Dell Storage Family Portfolio
Dell Storage Family Portfolio
Come talk to Dell. As a solution partner, Dell offers the technology, know-how and experience
to deliver new workload-optimized architectures that simplify IT for any size enterprise.
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Designed from the ground up for virtualized environments, Dell’s modern storage architecture is scalable, easily
enhanced, and uncoupled from the limitations of any legacy architecture with intelligent tiering and innovative
licensing. It offers the ability to deeply integrate across the Dell enterprise end-to-end portfolio, deploying
common technologies across a family of storage products.
Dell Storage leverages state-of-the-art technologies to help you maximize efficiency while slashing storage costs
by converging servers and storage. Some businesses are expanding their existing SAN and NAS infrastructure
while others are deploying software-defined storage (SDS) solutions with hypervisor-integrated systems and
open-source solutions. Dell and its partners enable you to choose the best approach for your data center and
evolve at a pace that meets your business needs. To meet the demands of I/O intensive workloads, Dell’s unique
Data Progression technologies enable performance-optimized flash at the price of a hard disk solution. To run
your business, Dell can help you achieve a balance of price and performance with your virtualized or traditional
IT environments that can leverage the investments you’ve already made, thereby reducing your TCO. Lastly, a
Dell cost-optimized solution is ideal for your cold data storage as it will allow you to reduce the overall cost of
supporting your data.
The result?
You can optimize your data center infrastructure, grow storage on demand,
seamlessly adapt to business needs, and intelligently manage your growing
data to extract more business value while ensuring business continuity.
Dell Storage SC Series, including the Compellent™ SC8000, Dell Storage SC4020 and new Dell Storage SCv2000
Series, offers versatility and ongoing economic value for today’s most demanding data center environments. Built
on a virtualized, scalable pool of disks for block and file data, the flexible Storage Center architecture supports
various drive configurations including all-flash, hybrid-flash and traditional spinning disk solutions for enterprise
block- and file-oriented workloads.
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The Dell Storage SC4020 $25K AFA provides up to a 4x reduction in query time at a 31% lower cost than similarly-provisioned 15K HDD solutions for data
warehousing applications. Based on internal tests performed by Dell in December, 2014 with Storage Center v6.5.20, running data warehousing type applications
on SC4020 configured with flash versus hard disk drives. Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability.
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The SCv2000 Series is an affordable introduction into the SC Series of products — an ideal solution for small and
medium businesses needing entry-level storage. With a focus on high performance and high quality, the SCv2000
Series brings the most important storage features to the entry level, leveraging the design expertise of our enterprise
storage family. By minimizing the total cost of ownership over the life of the product, the SCv2000 Series offers the
opportunity to expand into the SC enterprise product line as business needs and data requirements grow.
The SCv2000 Series offers many of the SC family’s core software features including proven data protection, RAID
tiering to optimize capacity, data migration services, and multiprotocol connectivity. Offering the perfect blend of
high performance, versatile options and affordability, the SCv2000 balances the need for low-cost-per-terabyte
with the best performance and data protection of any entry-level array.2
The SCv2000 offers a variety of options to benefit entry-level environments without limiting the opportunities for
future growth. The series offers standard 2U, 12- or 24-drive models as well as the popular 5U dense enclosure
with 84 drives, all with supporting expansion enclosures. Software options include data protection features that
allow local and remote data protection within applications and consistent snapshots of virtual machines without
sacrificing performance. With up to 2000 snapshots and 500 replications³, this granular data protection minimizes
risk and helps meet even the most stringent recovery point objectives.
As part of the SC Series, the management of all SC products is streamlined into a single, consistent interface using
Enterprise Manager. From a single pane of glass, manage the SCv2000, and as your business grows, leverage the
same management expertise for the enterprise-level models.
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Based on February 2015 competitive review and Dell performance testing the SCv2000 FC array with 24 write-intensive SSDs using IOmeter with 8KB random
reads. Actual performance will vary on the workload and drive type.
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Based on February 2015 Dell testing of the SC6.6.1 SCv2000 array. Actual performance may vary based on the workload and drive type.
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Dell Fluid Cache for SAN is a complete, flexible application acceleration solution providing scalable I/O
performance for applications such as online transaction processing (OLTP) and virtual desktop infrastructure
(VDI). Offering an extremely high level of performance for the most demanding business critical data, this end-
to-end solution combines Dell Fluid Cache software, a cache-pool of Dell PowerEdge™ servers with PCIe
SSDs, connection to a highly available, low-latency network, and a Dell Storage SC Series SAN to meet database
and virtulization workload demands. This solution uses Dell PowerEdge Express Flash PCIe SSDs in PowerEdge
servers to form a cache pool layer of shared servers and Dell Storage Center tiering to move hot data closer
to computing resources. The Dell Fluid Cache for SAN solution significantly reduces storage latency while
safeguarding data through a shared cache pool that provides redundancy in the case of a cache node failure.
Fluid Cache for SAN ensures data is highly available with write-back caching technology that helps protect
data reads as well as writes from server to SAN. Coupled with full coherency to SC Series backend storage, the
solution can continue processing data even in the event of a compute drive or node outage.
Fluid Cache for SAN extends the power of Storage Center intelligent data placement from the SAN to the server.
By providing a single infrastructure for data at both high and low ends of the performance spectrum, Fluid
Cache for SAN with Storage Center 6.6 array software eliminates the tradeoffs between server performance and
full-featured SAN benefits such as reliability, manageability and data protection. A single management interface
using Enterprise Manager provides integrated capabilities like automated tiering, cache-aware snapshots, and
replication and compression, which brings data closer to compute and can dramatically reduce latency and
improve database response times by as much as 99%.4
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Based on a Dell lab test configuration using an 8-node cluster architecture of an OLTP Oracle workload simulation on a Dell hardware stack with Dell Fluid Cache for
SAN vs. the same environment without Dell Fluid Cache for SAN. Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability.
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Built on an advanced, peer-scaling EqualLogic™ storage architecture, the Dell Storage PS Series simplifies the
deployment and administration of consolidated storage environments, enabling efficient enterprise scalability
for both performance and capacity without forklift upgrades. Its powerful, intelligent and simplified management
improves productivity and streamlines IT infrastructure through unified block and file storage capabilities.
To address demanding workloads for small to midsized companies, the PS Series offers high-performing all-
flash and hybrid arrays, powered by newly designed
controllers and enhanced software. The PS Series
products include a comprehensive software portfolio
with easy-to-use array software, host integration tools
and all-inclusive licensing. In addition, the PS Series
arrays are interoperable and can be mixed and matched
to build tiered storage within a single storage pool or
across multiple pools.
Optimized to meet the needs of small business, departmental and branch office operations, the Dell Storage
MD3, MD and NX Series offer industry-leading capabilities of the PowerVault™ line. They are designed to offer
affordability without compromising enterprise-class features and reliability. The MD3, MD and NX Series provides
a range of storage options that include entry-level SAN and NAS appliances, and direct-attached storage (DAS)
expansion enclosures. The versatile MD3 Series brings enterprise-level features to meet the demands of high
performance and data protection. Enhanced premium features, mix-and-match hard drive configurations, and
the ability to select between a small form factor and a compact high-density form factor are just some of the
versatile options available with the MD3 Series. The NX Windows NAS Series offers solutions for companies who
have standardized on Microsoft® Windows Storage Server® (WSS) software, or customers who want the flexibility
to purchase software and capacity as their storage needs grow.
Dell’s SDS portfolio is designed to make IT more efficient, deliver new IT faster, and make technology simpler and
easier to use. Whatever your compute and storage needs involve, Dell and its partners can help you to choose
the best approach that will grow with your business. Dell SDS solutions offer hypervisor-integrated systems and
open-source solutions to deliver IT infrastructure quickly and efficiently for your future-ready data center.
Dell Storage FS Series with Fluid File System (FluidFS) software provides NAS for
the SC Series and PS Series platforms, while achieving best-in-class performance
with linear performance scaling and low-cost per file OPS. Both storage capacity
and performance can be scaled non-disruptively and independently within a single
namespace as requirements evolve, preventing the need for expensive forklift
upgrades. FluidFS also supports a variety of reliability features to ensure robust data
protection and high availability. Dell FluidFS can decrease the capacity needed for
common enterprise data by up to 48% by deduplicating and compressing redundant
data when it’s no longer needed.5
Charlie Collins
Operations Manager
ASU Advanced Computing Center
Arizona State University
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Based on May 2013 internal Dell analysis of the FS8600 NAS appliance with Fluid Data Reduction, using real-world home share environment comprised of Office files
(21%), .GZ (19%) and .flate (19%) files, among others.
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infrastructure.”
James Pardon
System Administrator
Yeovil District Hospital
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Dell ProSupport Enterprise Suite for PS Series, MD Series and SCv2000 Series
Dell ProSupport offers a suite of support services that enable you to choose support models based on how
you use technology and where you want to allocate resources. We recommend Dell ProSupport Plus with
SupportAssist for mission-critical systems or Dell ProSupport for premium hardware and software support
for your Dell Storage PS Series, MD Series or SCv2000 Series solution.6 With automated proactive technology,
SupportAssist can cut your troubleshooting steps by half and accelerate your time to resolution. For very large
data centers, we also offer ProSupport Flex for Data Center.
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“Dell seems to have hit a stride in integrating
its portfolio products and in developing a clear
message for the market in IDC’s opinion: a set of
feature-rich and affordable products with little to
no hidden costs.”
Amita Potnis
IDC
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#1 supplier of total storage (internal and external) worldwide in Q1 2015 based on total terabytes sold per the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker Q1
2015 using terabyte share data and excluding ODM.
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#1 iSCSI storage vendor worldwide by revenue and market share for 27 out of 29 (2008Q1-2015Q1) quarters per the information from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage
Systems Tracker Q1 2015.
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#1 external DAS vendor by vendor revenue share worldwide for the past nine quarters (2013Q1-2015Q1) per the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker Q1 2015.
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Based on a Dell sponsored paper by Storage Strategies NOW (http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/corporate~corp-comm~en/documents~dell-ssds-in-the-
enterprise-a-market-matures-outlook-report.pdf) “Enterprise Needs for Solid State Drives and Data Centers–A Market Matures,“ January 2015.