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At its launch in 2018, the PowerMax family consisted of two models, the PowerMax 2000 and the PowerMax 8000. The PowerMax 2000 was designed to provide Dell Technologies customers with efficiency and maximum flexibility in a 20U footprint. The PowerMax 8000 was designed for massive scale, performance, and IOPS density all within a one or two-floor-tile footprint.
The PowerMax 2000 and 8000 have at their foundation the trusted Dynamic Virtual Matrix architecture and internal system software, specifically written for the NVMe platform, called PowerMaxOS 5978. PowerMaxOS 5978 continues to provide industry-leading high availability, I/O management, quality of service, data integrity validation, data movement, and data security within an open application platform. PowerMaxOS uses a real-time, non-disruptive storage hypervisor that manages and protects embedded services by extending high availability to services that traditionally would have run external to the array.