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The following list includes common terms that are used with PowerStore.
Term | Definition |
Appliance | An appliance is a solution containing a PowerStore base enclosure and any attached expansion enclosures. The size of an appliance could be only the base enclosure or the base enclosure plus expansion enclosures. |
Base enclosure | A 2U rackmount chassis containing the two active/active processing nodes (node A and node B) in the back, and 25 NVMe drive slots in the front. |
Cluster | A PowerStore appliance is referred to as a cluster. Up to four appliances can be clustered together. |
Expansion enclosure | A 2U rackmount chassis that can be cabled to a base enclosure to provide an additional 25 drive slots for storage expansion. Expansion is supported with all PowerStore models except the PowerStore 500. |
Node | The component within a base enclosure that contains processors and memory. Each appliance consists of two hot-swappable nodes. Each node has an embedded module that provides management access, front-end connectivity, and ports for storage expansion. |
PowerStoreOS | The PowerStore operating system. |
PowerStore Manager | PowerStore Manager is an HTML5-based UI client for PowerStore configuration, management, and monitoring. |
PowerStore T model | A unified (file and block) or block-optimized (block only) storage configuration option. |
PowerStore X model | A VMware-based hypervisor configuration option. |