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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 new OneFS 9.5 operating system that supports NFS Over Remote Direct Memory Access (NFSoRDMA), the platforms are available in several product lines.
During these tests, PowerScale F600 performance node platforms were used. With new NVMe drives, increased memory, and upgraded Intel Gold 6248R processors, the F600 provides larger capacity with massive performance, in a cost-effective compact form factor, to power the most demanding workloads. Each node allows you to scale raw storage capacity from 15.36 TB to 122.8 TB per node and up to 30.96 PB of raw storage per cluster. The F600 includes inline software data compression and deduplication. The minimum number of nodes per cluster is three while the maximum cluster size is 252 nodes.