Below is a summary of the session I did on VMAX at Dell Technologies World.  Introducing PowerMax!!

• PowerMax, NVMe driven storage array
• 10M IOPs, 150GB/sec
• 16m snaps
• Compression, dedupe, D@RE
• 6x9s uptime
• PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000
• • 7M IOPS and 10M IOPs
  • 1PBe and 4PBe
  • 64 FC/iSCSI and 256 FC/FICON/iSCSI
• Dual Ported Active/Active
• 48 CPU cores and 72 CPU Cores
• 7TB NVMe Drives
• True NDU, No impact to hosts for upgrades
• Service levels: Diamond, Silver, Bronze
• SnapVX, Protect Point
• • 256 snaps and 1024 linked
  • Protect against accidental deletion
• SRDF
• • Synch, Metro and Async
  • Online device expansion
  • ORS interoperability
  • SRDF Metro: Add, Remove, and Move devices
• Non-Disruptive Migrations
• • Free
• Enhanced Mainframe data services
• ProtectPoint integration to DataDomain
• Unisphere for PowerMax 9.0
• • HTML5 Based
• eNAS capabilities
• 3:1 Average Inline Data Reduction
• 2019 introduce Real-time machine learning
• Machine Learning engine
• NVMe protocol used
• 3D XPoint drives coming in 2019
• NVMe + SCM in 2019