Dell PowerStore 7000X EMC PowerStore Release Notes for PowerStore OS Version 1 - Page 4

Product Description Product Description The ground-breaking Dell EMC PowerStore achieves new levels of operational simplicity and agility, utilizing a containerbased 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. Highlighted features include: • Brand new built from scratch all NMve Platform: o All NVMe o Active-Active architecture o Container based PowerStoreOS o Block, File, and vVols o NVMe Flash and Storage Class Memory (SCM) media support o 25 Gbe iSCSI and 32Gb FC support o Compact 2U starting form factorEnterprise Data Services & Leading Data Reduction: o Inline dedupe and compression o Native async replication o Snapshots and space efficient thin clones • Enterprise Data Services & Data Reduction: o Inline dedupe and compression o Native async replication o Snapshots and space efficient thin clones o Advanced drive failure protection and sparing technology • Simple and intelligent Management & Serviceability: o Embedded management o Built in AI for simple, autonomous storage administration and proactive health analytics o CloudIQ o VM Visibility o New Anytime Upgrade Program o Integration with automation framework • Flexible & Granular Scalability: o Scale Up in single drive increments, up to 2.8 PBe per appliance o Scale Out to 4 appliances, up to 11.3 PBe per cluster o Scale Down • VMware: o VMware vVols 2.0/VASA 3.0 support o New AppsOn hypervisor-based deployment, allowing to run Virtual Machines on the same appliance as storage without the need for an external server 4 Dell EMC PowerStore Release Notes