General Details

The Dell EMC PowerMax 8000 is an ultra-high-performance NVMe all-flash enterprise storage platform built for mission-critical workloads demanding extreme IOPS, low latency, and multisite resiliency.
Engineered with end-to-end NVMe, SCM support, multi-engine modular scalability, and high-availability controllers, the PowerMax 8000 supports demanding workloads such as large virtualization clusters, databases, analytics, and mainframe environments.
Offering support for hundreds of NVMe/SCM drives and multiple Bricks (controller engines), PowerMax 8000 scales into multi-petabyte ranges while delivering extremely high throughput and consistent microsecond latency.
With industry-leading data services—including inline deduplication, compression, SRDF synchronous/asynchronous replication, encryption, and non-disruptive operations—the array ensures maximum resiliency, efficiency, and data protection.

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Dell EMC PowerMax 8000 Key Features

Key Features

Extreme NVMe & SCM Performance

The PowerMax 8000 delivers multi-million IOPS and sub-100µs read latency through an end-to-end NVMe architecture with optional storage-class memory (SCM) for ultra-low latency tiers.

Multi-controller, multi-engine design ensures deterministic performance for mixed workloads across large enterprise deployments.

Massive Scalability & Capacity

Supports up to hundreds of NVMe SSDs and SCM drives, scaling into multi-petabyte raw capacity depending on configuration.

Modular “Brick” architecture allows smooth expansion of controller engines, drive enclosures, and capacity pools without downtime.

Enterprise-Class Resiliency & Data Services

Includes inline global deduplication, compression, encryption, snapshots, thin provisioning, and thin clones for space efficiency and protection.

Advanced replication capabilities include SRDF synchronous/asynchronous replication, active-active metro architectures, and multi-site disaster recovery.

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Dell EMC PowerMax 8000 Specifications

Architecture Multi-engine modular "Brick" design (controller engine pairs + NVMe drive enclosures)

Drive Support NVMe SSDs (2.5")
Optional Storage-Class Memory (SCM) drives
Up to hundreds of drives (based on configuration)

Maximum Capacity Multi-petabyte raw capacity depending on configuration

Performance Multi-million IOPS
Sub-100 microsecond read latency
High concurrent bandwidth for mixed workloads

Protocols NVMe/FC
NVMe/TCP
Fibre Channel
Mainframe connectivity
iSCSI (depending on configuration)

Data Services Inline deduplication & compression
Snapshots & thin clones
Thin provisioning
End-to-end encryption
SRDF synchronous/asynchronous replication