Dell PowerStoreOS 4.1: Improved Performance, Security & More

PowerStore adjusts to your changing IT needs so that your storage complements rather than detracts from contemporary workloads

Dell PowerStore customers worldwide, PowerStoreOS 4.0 increased performance, resilience, and efficiency

PowerStoreOS 4.0 by providing even more improvements in networking, security, data protection, performance monitoring, file management, and other areas

The Quality of Service (QoS) capability is being extended to accommodate file resources with PowerStoreOS 4.1

PowerStoreOS 4.1, you can now make secure snapshots of files on file systems and thin clones

This provides a level of security against ransom attacks and inadvertent deletion of snapshots together with the parent file system or thin clone

PowerStore 4.0 brought improvements to capacity accounting at the block, storage container, appliance, cluster, and virtual machine levels

All of the file systems and thin clones on the NAS server are combined to form the NAS server data

PowerStore manages the migration session’s creation, monitoring, and administration

Even with Storage Direct installed, users can now tag several storage networks for replication purposes in the PowerStoreOS 4.1 release

PowerStore and PowerProtect, Storage Direct Protection offers users a streamlined native backup solution via a single administration user interface

Network devices use the industry-standard Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) to advertise their identification, capabilities, and other information on the local area network (LAN)

IPv6 networks are supported by PowerStore for management, block storage connectivity, and PowerStore NAS server access

PowerStoreOS 4.1 provides Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) with Common Access Card or Personal Identity Verification cards (CAC/PIV)

Advanced offload commands like copy offload, space reclamation, and zero offload are supported by PowerStore for SCSI and NVMeoF