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PowerScale is the next evolution of OneFS – the operating system powering the industry’s leading scale-out NAS platform that enables you to innovate with your data. The PowerScale family includes Dell PowerScale platforms and the Dell Isilon platforms configured with the PowerScale OneFS operating system. OneFS provides the intelligence behind the highly scalable, high-performance modular storage solution that can grow with your business. A OneFS powered cluster is composed of a flexible choice of storage platforms including all-flash, hybrid, and archive nodes. These solutions provide the performance, choice, efficiency, flexibility, scalability, security, and protection for you to store massive amounts of unstructured data within a cluster. The PowerScale all-flash platforms co-exist seamlessly in the same cluster with your existing Isilon nodes to drive your traditional and modern applications. Powered by the OneFS operating system that supports NFS Over Remote Direct Memory Access (NFSoRDMA), the platforms are available in several product lines. For more details about PowerScale product lines, see the official PowerScale Family website.
During these tests, we have used PowerScale F900 platforms. With new NVMe drives, the F900 provides larger capacity with massive performance to power the most demanding workloads. Each node allows you to scale raw storage capacity from 46 TB to 368 TB per node and up to 93 PB of raw storage per cluster. The F900 includes inline software data compression and deduplication. The minimum number of nodes per cluster is three while the maximum cluster size is 252 nodes.