Storage array
Storage array
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The PowerStore 500 model was added to the PowerStore portfolio with the PowerStoreOS 2.0 release. The PowerStore 500 provides a lower-cost entry point and provides customers with additional options when determining the optimal storage design in a smaller environment. Branch office or similar edge computing scenarios are ideal use cases for the PowerStore 500. The PowerStore 500 provides excellent performance and functionality with advanced capabilities with a breadth of features and monitoring to serve the needs of a broad spectrum of customers.
PowerStore supports many front-end connectivity options to support a wide variety of environments and workloads. The PowerStore 500 model used is in this testing is configured as shown here.
- Dual controller nodes (node A and node B) for load balancing, fault tolerance, and high availability
- 25 flash based NVMe drives
- Dynamic Resiliency Engine (DRE) for optimized disk performance and fault tolerance
- Two 25Gb Ethernet ports on each node are configured for NAS
- Two 25Gb Ethernet ports on each node are configured for iSCSI
Figure 3. PowerStore 500 model hardware front and rear views