Dell PowerMax is a mission-critical enterprise storage platform designed for demanding applications that require high levels of security, performance, scalability, and availability.

The PowerMax family combines cyber resilience, intelligent automation, modern scale-out architecture, and improved energy efficiency to support large enterprise workloads and critical data environments.

The PowerMax portfolio covered on this page includes:

• PowerMax 2000
• PowerMax 2500
• PowerMax 8000
• PowerMax 8500

Why Choose Dell PowerMax?

Resilient and Secure

PowerMax is designed to help organizations safeguard critical enterprise data with advanced cybersecurity capabilities focused on prevention, detection, and recovery.

The platform helps accelerate Zero Trust adoption through capabilities including:

• Hardware root-of-trust
• Ransomware anomaly detection
• Granular cyber recovery
• Up to 65 million secure snapshots

These capabilities provide additional protection for mission-critical applications and enterprise data.

Automated Operations

PowerMax helps simplify repetitive storage management tasks through next-generation automation.

Each system includes built-in machine learning for:

• Predictive analytics
• Pattern recognition
• Automated management

This allows organizations to improve operational efficiency while maximizing storage performance without unnecessary management overhead.

Modern Scale-Out Architecture

PowerMax uses a modern scale-out architecture designed to consolidate enterprise workloads at scale.

Organizations can independently add:

• Compute resources
• Media resources

The architecture also integrates NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Unit technology.

Any node within the system fabric can access any flash drive regardless of the drive’s physical location, helping deliver predictable performance as the environment scales.

Improved Energy Efficiency

PowerMax provides improvements across:

• Performance
• Storage density
• Data reduction
• Energy efficiency

The platform can deliver:

• 80% power savings per terabyte

Dell also provides data reduction guarantees of:

• 4:1 for open systems
• 3:1 for mainframe data

on supported PowerMax configurations.

PowerMax 2000

The Dell PowerMax 2000 provides enterprise storage capabilities for block, file, IBM i, and virtualized application environments.

Workload Data Types

The PowerMax 2000 supports:

• Block workloads
• File workloads
• IBM i
• Virtualized applications

Response Time

Response time is:

• Under 100 microseconds

Capacity Per Array

Capacity ranges from:

• 13 TBu to 1.2 PBe

Data Reduction Guarantee

The PowerMax 2000 provides:

• 3.5:1 data reduction for open systems

Scale-Out

The system supports:

• 2 to 4 controllers per array

Devices and Secure Snapshots

Maximum supported scale includes:

• 64K LUNs
• 65 million secure snapshots

PowerMax 2500

The Dell PowerMax 2500 provides higher capacity and faster response times for demanding enterprise workloads.

Workload Data Types

The PowerMax 2500 supports:

• Open systems
• Mainframe
• IBM i
• File workloads
• Virtualized applications

Response Time

Response time is:

• Under 60 microseconds

Capacity Per Array

Capacity ranges from:

• 13 TBu to 8 PBe

Data Reduction Guarantee

The PowerMax 2500 provides:

• 4:1 data reduction for open systems
• 3:1 data reduction for mainframe workloads

Scale-Out

The system supports:

• 2 to 4 nodes per array

Devices and Secure Snapshots

Maximum supported scale includes:

• 64K LUNs
• 65 million secure snapshots

PowerMax 8000

The Dell PowerMax 8000 is designed for large-scale enterprise storage environments requiring substantial capacity and controller scalability.

Workload Data Types

The PowerMax 8000 supports:

• Open systems
• Mainframe
• IBM i
• File workloads
• Virtualized applications

Response Time

Response time is:

• Under 100 microseconds

Capacity Per Array

Capacity ranges from:

• 54 TBu to 4.5 PBe

Data Reduction Guarantee

The PowerMax 8000 provides:

• 3.5:1 data reduction for open systems

Scale-Out

The system supports:

• 2 to 16 controllers per array

Devices and Secure Snapshots

Maximum supported scale includes:

• 64K LUNs
• 65 million secure snapshots

PowerMax 8500

The Dell PowerMax 8500 provides the highest capacity and scale-out range listed within the PowerMax portfolio on the CITS page.

Workload Data Types

The PowerMax 8500 supports:

• Open systems
• Mainframe
• IBM i
• File workloads
• Virtualized applications

Response Time

Response time is:

• Under 60 microseconds

Capacity Per Array

Capacity ranges from:

• 13 TBu to 18 PBe

Data Reduction Guarantee

The PowerMax 8500 provides:

• 4:1 data reduction for open systems
• 3:1 data reduction for mainframe workloads

Scale-Out

The system supports:

• 2 to 16 nodes per array

Devices and Secure Snapshots

Maximum supported scale includes:

• 64K LUNs
• 65 million secure snapshots

PowerMax Model Comparison

PowerMax 2000

• Workloads: Block, file, IBM i, virtualized applications
• Response time: Under 100 microseconds
• Capacity: 13 TBu – 1.2 PBe
• Data reduction: 3.5:1 for open systems
• Scale-out: 2–4 controllers
• Maximum LUNs: 64K
• Secure snapshots: Up to 65 million

PowerMax 2500

• Workloads: Open systems, mainframe, IBM i, file, virtualized applications
• Response time: Under 60 microseconds
• Capacity: 13 TBu – 8 PBe
• Data reduction: 4:1 open systems / 3:1 mainframe
• Scale-out: 2–4 nodes
• Maximum LUNs: 64K
• Secure snapshots: Up to 65 million

PowerMax 8000

• Workloads: Open systems, mainframe, IBM i, file, virtualized applications
• Response time: Under 100 microseconds
• Capacity: 54 TBu – 4.5 PBe
• Data reduction: 3.5:1 for open systems
• Scale-out: 2–16 controllers
• Maximum LUNs: 64K
• Secure snapshots: Up to 65 million

PowerMax 8500

• Workloads: Open systems, mainframe, IBM i, file, virtualized applications
• Response time: Under 60 microseconds
• Capacity: 13 TBu – 18 PBe
• Data reduction: 4:1 open systems / 3:1 mainframe
• Scale-out: 2–16 nodes
• Maximum LUNs: 64K
• Secure snapshots: Up to 65 million

Why Choose CITS for Dell PowerMax?

CITS provides enterprise IT infrastructure solutions across Dell storage, servers, networking, switching, security, and data center technologies.

For organizations considering Dell PowerMax for mission-critical applications, CITS can help evaluate which PowerMax platform best matches the required workload, performance, capacity, scalability, and data-protection requirements.

CITS can also support businesses in integrating PowerMax with the wider enterprise infrastructure, including servers, SAN environments, networking, security, and data center solutions, helping organizations build a more reliable and scalable storage architecture.

Mission-Critical Enterprise Storage

Dell PowerMax provides a scalable enterprise storage platform for organizations running demanding and mission-critical applications.

With cyber resilience, machine-learning-driven automation, modern scale-out architecture, data reduction guarantees, response times below 60 microseconds on selected models, capacities reaching 18 PBe, and support for up to 65 million secure snapshots, the PowerMax family provides flexible options for enterprise storage environments with demanding performance, security, and availability requirements.