Fluid Data Architecture
A Dell Fluid Data architecture enables Dell’s network storage to manage enterprise data at a more granular level. Details about each block of data are captured in action, providing real-time system intelligence. A powerful data management and movement engine uses this information to actively store, migrate and protect data efficiently and cost-effectively.
With a Dell Fluid Data architecture, Dell breaks through the boundaries of traditional data storage systems to deliver solutions with the future built in. Business applications are implemented faster, information to make decisions is available when it’s needed, new technologies are readily adopted and deployed, and data is protected against downtime and disaster.
Dell Fluid Data Architecture Delivers
- Breakthrough efficiency—buy fewer drives and use more Tier 3 storage, saving on power and space
- Intelligent storage automation—simplify your IT infrastructure with zero-touch management
- Single platform scalability—scale on demand with a persistent, technology-independent platform
- Continuous data protection—protect data with space-efficient snapshots and multi-site replication
- Best-in-class comprehensive enterprise support—like having a Dell Storage expert on staff
Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.0 — Next-Generation Architecture with Built-in Investment Protection
Storage Center 6.0 for Series 40 controllers provides a new foundation for the future of Compellent’s enterprise storage, delivering the enhanced efficiency and agility SAN administrators expect from a migration to 64-bit while extending the virtualized storage capabilities of Compellent’s Storage Center SAN.
Without impacting datacenter uptime and leveraging your existing hardware, Storage Center 6.0 increases the value of Dell’s Fluid Data technology by delivering several key capabilities for your datacenter that augment the compelling benefits of Storage Center 5.4:
- Storage Center 6.0 extends Compellent’s Data Progression capability to deliver up to 80 percent reduction in storage TCO.
- For enterprises that require greater than 75TB in total capacity, Storage Center 6.0 can deliver up to 13% additional storage TCO savings.1
With advanced tiering, thin provisioning and replication features, the modular design of the Dell Compellent SAN enables existing Compellent data centers to realize immediate improvements by upgrading to the new firmware without a rip-and-replace process. SC 6.0 extends Compellent’s promise to put data in the right place, at the right time, for the right cost.
Storage Center 6.0 also expands on Dell and VMware’s long-standing integration and engineering collaboration. As customers accelerate their move to dynamic data centers and cloud computing environments, New VMware specific enhancements for Storage Center 6.0 include:
- Dell Compellent VMware vSphere™ Storage APIs for Array Integration offer full copy offload and hardware-assisted locking features that complement Compellent’s existing VAAI integration capabilities.
- Dell Compellent Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) for Site Recovery Manager 5 is available and supports new SRM 5 features such as automated failback from a disaster and new work flows for planned migration and downtime.
- Dell Compellent vSphere 5 Client Plug-In and Enterprise Manager vSphere 5 Integration allows VMware administrators to efficiently manage Compellent virtualized pools of storage resources from either the VMware vSphere 5 or Compellent Enterprise Manager console, adding flexibility and greatly reducing administration time.
Storage Center 6.0 for Series 40 takes Compellent to the next level: it is the next generation architecture with built-in investment protection.
Dell EqualLogic PS Series Architecture — Designed to Lower the Cost of Consolidated Storage Without a Loss of Capabilities.
Dell’s EqualLogic storage solutions deliver the benefits of consolidated networked storage in a self-managing, iSCSI storage area network that is affordable and easy to use, regardless of scale. By eliminating complex tasks and enabling fast and flexible storage provisioning, these solutions dramatically reduce the costs of storage acquisition and ongoing operations.
Patented page-based volume management enables automatic movement of data while it is in use. This technology provides the foundation for online expansion, automatic configuration and load balancing, performance optimization, and advanced software functionalities — all with continuous access to data. That means no downtime for increasing capacity, moving data between storage tiers, or load balancing storage, and most management tasks are handled by the array, not the administrator. As a result, the EqualLogic PS Series of arrays makes enterprise-class shared-block storage practical for all servers and applications.
With its unique peer storage architecture, the PS Series delivers high performance and availability in a flexible environment with low cost of ownership. Whether you are seeking to consolidate storage, migrate from DAS or NAS, streamline data protection, or expand capacity, the PS Series of proven, self-managing storage arrays will meet the demanding requirements of your business-critical environment.
Unique Peer Storage Architecture
With the patented peer storage architecture — where “peer” means collaboration and equal partnership in a single, simple architecture — components and arrays work together to share resources, distribute loads, and collaborate for maximum performance, total data protection, and seamless scaling. This architecture enables the array to perform numerous functions that eliminate complexity, including:
- A fully functional array within 60 minutes after opening the box.
- Continuous resource monitoring and automatic management of configuration, load-balancing, capacity expansion, storage pools and tiers, volume snapshots, and replication.
- Online, on-demand capacity expansion without disruption, including dynamic allocation of disk space, connectivity, security, and performance for every application.
- Comprehensive system monitoring, proactive disk drive scanning, group event notifications, multi-pathing, instant recovery, and disaster protection.
- A comprehensive toolkit to facilitate the deployment, ongoing management, and protection of PS Series SANs in Microsoft Windows OS environments.
Modular Design and Enterprise Reliability
With the modular design of the EqualLogic PS Series, you can buy only the amount of storage needed today and seamlessly add additional arrays in the future without disrupting business operations. Enterprise reliability features include fault tolerance; fully redundant, hot-swappable components (including disks, controllers, network interfaces, power supplies, and cooling fans); self-tuning, battery-backed, mirrored controller caches; hot sparing; support for RAID 5/10/50; and 99.999% availability.
Standards-Based Design Means Savings and Full Compatibility
Dell’s EqualLogic storage solutions leverage both the cost advantages and management simplicity of Ethernet technology. EqualLogic PS Series arrays use industry-standard protocols, disk drives, and network interfaces to provide low connection costs and high performance access to data. In addition, EqualLogic storage solutions support all leading operating systems and host applications, eliminating application incompatibility problems.
