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PowerStore achieves new levels of operational simplicity and agility. It uses a container-based microservices architecture, advanced storage technologies, and integrated machine learning to unlock the power of your data. A versatile platform with a performance-centric design, PowerStore delivers multidimensional scale, always-on data reduction, and support for next-generation media.
PowerStore brings the simplicity of public cloud to on-premises infrastructure, streamlining operations with an integrated machine-learning engine and seamless automation. It offers predictive analytics to easily monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot the environment. PowerStore is highly adaptable, providing the flexibility to host specialized workloads directly on the appliance and modernize infrastructure without disruption. It also offers investment protection through flexible payment solutions and data-in-place upgrades.
Besides the traditional consumption option, many PowerStore models make up the underlying storage infrastructure for Dell APEX Data Storage Services. This allows customers to use a PowerStore solution in an as-a-Service model for ultimate simplicity and agility.
The PowerStore platform is a bare-metal unified storage array that can service block, file, and vVol resources along with numerous data services and efficiencies. PowerStore is perfect for traditional and modern workloads, including relational databases, electronic medical record applications, content repositories, and many more.
Metro node is an external hardware and software add-on feature for PowerStore, and it provides active/active synchronous replication plus standard local use cases. It also provides a solution locally with the local mirror feature to protect data from a potential array failure. Both use cases provide solutions for true continuous availability with zero downtime.
PowerStore is viewed by metro node as an Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) array based on SCSI response data, and is required to follow the four-active, four-passive path connectivity rules. This rule states that both nodes of the metro node must each have four active and four passive paths to all volumes provisioned from the array.
In PowerStoreOS 3.0, PowerStore appliances now support native metro volume replication. This provides synchronous replication of spanned block storage volumes in an active/active configuration across two PowerStore clusters in metro distance for VMFS datastores. For more information about Metro Volume support, see the white paper Dell PowerStore: Metro Volume on the Dell Technologies PowerStore Info Hub.