A Dell EMC PowerStore T cluster is designed for scale-out functionality, allowing multiple appliances to be managed as a single resource pool. An appliance is synonymous with a base enclosure. The architecture supports starting with a single appliance (base enclosure) and expanding the cluster by adding more. According to the official Dell PowerStore platform documentation, a single cluster can scale up to a maximum of four appliances. This enables linear scaling of both performance and capacity as an organization's needs grow.

A. 3: While a cluster can be configured with three base enclosures, this is not the maximum supported limit.

B. 1: A single base enclosure is the minimum required to form a cluster, not the maximum.

D. 2: A cluster can contain two base enclosures, but the system is designed to scale beyond this number.

1. Dell Technologies. (2023

April). Dell PowerStore: Introduction to the Platform White Paper. Page 10

Section 3.2 "Scale-out". "A PowerStore cluster can scale up to four appliances."

2. Dell Technologies. (2023). Dell PowerStore Planning Guide for PowerStoreOS 3.0 to 3.5. Page 10

Section "PowerStore clusters". "A PowerStore cluster can contain from one to four appliances."

3. Dell Technologies. (2023). Dell PowerStore Manager Administration Guide for PowerStoreOS 3.5. Page 13

Section "Clusters". "A cluster is a group of one to four PowerStore appliances that are managed as a single unit."