Comparison Chart

VMAX 250F PowerMax 2000 Change PowerMax 8000

Intel Xeon E5-2650-v4 Intel Xeon E5-2650-v4 Intel Xeon E5-2697-v4
Intel Processor -
*2.5 GHz 12 core *2.5 GHz 12 core *2.8 GHz 18 core

Max Flash (NAND) Drive Capacity (RAW) 15.36TB (SAS) 15.36TB(NVMe) NVMe Backend 15.36TB(NVMe)

Storage class memory

Max SCM Drive Capacity (RAW) N/A 1.5TB 1.5TB
(SCM) Support
3:1 3:1
2:1 At least 50% gain in data
Planned data reduction Inline Compression and Inline Compression and
Inline Compression efficiency
Deduplication Deduplication

Max Capacity Per System (Within single array) 1PBe 1PBe - 4PBe

Max Capacity Per Floor Tile 2PBe (2 arrays) 2PBe (2 arrays) - 2PBe

Latency (OLTP2 HW) 500us 290us 42% faster 290us

Max IO/s Per System (Within single array) 1M IOPS 2.7M IOPS 70% more 15M IOPS

Max I/O Per Floor Tile 2M IOPS (2 arrays) 5.4M IOPS (2 arrays) 70% more 7.5M IOPS

• 32 Gb FC/FC-NVMe
• 25GbE - ~ Q2 2020
Max I/O Ports Per System 64 64 256
• NVMe over IP - on the
roadmap

Max I/O Ports Per Floor Tile 128 (2 arrays) 128 (2 arrays) - 128

Base Unit Rack Unit / # of Drives (Brick) 10U / 50 Drives 10U / 48 Drives 4% fewer drives 10U / 36 Drives
Max Drives per Array 100 96 4% 288

*CPUs run continuously in Turbo Mode except at significantly elevated ambient temperatures.
Note –
• Max IOP numbers are for 8KB random read hits
• Response Times utilizing SCM Drives
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