How PowerScale OneFS 9.16 Scales AI Cloud Infrastructure
Dell, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
Dell PowerScale OneFS 9.16 supports up to 500 tenants per cluster, with new isolation and management features for AI cloud providers.
Dell's PowerScale OneFS 9.16, a storage engine in the Dell AI Data Platform, raises multitenancy from 50 access zones to up to 500 tenants on a single cluster, aimed at AI cloud and neocloud providers.
Tenant-aware snapshots and quotas, shared network pools with source-IP routing, and S3 bucket ownership policies keep tenants separated while simplifying onboarding.
Graceful pAPI request rate limiting protects the management plane, and an offline, file-based workflow registers a whole cluster's licenses at once.
OneFS 9.16 also supports RPC-over-TLS (RFC 9289) with mTLS to encrypt NFS traffic without a Kerberos deployment, though Kerberos remains supported.