Dell Primary Storage

Dell Technologies is a well-known leader in enterprise storage technology with a wide range of array platforms to support any type of workload.

As Dell's first ever Titanium Black partner, we have over 25 years of partnership expertise to design, test and deliver best-in-class, integrated solutions that accelerate IT optimization and drive business forward for our customers.

WWT's Advanced Technology Center (ATC) supports the latest in Dell Technologies storage platforms. Within the ATC, you can get hands-on access to the following technologies:

PowerMax

PowerMax 2000 – Single engine configuration with SCM drives
PowerMax 2000 – Dual engine configuration
Lab: Dell PowerMax: Unisphere Management

PowerFlex

PowerFlex Appliance - 4 Storage Node configuration with Dell switches
PowerFlex Rack - 8 Storage Nodes designed with two protection domains and two storage pools showcasing a high-performance medium granularity storage pool and a compression-enabled fine granularity pool. Bundled with 4 Dell compute nodes running VMware ESXi.
Lab: Dell PowerFlex: Container Storage
Lab: Dell PowerFlex: Operations Management Foundations

PowerStore

PowerStore 1000T
PowerStore 5000X
Clustered PowerStore 5000T and 500T
PowerStore 9000T
Lab: Dell PowerStore: PowerStore Manager Lab
Lab: Dell PowerStore Ansible Lab

*Note that unless specified, systems are currently configured as a single appliance cluster but can be reconfigured to showcase PowerStore's clustering capabilities with multiple appliances accessible within a single cluster.

Unity XT

Unity XT 880F
Lab: Dell Unity XT: Unisphere Management Lab

PowerScale

PowerScale F600 (3 node)
PowerScale F900 (3 node)

Isilon

Isilon F800 (4 node)

To get access to these technologies through our ATC, connect with our experts.

John Lochausen

WWT

Technical Solution Architect

Bryan Peroutka

WWT

Technical Solutions Arch II

Bruce Harris

WWT

CSA

Pete Richardson

WWT

Consulting Solutions Architect

Donny Bolton

WWT

Consulting Solutions Architect

Derik Heidemann

WWT

Manager, ATC Lab Services Storage Team

Jeff Fonke

WWT

Practice Manager - Primary Storage and Cloud Data

Nathan Foster

WWT

Technical Solutions Arch II

Kelsey Kondrad

WWT

Sr. Global Partner Manager

Learn more about Primary Storage and Dell

Primary Storage Briefing

The primary storage landscape has changed drastically over the last three years. The mass adoption of flash storage, the movement of workloads to the cloud and the emergence of new fabric technologies with NVMe are all trends that are reshaping how we go about selecting primary storage in the data center.

Jul 14, 2022

1 min read

Lab ATC

Dell EMC PowerMax: Unisphere Management Lab

In this self-paced lab you will be introduced to the Unisphere UI for PowerMax. Topics covered include system settings, home page, performance reporting and provisioning.

Apr 20, 2020

1 min read

Lab Development Platforms

Dell EMC PowerFlex: Container Storage Lab

Welcome to WWT's Container Storage Lab utilizing Dell EMC's software-defined storage platform, PowerFlex. In this lab you will work with Kubernetes, utilizing persistent storage from the PowerFlex platform to explore the CSI Driver capabilities. This lab is estimated to take under 1 hour to complete. The intended lab audience is a systems engineer with a basic understanding of PowerFlex and Kubernetes components.

Feb 13, 2022

1 min read

Lab ATC

Dell EMC PowerFlex: Operations Management Foundations Lab

Welcome to WWT's introduction to PowerFlex Operations Foundations Lab. This lab is designed to provide an introduction to the PowerFlex software-defined storage platform with a brief history, review of the components of PowerFlex, overview of the dashboard interface, provisioning, and local data protection.

Sep 1, 2021

2 min read

Lab ATC

Dell EMC PowerStore: PowerStore Manager Lab

In this self-paced lab you will be introduced to the all new PowerStore Management UI. In this lab we will walk through at a high level the Dashboard, Monitoring, Compute, Storage, Protection, Migration, Hardware and Settings views.

May 5, 2020

1 min read

Lab ATC

Dell EMC PowerStore Ansible Lab: Managing Your Array With Ansible Playbooks

Welcome to WWT's introduction to Ansible automation for the Dell PowerStore storage platform. In this lab, you will learn the basics of how to automate fundamental Dell EMC PowerStore storage array administrative tasks utilizing Ansible. This lab is estimated to take under 1 hour to complete. The intended lab audience is a systems engineer with a basic understanding of PowerStore and Ansible components.

Sep 15, 2020

1 min read

Lab ATC

Dell EMC Unity XT: Unisphere Management Lab

In this self-paced lab you will be introduced to the Unisphere UI for Unity XT. Topics covered include Settings, Dashboard and System categories.

Apr 7, 2020

1 min read

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Event webinar

Cyber Vault: A Component of a Cyber Resilience Strategy

Cyber attacks threaten every market, and the impact of being unable to recover critical data and resume business operations after an attack can be devastating. Threats are causing trillions of dollars worth of damage. Protecting your business starts with protecting your data. In this discussion, we highlight our approach to Cyber Resilience and its ability to recover the most advanced workloads from ransomware attacks.

May 11, 2021 • 12 pm (CDT)

Article Dell Primary Storage

First Impressions With PowerMax 2500 and PowerMax 8500

PowerMax and its ancestors have been the bedrock of the enterprise data center for three decades. This year sees the latest version of the platform with numerous new features that make it a significant upgrade. Read on to learn about these features and gain the advantage of our first-hand experience with the system.

Jul 19, 2022

9 min read

Article Thales CypherTrust Manager

Dell PowerStore 3.0 First Impressions Review

Dell announced PowerStoreOS 3.0 at Dell Tech World 2022. Now, in July, it becomes generally available for customer use and will be the version shipping on all new arrays. Read on to learn about what's new and our impressions of it as we tested it alongside Dell's engineering team.

Jul 19, 2022

7 min read

Lab ATC

Dell EMC PowerStore: PowerStore Manager Lab

May 5, 2020

1 min read

Lab ATC

Dell EMC PowerMax: Unisphere Management Lab

In this self-paced lab you will be introduced to the Unisphere UI for PowerMax. Topics covered include system settings, home page, performance reporting and provisioning.

Apr 20, 2020

1 min read

What's new

Event webinar

Public Sector Tech Talk E06: Cyber Resiliency: How to Effectively Recover from a Cyber or Ransomware Attack

Cyber attacks against government agency and critical infrastructure networks are at an all-time high. Whether conducted by large-scale nation-state actors or "lone wolf" hackers, the data and information that resides in these networks is mission-critical and must be protected. With the release of the Cyber Executive Order (EO) in May and the $9.8 billion FY22 budget request for cybersecurity funding – just for federal civilian agencies – the Biden Administration is taking cybersecurity seriously. But what can agencies do when the inevitable happens? How can they most efficiently and effectively recover after a breach or attack? This episode focuses on cyber resiliency and the actions agencies can take to recover quickly.

Jun 29, 2021 • 1 pm (CDT)

Event webinar

Cyber Vault: A Component of a Cyber Resilience Strategy

May 11, 2021 • 12 pm (CDT)

Article Thales CypherTrust Manager

Dell PowerStore 3.0 First Impressions Review

Jul 19, 2022

7 min read

Article Dell Primary Storage

First Impressions With PowerMax 2500 and PowerMax 8500

Jul 19, 2022

9 min read

Video Dell PowerStore

Dell PowerStore 3.0 MetroVolume Demo

PowerStore 3.0 introduces native active/active metro replication for VMware to the PowerStore platform. This provides users with the ability to protect critical workloads from array or site failure. This video demonstrates the simple setup of MetroVolume and failure testing with workload running against the system.

Jul 19, 2022

8:31

Article Dell PowerStore

Dell Technologies World Recap Storage Edition

In this article, WWT engineering resources will recap our findings from Dell Technologies World 2022. We will unpack the updates that are related to Primary Storage and Cloud Data Management.

May 17, 2022

6 min read

Article Dell Primary Storage

Ransomware Protection With PowerMax

Ransomware is a threat to customers of all sizes, from coffee shops' point-of-sale systems to large multinationals. The best solution is multifaceted, but is it possible to get started today with what you have? Read on to find out how PowerMax can protect your data with tools included in the basic array software suite.

Mar 1, 2022

6 min read

Video ATC

PowerStore Intra-Cluster Migration

A powerful feature of Dell Technologies' PowerStore array is the ability to non-disruptively move data from one appliance to another within a cluster. The primary volumes as well as any snapshots will move as part of the migration. This video demonstrates the intra-cluster migration functionality and a snapshot restore once on the target system.

Feb 15, 2022

6:58

Lab Development Platforms

Dell EMC PowerFlex: Container Storage Lab

Feb 13, 2022

1 min read

Lab ATC

Dell EMC PowerFlex: Operations Management Foundations Lab

Sep 1, 2021

2 min read

Article ATC

Dell PowerMax Performance During Upgrade

In the WWT Advanced Technology Center (ATC), we needed to do a code upgrade on a Dell PowerMax 2000 All-Flash Array. We decided to do some performance tests against the array during this code upgrade. Dell Support performed the upgrade while an ATC Lab Services storage architect checked the performance of the array during the upgrade process. We wanted to determine if any impact occurred to the array during a routine code upgrade. We had several customers who were interested in the outcome of this test for their own upgrade processes in their production environments.

Feb 17, 2021

3 min read

Lab ATC

Dell EMC PowerStore Ansible Lab: Managing Your Array With Ansible Playbooks

Sep 15, 2020

1 min read

Lab ATC

Dell EMC PowerStore: PowerStore Manager Lab

May 5, 2020

1 min read

Lab ATC

Dell EMC PowerMax: Unisphere Management Lab

In this self-paced lab you will be introduced to the Unisphere UI for PowerMax. Topics covered include system settings, home page, performance reporting and provisioning.

Apr 20, 2020

1 min read

Lab ATC

Dell EMC Unity XT: Unisphere Management Lab

In this self-paced lab you will be introduced to the Unisphere UI for Unity XT. Topics covered include Settings, Dashboard and System categories.

Apr 7, 2020

1 min read

Article Dell Primary Storage

Experience Next-level Storage Performance in WWT's Advanced Technology Center

The addition of nine Storage Class Memory (SCM) drives within our ATC provides customers hands-on access to even faster storage speeds through end-to-end NVMe architecture.

Mar 26, 2020

3 min read