Dell PowerMax

Cache — System Minimum (Raw)2

1.792TB1896GB1

Configuration1

Dense configurations allow 6 node pairs in System Bay 1 and 2 additional node pairs in System Bay 2; balanced system bay configurations also supported1

Cyber Recovery1

Cyber Recovery Service for PowerMax (cyber vault) available through Dell Professional Services1

Cyber Resiliency1

Up to 65 million secure and immutable snapshots per array, ransomware anomaly detection and alerting, PowerMax cyber recovery vault, tamper-proof audit logs, Cyber Intrusion Detection for mainframe (zCID)2

Data Protection1

Storage Direct Protection with PowerProtect Data Domain — up to 46TB/hour backup and 21TB/hour restore2

Data Reduction2

Global inline deduplication and compression with a Dell Future-Proof data reduction guarantee; space-efficient snapshots and thin provisioning2Hardware-based compression with global inline deduplication; 5:1 data reduction guarantee for open systems and 3:1 for mainframe under the Dell Future-Proof program2

Data Services1

SRDF replication including SRDF/Metro, SnapVX snapshots, Data at Rest Encryption (D@RE), Cloud Mobility, non-disruptive migration from VMAX arrays2

Drive Media2

24-slot NVMe DAE using 2.5" dual-ported NVMe flash drives; NVMe storage class memory (SCM) drives using dual-port Intel Optane technology also supported2Dual-ported native NVMe flash drives with two independent I/O channels and automatic failover fault isolation. Up to two consecutive compatible drive capacities are supported per storage resource pool2

Environment Support4

Mixed open systems, mainframe, IBM i, block and file1Open systems only1Open systems, mainframe, file and virtualised storage consolidation1Open systems, mainframe, file and virtualised storage consolidation; supports IBM mainframe environments with 32Gb FICON1

Footprint2

Two Bricks fit within half of a standard 19-inch rack; third-party rack support available1Up to four Bricks in a single cabinet and up to eight Bricks across two floor tiles1

Front-End Ports2

Up to 256 per system across open systems and mainframe1Up to 64 per system1

Host Connectivity2

Fibre Channel, FC-NVMe (NVMe over Fabrics) at 32Gb, iSCSI; embedded NAS available for file storage2Fibre Channel, FC-NVMe, NVMe/TCP, iSCSI; 32Gb FICON for mainframe workloads2

Integration2

VMware VSI, SRM, VAAI and VASA, vRO plugin; Container Storage Interface (CSI) plugin, Ansible module, Terraform provider, Dell Container Storage Modules2VMware VSI, SRM, VAAI and VASA; Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver; Ansible and Kubernetes integrations2

Interconnect1

Dynamic Fabric architecture with NVMe/RDMA over 100Gb/s InfiniBand — 100 Gbps per port2

Management2

PowerMax Unisphere Manager GUI, CLI, REST API, Dell AIOps, Proactive Assist, Quality of Service via Host I/O Limits, syslog support, iPDU power consumption dashboard2Unisphere for PowerMax, CLI and REST API; real-time machine learning for automated data placement across SCM and NVMe flash2

Maximum Capacity2

Up to 4PBe per system of PCIe Gen3 NVMe storage across two racks; up to 4.5PBe usable with global inline compression and deduplication enabled1Up to approximately 1PBe per system; up to 1.2PBe usable with global inline compression and deduplication enabled1

Maximum Effective Capacity2

Up to 18PBe1Up to 8PBe1

Model Class4

Entry-point mission-critical enterprise NVMe block storage, current generation1Entry-point mission-critical enterprise NVMe block storage, prior generation1High-end mission-critical enterprise NVMe block storage, current generation1High-end mission-critical enterprise NVMe block storage, prior generation1

Note on Upgrades1

The PowerMax 2000 and 8000 are the prior generation, superseded by the PowerMax 2500 and 8500. A PowerMax 2000 cannot be upgraded data-in-place to a PowerMax 80002

Performance2

Up to 15 million IOPS, up to 350GB/s bandwidth, read response times under 100 microseconds; approximately 7.5 million IOPS per rack and 187,000 IOPS per rack unit1Up to 2x faster performance and 50% lower response times compared with the previous generation1

Power1

Intelligent PDUs supplied by default from the PowerMax 10.1 release, providing real-time telemetry and monitoring of power, voltage, current, external temperature and humidity2

Processors3

Intel Xeon Scalable processors22x 12-core 2.5GHz Intel processors per Brick, yielding 48 cores per Brick12x 18-core 2.8GHz Intel processors per Brick, yielding 72 cores per Brick1

RAID1

Flexible RAID supporting RAID 1, 5 and 6, with capacity growth in increments of a single drive; high-efficiency RAID up to 92% efficient2

Scalability4

1 to 2 PowerBricks per system11 to 2 node pairs per system11 to 8 Bricks or zBricks per system11 to 8 node pairs per system (up to 16 compute nodes)1

Security1

US Department of Defense Approved Products List, STIG hardening, Common Criteria, FIPS 140-3 for data-at-rest encryption on TLC drives (optional), KMIP-compliant external key manager, IPv6 USGv6-R1 certification, immutable hardware root of trust, Secure Boot chain of trust, digitally signed firmware, multi-factor authentication via RSA SecurID and YubiKey, SSO via Entra ID/Okta/PingFederate, TLS 1.32

Software1

All software required to store data and manage the system is included with each PowerMax purchase2

Software Packages1

Available with the Essentials package or the application-rich Pro package; all software required to store data and manage the system is included2

System Bay Dispersion1

Individual or contiguous groups of system bays can be separated by up to 82 feet (25 metres) from System Bay 1 — applicable to the PowerMax 8000 only1

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