Spec Sheet

Dell PowerStore
500T model specifications
(DC Power – NEBS* Compliant)

Modern storage made simple

The ground-breaking Dell PowerStore enterprise storage appliance helps you achieve new levels of operational agility
with advanced storage technologies and intelligent automation to unlock the power of your data. Accelerate block, file
and vVols workloads with a single unified platform that scales both up and out, keeping pace with rapidly changing
business requirements. Streamline DevOps with automated workflows and extensive support for containerized apps –
and simplify your overall ecosystem with deep integrations that let you provision advanced PowerStore services from
your management framework of choice.

Architecture
PowerStore utilizes Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, plus a flexible all-NVMe design featuring dual-ported Intel®
Optane™ SSDs and NVMe-over-fabric networking (both FC and TCP), to deliver end-to-end low latency performance for
any workload. Always-on data reduction, intelligent automation, active resource balancing, predictive analytics and non-
disruptive software and hardware upgrades keep your storage environment continuously optimized, up-to-date and easy
to manage, even as your needs evolve over time.
*DC products comply with NEBS Level 3 and ETSI requirements and are tested to the following standards: GR-63-CORE, GR-1089-CORE & ETSI EN 300 386, EN 300 132-2, EN 300 753, EN 300 019

Per Appliance1

Nodes Each appliance includes two active/active nodes

Processors 2 Intel Xeon CPUs, 24 cores, 2.2 GHz

Memory 192GB
Max Drives 25
Base Enclosure 2U enclosure with dual active/active nodes and twenty-five (25) 2.5” NVMe drive slots
Power Supplies PowerStore appliances are powered by 2 redundant power supplies (PS) per enclosure.
Data Resiliency Dynamic Resiliency Engine (DRE), protects against multiple simultaneous drive failures
Max Mezzanine cards2 2
Max IO Modules3 4
Max front-end Ports (all types) 24

Max 16/32Gb FC Ports 16

Max 10 Gbase-T/iSCSI Ports per Appliance 16

Max 10/25 GbE/iSCSI Ports per Appliance 244

Max Raw Capacity5, 6 6.16 PBe

(1,490TB, 1,355TiB raw)

Max capacity per cluster5 24.64 PBe

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 1- Up to 4 appliances may be combined per scale-out cluster
2- One mezzanine card per node, mirrored
3- Two IO Modules per node, mirrored.
4- Four (4) Onboard ports by default
5- Effective capacity assumes average 5:1 data reduction. Actual results vary, refer to PowerSizer for capacity data in your environment. Maximum
capacities are dependent on drive sizes available at time of purchase. Maximum logical capacity supported per appliance is 8 exabytes (EB).
Raw value is based on drive vendor raw base capacity. TB is base-10 decimal (1000x1000x1000x1000). TiB is base- 2 binary
(1024x1024x1024x1024).
6 - Expansion shelves are not supported with the DC powered appliance

Appliance system limits

Per appliance

Max Initiators 2,000

Max Block Volumes/Clones (FC/iSCSI/NVMe) 1,500

Max Volumes per Volume Group 75
Max Volume Groups 125
Max Volume Size 256 TB
Max Snapshots (Block) 50,000
Max User File Systems 1500
Max NAS Servers 50
Max File System Size 256 TB
Max vVol Storage Containers 50
Max vVols 9,000
OS Support See the Dell Simple Support Matrix on delltechnologies.com

Cluster system limits

Features
Max. Appliances 4 Max. Initiators 2,000
Max. Front End Ports 96 Max. Initiators in an Initiator Group 1,024
Max. iSCSI sessions 2,048 Max Volumes and vVols 32,000
Maximum number of drives & maximum raw capacity of a PowerStore cluster will depend on the appliance level limits mentioned above.

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Connectivity
Connectivity options via Mezzanine cards and IO modules for file, for NFS/SMB connectivity, and block storage for FC and
iSCSI host connectivity (see above table for number of modules supported per node).

Connectivity options
Type Description Details
Mezzanine card / IO Module Two-Port 10 Gb/s Optical Module Two port 10GbE IP/iSCSI module. Uses SFP+ optical connection
(Block) or active/passive twinax copper connection to Ethernet switch
Mezzanine card / IO Module * Four-Port 25 Gb/s Optical Module (File Four port IP/iSCSI module supporting 25GbE or 10GbE. Uses
& Block) SFP+ optical connection or twinax copper connection (active/
passive for 10GbE, passive for 25GbE) to Ethernet switch
IO Module Four-Port 32 Gb/s Fibre Channel Four port FC module with choice of 16Gb/s or 32Gb/s
Module (Block only) connectivity. Uses multimode optical SFP and OM2/OM3/OM4
cabling to connect directly to host HBA or FC switch
IO Module Four-Port 10GBASE-T Module Four port 10GBASE-T Ethernet IP/iSCSI module with copper
connection to Ethernet switch

IO Module Four-Port 25 Gb/s Optical Module Four port IP/iSCSI module supporting 25GbE or 10GbE. Uses
SFP+ optical connection or twinax copper connection (active/
passive for 10GbE, passive for 25GbE) to Ethernet switch
* Ports 2 and 3 on the 4-Port Mezzanine card are reserved for backend connectivity

Back-end (Drive) connectivity

Each node connects to one side of each of two redundant pairs of GbE ports, providing continuous drive access to hosts
in the event of a node or port fault.

Supported media
Drive Type Interface Raw base-10 Capacity * Raw base-2 Capacity **

NVMe TLC SSD PCIe 1.92 TB 1.7466 TiB

NVMe TLC SSD PCIe 3.84 TB 3.4931 TiB
NVMe TLC SSD PCIe 7.68 TB 6.9863 TiB
NVMe TLC SSD PCIe 15.36 TB 13.9707 TiB

* Base-10 vendor raw TB (bytes X (1000 x 1000 x 1000 x 1000) All drives are 512 bytes/sector.
** Base-2 vendor raw TiB (bytes X (1024 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024) All drives are SED. FIPS validated drives are available as an
option. Consult a Dell or Partner Sales Rep for additional
guidance.

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OE protocols and software facilities
Support is provided for a wide variety of protocols and advanced features available via various software suites, plug-ins,
drivers and packs.

Protocols and facilities supported

Access-based Enumeration (ABE) for SMB Key Management Interoperability Protocol REST API: Open API that uses HTTP
protocol (KMIP) compliant external key manager for requests to provide management
D@RE
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Lock Manager (NLM) v1, v2, v3, and v4 RSVD v1 for Microsoft Hyper-V (SMB3)
Block Protocols: iSCSI, Fibre Channel (FCP Management & Data Ports IPv4 or IPv6 Simple Home Directory access for SMB
SCSI-3), NVMe/FC, NVMe/TCP, vVols (including protocol
vVols over NVMe/FC and TCP)
DFS Distributed File System (Microsoft) as NAS Servers Multi-protocol for Unix and SMB Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Standalone Root Server clients (Microsoft, Apple, Samba)
Direct Host Attach for Fibre Channel Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) Simple Network Management Protocol v2c &
v1-v4, 3-way v3 (SNMP) Trap support
Dynamic Access Control (DAC) with claims Network Information Service (NIS) Client Virtual LAN (IEEE 802.1q)
support
Fail Safe Networking (FSN) Network Status Monitor (NSM) VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) 2.0
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Network Time Protocol (NTP) Client vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)
Kerberos Authentication NFS v3/v4 Secure Support vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness
(VASA)
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) NT LAN Manager (NTLM)

Security & compliance

US Department of Defense Information Network Approved Products List (DoDIN APL) for PowerStoreOS 3.5*
Common Criteria - in process

Data at Rest Encryption (D@RE) in PowerStore utilizes validated Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs) by respective drive vendors for primary storage
(NVMe SSD and NVMe SCM SSD). FIPS validated drives are available as an option. Consult a Dell or Partner Sales Rep for additional guidance.
The NVRAM caching device is encrypted
(KMIP) compliant external key manager for D@RE

Multi-factor authentication via RSA SecurID

Immutable and secure snapshots
IPv6 USGv6-R1 certification

Native SHA2 certificate

Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) compliance

TLS 1.2 support by default, TLS 1.1 and older are disabled by default. TLS 1.1 can be optionally enabled.

*PowerStoreOS 3.5 has been STIG-hardened to meet the security requirements of the US Department of Defense.

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 Software
Management Software:
• PowerStore Manager
• Infrastructure Observability (cloud-based storage analytics) with ProSupport
• Thin Provisioning
• Dynamic Resiliency Engine (DRE) – Single & Dual parity
• Data Reduction: Zero Detect/Deduplication/Compression
• Proactive Assist: Configure remote support, online chat, open a service request, etc.
• Quality of Service (Block and vVols)
• Capacity Accounting

Protocols: PowerStore T & Q Models

• Block
All Inclusive Base Software • vVols
• File

Local Protection:
• SED Based Encryption with self-managed and external key management
• Local Point-In-Time Copies (Snapshots and Thin Clones)
• Immutable & Secure Snapshots
• AppSync Basic
• File Level Retention (FLR)
• Dell EMC Common Event Enabler; AntiVirus Agent (CEPA)

Remote Protection:
• Native Synchronous/Asynchronous Block Replication
• Native Synchronous/Asynchronous File Replication
• Native Asynchronous vVol Replication
• Native Metro Volume Synchronous Block Replication
• Native PowerProtect DD integration - manage local or multicloud backups directly from
PowerStore

Migration:
• Native Block migration from Unity, Unity XT, VNX, SC Series, PS Series, FC/iSCSI source arrays
• Native File migration for VNX, Unity and via included DataDobi software for third party file sources

Block: FC, NVMe/FC, iSCSI, NVMe/TCP and VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) 2.0
Interface Protocols File: NFSv3, NFSv4, NFSv4.1; CIFS (SMB 1), SMB 2, SMB 3.0, SMB 3.02, and SMB 3.1.1; FTP
and SFTP
AppSync Advanced
Connectrix SAN
Data Protection Suite: Backup, Archive and Collaboration Software
Dell EMC RP4VM
Optional Solutions
PowerPath Migration Enabler
PowerPath Multipathing
PowerStore metro node (block synchronous metro Active/Active, zero RPO/RTO)
VPLEX
Note: For more details on software licensing, please contact your sales representative

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Virtualization and container solutions
PowerStore supports a wide variety of protocol and advanced features available via various software suites and packs
including but not limited to:

• Dell Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) for VMware vSphere™: For provisioning, management, and cloning
• OpenStack Cinder Driver: For provisioning and managing block volumes within an OpenStack environment
• VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Integration: Managing failover and failback making disaster recovery rapid and reliable
• Virtualization API Integration: VMware: VAAI and VASA.
• vRO Plugin for PowerStore
• Container Storage Interface (CSI) Plugin for PowerStore
• Ansible Module for PowerStore
• Terraform Provider

Electrical specifications
All power figures shown represent a worst-case product configuration with max normal values operating at a maximum in an
ambient temperature environment of 20°C to 25°C.
Power requirements are lower in an ambient temperature environment.
System Enclosure
25x2.5” drives, four IO modules

Power
DC Line Voltage -39 to -72 VDC
DC Line Current (operating maximum) 28.2 max at -39 VDC
22.9 max at -48 VDC
15.3 max at -72 VDC
Power Consumption (operating maximum) 1100 W
Heat Dissipation (operating maximum) 3.96 x 106 J/hr (3,753 Btu/hr)
Maximum In-rush Current 40 A peak
DC Protection 50 A fuse in each power supply
DC Inlet Type Positronics PLBH3W3M4B0A1/AA
Ride-through Time 1 ms min at -50 V input
Current Sharing ± 5 percent of full load, between power supplies
Note: Power consumption values for enclosures are based on fully populated enclosures (power supplies, drives and I/O modules).

Weight and Dimensions

Weight kgs/lbs empty 30.38/66.97 full 37.4/82.4
Vertical size 2 NEMA units

Height cm/inches 8.72/3.43

Width cm/inches 44.72/17.61

Depth cm/inches 79.55/31.32

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Description Specification
Recommended Range The limits under which 18°C to 27°C (64.4°F to 80.6°F) and 15°C (59°F) dew point
Operation equipment will operate the most
reliably while still achieving
reasonably energy-efficient
data center operation.
Continuous Allowable Data center economization 5°C to 35°C (50°F to 95°F) at 20% to 80% relative humidity with 21°C (69.8°F)
Range Operation techniques (e.g. free cooling) maximum dew point (maximum wet bulb temperature). De-rate maximum
may be employed to improve allowable dry bulb temperature at 1°C per 300m above 950m (1°F per 547 ft
overall data center efficiency. above 3117 ft).
These techniques may cause
equipment inlet conditions to
fall outside the recommended
range but still within the
continuously allowable range.
Equipment may be operated
without any hourly limitations in
this range.
Improbable Operation During certain times of the 35°C to 40°C (with no direct sunlight on the equipment) at -12°C minimum
(Excursion Limited) day or year, equipment inlet dew point and 8% to 85% relative humidity with 24°C maximum dew point (wet
conditions may fall outside the bulb temperature). Outside the continuously allowable range (10°C to 35°C),
continuously allowable range the system can operate down to 5°C or up to 40°C for a maximum of 10% of
but still within the expanded its annual operating hours. For temperatures between 35°C and 40°C (95°F
improbable range. Equipment to 104°F), de-rate maximum allowable dry bulb temperature by 1°C per 175m
operation is limited to ≤ 10% of above 950m (1°F per 319 ft above 3117 ft).
annual operating hours in this
range.
Temperature Gradient 20°C / hour (36°F / hour)
Altitude Max Operating 3,050m (10,000ft)

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Dell Information Technology Equipment is compliant with all currently applicable regulatory requirements for
Electromagnetic Compatibility, Product Safety, and Environmental Regulations where placed on market.
Detailed regulatory information and verification of compliance is available at the Dell Regulatory Compliance website.
https://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/regulatory-compliance

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