Write Redirect on Write Redirect on Write Copy on Write

Max # PIT Copies per array 512 per IOGroup 1,023 255,000 255,000 2,048
Max # PIT copies per LUN 256 512 255 255 128
Security
Yes with SEDs. Native or
Yes - internal and external Yes - Software with self- Yes - Software with self- Yes - Software with self-
Data at rest Encryption external (KMIP) key
storage contained keys contained keys contained keys
management
Key Handling KMIP Internal Internal or KMIP KMIP Internal or external (KMIP)
Logical Airgapped Copy Yes - Safeguarded Copy No SnapLock (file) No No
2 Person Concurrence No No No No No
Multi-Factor Authentication Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Local Replication (within array)
With Volume Copy - up to
# Local Clones 10,000 1,023 127,000 127,000
511 copies
Resync Clone Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Read / Write Clones Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

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Vendor IBM Lenovo NetApp NetApp NetApp

Lenovo ThinkSystem DM NetApp AFF A400, A250,

System IBM FlashSystem 5200 NetApp FAS8300, FAS500f NetApp E5700
Series A150, C400, C250
Remote Replication (array to
array)
Replication Connectivity FC, IP FC,IP FC,IP FC,IP FC or iSCSI
Synchronous Replication MetroMirror Yes Yes Yes Yes
Async Replication GlobalMirror Yes Yes Yes Yes
In-flight Encryption (via 3rd party
Yes - Integrated Yes - Integrated Yes - Integrated Yes - Integrated No
or Integrated)
In flight deduplication of
No No No No No
replicated data
N Way replication 3 2 2 2 2
Other Advanced Features
Yes - Inline Deduplication,
Yes - deduplication, Yes - deduplication, Yes - deduplication,
Data Reduction Compression and No
compression, compaction compression, compaction compression, compaction
Compaction

Stretched Clusters Yes - HyperSwap Yes - MetroCluster Yes - MetroCluster Yes - MetroCluster No
Reclamation - unmap APIs Unmap Unmap Unmap APIs
No (Has levels of caching
Automated Tiering within box Yes-Easy Tier Yes N/A called Virtual Storage No
Tiering)
Frequency of Tiered Movement Policy Policy N/A Automatic N/A
Level of Tiered Movement Sub-LUN Sub-LUN N/A LUN/Volume N/A
Number of Tiers 3 3 N/A 3 N/A
QoS Feature Yes - LUN level Yes Yes - LUN level Yes - LUN level No
Garbage Collection Internal Internal Internal No
Data Integrity Yes - T10-DIF Yes - T10-DIF Yes - T10-DIF Yes - T10-DIF Yes - T10-PI

Disk Scrubbing Yes - Automatic Yes - Automatic Yes - Scheduled or Manual Yes - Scheduled or Manual Yes - Scheduled or Manual

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Vendor IBM Lenovo NetApp NetApp NetApp

Lenovo ThinkSystem DM NetApp AFF A400, A250,

System IBM FlashSystem 5200 NetApp FAS8300, FAS500f NetApp E5700
Series A150, C400, C250
Cloud Support (Excluding
External Gateway)
Name Transparent Cloud Tiering FabricPool FabricPool FabricPool SANtricity Cloud Connector
Amazon S3, Azure Blob, Amazon S3, Azure Blob,
IBM Cloud, OpenStack IBM Cloud Object Storage, IBM Cloud Object Storage, AWS, GCP, Alibaba, Azure,
Clouds Supported AWS, StorageGrid
Swift, Amazon S3 Google Cloud Platform, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud
Alibaba Alibaba
Tier To Cloud Yes - Policy Based Yes - Policy Based Yes - Policy Based Yes - Only with SSDs No - backup
Protocols Swift, IBMCOS, S3 S3, Swift S3, Swift S3 S3
Container Support Spectrum Connect, CSI N/A Trident (CSI) Yes - Trident (CSI) CSI
Notes
Virtualization of external
Supports bandwidth SSD's for caching, FlexArray
storage, Safeguarded Copy Based on NetApp ONTAP,
throttle, delta replication, virtualization, Supports
for ransomware Supports bandwidth
hybrid cloud management bandwidth throttle, delta
protection, WAN throttle, delta replication
via BlueXP replication
acceleration

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Vendor NetApp PureStorage

System Netapp EF300 PureStorage Flash Array

Basics
//X50, //X20, //C50, //C70,
Models EF300
//C90, //E

Number of Controllers 2 2

Active / Passive (for data

Controller HA - Active/Active Yes
transfer)

In Controller: 20
base 24 , expansion up to
Flash Device Number - max In Expansion: 28
96
(Capacity Limited)

Disk Device Number - max 420 N/A

185 TB / 94 TB / 482 TB /
Max Flash Capacity (Raw) 1.8 PB
1.3 PB / 2.3PB / 4 PB
Max Hybrid Capacity (Raw) 4.7PB N/A
Drives Currently Available
SAS : 0.5, 1, 2, 3.8, 7.6 TB
DirectFlash : 1, 2.2, 4.5,
1.9TB, 3.8TB, 7.6, 15.3TB 9.1, 18.3 TB
SSD / Flash Device
NVMe 24TB QLC DirectFlash in //C
models, 75TB DirectFlash
in //E

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Vendor NetApp PureStorage

System Netapp EF300 PureStorage Flash Array

Spinning Disk Devices 4TB - 18TB NL-SAS N/A

Drive intermix (per drive encl) Yes Yes

Guarantees
Warranty 3 Years 3
Controller Evergreen Program No Yes - 3 years

Flash guarantee 5 years 3 Years

Availability Guarantee No No
RAID Configurations
0, 1, 5, 6, 10 (RAID6 with
RAID Levels 6 - (dual parity RAID 3D)
DDP)
Cache

Data Cache Max - per HA

64 GB / 32 GB 512 GB
controller pair

Cache binding option No No

Performance
Total bandwidth (Gbsec) 20 GB/s read , 7 GB/s write No Spec

Max vendor reported IOPs 670,000 No Spec

Latency <200 μs 150 us / 2ms
Benchmarks None None
LUNs

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Vendor NetApp PureStorage

System Netapp EF300 PureStorage Flash Array

Max LUNs / System 512 Capacity limited

Max LUN size 64 TB No limit
Host Connectivity

Max Fibre Channel Ports 8 @32 Gbs 24 @ 64 /32/16 Gbs

4 @ 25/10/1 (Replication)
+
Max iSCSI Ports 8 @ 25 Gbs
4 @ 25/10/1 +
12 @ 100/ 40/25/10 Gbs
Max InfiniBand 4 @ 100 Gbs No
Max SAS N/A No
100 Gbs Ethernet RoCE or
NVMe over Fabric InfiniBand, 8 @ 32 NVMe RoCE - 25Gbs, 50Gbs , FC
FC

NAS Capability - see NAS matrix No Yes

Back-end Connectivity
4 four lane @ 12 Gbs SAS
Max back-end interfaces and type 2 @ 12 Gb/s SAS
or PCIe/NVMe
Physical
2 controllers are contained
Min / Max Controller Size (U) 2 controllers in 3U
in 2U
Device Chassis Size (U) 4U or 2U Direct Flash Shelf: 3U

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Vendor NetApp PureStorage

System Netapp EF300 PureStorage Flash Array

Device Density per enclosure 24, 12, or 60 28

Controller enclosure may hold

Yes Yes
disks
Storage Management
Element Mgr. SANtricity Yes - Web GUI
Remote Monitoring No Yes
Data Protection
Point In Time Snapshots (PIT) Copy on Write Redirect on Write

Max # PIT Copies per array 512 50,000

Max # PIT copies per LUN 512 50,000
Security
Yes FDE / FIPS with native
Data at rest Encryption or external (KMIP) key Yes
management
Key Handling Internal or external (KMIP) Internal or External
Logical Airgapped Copy No Yes - SafeMode
2 Person Concurrence No Yes
Multi-Factor Authentication Yes Yes
Local Replication (within array)
# Local Clones 511 via snap
Resync Clone No No
Read / Write Clones Yes Yes

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Vendor NetApp PureStorage

System Netapp EF300 PureStorage Flash Array

Remote Replication (array to
array)
Replication Connectivity FC or IP IP
Yes - periodic and
Synchronous Replication Yes
continuous
Async Replication Yes Yes
In-flight Encryption (via 3rd party
No No
or Integrated)
In flight deduplication of
No No
replicated data
N Way replication 2 3
Other Advanced Features

Yes - Compression and

Data Reduction No
deduplication, zero detect

Stretched Clusters No Yes

Reclamation - unmap Yes No

Automated Tiering within box No N/A

Frequency of Tiered Movement N/A N/A

Level of Tiered Movement N/A N/A
Number of Tiers N/A N/A
QoS Feature No Yes
Garbage Collection Not required Internal
Data Integrity Yes - T10-PI No Spec

Disk Scrubbing Yes - Scheduled or Manual Yes

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Vendor NetApp PureStorage

System Netapp EF300 PureStorage Flash Array

Cloud Support (Excluding
External Gateway)
Name SANtricity Cloud Connector CloudSnap

AWS (EBS, Glacier, S3),

Clouds Supported AWS, StorageGrid
Azure

Tier To Cloud No - backup Yes - Policy Based

Protocols S3 S3
Container Support CSI CSI
Notes

Supports bandwidth
throttle, delta replication,
WAN acceleration

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