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The Dell PowerMax 2500 and 8500 storage systems, with PowerMaxOS 10, offer advanced performance, data protection, reduction, and mobility for enterprise-level workloads and applications. These storage systems feature large DRAM for user data and persistent memory for metadata, end-to-end NVMe, 100 Gbit RDMA fabric, and real-time machine learning. They also provide 64-bit native file services, seamless cloud mobility, and can deliver millions of IOPS at sub-millisecond latency.
PowerMax systems use a multinode, active/active scale-out architecture, along with hardware-assisted inline deduplication and compression, RBAC for high security, and self-encrypting drives. These systems are a gold standard in remote replication, including sync, async, and active/active (metro) protection. In addition, PowerMax snapshot and clone technology offer impressive scale and speed to protect databases and create or restore copies in seconds.
Oracle database deployments on PowerMax storage benefit from many PowerMax features, including: