Dell EMC PowerScale H7000 Hybrid NAS Storage
Handle a wide variety of large-scale data workloads while lowering your costs

Overview:

PowerScale helps you unlock the structure within your data and to address the challenges with unstructured data management. PowerScale is the next evolution of the OneFS – the operating system powering the industry’s leading scale-out NAS platform. The PowerScale family includes Isilon nodes, PowerScale nodes and PowerScale OneFS running across all of them. The software defined architecture of OneFS give you simplicity at scale, intelligent insights and the ability to have any data anywhere it needs to be – at the edge, core or cloud. Whether it is hosting file shares or home directories or delivering high performance data access for applications like analytics, video rendering and life sciences, PowerScale can seamlessly scale performance, capacity and efficiency to handle any unstructured data workload. The PowerScale platforms co-exist seamlessly in the same cluster with your existing Isilon nodes to drive your traditional and modern applications.

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Dell EMC PowerScale Hybrid Platforms

PowerScale hybrid storage platforms powered by the OneFS operating system use a versatile yet simple scale-out architecture to speed access to massive amounts of data. The highly flexible hybrid platforms strike the balance between large capacity and high-performance storage to provide support for a broad range of enterprise file workloads.

PowerScale OneFS is the operating system powering the industry’s leading scale-out NAS platforms that enables you to innovate with your data. The PowerScale Hybrid family includes Dell EMC PowerScale platforms and the Dell EMC Isilon platforms configured with the PowerScale OneFS operating system. OneFS provides the intelligence behind the highly scalable, high– performance modular storage solution that can grow with your business. A OneFS powered cluster is composed of a flexible choice of storage platforms including all-flash, hybrid and archive nodes. These solutions provide the performance, choice, efficiency, flexibility, scalability, security and protection for you to store massive amounts of unstructured data within a cluster. The PowerScale hybrid platforms co-exist seamlessly in the same cluster with your existing Isilon nodes to drive your traditional and modern applications.

PowerScale family of hybrid storage platforms powered by the OneFS operating system uses a versatile yet simple scale-out architecture to speed access to massive amounts of data. The hybrid platforms are highly flexible and strikes the balance between large capacity and high-performance storage to provide support for a broad range of enterprise file workloads. The hybrid storage platforms are available in four product lines:

• PowerScale H700: Provides maximum performance and value to support a demanding file workloads. The H700 provides capacity up to 960 TB per chassis. The H700 includes inline compression and deduplication capabilities
• PowerScale H7000: This versatile, high performance, high capacity hybrid platform with up to 1280 TB per chassis. The deepchassis based H7000 is an ideal to consolidate a range of file workloads on a single platform. The H7000 includes inline compression and deduplication capabilities
• Isilon H400: Provides a balance of performance, capacity and value to support a wide range of file workloads. The H400 delivers up to three GB/s bandwidth per chassis and provides capacity options ranging from 120 TB to 960 TB per chassis.
• Isilon H500: This versatile hybrid platform delivers up to five GB/s bandwidth per chassis with a capacity ranging from 120 TB to 960 TB per chassis. The H500 is an ideal choice for organizations looking to consolidate and support a broad range of file workloads on a single platform.
• Isilon H5600: Combines massive scalability – up to 1.28 PB (raw) per chassis – and up to eight GB/s bandwidth – in an efficient, highly dense, deep 4U chassis. The H5600 also includes inline compression and deduplication capabilities. The H5600 is designed to support a wide range of demanding, large-scale file applications and workloads.
• Isilon H600: Designed to provide high performance at value, delivers up to 120,000 IOPS and up to 12 GB/s bandwidth per chassis. The H600 is ideal for HPC workloads that don’t require the extreme performance of all-flash.

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

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.

Essentials

• PowerScale enables you to derive value and innovate with your unstructured data
• Address challenges with your unstructured data management
• NVMe PowerScale nodes deliver high performance storage
• Simply manage data at the edge, datacenter and cloud
• Massive capacity and performance scalability
• Reduced costs with unmatched storage efficiency, deduplication and compression
• Optimize resources with tiered storage of all-flash, hybrid and archive nodes
• Operational flexibility with multiprotocol support
• High availability and resilient data protection

Features:

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 ondemand 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 H7000 Hybrid Specifications
	12 TB HDD	16 TB HDD
Chassis capacity	960 TB	1.28 PB
SSD drives (3.5") per node	80	80
Self-encrypting drive (SED HDD) FIPS140-2 compliant option	Yes	Yes
Operating system	OneFS 9.2.1 or later	OneFS 9.2.1 or later
Number of nodes per chassis	4	4
ECC memory (per node)	384 GB	384 GB
Cache (per Node) solid state drives (SSD) (3.2 TB)	2	2
Front-end networking (per node)	2 x 100GbE (QSFP28)
Infrastructure (back-end) networking (per node)	2 InfiniBand connections with QDR links or 2 x 100 GbE (QSFP28)
Max Power Consumption @ 200~240V (per node)1	1688 Watts (@25°C)
Typical thermal rating	5759 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
Power	Dual-redundant, hot-swappable 1450W power supplies with power factor correction (PFC)
Voltage	180 – 265 VAC (optional rack mount step-up transformer for 90-130 VAC input regions)
CFM – Volume of airflow; cubic feet/minute	Each Node 60CFM, total chassis 240CFM (max)
Operating Environment	Compliant with ASHRAE A3 data center environment guidelines
Dimensions	Height: 7” (17.8 cm); Width: 17.6” (44.8 cm) Depth: (front NEMA rail to rear 2.5” SSD cover ejector): 40.4” (102.6 cm) Depth: (front of bezel to rear 2.5” SSD cover ejector): 42.2” (107.1 cm)
Weight	311.7 lbs. (141.4 kg)
Minimum Service Clearances	Front: 40” (88.9 cm), rear: 42” (106.7 cm)

	PowerScale H700	PowerScale H7000	Isilon H400	Isilon H500	Isilon H5600	Isilon H600
Use Case	Demanding enterprise file workloads	Massive capacity and demanding applications	Departmental file shares, home directories	Departmental file workloads and application data	Enterprise file workloads, file shares, application data	High performance file workloads
Raw node capacity	30 TB - 240 TB	240 TB – 320 TB	30 TB - 240 TB	30 TB - 240 TB	200 TB – 320 TB	18 TB - 36 TB
ECC memory (per node)	192 GB	384 GB	64 GB	128 GB	256 GB	256 GB
Nodes per cluster	4 to 252	4 to 252	4 to 252	4 to 252	4 to 252	4 to 252
Raw cluster capacity	120 TB to 60 PB	960 TB to 80 PB	120 TB to 60 PB	120 TB to 60 PB	800 TB to 80 PB	72 TB to 9 PB
Inline Data Reduction	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Storage Type	SATA	SATA	SATA	SATA	SATA	SATA

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.

¹ Values at <25° C are reflective of more steady state maximum values during normal operation

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Documentation:

Dell EMC PowerScale Datasheet (.PDF)

Dell EMC PowerScale Hybrid Nodes Spec Sheet (.PDF)