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PowerStoreOS 4.0 extends Metro Volume migration, disaster avoidance, and load-balancing solution options to Windows Server and Hyper-V environments. Participating PowerStore clusters must be local (in the same building or data center) or within metro distance.
Metro Volume provides many benefits to Microsoft environments:
Metro Volume supports:
Note: PowerStore does not support Metro Volumes configured as boot-from-SAN (BfS) disks or virtual Fibre Channel (vFC) disks.
Note: The supported list of operating systems changes over time. For the most current information, refer to the Dell PowerStore Simple Support Matrix on Dell.com/powerstoredocs.