In this constantly changing world of increasing complexity and scale, the need for an easy-to-use, intelligent storage system has only grown greater. Organizations that use new applications and solutions require dependable storage and often face the challenge of doing more with less. PowerStore addresses this challenge by packaging a powerful storage system into a cost-efficient and space-efficient profile. Key PowerStore features and benefits include:
- Active/active architecture: PowerStore uses both nodes to serve host I/O and run data operations in an active/active manner. This design efficiently uses all available hardware resources and optimizes performance, cost, and density in data centers.
- NVMe platform: PowerStore is designed to use the latest storage and interface technologies to maximize application performance and eliminate bottlenecks. PowerStore can maximize performance with NVMe flash storage. PowerStore supports front-end NVMe connectivity with NVMe over Fibre Channel and NVMe over TCP, for a complete end-to-end NVMe solution.
- VMware integration: PowerStore is designed to have deep integration with VMware vSphere including VAAI, VASA, event notifications, snapshot management, VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols), and virtual machine discovery and monitoring in PowerStore Manager.
- Unified offering: PowerStore has a single architecture for block, file, and vVols. This architecture uses the latest technologies to provide flexible functionality without sacrificing the cost-effective nature of enterprise storage. PowerStore provides storage in multiple formats to applications, ranging from physical and virtual volumes to containers and traditional files. This ability provides the ultimate workload flexibility and enables IT to simplify and consolidate infrastructure.
- A modern, simple interface: PowerStore Manager, the PowerStore management interface, is built with the data-center administrator in mind. Using browser-native HTML5, PowerStore Manager can be used across various operating systems and web browsers without requiring an external management server or appliance.
- Inline data reduction: Data reduction technologies play a critical role in environments in which storage administrators are attempting to do more with less. PowerStore data reduction supports this effort by optimally reducing the amount of physical storage that is required to save a dataset. PowerStore data reduction provides space savings by using software data deduplication and compression through hardware assist. The storage system always enables and intelligently controls data reduction.
- Native data protection: Security and availability of data are critical concerns for many organizations, and PowerStore storage offers multiple solutions to address this need. Snapshots provide point-in-time copies of block, file, and virtual machine data that can be used for backup and restoration purposes. Synchronous and asynchronous replication offer an IP-based replication strategy between two clusters. Data at Rest Encryption (D@RE) ensures that user data on the system is protected from physical theft and can substitute drive disposal processes, such as shredding.