Description

The ground-breaking Dell EMC PowerStore achieves new levels of operational simplicity and agility, utilizing a container- based architecture, advanced storage technologies, and intelligent automation to unlock the power of your data. Based on a scale-out architecture and hardware-accelerated advanced data reduction, PowerStore is designed to deliver enhanced resource utilization and performance that keeps pace with application and system growth. Utilizing the proven capabilities of VMware ESXi, PowerStore X models with AppsON provide the unique ability to host data-intensive and storage applications directly on the PowerStore system with a storage-based virtualization environment, with the flexibility of seamless movement of applications between the storage system and external VMware servers.PowerStore T models provide organizations with all the benefits of an enterprise unified storage platform for block, file and vVol data, while enabling flexible growth with the intelligent scale-up AND scale-out capability of appliance clusters.

Architecture

 

Based on a versatile scale-up and out platform utilizing Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and today’s most advanced storage technologies, including end-to-end NVMe Flash, dual-ported Intel® OptaneTM SSDs, NVMe-FC and always-on data reduction, PowerStore uses powerful analytics, automation and active resource balancing to optimize performance and eliminate management overhead. Each appliance utilizes dual active-active storage nodes and a container-based software architecture to provide maximum adaptability.

 

Specifications:

 

PER APPLIANCE 500 1000 3000 5000 7000 9000
Max Drives 25 96 96 96 96 96
NVRAM per Appliance N/A 2 2 4 4 4
Base Enclosure A 2U, 2 node enclosure with twenty-five 2.5” NVMe drive slots
Expansion Enclosure N/A A 2U enclosure attached to a PowerStore base enclosure with twenty-five 2.5” SAS drives slots (3 max per appliance)
Power Supplies PowerStore appliances are powered by 2 redundant power supplies (PS) per enclosure.
Data Resiliency Dynamic Resiliency Engine (DRE)
Max Mezzanine cards per
Appliance*
2 2 2 2 2 2
Max IO Modules per
Appliance**
4**** 4 4 4 4 4
Embedded SAS IO Ports for Appliance N/A 4 x 4 lane 12Gb/s SAS ports for back end connection
Max front end Ports per
Appliance (all types)
28 24 24 24 24 24
Max 16/32Gb FC Ports per
Appliance
16 16 16 16 16 16
Max 10 Gbase-T / iSCSI Ports per Appliance 24 24 24 24 24 24
Max 10/25 GbE/iSCSI Ports per Appliance 28 24 24 24 24 24
Max Raw Capacity*** 384 TB 898.56 TB 898.56 TB 898.56 TB 898.56 TB 898.56 TB
349.25 TiB 817.36 TiB 817.36 TiB 817.36 TiB 817.36 TiB 817.36 TiB
*    One Mezzanine card per node, mirrored.
**   Two IO Modules per node, mirrored.
***  Value shown is vendor raw base capacity. TB is base-10 decimal (1000x1000x1000x1000). TiB is base-2 binary (1024x1024x1024x1024). For true appliance useable capacity data refer to Power Sizer.
Maximum raw capacity may vary based on drive sizes available at time of purchase. Maximum logical capacity supported per appliance is 8 exabytes (EB).
**** 4 Onboard ports by default

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