Dell upgrades PowerStore {hardware}, software program

Dell is detailing {hardware} and software program updates to its midrange unified file and block PowerStore storage structure.

The upgrades come two years after Dell launched the PowerStore platform, which it claims has seen 12,000 deployments in that point. That’s a fairly good exhibiting contemplating it competes with NetApp, HPE, Hitachi Vantara, IBM, and Pure Storage within the block storage market.

Shannon Champion, product advertising and marketing lead for Dell Applied sciences in converged infrastructure and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), detailed the upgrades in a weblog publish. 

The Gen 2 platform refresh is kind of an improve over the older {hardware}. Now utilizing Cascade Lake-era Intel processors, the brand new PowerStore techniques include as much as 50% extra IOPS for combined workloads, as much as 70% quicker writes, and as much as 10 instances enchancment in copy operations. Most capability is up 66% to greater than 18 PBe per cluster, due to a 24-bay, 2U rack NVMe growth chassis, with assist for as much as eight instances extra volumes per equipment.

Additionally, PowerStore helps 100Gb NVMe/TCP deployment by Dell’s SmartFabric Storage Software program, which automates deployment and connectivity of SAN materials. Organizations with out Fibre Channel infrastructure can now join PowerStore to NVMe/TCP networks, which Dell says can ship as much as 73% higher efficiency at 50% decrease value per port.

On the software program entrance, PowerStoreOS 3.0 delivers greater than 120 new options and extra new capabilities than the unique 2020 launch, in keeping with Champion. It provides native file, VMware digital volumes (vVols), and metro space synchronous replication to the prevailing asynchronous block replication to guard any workload (block, vVols or file) inside the PowerStore surroundings. (Metro quantity synchronous replication permits enterprises to create a shared storage surroundings throughout a metro space distance, in keeping with Dell.) 

PowerStoreOS 3.0 additionally considerably updates VMware integration with end-to-end VMware visibility inside the PowerStore Supervisor GUI, plus the flexibility to provision VM-level PowerStore companies, comparable to snapshots and replication, straight from vSphere.

On the safety entrance, PowerStore 3.0 provides {Hardware} Root of Belief and Safe Boot, due to the brand new Xeon chips, for silicon-based safety in opposition to malware tampering. It additionally permits third-party key supervisor assist, end-to-end FIPS 140-2 compliance, and CEPA-enabled ransomware detection.

Dell says PowerStore Gen 1 clients who enrolled in Dell’s Anytime Improve program will get the Gen 2 {hardware} improve, 3.0 software program, and the ProDeploy deployment companies – which presents fast deployment and configuration of consumer techniques – at no extra value.