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The new PowerMax 2500 and 8500 storage systems with PowerMaxOS 10 feature some of the most advanced performance, data protection, data reduction, and data mobility servicing enterprise workloads and applications. The new PowerMax systems come with large DRAM for user data and persistent memory for metadata, end-to-end NVMe, 100 Gbit RDMA fabric, real-time machine learning, 64-bit native file services, seamless cloud mobility, and ability to deliver millions of IOPS at submillisecond latency.
PowerMax systems use a multinode, active/active scale-out architecture, hardware-assisted inline deduplication and compression, high security with RBAC, and self-encrypting drives. It is a gold standard in remote replication, including sync, async, and active/active (metro) protection. In addition, PowerMax snapshot and clone technology offers incredible scale and speed to protect databases and create or restore copies in seconds.
SQL Server deployments on PowerMax storage benefit from many of the PowerMax features, including high performance and low latencies, data reduction using compression and deduplication, shared storage for Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC), High-Availability with SRDF/Metro, Offline Data Transfer (ODX) for faster data copies, native file services, and local and remote replications.