Dell EMC PowerMax Series Best Practices Guide

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Preface 9
Revision history...........................................................................................12
Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections 13
Best practices overview for AC power connections.................................... 14
Selecting the proper AC power connection procedure................................ 15
Procedure A: Working with the customer's electrician onsite..................... 16
Procedure A, Task 1: Customer's electrician...................................17
Procedure A, Task 2: Dell EMC Customer Engineer .......................18
Procedure A, Task 3: Customer's electrician.................................. 21
Procedure B: Verify and connect................................................................22
Procedure C: Obtain customer verification.................................................23
PDU labels.................................................................................................. 23
PDU label part number...................................................................23
Applying PDU labels.......................................................................25
Ground the cabinet.....................................................................................25
AC power specifications............................................................................. 27
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Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000 with PowerMaxOS 3

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