Dell PowerScale F900 All-Flash NAS Storage
Accelerate demanding file workloads with extreme performance and efficiency
Overview
PowerScale F900 provides great performance with all-NVMe drives in a cost-effective configuration to address the storage needs of demanding workloads. Each node is 2U in height and hosts 24 NVMe SSDs. F900 supports TLC or QLC drives for maximum performance. It allows you to scale raw storage from 46 TB to 737 TB per node and up to 186 PB of raw capacity per cluster. The F900 includes in-line compression and deduplication. The minimum number of PowerScale nodes per cluster is three while the maximum cluster size is 252 nodes. The F900 is best suited for media and entertainment 8K, genomics, algorithmic trading, artificial intelligence, machine learning and HPC workloads.
Scale-out storage that is ready for any workload
As your business changes, your infrastructure needs to change with it. Be ready for what's coming next:
Support any workload
- Choose from all-flash, hybrid and archive nodes for the best fit for your data
- Run multiple data protocols with simultaneous access to avoid storage silos
- Deploy as a NAS appliance, in APEX or in the Cloud
Scalable data management
- Scale up, down or out non-disruptively to tens of petabytes
- Scan and index billions of files across your environment with DataIQ
- Manage your storage infrastructure with a single UI with CloudIQ
Protect your data
- Built-in availability, redundancy, security, data protection and replication with OneFS
- Protect from cyber attacks with integrated ransomware defense and smart AirGap
- Designed for 6x9s availability
Dell PowerScale All-Flash Platforms
The PowerScale family comprises of scale-out file storage platforms configured with the OneFS operating system. OneFS provides the intelligence behind the highly scalable, high–performance modular storage solution that can grow with your business. A PowerScale OneFS cluster can be built with a flexible choice of storage platforms including all-flash, hybrid and archive nodes. These solutions provide performance, choice, efficiency, flexibility, scalability, security, and protection for you to store massive amounts of unstructured data within a cluster.
The PowerScale all-flash nodes co-exist seamlessly in the same cluster with your existing PowerScale or Isilon nodes to drive your traditional workloads and even the most modern applications like Generative AI.
It’s not just data, it’s your business
A large portion of your data is unstructured data and that dataset is growing exponentially – not just in the datacenter but at the enterprise edge and in the cloud. PowerScale OneFS powered scale-out storage solutions are designed for organizations that want to manage all their data, not their storage. Our storage systems are powerful yet simple to install, manage and scale to virtually any size. The storage includes a choice of PowerScale and Isilon all-flash, hybrid or archive nodes to meet the most demanding business needs. And, unlike traditional enterprise storage, these solutions stay simple no matter how much storage capacity is added, how much performance is required or how business needs change in the future.
In a world where unstructured data is growing rapidly and taking over the data center, organizations are looking for ways to get more out of their data. Whether it is driving innovation, getting to market faster or creating differentiation, they want the data to start creating value. Instead of thinking of destinations for your data, you think about what the data is going to be used for, who will be using it and how the data will help you solve for their business needs. When you have a data first mindset, the goal is to get any data to where it needs to be for business needs. Whether it is all-flash Edge offerings or the cloud to take advantage of the tools and access, data must be located where it needs to be for the business
With OneFS powered clusters consisting of PowerScale or Isilon nodes, you can eliminate storage silos, consolidate all your unstructured data, store petabytes of file data and analyze them in a data first world. With up to 252 nodes in a cluster, you can scale both capacity and performance in a few minutes to meet your specific business needs—all without any additional IT burden. With the performance of all-flash node that are configured with NVMe, you can drive demanding workloads like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning.
Features
OneFS Operating System Powers Scale-Out Storage Solutions
The OneFS operating system provides the intelligence behind the highly scalable, high–performance modular PowerScale storage solution that can grow with your business. With support for various flash technologies offered in NVMe SSD, OneFS can help you accelerate the most demanding processes and workflows like Generative AI, with flexible scaling to handle massive growth and the highest levels of data protection. You can drive workloads like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning with the performance of our all-flash nodes configured with NVMe.
Orchestrated by OneFS, all components in a cluster work to create a unified pool of highly efficient storage – with a storage utilization rate of up to 80 percent. With SmartDedupe data deduplication, you can further reduce your data storage requirements. The PowerScale F910, F900, F710, F600, F210, and F200 all-flash platforms, H700 and H7000 hybrid platforms and A300 and A3000 archive platforms deliver improved data reduction with features like inline compression and deduplication to dramatically increase the effective storage capacity and density of your storage solution. The unmatched efficiency of the storage systems means that less physical storage and space is required to house the same amount of data – reducing both initial capital outlay and ongoing costs, such as those related to power and cooling. With the OneFS AutoBalance function, you can quickly and easily add nodes without downtime, manual data migration, or application logic reconfiguration, saving precious IT resources. Since PowerScale storage is so easy to manage, it requires fewer IT resources for storage administration than traditional storage systems, which further reduces overall operating costs. Further streamline your storage infrastructure by consolidating large-scale unstructured data assets and eliminating silos of storage.
To simplify workflows, accelerate business analytics projects, support cloud initiatives, and get more value from enterprise applications and data, OneFS powered solutions include integrated support for a wide range of industry-standard protocols, including Internet Protocols IPv4, and IPv6, NFS, SMB, S3, HTTP, FTP and HDFS.
Massive stores of data present unique management challenges including disaster recovery, quota management and offsite replication. OneFS data protection and management software provides you with powerful tools that help you protect your data assets, control costs and optimize the storage resources and system performance of your big data environment. Software like Dell SupportAssist, CloudIQ and InsightIQ lower storage management costs while improving storage monitoring and troubleshooting.
PowerScale delivers robust federal grade security features including STIG hardening, host-based firewall, and data encryption. The comprehensive security features deliver added data protection, reduce risk and improve governance.
Drive Human Progress with PowerScale Storage Appliances
- AI - Unleashed
- PowerScale is the foundation for building an integrated and optimized IT infrastructure for AI initiatives, from POC to production. The integration and optimization showcased includes PowerScale, PowerEdge, PowerSwitch and Dell Precision Data Science Workstations.
- Imagination - Unlimited
- Ideal for companies of any size from small VFX houses to multi-national broadcasters, Dell EMC PowerScale storage provides a foundation for storytelling offering secure collaboration, modular expansion, flexible consumption models and easy cloud integration, all with management tools spanning multiple platforms.
- Sequencing - Unbounded
- Dell EMC Unstructured Data Solutions portfolio is a key aspect of a next-generation sequencing environment by delivering performance, being easy to manage, and accelerating whole-genome sequencing.
Enterprise Data Protection and Management Software
Massive stores of data present unique management challenges including disaster recovery, quota management and offsite replication. Isilon data protection and management software provides you with powerful tools that help you protect your data assets, control costs and optimize the storage resources and system performance of your big data environment.
| Software | Feature | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SmartDedupe | Data management | Increase efficiency and reduce storage capacity requirements with deduplication of redundant data across multiple sources |
| CloudIQ | Data management | Simplify the storage management tasks of PowerScale, Isilon and other Dell hardware with predictive analytics capabilities from a single console |
| DataIQ | Data management | Locate, access and manage data and gain a holistic view across heterogeneous storage systems with a single pane of glass |
| SmartQuotas | Data management | Assign and manage quotas at the cluster, directory, user, and group levels |
| InsightIQ | Performance management | Performance monitoring and reporting |
| SnapshotIQ | Data protection | Protect data efficiently and speed the recovery of critical data with on-demand snapshot restores |
| SYNCIQ | Data replication | Securely replicate data sets to multiple sites for reliable disaster recovery and use push-button failover and failback |
| SmartLock | Data retention | Protect your critical data against accidental, premature, or malicious alteration or deletion and meet compliance and governance needs |
| SmartConnect | Data access | Enable client connection load balancing and the dynamic failover and failback of client connections |
| CloudPools | Resource management | Seamless tiering of cold or frozen data to public or private cloud providers |
| SmartPools | Resource management | Tiered storage strategy to optimize storage performance and efficiency |
Technical Specifications
Dell EMC PowerScale F900 All-Flash Specifications
| Specification | 1.92 TB NVMe SSD | 3.84 TB NVMe SSD | 7.68 TB NVMe SSD | 15.36 TB NVMe SSD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw node capacity | 46 TB | 92 TB | 184.3 TB | 368.6 TB |
| NVMe SSD Non-SED drives (2.5") per node | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 |
| Operating system | PowerScale OneFS 9.2 or later | |||
| ECC memory (per node) | 736 GB | |||
| Front-end networking (per node) | Dual port 25G NIC supporting 10G or 25G connections (SFP+/SFP28) Dual port 100G NIC supporting 40G or 100G connections | |||
| Infrastructure networking (per node) | 2 InfiniBand connections with QDR links or Dual port 100G NIC supporting 40G or 100G connections (QSFP+/QSFP28) | |||
| Max Power Consumption @ 200~240V (per node)1 | 859 Watts (@25°C) | |||
| Typical thermal rating | 2931 BTU/hr | |||
| Product Attributes | ||||
| Scale-Out Architecture | Distributed fully symmetric clustered architecture that combines modular storage with OneFS operating system in a single volume, single namespace and single filesystem | |||
| Modular Design | Four self-contained Isilon nodes include server, software, HDDs and SSDs in a 4U rack-mountable chassis. 1U or 2U Rack-mountable PowerScale node that integrates into existing PowerScale and Isilon clusters with backend Ethernet or InfiniBand connectivity | |||
| Operating System | PowerScale OneFS distributed file system creates a cluster with a single file system and single global namespace. It is fully journaled, fully distributed, and has a globally coherent write/read cache | |||
| High Availability | No-single-point-of-failure. Self-healing design protects against disk or node failure; includes back-end intra-cluster failover | |||
| Scalability | A cluster can scale up to 252 nodes. Minimum number of Isilon nodes per cluster is four. Minimum number of PowerScale all-flash nodes per cluster is three. Add nodes to scale performance and capacity | |||
| Data Protection | FlexProtect file-level striping with support for N+1 through N+4 and mirroring data protection schemes | |||
| 2-way NDMP | Supports two ports of Fibre Channel (8G) that allows for two-way NDMP connections and two ports of standard 10GbE connectivity | |||
| Data Retention | SmartLock policy-based retention and protection against accidental deletion | |||
| Security | File system audit capability to improve security and control of your storage infrastructure and address regulatory compliance requirements | |||
| Efficiency | SmartDedupe data deduplication option, which can reduce storage requirements by up to 35 percent. Inline data reduction and compression available on F200, F600, F900, F810 and H5600 | |||
| Automated Storage Tiering | Policy-based automated tiering options including SmartPools and CloudPools software to optimize storage resources and lower costs | |||
| Network Protocol Support | NFSv3, NFSv4, NFS Kerberized sessions (UDP or TCP), SMB1 (CIFS), SMB2, SMB3, SMB3-CA, Multichannel, HTTP, FTP, NDMP, SNMP, LDAP, HDFS, S3, ADS, NIS reads/writes | |||
| Data Replication | SyncIQ fast and flexible one-to-many file-based asynchronous replication between clusters | |||
| Environmental Specification - Power | ||||
| Class | Platinum | |||
| Heat dissipation (maximum) | 4100 BTU/hr | |||
| Frequency | 50/60 Hz | |||
| Voltage | 100-240V, 12 A – 6.5 A | |||
| Operating Environment | Compliant with ASHRAE A3 data center environment guidelines | |||
| Dimensions |
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| Weight | 61.95 lbs. (28.1 kg) | |||
| Minimum Service Clearances | Front: 40” (88.9 cm), rear: 42” (106.7 cm) | |||
Cluster Attributes
| Cluster Attributes | PowerScale F200 | PowerScale F600 | PowerScale F900 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of nodes | 3 to 252 | 3 to 252 | 3 to 252 |
| Raw node capacity | 11.4TB to 7.7 PB | 46TB to 60 PB | 138 TB to 186 PB |
| Rack units | 3 to 252 | 3 to 252 | 6 to 504 |
Safety and EMI Compliance
This Information Technology Equipment is compliant with the electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and product safety regulations/standards required by the countries in which the product is sold. EMC compliance is based on FCC part 15, CISPR22/CISPR24 and EN55022/EN55024 standards, including applicable international variations. EMC compliant Class A products are marketed for use in business, industrial, and commercial environments. Product Safety compliance is based on IEC 60950-1 and EN 60951-1 standards, including applicable national deviations.
This Information Technology Equipment is in compliance with EU RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU.
- 1Values at <25° C are reflective of more steady state maximum values during normal operation
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