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
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- 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
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- 256 snaps and 1024 linked
- Protect against accidental deletion
- SRDF
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- Synch, Metro and Async
- Online device expansion
- ORS interoperability
- SRDF Metro: Add, Remove, and Move devices
- Non-Disruptive Migrations
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- Free
- Enhanced Mainframe data services
- ProtectPoint integration to DataDomain
- Unisphere for PowerMax 9.0
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- 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