Release Notes

2 Product Description
Product 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.
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 factor
o Enterprise 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