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Dell PowerStore 9500
Midrange · all-flash · dual controller - Gen 3 unified block and file all-NVMe appliance with E3 drives in a 3U chassis, scaling up and out to four appliances.
| Platform | |
|---|---|
| OEM | Dell Technologies |
| Family | PowerStore |
| Class | Midrange |
| Architecture | Dual controller (HA pair) |
| Status | Current |
| Released | n/a |
| Operating system | PowerStoreOS 5.0 |
| Controllers | 2 |
| Nodes | n/a |
| Cache / memory | 2,048 GB |
| Availability | 99.9999% |
| Capacity and media | |
| Media | All-flash |
| Drive types | NVMe SSD, QLC NVMe |
| Drive note | Dual-ported E3 NVMe SSDs (PCIe 5.0), TLC or QLC; all drives SED, FIPS 140-3 Level 2 option |
| Flash drive sizes | 3.84, 7.68, 15.36, 30.72 TB |
| HDD sizes | n/a |
| Maximum drives | 40 |
| Controller enclosure | 3U, 40 drive bays |
| Expansion | Backend E3 drive expansion enclosures announced for a future release (4x 100GbE expansion ports); up to 4 appliances per scale-out cluster |
| Raw capacity | 1.23 PB |
| Cluster maximum | 4.92 PB |
| Effective maximum | 5.81 PB |
| Data reduction | Effective capacity assumes average 6:1 data reduction; 6:1 Data Reduction Guarantee for Gen 3 appliances (reducible data) |
| Protection | DRE single parity, DRE dual parity |
| Protection note | Dynamic Resiliency Engine (DRE) tolerates multiple simultaneous drive failures; metro sync with 3rd-site witness for block and file |
| Performance and connectivity | |
| Maximum IOPS | n/a |
| Maximum throughput | n/a |
| Latency | n/a |
| Conditions | Raw is vendor base-10 TB per appliance; cluster = 4 appliances (23.24 PBe effective per cluster). Memory per appliance. power_w = typical power of fully populated base enclosure at 26C. Dell publishes no absolute IOPS/throughput figures (only 'up to 3x vs previous models'). |
| Protocols | Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe over FC, NVMe over TCP, NFS, SMB / CIFS, FTP |
| Fibre Channel | 64 Gb |
| Ethernet | 100 GbE |
| Host ports | 40 |
| Limits | |
| Volumes / LUNs | n/a |
| File systems | n/a |
| Snapshots | n/a |
| Management and support | |
| Management | PowerStore Manager, Dell AIOps (Infrastructure Observability) |
| Power | 1,977 W |
| Positioned for | Virtualization, Databases, Containers, File shares |
| Warranty | n/a |
| Design terms | Appliance storage pool · Volume · Host group · Native asynchronous replication |
| Data services | |
✓ Deduplication
✓ Compression
✓ Thin provisioning
✓ Snapshots
✓ Clones
✓ Asynchronous replication
✓ Synchronous replication
✓ Active-active / metro
✓ Encryption at rest
✓ Immutable snapshots
✓ Ransomware detection
✓ Quality of service
? Automated tiering
? Cloud tiering
✓ VMware vVols
✓ Kubernetes CSI
✓ Native file services
✕ Native object (S3)
✓ Non-disruptive upgrades
✓ Scale-out
✓ stated by the OEM · ✕ not offered · ? not stated | |
| Source | |
| Product page | https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-us/products/storage/technical-support/dell-powerstore-gen3-spec-sheet.pdf |
| Datasheet | https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-us/products/storage/technical-support/h18234-dell-powerstore-data-sheet.pdf |