PowerFlex Family

• 3-tier SAN or hyperconverged architecture
• High- performance workload consolidation
• Modern containerized apps

 PowerFlex software-defined infrastructure enables broad consolidation across the data center, encompassing almost any type of workload and deployment topology. Its software-first architecture enables automation and programmability of the complete infrastructure stack. It provides scalability, performance, and resiliency, enabling effortless adherence to stringent workload SLAs

Technical Specifications

System Raw Capacity: 16 PB

Device size: Minimum: 240 GB, Maximum: 8 TB (Maximum 15.36 TB for SSDs on medium granularity storage pools)

Volume Size: Minimum: 8 GB, Maximum: 1 PB

Maximum filesystem partitions per volume: 15

Maximum total number of volumes and snapshots in system: 131,072

Maximum total number of volumes and snapshots in protection domain: 32,768

Maximum total number of volumes and snapshots per storage pool: 32,768 

Maximum number of snapshots per source/root volume: 126

Maximum raw capacity per SDS: 160 TB (medium granularity) ; 128 TB (fine granularity)

Maximum SDCs per system: 2048

Maximum SDSs per system: 512

Maximum SDSs per protection domain: 128

Maximum devices (drives) per SDS Server: 64

Maximum devices per protection domain: 8192

Maximum devices per storage pool: 300

Total size of all volumes per storage pool: 4PB

Maximum volumes that can be mapped to a single SDC: 1024

System over provisioning factor: 5x net/usable capacity per MG layout

Fine-granularity maximum compression: 10x raw capacity

Maximum storage pools per system: 1024

Maximum storage pools per protection domain: 64

Maximum fault sets per protection domain: 64

Maximum Snapshot Policies per system: 1000

Maximum number of snapshots a snapshot policy can be defined to retain (not including locked snapshots): 60

Maximum volumes per local Consistency Group (snapshot): 1024

Maximum number of volume-to-SDC mappings per system: 262,143

Maximum user accounts: 256

Maximum number of concurrent logged-in management clients (GUI/REST/CLI): 128