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In recent years, the requirement for I/O performance has grown dramatically with the increasing demand for traditional HPC I/O bandwidth, random IOPs and metadata performance. PixStor leverages the Spectrum Scale/GPFS filesystem, with additional software from ArcaStream for simplified administration, expanded multi-tier connectivity in a single namespace, components monitoring and advanced search capabilities. This document presents latest generation of PowerEdge servers and PowerVault storage arrays with PixStor 6.0 software to offer high capacity, high availability and high performance that can be tailored to meet HPC storage needs.