Dell PowerScale User Manual

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Dell EMC PowerScale

At-a-Glance

PowerScale brings the strength of Dell Technologies to the world’s leading scale-out NAS platform to provide a foundation for next generation unstructured data management. Dell EMC PowerScale and Isilon nodes - powered by the PowerScale OneFS operating system - form the ideal platform to store, manage, secure, protect and analyze unstructured data efficiently while supporting a wide range of applications and workloads.

Key advantages include:

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Simplicity at scale: Unlock the potential within your unstructured data using a solution that provides a single file system, single

volume namespace that scales to PBs of capacity

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Extreme performance: Support your most demanding file workloads with solutions that deliver up to 15.8 million IOPS and up to

945 GB/s aggregate throughput on a single cluster. New PowerScale F600 nodes with full NVMe support delivers massive performance in a compact form factor

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Highly efficient: OneFS delivers up to 80% storage utilization for maximum storage efficiency. Data deduplication can further

reduce storage requirements by up to 30% and in-line data compression on the F200, F600, F810 all-flash platforms and the H5600 hybrid platform can reduce the space consumed

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Any data, anywhere: Support a wide range of data types and diverse workloads with built-in multi-protocol capabilities including

NFS, SMB, HDFS, S3, HTTP and FTP protocols. Store data anywhere – at the edge, in the datacenter or in the cloud

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Optimized data placement: Optimize resources with policy-based, automated storage tiering to move data automatically to lower

cost tiers, including public and private cloud storage with a choice of cloud providers

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Enterprise data protection: OneFS powered storage platforms are highly resilient with up to N+4 redundancy and offer proven

enterprise-grade back-up and disaster recovery options

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Robust security options: RBAC, Access Zones, SEC 17a-4 WORM compliance, File System Auditing, File blocking, SMB3

encryption, Data At Rest Encryption (DARE) with SEDs, STIG hardening, Multi-factor authentication, HDFS transparent data encryption and FIPS 140-2 validation

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Powerful big data analytics: Maximize data capital with in-place analytics that seamlessly integrate with leading vendors like

Pivotal, Cloudera, Hortonworks and Splunk to drive workloads in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning or Deep Learning

PowerScale OneFS operating system

The OneFS operating system provides the intelligence behind the scale-out storage systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager and data protection—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. OneFS is a single file system, single volume architecture, which makes it extremely easy to manage, regardless of the number of nodes in your cluster. The storage systems powered by OneFS are simple to install, manage and scale.

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Dell EMC PowerScale and Isilon nodes

Attribute

PowerScale F200, F600

Isilon F800, F810

Isilon H600

Isilon H5600

Isilon H500, H400

Isilon A200

Isilon A2000

Rack Units

4 nodes in 4U

Nodes per Chassis

N/A 4 4 4 4 4 4

Per Node Capacity

F200: 3.84 –

30.72 TB F600: 15.36 –

122.8 TB

F800: 24 231 TB

F810: 57.5 231 TB

18 - 36 TB

200 - 320 TB

30 - 180 TB

30 - 240 TB

200 - 320TB

Storage Media per node

F200: 4 SSDs

F600: 8 NVMe SSDs

15 SSDs

30 SAS drives

20 SATA drives

15 SATA drives

20 SATA drives

Storage Media Capacity Options

F200: 960 GB, 1.92 TB,

3.84 TB, 7.68 TB SSDs

F600: 1.92 TB, 3.84 TB,

7.68 TB,

15.36 TB NVMe SSDs

3.84 TB, 7.68 TB or 15.36 TB SSDs

600 GB or

1.2 TB SAS drives

10 TB, 12 TB or 16 TB SATA drives

2 TB, 4 TB, 8 TB or 12 TB SATA drive

2 TB, 4 TB, 8 TB, 12 TB or 16 TB SATA drives

10 TB, 12 TB or 16 TB SATA drives

ECC Memory per Node

F200: 48 or 96 GB

F600: 128 GB, 192 GB or 384 GB

256 GB

H400: 64 GB H500: 128

16 GB

PowerScale OneFS version

OneFS 9 and above

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