Dell PowerStore Planning Guide

Appliances

A PowerStore appliance is a preconfigured infrastructure component that has both storage and compute resources. An appliance consists of:

• Base enclosure – Holds up to 25 drives (minimum of six drives) and includes two nodes for high availability with data protection that is implemented across the nodes.
• Expansion enclosures – Enable you to add more drives and increase the storage capacity for the appliance. You can add up to three expansion enclosures.
  • The PowerStore 500T supports the NVMe expansion enclosure.
  • All other PowerStore models support the NVMe expansion enclosure or the SAS expansion enclosure.
  NOTE: Mixing NVMe expansion enclosures and SAS expansion enclosures in the same appliance is not supported.

Go to Hardware > Appliances to review the overall health of the appliances in the cluster and collect support materials for the appliances for troubleshooting issues.

Click the appliance name to launch the Appliance details page where you can review the metrics, alerts, and health information of the appliance and its components. Use the More Actions options on the details page to collect support materials for the appliance for resolving minor issues.