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Unlike traditional NAS environments, which have many restrictions, Dell PowerScale SnapshotIQ provides an unlimited number of snapshots in a single pool of PowerScale storage. It also supports up to 1,024 snapshots in any single directory. Unique snapshot policies that are set at the cluster, directory, and subdirectory level give you the control to protect exactly what you want.
SnapshotIQ can take snapshots of data in a SmartLock directory. Such files in snapshots can be treated as normal data, or can be copied into a SmartLock directory and committed for retention.