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PowerScale delivers trusted performance and cutting-edge innovation to move AI from pilot to production – fast. Built to handle what's next and proven in what's now, it feeds your models, powers models, automates pipelines, and integrates seamlessly across the Dell AI Data Factory and AI stacks to deliver transformative results – without compromise.
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FAQs
What business problems does Dell PowerScale solve for unstructured data growth?
Dell PowerScale is engineered to solve the challenges of massive unstructured data growth, especially for modern workloads like AI, analytics, and digital media. It provides a simple, scalable, and efficient platform to manage petabytes of file and object data within a single namespace.
Which all-flash node should I choose: F210, F710, or F910?
Choosing the right all-flash node depends on your specific performance and density requirements. F210 is an ideal entry point for all-flash performance and efficiency, F710 is ideal for high-performance AI and GPU-intensive workloads, and F910 provides the highest performance and density for the most demanding enterprise applications and large-scale data analytics.
How does PowerScale integrate with AI/ML pipelines?
PowerScale is designed to accelerate AI and machine learning pipelines by delivering the massive throughput and low-latency parallel file access that these workloads require. Its scale-out architecture ensures that performance grows as your datasets expand.
Can PowerScale tier cold data to the cloud?
Yes, PowerScale can automatically tier inactive or "cold" data to a variety of public and private cloud targets. This is managed through the CloudPools policy engine, which allows you to define rules based on file age, access time, or other attributes.
How is cluster resilience maintained during a failure?
Cluster resilience is a core strength of the OneFS operating system. PowerScale uses software-defined erasure coding to protect data by distributing it along with parity information across multiple nodes and drives. If a drive or even an entire node fails, the data remains fully accessible. The system automatically rebuilds the protected data onto available space in the cluster, with rebuild times optimized on high-performance NVMe SSDs to quickly restore full redundancy without impacting operations.
What security controls are available for regulated environments?
PowerScale provides a multi-layered security framework to protect data in regulated industries. Key features include Data-at-Rest Encryption (D@RE), Snapshot Immutability (WORM), Compliance and Hardening, and Cybersecurity Suite.
What is Dell PowerScale?
Dell PowerScale represents our flagship scale-out file and object storage solution. It is designed to help organizations manage, protect, and unlock value from their unstructured data, no matter where it resides.
How do Dell PowerStore and PowerScale compare?
Dell PowerStore and Dell PowerScale are both powerful storage solutions, but they are engineered for different data types and workloads. PowerStore is your go-to for application-centric, structured data, while PowerScale provides the performance and massive capacity needed to manage the growth of unstructured data.
Is the Isilon product line still available?
Yes, in the sense that Dell PowerScale is the direct successor to the Isilon product line and is fully backward-compatible. While new hardware is sold under the PowerScale brand, Dell remains committed to supporting existing Isilon customers. A key benefit of the OneFS operating system is the ability to add new PowerScale nodes to an existing Isilon cluster non-disruptively. This provides a seamless path to modernize your infrastructure, protect your investment, and gain the latest performance and efficiency benefits without a forklift upgrade.