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The groundbreaking EMC PowerStore delivers new levels of operational simplicity and agility to unlock the value of your data using a container-based architecture, advanced storage technologies, and intelligent automation. PowerStore is designed to improve resource utilization and performance to meet the growth demands of applications and systems, based on a scale-out architecture and hardware-accelerated advanced data reduction capabilities. PowerStore X models with AppsON provide the unique ability to host data-intensive and storage applications directly on the PowerStore system through a storage-based virtualization environment, with the flexibility to seamlessly move applications between the storage system and external VMware servers. PowerStore T models provide organizations with all the benefits of an enterprise unified storage platform for block, file, and vVol data, while leveraging the intelligent scale-up and scale-out capabilities of appliance clustering for flexible growth.
PowerStore is a versatile scale-up and scale-out platform based on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and today’s advanced storage technologies, including end-to-end NVMe flash, dual-port Intel® Optane™ SSDs, NVMe-FC, and always-on data reduction, using powerful analytics, automation, and active resource balancing to optimize performance and eliminate management overhead. Each appliance leverages active-active storage nodes and a container-based software architecture to deliver exceptional adaptability.
✓ A new data-centric and adaptable intelligent infrastructure that meets a variety of requirements while simplifying IT operations
✓ Innovative AppsON capabilities enable you to run virtualized workloads directly on the array, making them portable, agile and fast
✓ Purpose-built array with built-in VMware ESXi hypervisor. Complement and extend your current VMware investments.
• Any workload — Single architecture for physical, virtual, and container-based applications and databases. Designed for 99.9999% availability
• Performance optimized — Up to 7x faster and up to 3x faster response times than previous arrays with an end-to-end NVMe design.
• Scale up and scale out — Add capacity or processing power independently.
• Ultra-high efficiency without compromise — Achieve an average 4:1 savings ratio with always-on, inline data reduction.
• Programmable infrastructure — End-to-end automation simplifies IT and DevOps
• Automated appliances — Built-in machine learning optimizes resources
• Proactive health analytics — Intelligent monitoring reduces risk and anticipates demand
| Model | POWERSTORE 5000T |
| Maximum number of drives | 96 |
| NVRAM per device | 4 |
| Basic storage module | 2U dual-node storage module with 25 2.5" NVMe drive slots |
| Expansion storage module | 2U enclosure with 25 2.5" SAS drive slots (up to 3 per unit) attached to the PowerStore base enclosure |
| Power supply | Each enclosure has 2 redundant power supplies (PS) to provide power to the PowerStore device. |
| Number of CPUs per device | 4 Intel CPUs, 64 cores, 2.1 GHz |
| System cache/memory | 1152G |
| Maximum number of mezzanine cards per device | 2 |
| Maximum number of IO modules per device | 4 |
| Embedded SAS IO ports per device | Four 4-lane 12 Gb/s SAS ports (for back-end connectivity) |
| Maximum number of front-end ports per device (all types) | 24 |
| Maximum 16/32 Gb FC ports per device | 16 |
| Maximum 10 Gbase T/iSCSI ports per device | 24 |
| Max 10/25 GbE/iSCSI ports per device | 24 |
| Maximum raw capacity | 898.56 TB (817.36 TiB) |
| Maximum number of startup programs | 2000 |
| Maximum number of block volumes/clones | 2000 |
| Maximum number of volumes per volume group | 75 |
| Maximum number of volume groups | 125 |
| Maximum volume size | 256T |
| Maximum number of snapshots (blocks) | 100000 |
| Maximum number of user file systems | 500 |
| Maximum number of NAS servers | 50 |
| Maximum file system size | 256TB |
| Maximum number of vVol storage containers | 50 |
| Maximum number of vVols | 19,000 |
