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The following table provides a comparison of the various PowerMax products for open- system-critical and mainframe-critical features:
Feature | PowerMax family | |||
2000 | 2500 | 8000 | 8500 | |
Active/active, scale out, scale up architecture | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Disaggregated storage architecture | No | Yes[1] | No | Yes |
ML optimized data reduction | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
64 million snapshots | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SRDF/A MSC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SRDF/Metro SmartDR | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Non-disruptive migration | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Proactive/predictive analytics | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Anytime Upgrades | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Zero trust architecture | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Self-encrypting drives | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Single drive upgrades | No | Yes | No | Yes |
NVMe/TCP support | No | Yes | No | Yes |
64-bit file support | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Mainframe data reduction | N/A[2] | Yes | No | Yes |