Dell EMC PowerMax Series Best Practices Guide

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Preface
10 Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000 with PowerMaxOS

Dell EMC PowerMax Series Specifications

General

Model	PowerMax 2000, PowerMax 8000
Operating System	PowerMaxOS
Latency	Sub-millisecond
Storage Type	Flash
Drive Types	NVMe Flash
Data Services	Thin Provisioning, Quality of Service (QoS)
Connectivity	FC, iSCSI
Replication	Remote Replication (Synchronous, Asynchronous)
Management	Unisphere
Form Factor	Rack-mounted
Host Interface	Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, FCoE, InfiniBand
Data Protection	RAID, Snapshots, Replication
Architecture	Scale-out
RAID Levels	RAID 5, RAID 6
Maximum IOPS	Up to 15 million (PowerMax 8000)
Power Supply	Redundant power supplies