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 per 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 |
||||||
