COMPELLENT SAN

WHAT IS COMPELLENT?

Compellent Storage Center is a highly scalable, feature-rich storage area network with integrated hardware and software that improves utilization, automates replication and speeds data recovery; managed by a single user interface streamlining all storage administration.

Storage Center Hardware

Modular hardware platform offers flexible, highly scalable growth.

An open-systems hardware architecture enables simultaneous mixing and matching of server/host interface or drive technology, providing the flexibility to use the preferred technology for your business. This architecture is designed to enable you to continually integrate new storage technologies as they become available without replacing or discarding existing hardware and software investments. Instead of guessing about the future, you simply add capacity or connectivity to meet your business needs.

  • Technology Independence - mix and match any server/host interface or drive technology
  • Flexible Capacity and Connectivity - add capacity, connectivity and performance incrementally to match demand
  • Highly Available, Standards-based - no single point of failure architecture designed to deliver investment protection

Storage Center Software

Integrated storage features providing functionality previously available only in high-end systems.

Compellent's Dynamic Block Architecture (DBA) enables sophisticated and fully-integrated storage capabilities by managing data at the block level for efficient space utilization, quick recovery and affordable information life cycle management.

Storage Center's advanced virtualization manages all of your disk space as a centralized pool, and when demand increases, you simply add storage online. Your servers can boot from this centralized pool, eliminating the need for internal disk drives and the practice of dedicating storage upfront - enabling you to buy less expensive servers and reduce overall storage purchases.

  • Virtualization allows efficient utilization of storage resources and boosts performance by managing disks as a single pool and presenting disk resources to any server.
  • Cache boosts overall performance and availability through multi-threaded read ahead capabilities and mirrored write cache
  • Copy-Mirror-Migrate makes copies or mirrors and migrate volumes without impacting users. Volumes can be migrated between different disk types, RAID levels, or storage enclosures.
  • Boot from SAN reduces capital and labor costs by allowing diskless servers to share storage resources and boot from the SAN instead of internal storage.
  • Heterogeneous OS supports simultaneous operating systems without server agents.
  • PhoneHome provides proactive system monitoring for rapid issue identification and resolution
  • LUN Masking controls what server has access to what LUN

Compellent's Storage Center Applications place enterprise storage capabilities at customers' fingertips through a suite of powerful management applications that can be tailored by Compellent's business partners to meet each customer's individual needs and requirements to store, manage and recover data.

  • Dynamic Capacity™ enables customers to use significantly less storage and improve overall performance by allocating space only when data is physically stored.
  • Data Progression™ enables customers to lower their total storage costs by automatically tracking usage and migrating data between storage classes based on user defined rules.
  • Data Instant Replay™ enables customers to recover from data hazards in minutes by creating any number of space-efficient Replays (snapshots) that restore data.
  • Remote Instant Replay™ enables customers to replicate data quickly and affordably by creating space-efficient copies of data at multiple locations simultaneously and reliably.
  • Enterprise Manager enables accurate planning, forecasting, and budgeting with comprehensive management and performance reports

Dynamic Capacity™

Use significantly less storage and improve overall performance by allocating space only when data is physically written.

By only consuming physical disk when data is written, as opposed to allocating capacity upfront, Dynamic Capacity cuts your overall storage expenditures. You can easily allocate volumes of any size that only consume the physical disk needed - dramatically reducing spending, increasing availability, and boosting performance.

You no longer need to over allocate and over commit idle disk resources to avoid painful volume expansion operations. Managing actual instead of allocated space also improves the performance of operations such as copy, replication, and rebuilds.

Dynamic Capacity Benefits:

  • Reduce disk spending by adding storage incrementally
  • Eliminate downtime due to volume expansion
  • Automate capacity planning
  • Increase system performance with disk operations based only on written data.

Data Progression™

Lower your total storage costs by automatically tracking usage and migrating data between storage classes based on user defined rules.

Half of all data is modified infrequently. Data Progression solves this by automatically tracking usage and migrating data between storage classes based on policies you define. Retain frequently accessed data on high performance storage devices, and infrequently accessed data on lower cost storage devices. By optimizing across storage classes and purchasing less high-performance storage, overall storage expenditures are reduced.

Data Progression Benefits:

  • Dramatically reduce storage expenditures by maximizing use across a range of storage classes
  • Automate data movement to the right storage class based on real-time usage
  • Highly affordable information lifecycle management
  • All applications and operating systems work without modification
  • Match business requirements to storage classes

Data Instant Replay™

Recover from data hazards rapidly by creating any number of space-efficient replays that restore data in minutes.

Data Instant Replay creates space-efficient copies, called Replays, to provide extremely fast recovery from any type of data hazard. Intuitive templates enable you to easily create automated Replay schedules that meet your requirements, without restraints from your storage system. Storage Center's efficient architecture allows the creation of a high number of Replays that consume minimal storage space. Use Replays to test new applications or new versions of operating systems on actual data without risk.

Data Instant Replay Benefits:

  • Fast recovery from data hazards by rolling back time
  • Easy to implement policy-based schedules
  • Create Replays at any time interval using minimal space
  • Minimize system downtime
  • Reduce dependence on tape based backup
  • Create boot volumes for large server farms consuming minimal disk space
  • Test new software on actual data without risk

Remote Instant Replay™

Quickly and affordably replicate data by creating simultaneous, space-efficient copies of data at multiple locations.

Remote Instant Replay in combination with Data Instant Replay provides powerful business continuance. Create any combination of point in time copies, called Replays, between local and remote data centers. Establish frequent local Replays, with periodic replication to a remote location, implementing business continuance practices previously too expensive or complex. Create multiple online remote copies automatically and simultaneously at multiple sites with Remote Instant Replay and leapfrog traditional tape recovery strategies.

Remote Instant Replay Benefits:

  • Remote Instant Replay brings remote replication to companies that previously considered off-site replication too complex and expensive
  • Online copies of data at multiple simultaneous locations redefines traditional backup
  • Remote replication of individual Replays or entire volumes; matched or split Replay increments between sites
  • Flexible user interface creates powerful Replay templates without complex scripting, enables setup in 6 clicks
  • Bandwidth simulation and shaping reduce upfront and ongoing bandwidth requirements
  • Easily verify disaster recovery online without downtime

Enterprise Manager

Accurately plan, forecast, and budget storage resources with comprehensive management and performance reports.

For many businesses, incomplete storage resource analysis results in poor financial control. Planned purchases reduce capital and operating expenses while improving system performance. With Enterprise Manager, large and small businesses alike can quickly identify, monitor and analyze trends. Customizable tools present storage system resources, consumption, and performance information in easily understood formats. Comprehensive graphs present real-time and historical data.

Enterprise Manager Benefits:

  • Web-based intuitive interface to quickly analyze virtually any system parameter over any time interval
  • Identify performance and capacity trends
  • Visual representation of detailed performance and resource data
  • Accurately assess storage resource utilization and costs
  • Manage more storage with existing staff
  • Enhance capital expenditure planning with trend reports

Storage Center Management

A single, unified interface spans all of the underlying technology, placing enterprise storage at your fingertips.

Regardless of the size or configuration of your system, Storage Center effortlessly automates both routine and complex storage tasks. It reduces the cost of licensing, support and administration - vastly expanding the capabilities of a single administrator and effortlessly automating all of your storage resources.

  • Rapid Setup and Installation - System is fully configured and ready for production in minutes.
  • Single Interface - Intuitive interface minimizes training and eliminates need for specialized skills.
  • Streamlined Administration - Core administrative tasks are accomplished and automated through our integrated toolset.
  • Storage Wizards - Complex allocation and administration functions are easily accomplished with wizards to guide the process.
  • System and Device Monitoring - Storage consumption and usage trends are instantly monitored and displayed.
  • Remote Management - Remote management features enable administration from anywhere at anytime.