Top Reasons
TOP REASONS
WHY CUSTOMERS CHOOSE
DELL POWERSTORE
PowerStore is intelligent storage that adapts to any future. Simplify IT operations for the long term with a continuously modern platform
that evolves with your needs, helping you stay ahead of your competition in a rapidly changing world.
1 | Software-driven design
PowerStore is a “software first” storage architecture built from the ground up to deliver advanced storage services for today’s
diverse and distributed workload environments. Based on a containerized micro-services platform, the PowerStore operating
system is modular and agile, allowing Dell to deliver new capabilities at an unprecedented pace, without disruption.
2 | Adaptable architecture
Designed to accommodate change, PowerStore helps you do more with your solution over time, adapting physically and
operationally with your needs. With granular scale-up and scale-out expansion to over 18 PBe capacity per cluster,1 unified
block, vVols and enterprise file services, plus diverse deployment models for edge, core, metro and cloud, PowerStore has the
scope to ensure the solution you deploy today will continue to meet your needs in the future. No matter where your data resides
or how you use it, PowerStore gives you plenty of headroom to adjust your strategy as you go.
3 | Built-in intelligence
Better still, PowerStore’s built-in AI and Machine Learning makes change easy, so what starts simple, stays simple. Self-
optimizing processes auto-tune efficiency, performance and availability without manual intervention – even as you make rapid
course corrections. All storage services are configured and maintained automatically, and PowerStore software enhances
performance and utilization across your scale-out cluster, continually monitoring the environment to recommend and automate
load balancing changes for up to a 99% reduction in management effort.2
4 | Predictive analytics
When you do need to make decisions, PowerStore helps you move forward quickly with intelligent analysis and connected
insights across multiple infrastructure categories – including servers, storage, networking and cloud. PowerStore’s AIOps
application, CloudIQ, helps resolve issues up to 3x faster,3 reduces risk, improves staff productivity and forecasts future needs.
5 | Programmable infrastructure
Deep integrations with leading DevOps, containerization and open management frameworks simplify and streamline your overall
ecosystem. By automating PowerStore functions within VMware, Kubernetes, Ansible and other frameworks, administrators can
deploy new services in seconds vs. days.4 Integrations include new Container Storage Modules (CSMs), Ansible playbooks,
PowerStore provisioning from vSphere and end-to-end visibility from PowerStore Manager.
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6 | AppsON
PowerStore is the industry’s only purpose-built storage appliance with a built-in ESXi hypervisor.5 This allows users to run
workloads directly on the appliance while simultaneously providing scalable capacity and services for workloads on external
hosts. Ideal for storage-intensive edge or remote deployments, AppsON offers consolidation, unmatched application agility and
a common control plane for PowerStore and VMware hosts, including HCI devices such as Dell’s VxRail products.
7 | Advanced data protection and security
PowerStore safeguards your business-critical applications and data from both environmental corruption and loss and malicious
threats. High availability begins with active/active design, software-based Dynamic Resiliency Engine, native async replication
for block, file and vVols, and native active/active metro sync replication with HA failover. Cybersecurity is built into PowerStore’s
DNA with a holistic development NIST framework approach, ranging from role-based access control to FIPS 140-2 compliant
data-at-rest encryption, HWRoT (secure boot), File Level Retention (FLR) and support for third-party monitoring apps.
8 | Cost-effective multi-cloud
PowerStore helps transform your on-premises infrastructure into hybrid cloud solutions while maintaining operational
consistency. Deployment options include AppsON-based application and data mobility to VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure and
Google, Cloud Data Services combining a fully-managed PowerStore environment with flexible multi-cloud access, and Dell
Cloud Tier, giving you secure encrypted cloud backup with up to 65:1 data reduction.6 Coming soon, a future release will allow
PowerStore services to run directly in the cloud, enabling seamless hybrid as well as cloud-only deployments.
9 | Non-stop NVMe innovation
PowerStore is engineered to take full advantage of the latest developments in storage, interface and network technologies
– incorporating new technology as it becomes available. PowerStore now extends the benefits of low latency performance
with end-to-end NVMe throughout the appliance, as well as across FC and IP networks (including vVols-over-NVMe). Dell
SmartFabric, the industry’s first software tool for automating end-to-end NVMe/TCP deployment,7 makes it easy to take
advantage of cost-effective new 100Gb NVMe/TCP PowerStore solutions.
10 | Anytime Upgrade Advantage
Anytime Upgrade, a component of Dell’s overall FutureProof program, makes even PowerStore hardware refreshes feel like
software. By far the smartest way to take advantage of PowerStore’s adaptable architecture, Anytime Upgrade combines the
platform’s standard all-inclusive software subscription with a non-disruptive, data-in-place controller swap to next-gen or higher
model nodes. This upgrade is provided at zero additional cost for enrolled customers, with full deployment services included.
Anytime Upgrade gives you complete confidence your workloads will always be running on the newest and best technology, as
PowerStore delivers the most cloud-like experience you can achieve with on-prem storage.
Endnotes:
1. Assumes 4:1 average data reduction. Actual results may vary.
2. Based on Dell analysis of staff time required to maintain balanced PowerStore cluster vs. traditional multi-array deployment, March 2022. Actual results may vary.
3. Based on a Dell internal survey of Trusted Advisors (Dell Technologies account team and Partners) conducted March 2020, comparing issue resolution with and without CloudIQ. Actual results may vary.
4. Based on Dell analysis of effort required to deploy workloads with and without Ansible and vRO orchestration integrations, March 2022. Actual results may very.
5. Based on Dell analysis of publicly available information on current solutions from mainstream storage vendors, April 2022.
6. Logical capacity based on up to 50x deduplication (DD3300) and typically 65X deduplication (DD6400, 6900, 9400, 9900) based on additional hardware-assisted data compression of typically 30% more logical capacity per TB.
7. Based on Dell analysis comparing NVMe/TCP discovery and registration with PowerMax/PowerStore using SmartFabric Storage Software vs competitive storage solutions, March 2022.
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