DELL EMC POWERSTORE CONFIG: PowerStore Initialization Guide & Dell PowerStore Storage Review

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In this episode of Krome Cast: Tech-it-out, we discuss and demonstrate how easy it is to configure and initialize the Dell EMC Powerstore 1000T storage appliance.

In this easy-to-consume technology podcast, we review the Dell Technologies Powerstore SAN and provide our audience with a step-by-step guide of the Powerstore setup, including how to present storage to the hosts, how to create protection policies, and how to create snapshot rules along with creating volume groups in PowerStore.

This PowerStore Initialization Guide & Dell PowerStore Storage Review podcast features Krome's Commercial Director, Sam Mager, along with Krome's Technical Director, Ben Randall, and the very noisy guest in the room is the Dell 1000T PowerStore storage appliance.

Please do let us know in the comments if you have any questions or would like to talk to us about your data storage requirements.

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Timestamps
00:00 Welcome and Introductions
00:40 Panoramic spin around the array and close up shots of the appliance
02:28 Introducing the appliance and making comparisons to Dell’s previous midrange storage
02:48 Discussions around how easy it is to initialize and configure
03:21 Steps to follow pre-installation including switch configuration
04:46 Recommendations and tools available to ensure a smooth configuration
05:35 Configuration of the array
06:11 Pre-requisites and requirements for switching configuration of the PowerStore
08:23 Discussions around the configuration of switching in comparison to previous Dell midrange
10:00 Live demonstration begins, showing step-by-step initialization using the PowerStore GUI
10:51 Discussions around SAN capacity, dedupe and compression ratios
11:16 Demonstrating adding a host group
12:43 Creating Protection Policies and setting up snapshot rules
15:14 Creating multiple volume groups and assigning the protection policy
17:23 Overview of the dashboard
18:34 Migration from other storage arrays
19:34 Block or file considerations
21:04 Thanks and close

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