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PowerMax 8500 Mission-Critical Storage
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PowerMax 8500 Mission-Critical Storage

Dell's most secure and energy efficient mission critical storage.

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PowerMax 8500 Mission-Critical Storage
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Engineered for professionals who demand the best in performance, security, and design.

Extreme Mission-Critical Performance

Designed for the world’s most demanding workloads with up to 50% faster response times and ultra-low latency for business-critical applications.

Modern Scale-Out Architecture

Independently scale compute and storage while maintaining consistent performance across the system with advanced fabric architecture and intelligent resource balancing.

Integrated NVIDIA BlueField DPUs

Offload data services and security tasks from host CPUs using built-in DPU technology for greater efficiency, performance, and isolation.

AI-Driven Automation

Built-in machine learning enables predictive analytics, self-healing capabilities, and automated performance optimisation to reduce manual administration.

Advanced Cyber Resilience

Accelerate Zero Trust adoption with hardware root-of-trust, ransomware anomaly detection, secure snapshots, and rapid recovery at massive scale.

Industry-Leading Data Reduction

Maximize storage efficiency with Dell’s 5:1 data reduction guarantee for open systems and powerful compression and deduplication technologies.

High-Speed Replication

Achieve up to 17x more replication throughput with intelligent data mobility for seamless workload movement and disaster recovery readiness.

One-Click Lifecycle Management

Simplify operations with non-disruptive, one-click software updates and automated system optimisation that keeps infrastructure current and efficient.

Technical Specifications

Full specifications for the model

Workload Data Type Open systems, mainframe, IBM i, file, virtualized applications
Response Times Under 60 microseconds
MAX CAPACITY 18 PBe
Data Reduction Guarantee 5:1 data reduction (Open)
3:1 data reduction (Mainframe)
Nodes per Array (For Scaleout) 2 up to 16 nodes
Max Number of Devices / Secure Snapshots 64K LUNs / 65M snapshots

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