Dive into the management interface for the PowerStore Family platform and explore the ease of use and navigation as well as discovering the wide feature set available.
The all-new PowerStore T model lineup simplifies modern IT with a flexible, highly-automated storage platform that evolves to meet your needs in an unpredictable world.
• End-to-end NVMe, active/active performance design.
• All models scale UP and OUT to 18PBe per cluster, with single-drive granularity.
• Built-in intelligence tunes efficiency and resiliency without manual intervention.
• Advanced cybersecurity: HWRoT, MFA, D@RE, ransomware protection and more.
• Manage multicloud and/or on-prem backup directly from PowerStore – set up in 90 seconds
• Ecosystem integrations streamline DevOps and VMware workflows – control PowerStore from your management platform of choice.
• Anytime Upgrade provides streamlined, cost-effective access to ongoing PowerStore innovation, so you’ll always know your workloads are running on the latest technology.
Enterprise storage made simple
The ground-breaking Dell PowerStore enterprise storage appliance helps you achieve new levels of operational agility with advanced storage technologies and intelligent automation to unlock the power of your data. Accelerate block, file and vVols workloads with a single unified platform that scales both up and out, keeping pace with rapidly changing business requirements. Streamline DevOps with automated workflows and extensive support for containerized apps – and simplify your overall ecosystem with deep integrations that let you provision advanced PowerStore services from your management framework of choice.
Architecture
PowerStore utilizes Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, plus a flexible all-NVMe design featuring dual-ported Intel® Optane™ SSDs and NVMe-over-fabric networking (both FC and TCP), to deliver end-to-end low latency performance for any workload. Always-on data reduction, intelligent automation, active resource balancing, predictive analytics and nondisruptive software and hardware upgrades keep your storage environment continuously optimized, up-to-date and easy to manage, even as your needs evolve over time.
Performance optimized
Designed to leverage next-gen innovations such as end-to-end NVMe (both FC and Ethernet) and dual-port Intel Optane solid state drives (SSDs) as Storage Class Memory (SCM), PowerStore delivers up to 7x more IOPs3 and 3x lower latency4 for real-world workloads compared to our previous storage generation, giving you all the headroom you need to ensure long-term value through multiple solution lifecycles.
Scale up and scale out
Expanding the capabilities of your initial PowerStore configuration is simple and extremely efficient, as capacity and performance may be scaled independently. Each active-active PowerStore appliance can grow to over 2.8 PB effective capacity, and multiple appliances can be clustered for greater performance.
Efficiency without compromise
Regardless of how you grow, PowerStore costs remain consistently low. Deduplication and compression are “always on,” and thanks to Intel QuickAssist hardware acceleration, PowerStore systems provide a guaranteed average 4:1 data reduction6 without compromising performance.
| Max Initiators | 2,000 |
| Max Block Volumes/Clones (FC/iSCSI) | 3,000 |
| Max Block Volumes/Clones (NVMe-oF) | 3,000 |
| Max Volumes per Volume Group | 75 |
| Max Volume Groups | 125 |
| Max Volume Size | 256 TB |
| Max Snapshots (Block) | 100,000 |
| Max User File Systems* | 2,000 |
| Max NAS Servers* | 50 |
| Max File System Size* | 256 TB |
| Max vVol Storage Containers | 50 |
| Max vVols | 10,600 |
| Mezzanine card / IO Module | Two-Port 10 Gb/s Optical Module (Block) |
| IO Module | Four-Port 32 Gb/s Fibre Channel Module (Block only) |
| IO Module | Four-Port 25 Gb/s Optical Module (Block Only) |
| Drive Types Supported | SAS SSD |
| Controller Interface | 12 Gb SAS |
| NVMe TLC SSD | 1.92 TB |
| NVMe TLC SSD | 3.84 TB |
| NVMe TLC SSD | 7.68 TB |
| NVMe TLC SSD | 15.36 TB |
| NVMe Optane SCM SSD | 750 GB |
| Access-based Enumeration (ABE) for SMB protoco | Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) compliant external key manager for D@RE |
| DFS Distributed File System (Microsoft) as Standalone Root Server | NAS Servers Multi-protocol for UNIX and SMB clients (Microsoft, Apple, Samba) |
| Access-based Enumeration (ABE) for SMB protocol | Lock Manager (NLM) v1, v2, v3, and v4 |
| Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) | Management & Data Ports IPv4 or IPv6 |
| Kerberos Authentication | NFS v3/v4 Secure Support |
| LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) | NT LAN Manager (NTLM) |
| Fail Safe Networking (FSN) | Network Status Monitor (NSM) |
| Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) | Network Time Protocol (NTP) Client |
| Management Software | PowerStore Manager CloudIQ: Cloud-based storage analytics Thin Provisioning Dynamic Resiliency Engine (DRE) – Single & Dual parity Data Reduction: Zero Detect/Deduplication/Compression Proactive Assist: Configure remote support, online chat, open a service request, etc. Quality of Service (Block and vVols) |
| Local Protection | SED Based Encryption with self-managed and external key management Local Point-In-Time Copies (Snapshots and Thin Clones) Immutable & Secure Snapshots AppSync Basic File Level Retention (FLR) Dell Common Event Enabler; AntiVirus Agent (CEPA) |
| Remote Protection | Native Asynchronous Block Replication Native Asynchronous vVol Replication Native Metro Volume Synchronous Block Replication Native Asynchronous File Replication Native PowerProtect DD integration - manage local or multicloud backups directly from PowerStore |
| Optional Solutions | AppSync Advanced Connectrix SAN Data Protection Suite: Backup, Archive and Collaboration Software Dell EMC RP4VM PowerPath Migration Enabler PowerPath Multipathing PowerStore metro node (block synchronous metro Active/Active, zero RPO/RTO) VPLEX |
| AC Line Voltage | 100- 240 VAC ± 10%, single phase, 47 to 63 Hz (500T) 240 VAC ± 10%, single phase, 47 to 63 Hz (1000-9000) |
| Power Factor | 0.95 minimum at full load, @ 200 VAC |
| In-rush Current | 45 Apk “cold” per line cord, at any line voltage |
| Startup Surge Current | 120 Apk “hot” per line cord, at any line voltage |
| AC Protection | 20 A fuse on each power supply, single line |
| Ride-through Time | 10 ms min |
| Current Sharing | ± 5 percent of full load, between power supplies |
| Weight kgs/lbs | empty 35.80/79 full 41.7/92 |
| Vertical size | 2 NEMA units |
| Height cm/inches | 8.72/3.43 |
| Width cm/inches | 44.72/17.61 |
| Depth cm/inches | 79.55/31.32 |
| Max. Appliances | 4 |
| Max. Front End Ports | 96 |
| Max. iSCSI sessions | 2,048 |
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