Dell PowerMax 2000, PowerMax 8000 Datasheet

Spec-Sheet

POWERMAX FAMILY

PowerMax 2000 and 8000

The newest enhancements to the PowerMax family of Dell EMC NVMe (

Non-Volatile Memory Express

) arrays raise the bar again for enterprise storage with the addition of the latest technologies to achieve unmatched levels of performance and consolidation for the high value, high demand workloads of today and tomorrow. PowerMax supports 32Gb/s FC-NVMe to deliver on the promise of end-to-end NVMe, along with Storage Class Memory Drives (SCM) powered by dual port Intel® OptaneTM drives used as persistent storage. FC-NVMe and SCM can further reduce system latencies by up to 50%. The PowerMax 2000 and 8000 arrays provide all of the features and proven data services demanded of an enterprise active-active controller array including security, protection, availability, scalability and massive consolidation, now delivered at latencies measured in microseconds, not milliseconds. PowerMax realtime machine learning optimizes storage performance using pattern recognition and automated data placement, without overhead.

The PowerMax family now supports two new exciting features—the first, end-to-end efficient encryption of data from the host to the PowerMax storage media. Efficient encryption utilizes an encryption agent on the host coupled with a hardware-based encryption option on the array that also preserves our data reduction (compression and inline dedupe) capabilities. Designed to be used in tandem with Data at Rest Encryption, this new functionality provides true end to end data security.

Secondly, Cloud Mobility for Dell EMC PowerMax extends PowerMax storage to the public (AWS, Microsoft Azure) and private cloud (Dell EMC ECS). Customers can assign policies to automatically schedule snapshots to the cloud of their choice for long term retention. The snapshots can be browsed via a catalog and recovered to the PowerMax or to Amazon block storage.

A single PowerMax Brick is architected to provide six-nines (99.9999%) of Availability in the most demanding, mission-critical environments. Utilizing the powerful family of Intel® Xeon® E5 processors, the PowerMax 2000 and 8000 support both global, inline compression and deduplication for at least a 50% gain in data efficiency over the previous generation of arrays.

The PowerMax 2000 can fit its two available Bricks in half of a standard 19” rack, while the PowerMax 8000 redefines space efficiency more than doubling compute density by housing up to four Bricks in a single cabinet, and up to eight Bricks in just two floor tiles. PowerMax arrays come fully pre-configured out of the factory to significantly shorten the time to first I/O. Depending on the model, PowerMax arrays can support Open, Mainframe, IBM i, File, and mixed environments, all on the same array.

Specifications Appliance-based packaging

PowerMax storage building blocks are defined by appliance-based entities called Bricks (or zBricks for Mainframe). Each Brick includes an engine with two PowerMax directors, packaged software, cache, and 24-slot Drive Array Enclosures. PowerMax arrays are available in two new software packages, the

standard “Essentials” package and the application rich “Pro” package, which makes ordering easy.

Additional NVMe drive capacity can be added to each Brick or zBrick via Flash capacity packs for up to a total usable capacity of 1.2 PBe on the PowerMax 2000 and up to 4.5 PBe on the PowerMax 8000 (with global, inline compression and deduplication enabled).

Detailed specifications and a comparison of the PowerMax 2000 and 8000 arrays follow:

PowerMax

Arrays

Array family

PowerMax 2000

PowerMax 8000

Bricks/zBricks

Number of Bricks or zBricks5

1 to 2

1 to 8

ENGINE ENCLOSURE

CPU

Intel Xeon E5-2650-v4

2.5 GHz 12 core4

Intel Xeon E5-2697-v4

2.8 GHz 18 core4

# CORES PER CPU/PER ENGINE/PER SYSTEM

12/48/96

18/72/576

DYNAMIC VIRTUAL MATRIX INTERCONNECT

Direct Connect InfiniBand 56 Gbps per port

InfiniBand Dual Redundant Fabric: 56 Gbps per port

CACHE

CACHE-SYSTEM MIN (RAW)

512 GB

1,024 GB

CACHE-SYSTEM MAX (RAW)

4 TB (with 2,048 GB engine)

16 TB (with 2,048 GB engine)

CACHE-PER ENGINE OPTIONS

512 GB, 1 TB, and 2 TB

1 TB, 2 TB

VAULT

VAULT STRATEGY

Vault to Flash

VAULT IMPLEMENTATION

2 to 4 NVMe Flash SLICs / Engine

4 to 8 NVMe Flash SLICs / Engine

FRONT END I/O MODULES

MAXIMUM FRONT-END I/O MODULES/BRICK

FRONT-END I/O MODULES AND PROTOCOLS SUPPORTED

4 x 32 Gbs (FC,SRDF) 4 x 32 Gbs (FC-NVMe) 4 x 16 Gbs (FC, SRDF) 10 GbE: 4 x 10 GbE (iSCSI, SRDF) 25 GbE: 4 x 25 GbE (iSCSI, SRDF)

4 x 32 Gbs (FC, SRDF) 4 x 32 Gbs (FC-NVMe) 4 x 16 Gbs (FC, SRDF) 10 GbE: 4 x 10 GbE (iSCSI, SRDF) 25 GbE: 4 x 25 GbE (iSCSI, SRDF) 4 x 16 Gbs (FICON)

eNAS I/O MODULES

MAX eNAS I/O MODULES/ SOFTWARE DATA MOVER

eNAS I/O MODULES SUPPORTED

10 GbE: 2 x 10 GbE Optical 10 GbE: 2 x 10 GbE Cu1 8 Gbs: 4 x 8 Gbs FC (Tape BU) 2

10 GbE: 2 x 10 GbE Optical 10 GbE: 2 x 10 GbE Cu1

8 Gbs: 4 x 8 Gbs FC (Tape BU)2 eNAS SOFTWARE DATA MOVERS

MAX SOFTWARE DATA MOVERS

4 (3 Active + 1 Standby - 4 Data Movers requires minimum 2 Bricks)

8 (7 Active and 1 Standby - 8 Data Movers requires minimum 4 Bricks)3

MAX NAS CAPACITY/ARRAY (TERABYTES USABLE)

1158 (cache limited)

3584

END-TO-END EFFICIENT ENCRYPTION MODULES

REQUIRED TO SUPPORT END-TO-END EFFICIENT ENCRYPTION

2 per Brick – Maximum 4 per Array8

2 per Brick – Maximum 16 per Array8

CLOUD MOBILITY FOR DELL EMC POWERMAX MODULES

REQUIRED TO SUPPORT CLOUD MOBILITY

10GbE: 4 x 10GbE – 1 SLiC dedicated to a single director9

Quantity one (1) 2 x 10 GbE Optical module is the default choice/Data Mover.

Used to support NDMP Tape Backup.

Support for 8 Data Movers on the PowerMax 8000 is available by request.

CPUs run continuously in Turbo Mode except at significantly elevated ambient temperatures.

zBricks applicable to PowerMax 8000 only.

Two eNAS I/O modules/Datamover standard. Three can be supported depending on configuration via RPQ.

When born as a multi-engine system. A system born as single engine system is limited to 6 I/O modules per engine

End-to-end efficient encryption requires a single efficient data encryption module on each PowerBrick director in the array, and Data at Rest

Encryption (D@RE) must be enabled. Efficient data encryption modules consume a Front End SLiC slot on each director.

Cloud Mobility requires a single 4 x 10GbE SLiC on one director of one engine in the array.

Array family

PowerMax 2000

PowerMax 8000

CAPACITY, DRIVES

Max Capacity per Array (Open)1

1.2 PBe

4.5 PBe

Base Capacity per Brick (NAND, Open)

13.2 TBu3

54.0 TBu

Base Capacity per Brick (SCM, Open)

21.0 TBu5

Base Capacity per zBrick (NAND, Mainframe)

N/A

13.2 TBu

Base Capacity per zBrick (SCM, Mainframe)

N/A

21.0 TBu5

Incremental Flash Capacity Packs (NAND)

13.2 TBu

3,7

13.2 TBu7

Incremental Flash Capacity Packs (SCM)

5.25 TBu6

5.25 TBu

Max Drives per Brick

44 Usable + spare(s)

32 Usable + spare(s)

Max Drives per Array

288

Max Drives per System Bay

96/1922

144

Min Drive Count per Brick

4 + 1 Spare

8 + 1 spare

NVMe DRIVES

NVMe Drives Supported (2.5”)

1.92 TB, 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB, 15.36 TB

SCM DRIVES

SCM Drives Supported (2.5”)

750 GB, 1.5 TB

BE Interface

NVMe over PCIe

RAID Options Supported

RAID 5(7+1) (default) RAID 5(3+1) RAID 6(6+2) RAID1

RAID 5(7 +1) (default) RAID 6(6+2) RAID1

Mixed RAID Group Support

Support for Mixed Drive Capacities

Yes4

NVMe DRIVE ARRAY ENCLOSURE

24 x 2.5” Drive DAE

Yes

CABINET CONFIGURATIONS

Standard 19" bays

Yes

Single Brick System Bay Configuration

No - (Packaging based on Dual Bricks, but initial Brick in each System Bay supported)

No - (Packaging based on Quad Bricks, but initial Brick in each System Bay supported)

Dual/Quad Brick System Bay Configuration

Dual

Quad

Third Party Rack Mount Option

Yes

DISPERSION

Standard and 3rd Party Cabinets

N/A - single floor tile system

Yes

PRE-CONFIGURATION FROM FACTORY

100% Thin Provisioned

Yes

HOST SUPPORT

Open Systems

Yes

Mainframe

Yes

Mixed Mainframe and Open

Yes

POWER OPTIONS

Input Power Options

Single or Three Phase Delta or Wye

Max capacity per array based on over provisioning ratio of 1.0 for a NAND or Mixed SCM/NAND based array. All SCM arrays will have lower

maximum capacities.

192 drives can be supported in a single cabinet when two systems are packaged in the same rack.

13.2TBu Brick and Flash capacity pack usable capacities are based on RAID 5 (7+1). 11.3TBu base capacity and Flash capacity pack increments

possible with RAID 5(3+1) on PowerMax 2000.

Up to two consecutive drive capacities supported, e.g. 1.92TB and 3.84TB

Base capacities associated with the selection of an SCM only system, after which you are constrained to SCM only additional capacity. Available

only with RAID 5(7+1), 1TB cache engines, and the PRO package.

SCM incremental capacity packs based on RAID 5(7+1). 2.25 TBu incremental is possible with RAID 5(3+1) on PowerMax 2000.

Incremental capacity packs under RAID1 are 15.0TBu minimum.

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