Dell PowerMax: Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability

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  Overview
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  Revisions
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  We value your feedback

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  Introduction

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  Dell PowerMax system family overview
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  Active-Active Architecture

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  PowerMax engine and director components
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  Channel front-end redundancy
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  Global memory technology overview

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  PowerMax NVMe back end
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  Smart RAID
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  Data Protection Schemes
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  Drive monitoring and error correction
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  Drive sparing
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  Data at Rest Encryption
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  T10 Data Integrity Field
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  End-to-end efficient encryption

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  InfiniBand fabric switch

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  Redundant power subsystem
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  Vaulting
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  Power-down operation
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  Power-up operation

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  Remote support
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  Supportability through the management module control station
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  Secure Service Credential, secured by RSA

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  Component-level serviceability
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  Dell Technologies internal QE testing

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  PowerMaxOS upgrades
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  eNAS upgrades
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  Hardware upgrades

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  Local replication using TimeFinder
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  PowerMaxOS Q3 2020 release SnapVX updates
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  Remote replication using SRDF
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  Application I/O serviced by remote array
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  PowerMaxOS Q3 2020 release SRDF updates

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  Unisphere for PowerMax and Solutions Enabler
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  Unisphere for PowerMax system health check
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  Unisphere alerts
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  Solutions Enabler commands

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  Summary

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  Dell Technologies documentation