Dell PowerStore Planning Guide

Introduction to PowerStore

PowerStore achieves new levels of operational simplicity and agility. It uses a container-based microservices architecture, advanced storage technologies, and integrated machine learning to unlock the power of your data. A versatile platform with a performance-centric design, PowerStore delivers multidimensional scale, always on data reduction, and support for next-generation media.

PowerStore brings the simplicity of public cloud to on-premises infrastructure, streamlining operations with an integrated machine learning engine and seamless automation, while offering predictive analytics to monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot the environment. PowerStore is highly adaptable, providing the flexibility to host specialized workloads directly on the appliance and modernize infrastructure without disruption. It also offers investment protection through flexible payment solutions and data-in-place upgrades.

PowerStore T model appliances (500, 1000, 1200, 3000, 3200, 5000, 5200, 7000, 9000, and 9200) and PowerStore Q model appliances (3200) are storage-centric, and enable you to manage and provision block and file storage to external hosts. During initial configuration, you can choose to configure an appliance for unified (block and file) or block optimized (block-only) storage.

PowerStore 3200Q model appliances are populated with a minimum of 11 large capacity quad-level cell (QLC) SSDs. The supported QLC SSDs are 15 TB in size and have a lower cost per Gigabyte than the triple-level cell (TLC) SSDs used in PowerStore T model appliances.