PowerMax
World’s most secure mission-critical storage for demanding enterprise applications.
PowerMax
Why choose Dell PowerMax
Resilient and secure
Safeguard your data with the highest levels of cybersecurity to prevent, detect, and recover from cyberattacks. PowerMax accelerates Zero Trust adoption with hardware root-of-trust, ransomware anomaly detection, and the most granular cyber recovery at scale (up to 65M snaps).
Automated operations
Get results faster with next-generation automation for repetitive management tasks. Each system comes with built-in machine-learning for predictive analytics and pattern recognition. Maximize performance with no overhead management.
Modern scale-out architecture
Consolidate workloads at scale by adding compute and media elements independently with integrated, modern NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Unit (DPU) technology. Deliver predictable performance and access any flash drive in the system from any node on the fabric, regardless of physical location.
Breakthrough energy efficiency
PowerMax delivers improvements in performance, storage density, and data reduction. Store more data, with 80% power savings per terabyte. Dell offers a 4:1 data reduction guarantee for open systems and 3:1 data reduction guarantee for mainframe data.
PowerMax 2000
WORKLOAD DATA TYPE Block, file, IBM i, virtualized applications
RESPONSE TIMES* (LOWER IS BETTER) Under 100 microseconds
CAPACITY PER ARRAY 13 TBu – 1.2 PBe
DATA REDUCTION GUARANTEE** 3.5:1 data reduction (Open)
NODES PER ARRAY (FOR SCALEOUT) 2-4 controllers
MAX NUMBER OF DEVICES / SECURE SNAPSHOTS 64K LUNs / 65M snapshots
PowerMax 2500
WORKLOAD DATA TYPE Open systems, mainframe, IBM i, file, virtualized applications
RESPONSE TIMES* Under 60 microseconds
CAPACITY PER ARRAY 13 TBu – 8 PBe
DATA REDUCTION GUARANTEE** 4:1 data reduction (Open); 3:1 data reduction (Mainframe)
NODES PER ARRAY (FOR SCALEOUT)2-4 nodes
MAX NUMBER OF DEVICES / SECURE SNAPSHOTS 64K LUNs / 65M snapshots
PowerMax 8000
WORKLOAD DATA TYPE Open systems, mainframe, IBM i, file, virtualized applications
RESPONSE TIMES* Under 100 microseconds
CAPACITY PER ARRAY 54 TBu – 4.5 PBe
DATA REDUCTION GUARANTEE**3.5:1 data reduction (Open)
NODES PER ARRAY (FOR SCALEOUT)2-16 controllers
MAX NUMBER OF DEVICES / SECURE 64K LUNs / 65M snapshots
PowerMax 8500
WORKLOAD DATA TYPE Open Open systems, mainframe, IBM i, file, virtualized applications
RESPONSE TIMES* Under 60 microseconds
CAPACITY PER ARRAY 13 TBu – 18 PBe
DATA REDUCTION GUARANTEE**4:1 data reduction (Open); 3:1 data reduction (Mainframe)
NODES PER ARRAY (FOR SCALEOUT)2-16 nodes
MAX NUMBER OF DEVICES / SECURE 64K LUNs / 65M snapshots