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Easily handle the most demanding and critical data rich projects with PowerScale, the world’s most flexible1 and secure scale-out NASsolution 2. PowerScale and Isilon all-flash, hybrid and archive nodes – powered by the PowerScale OneFS operating system – form theideal platform to store, manage, secure, protect and analyze unstructured data efficiently while supporting a wide range of applications
and workloads

Key advantages include:•Simplicity at any scale: Unlock the potential within your unstructured data using a solution that provides a single file system,
single volume namespace that scales up to 252 nodes in a cluster and up to 186 PB raw capacity in a single namespace.

•More power: Support your most demanding file workloads with all-NVMe solutions that deliver massive performance in a compact
form factor per cluster. New QLC drives on PowerScale F600 and F900 deliver massive capacity without any loss of performance.

•More choice: Flexible deployment options including as an appliance, in the cloud or as-a-Service•

Any data, anywhere: Support a wide range of data types and diverse workloads with built-in multi-protocol capabilities including
NFS, SMB, HDFS, S3, HTTP and FTP protocols. Store data anywhere – at the edge, in the datacenter or in the cloud.

•Highly efficient: OneFS delivers up to 80% storage utilization for maximum storage efficiency. Data deduplication and in-line datacompression on all the PowerScale nodes and the Isilon F810 and H5600 hybrid nodes can reduce the space consumed.

•Optimized data placement: Optimize resources with policy-based, automated storage tiering to move data automatically to lower
cost tiers, including public and private cloud storage with a choice of cloud providers.

•Enterprise data protection: OneFS powered storage platforms are highly resilient with up to N+4 redundancy and offer provenenterprise-grade back-up and disaster recovery options.

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Federal security: Built-in security features including role-based access control, access zones, encryption, STIG hardening, secureboot support and more. Additional cyber-resiliency tools are available for data isolation, automated threat detection and rapid
recovery. Security features reduce risk and improve governance.

•Powerful big data analytics: Maximize data capital with in-place analytics that seamlessly integrate with leading vendors like
Pivotal, Cloudera, Hortonworks and Splunk to drive workloads in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning or Deep Learning.

•Public and multicloud options: Flexible deployment options with all the leading public cloud providers delivers maximum
flexibility and agility of deployment.
1

Based on Dell Technologies internal analysis conducted in April 2021.

2

Based on Dell analysis comparing cyber-security software capabilities offered for Dell PowerScale vs. competitive products, September 2022.

OneFS operating system
OneFS provides the intelligence behind the scale-out
storage systems. It combines the three layers of
traditional storage architectures – file system, volumemanager and data protection – into one unified software
layer, creating an intelligent file system that spans all
nodes within a cluster. OneFS is a single file system,
single volume architecture, which makes it easy tomanage at any scale.

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PowerScale and Isilon nodes
PowerScale
F900

Isilon
F800,
F810PowerScale
H700,
H7000

Isilon
H600

Isilon
H5600

Isilon
H500,H400

PowerScale
A300,A3000

IsilonA200,A2000

Rack Units 1U

2U

4 nodes
in 4U

4 nodes in4U

4 nodes
in 4U

4 nodes
in 4U

4 nodes
in 4U

4 nodes in4U

4 nodes in4U

Nodes perChassis

N/A

4

44

4

4

4

4

Attribute

Per Node
Capacity

Storage
Media pernode

Storage
Media
Capacity
Options

ECC
Memoryper Node

OneFS
versionPowerScale
F200, F600

N/A

F200: 3.84 –
30.72 TB
F600: 15.36 –245 TB

F200: 4SSDs
F600: 8NVMe SSDs(TLC or QLC)
F200: 960
GB, 1.92,3.84, 7.68 TB
SSDs
F600: 1.92,3.84, 7.68,15.36, 30.7
TB NVMe
SSDs

F800: 24
- 231 TB
46 – 736 TB

24 NVMe
SSDs (TLCor QLC)

1.92, 3.84,7.68 or
15.36, 30.7
TB NVMe
SSDs

F810:
57.5 231 TB

H700: 30 320 TB
H7000: 240– 400 TB

H700: 15SATA drives
15 SSDs
H7000: 20
SATA drives

3.84,
7.68 or15.36 TB
SSDs

F200: 48 or
96 GB

H700: 2, 4,8, 12, 16, 20
TB SATAdrives
H7000: 12
16, 20 TB
SATA drives

18 - 36TB

30 SASdrives

600 GBor 1.2
TB SASdrives

200 320 TB

20SATAdrives

10, 1216 TB
SATAdrives

H700: 192
GBF600: 128
GB, 192 GBor 384 GB

736 GB

OneFS 9 andabove;
OneFS 9.4 orlater for QLCdrives

OneFS 9.2or above;
OneFS 9.4
or later for
QLC drives

256 GB

256 GB

OneFS 9.2.1

15
SATA
drives2, 4, 8
12 TB
SATA
drive

A3000: 200– 400 TB

A300: 15SATA drives
A3000: 20
SATA drives

A300: 2, 4,8, 12, 16, 20
TB SATAdrives
A3000: 10,12 16, 20
TB SATAdrives256 GB

A2000:200 – 320
TB
A200: 15
SATA
drivesA2000: 20
SATAdrives
A200: 2,4, 8, 12,16 TB
SATAdrives
A2000:
10, 12, 16
TB SATAdrives

96 GB

16 GB

OneFS 9.2.1
and above

OneFS 9and above

H500:128 GB

OneFS
9 andabove

OneFS
9 andabove

OneFS
9 andabove

Embedded, integrated, or attached OEM versions are available for PowerScale hybrid nodes as either de-branded or re-branded solutions.

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A200: 30 240 TB

H400:
64 GB

H7000: 384
GB

OneFS 9andabove

30 - 180
TB

A300: 30 320 TB

PowerScale OneFS software features
InsightIQ

No charge software that maximizes the performance of your scale-out storage system withperformance management, monitoring, and reporting capabilities

DataIQ

Locate, access, and manage data across file and object storage, on-prem or in the cloud.

SmartConnect

Enable client connection load balancing and the dynamic NFS failover and failback of client
connections across storage nodes to optimize the use of cluster resources

SmartQuotas

Assign and manage quotas that seamlessly partition and thin provision storage into easily
managed segments at the cluster, directory, subdirectory, user and group levels

SnapshotIQ

Protect data efficiently and reliably with secure, near-instantaneous snapshots, while
incurring little to no performance overhead and speed the recovery of critical data with nearimmediate on-demand snapshot restores

SyncIQ

Securely replicate and distribute large mission-critical data sets to multiple shared storage
systems in multiple sites for reliable disaster recovery capability and use push-button
failover and failback simplicity to increase the availability of mission-critical data

SmartSync

Optimize data movement between file to file and file to object repositories with replicationand data copying capabilities

SmartLock

Protect your critical data against accidental, premature, or malicious alteration or deletion
with our software-based approach to WORM and meet stringent compliance andgovernance needs, such as SEC 17a-4 requirements

SmartDedupe

Increase efficiency and reduce storage capacity requirements by up to 35 percent withdeduplication of redundant data across multiple sources

CloudIQ

Simplify the storage management tasks of Isilon and other Dell hardware with predictive
analytics capabilities from a single console

SmartPools

Implement a highly efficient, automated tiered storage strategy to optimize storage
performance and efficiency

SmartSync

Replicates data between PowerScale systems, and also between PowerScale and ECS,and also public clouds like Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS

CloudPools

Seamless tiering of infrequently accessed data to public or private cloud options including
Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Alibaba and Dell ECS.

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