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PowerMax 2500 with a maximum of 4 PBe that can operate in open systems, mainframe, or mixed environments. This is an NVMe backend array that supports one or two node pairs.
This array must maintain a 1:1 ratio between the number of node pairs and DMEs. Customers can scale out or add a node pair and DME to an existing minimum configuration system with one node pair and one DME. The maximum system configuration is two node pairs and two DMEs.
Processor: Intel® Xeon® Gold 5218 16 Core 2.8GHz Processor in the nodes.
Memory: 2667MHz DDR4 per node pair (48 slots) with up to 24 PMEM slots per node pair.
Boot Drive: The system has a 64G boot drive and an embedded battery to support vault.
Connectivity: The system supports up to 64 FE ports and the system has an integrated service processor.
Management: There are two Management Control stations in node 1.
Interconnect: There is no InfiniBand switch in the PowerMax 2500. It uses 100Gb/s inter-director links with a PCIe (PCI Express) Gen3 NVMe Backend.
Scale: Up to two node pairs per system which supports up to 96 2.5” NVMe SSD drives. Flex RAID supports RAID 1 (mirroring 1+1), RAID 5 4+1, 8+1 and 12+1 and RAID 6 supports 8+2 and 12+2 with one spare per DG (Disk Groups,) for 50 drives and two per 100. Supports up to eight IOMs per node pair.
Vault: Support for vault to flash in the node.
Data Efficiency: The array provides Inline backend compression and deduplication with hardware assist. Data at rest encryption (D@RE) with SEDs (self-encrypting drives).