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Dell PowerScale storage platforms, powered by the Dell PowerScale OneFS operating system, provide a powerful and simple scale-out storage architecture to speed up access to massive amounts of unstructured data. Powered by the OneFS 9.x operating system, the all-flash PowerScale platforms are available in these product lines:
Recent additions to the all-flash storage platform include the PowerScale F910, F710, and F210.
The PowerScale Hybrid NAS platforms are highly flexible and strike a balance between large capacity and high-performance storage to provide support for a broad range of enterprise file workloads.
PowerScale archive platforms provide the lowest cost approach to support both active and cold archives.
The PowerScale accelerator nodes include the PowerScale P100 performance accelerator and the PowerScale B100 backup accelerator. Both accelerator types offer a simple and flexible solution to provide incremental performance for specific compute-bound workflows and to meet defined backup windows.
The following table details the PowerScale Ethernet back-end connection options:
Back-end card options | PowerScale nodes |
40/100 GbE (QSFP56) | F910, F900, F710, F600, F210, F200 P100, B100 |
40/100 GbE (QSFP28) | F900, F600 H700, H7000 A300, A3000 |
10/25 GbE (SFP28) | F210, F200, F600 H700, H7000 A300, A3000 P100, B100 |
Notes:
The same NIC supports both 25 GbE and 10 GbE for the F210, F200, H700, H7000, A300, A3000, P100, and B100. The same NIC supports both 100 GbE and 40 GbE for the F210, F710, F910, F200, F600, F900, H700, H7000, A300, A3000, P100, and B100. The NIC speed change is achieved by using different transceivers or cables.
Depending on the node type, we recommend using either the 100 GbE or 25 GbE network interface.
The F910, F710, F210, F200, P100, and B100 nodes do not support a 25 GbE back-end connection if they are configured with 100 GbE front-end connectivity.
New-generation PowerScale platforms with different back-end speeds can connect to the same switch with Isilon nodes (Isilon F800, H600, H5600, H500, H400, A200, and A2000) and not see performance issues. Consider the example of a mixed cluster of an archive node (such as A200 or A2000) with 10 GbE on the back end and PowerScale nodes with 40 GbE or 100 GbE on the back end. In such clusters, both node types can connect to a 100 GbE back-end switch without affecting the performance of other nodes on the switch. The 100 GbE back-end switch will provide 100 GbE to the ports servicing the high-performance PowerScale nodes and 10 GbE to the archive or lower performing nodes using breakout cables.