Dell Compellent

Dynamically
unify your
Storage
Center

Business moves faster

every day
Most companies spend
70% or more of their time,
money and mindshare
keeping things going.
Tina Nunno, VP Gartner

47x

1.8 trillion

850%

Data growth rate in

20111

GB of info created and

replicated in 20112

Gartner predicted growth

of installed TBs in 20163

Legacy storage makes it hard to keep pace

Adaptability
Jim DiMarzio,
Mazda

We used to spend 75% of our

time on maintenance and just
25% on R&D. Dell has allowed us
to do a complete U-turn.

Cost
Mike Robers,
Heineken

I couldnt afford to replace

my storage every 3 years or the
support costs for off-warranty
equipment.

Staff
Chris Elam,
Arnold

I dont need to work nights and

weekends because everything is
hot swappable. I can upgrade
during business hours.

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The right storage architecture is fluid

Constantly adapts to change

Transforms a rigid cost center to a flexible
productivity center
Shifts IT from operation to innovation

A decade of storage innovation

Compellent
founded
2002

2003

Replication,
Microsoft
integration
2004

2005

Fast Track
2008

Licensing
Automated
innovation, iSCSI,
tiered storage
thin provisioning,
Replay architecture

2009

Copilot
Optimize,
VMware
Integration
2011

Live Volume,
Thin Import

Compellent provides a fluid answer to the virtual era

2012
Unifying file
and block

What can Dell Compellent do for you?

Focus on your business needs instead of worrying about the
reliability of your storage
Grow without limitations

Budget for your business by optimizing your backend storage costs

Sound too good to be true?

Let us show you what we mean.
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Focus on your business needs instead of worrying about

the reliability of your storage
Resilient hardware leverages 12
generations of design experience
Redundant controllers and built-in,
fully integrated features provide local
and remote protection

Field-tested design delivers 99.999%

availability across 26M+ hours of
uptime
Industry-leading approach to Copilot
Support has delivered a 96.77%
customer satisfaction rating

Resiliency
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Grow without limitations

Easily scale across block and file
without disruption or rip-andreplace
Pay only once for features with
perpetual software licensing
Continually optimize
performance and data placement
as the system scales

Agility
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Budget for your business by optimizing your backend

storage costs
Optimize cost and data
placement for block and file
with industry-leading tiering

Minimize time spent managing

storage with intuitive and
automated tools and reporting
95% of all Compellent systems
ever sold are still in active use

Efficiency
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Dynamically unify your Storage Center

Controller: SC8000
Combines the benefits of
proven Dell Fluid Data
architecture with 12
generations of resilient Dell
hardware design
Provides improved
performance and enhanced
memory
Delivers more efficient
power and cooling for OpEx
savings

Enclosures: SC200, SC220

Transition to Dell
hardware for Storage
Center expansion
enclosures
New support for 2.5
SSDs in 3.5 enclosure

Dell FluidFS: FS8600

Efficient solution with single platform for both file and block
Scale-out NAS that easily grows along with your business

Single distributed namespace across up to 4 FS8600 appliances and 1PB to meet

performance and capacity needs
Resilient file solution for mixed environments with support for NFS and CIFS

Extends the benefits of Dell Fluid File System to Compellent customers

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Storage
Center

Storage Center

Next-generation architecture with built-in investment protection

Virtualization

Intelligence
Simplify
management
Ideal for
virtual servers

METADATA
Data about
the data.

Agile + scalable
Block-level
intelligence
Manages data
inside
the volume

Tier 2

Automation
Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3

Utilization
Sophisticated
data
movement

Automated,
optimized data
placement

Disks not
purchased

Unused allocation
Data
Data

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No waste
when
storing data
Buy fewer
disk drives

Block and file

(FC, iSCSI,
FCoE, NFS,
CIFS)
No forklift
upgrade and
perpetual
licensing

Automated, intelligent software built on the Fluid

Data architecture

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Highly optimized 64-bit storage

platform

Enhanced efficiency and agility through

built-in intelligence

Automated tiered storage

Automatically move data based on how its

used

Advanced thin provisioning

Use space only when data is written

Dynamic storage migration

Shift volumes between systems for high

availability and continuous access to data

True storage virtualization

Create a dynamic pool of shared storage

available to all servers

Continuous snapshots and thin

replication

Space-efficient Replays save disk space and

speed recovery

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Agile hardware architecture

Non-disruptively scale through the enterprise

Enterprise Manager
200TB

Scale Up

20TB

Managed as
one system

500TB

1000TB+

Live Volume Layer

London

New York

Scale Out

Grow without limitations

Add any number of drives at any
time no downtime!

Scale up and scale out on unified

file and block platform

Performance scales automatically

Auto restripe no manual copying

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Non-disruptive change
management

Single platform scalability

Industrys only persistent hardware platform

Virtualize All
Hardware
Ports
Controllers
Disks

Scale-out
NAS
Exceptional Scalability

500TB

Performance
200TB
20TB

London

Perpetual
Licensing
Model

New York

Scale Up and Scale Out

Non-Disruptive
Change Management

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Technology Independence
Server Connectivity
Fibre Channel
iSCSI
FCoE
Drives
SSD
Fibre Channel
SAS

Persistent software design

Only buy software once

FC drives
SATA drives
2Gb FC

1TB SATA
1Gb iSCSI
FATA drives
4Gb FC

3Gb SAS
SSD
SAS drives

10Gb iSCSI
2.5 drives
FCoE
6Gb SAS

Single scalable platform

Enterprise
Midrange
Entry-level

Model A

Model B

Traditional SAN

No forklift upgrades ever

Eliminate technology risk
mix and match at any time

Perpetual software
licensing model

Non-disruptive controller
software upgrades

Future-proof your
investment

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Model C

Breakthrough efficiency

More efficient use of every disk in your system

Unified block
and file

Thin
Provisioning

Automated
Tiered Storage

Block-Level Intelligence

Free Space
Recovery

Thin Write

Block-Level
Virtualization

Fast Track

Performance
RAID 10 Write
RAID 5/6 Read

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SSD Killer App

End-to-end virtualization

Storage that improves virtual environments

Virtualization benefits

Aggressive integration and

support for server virtualization
High performance without
tuning
Simplified capacity planning

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Change RAID levels at any time

Auto re-striping when
expanding

Scale efficiency and increase

agility with VMware
vStorage APIs for Array
Integration (VAAI) Primitives

Radically improve utilization

Use fewer physical disks
Legacy

Dell Compellent

Traditional SANS

Dynamic Capacity
Advantage

Vol B

Data
Vol A

Disks not
purchased

Unused Allocation

Unused Allocation

Vol B

Unused Allocation

Vol A

Data

Data

Thin provisioning benefits

No pre-allocation required
Snapshots are thin provisioned

Free space is automatically

recovered

Thin data migrations

No limits on application usage

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Data

DID YOU KNOW?

100% of Dell
Compellent customers
use thin provisioning.

Patented automated tiered storage

Buy fewer and less expensive drives

Tier 1

$$$

RAID 10
SSD

Tier 2

$$

Tier 3

RAID 10
RAID 5 or 6
15K Fibre
Channel or SAS

$
RAID 5

RAID 6

Traditional SAN

Dell Compellent

7.2K SAS

Proven technology, in production since 2005

Automatically moves granular
blocks of inactive data to lowercost disk
Stores most frequently accessed
data on the outer edge of the drive

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Seamlessly integrates with

snapshots and replication
Leverage SSD performance
without breaking the bank

DID YOU KNOW?

84% of our upgrade
orders are for
affordable, highcapacity drives.

Continuous data availability

Recover instantly, replicate in minutes

12:15
12:00
11:45

Continuous
Snapshots
12:15
12:00

No Snapshot
Preallocation

Portable
Volume

11:45

Unlimited, Mountable
Replays

Integration
VMware
Microsoft
Oracle

Dedupe Boot

Online Disaster
Recovery Testing

Live
Volume

Spawn Virtual
Machines

Thin Replication
VDI Support
New York

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Continuous snapshots

Eliminate your backup window

11:45

12:00

12:15

12:02

Replay-based architecture benefits

Space efficient freeze pointers

No space pre-allocation

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Replays automatically move

down to lower cost disk

Integration with common

applications

Delete any one, keep any one

Ideal for test/dev, VMs, Boot

from SAN, Consistency Groups

Thin replication

Right-size recovery costs, meet RPO/RTO objectives

Quality of Service
11:45
12:00

San Diego

Las Vegas

12:15

Replay
Schedule

London

Replicate thin to save

Volumes are thin, replication is thin

Set up replication in 6 clicks

Significant reduction in cost of

bandwidth and management

No space pre-allocation

Only replicate changed blocks of

data (no duplication)

DR Testing without downtime

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One button, automated restore

DID YOU KNOW?

68% of Dell Compellent
customers replicate
their data to another
site.

Live Volume

Right-size recovery costs, meet RPO/RTO objectives

Live
Volume

Live
Volume

Live Volume Layer

Dynamic business continuity

Acts as a storage hypervisor,
sharing a virtual storage volume
between two SANs in a semisynchronous configuration

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Storage moves in sync with VMs

Deliver storage agility and high
availability

Balance workloads on
demand
Shift storage resources on
demand to overcome
planned downtime

Intelligent storage automation

Sophisticated is now automated and simple

Integration
VMware
Microsoft
Oracle

Manage
Multiple
Systems

Less
Time

Chargeback

Enterprise Manager

Increase
Staff
Productivity

Setup Replication
in 6 clicks

Automated
Tiering

Fast Provisioning for

Virtual Machines

Storage
Resource
Management

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Powerful
Threshold
Alerting

Easy to use, easy to manage

Centralized monitoring and management

San Diego

London

Las Vegas

Automate repetitive tasks

Thin provisioning

Automated tiered storage

Virtualization

No manual re-provisioning

Simple capacity planning

Replays

Eliminate manual classification

and movement

Instant local recovery

Thin replication

Buy fewer disk drives

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Streamline performance tuning

Enterprise Manager

Powerful SRM included with every system

Single Interface, Multi-System Management

Robust Reporting

Reduce storage
costs

Immediate insight and

control

Simplify
administration

Increase efficiency
Board-room ready
Hero reports

Streamline disaster
recovery

Optimized Capacity Planning & Performance

Simplify capacity
planning

Assign volumes to
departments

Storage and
server
consumption

Automatically
calculate costs

Optimize
performance

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Storage Chargeback

Based on actual
consumption

Scale-out
NAS as
dynamic as
your
business

Dell Fluid File System family

Simple, flexible scale-out NAS
that lowers customer TCO

Scales capacity and performance easily

and non-disruptively without forklift
upgrades

Avoids architectural limits of traditional

file servers or all-in-one controllers

Ensures efficiency by leveraging a

shared infrastructure for block and file
data

Delivers a highly-available solution with

consistency across Dell storage
platforms

Based on Dell IP with a dedicated

roadmap

Dell
Compellent
FS8600

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Dell
EqualLogic
FS7500

Dell
PowerVault
NX3500

File protocols
(CIFS/NFS)

Block protocols
(FC/iSCSI)

Introducing Fluid File System to Compellent

Core Compellent Storage Center SAN technology

Efficient, agile and resilient platform

Built-in intelligence and automation
No forklift upgrade and perpetual licensing
SSD, SAS and FC drive technologies
FC, iSCSI and FCoE front-end interconnects

FS8600 enhancements
Scale-out NAS that easily grows as
storage needs grow
Single platform that unifies the scalability
of Fluid File System with Compellent
efficiency
Resilient solution based on the unique
Fluid File System architecture
NFS and CIFS file access protocols

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Storage Center and FS8600 ecosystem

Unifies block and file storage on one Compellent platform
Shared back-end infrastructure eliminates need to carve spindles separately
Single platform avoids the added cost and complexity of separate solutions

Extends efficiency of Compellent architecture to NAS environment

Data Progression lowers costs by migrating inactive data to less expensive drives
Dynamic Capacity enables space-efficient over allocation of NAS capacity

Provides customers with a scale-out NAS solution

Single namespace scales non-disruptively across up to four appliances

Load-balancing continually optimizes performance as FS8600 system scales

Enables business continuity through a resilient architecture

Fluid File System features maintain data integrity
Redundant, purpose-built hardware delivers high availability

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Integrations

Platform integration

Tools for the dynamic data center

Replay Manager
Consistent, online backup and
recovery of Exchange, SQL Server or
any Microsoft VSS-enabled
application
Automated scheduling, discovery,
verification and migration

8:00

1.

Request Replay

2. Pause transactions
3. Create consistent Replay

8:45

MS PowerShell Automation

Systems Center

Automate Microsoft application

storage management

SCVMM

Standardize complex test and dev

environments

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4. Resume normal operations

Transportable snapshots

Simplify virtual machine creation and

configuration

8:15

Provision and manage Compellent

storage for rapid VM delivery

SCOM
Monitor storage resources and alerting

Dell CompellentVMware

Virtual servers meet virtual storage

Dozens of points of integration

Full certification and joint support

vSphere client plug-in

VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP)

Provision and manage storage within vSphere

VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)

SRM plug-in
Automate storage/VM failover and failback

vCenter
Create and manage VMs within Enterprise
Manager

vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)

Offload process from host to Storage Center to
rapidly and efficiently provision VMs

The ideal storage platform for VMware

environments
Quickly provision virtual machines (VMs)
Shares single storage pool available with all
VMs
Automatically fine-tunes data placement for
virtual applications

Minimizes disk capacity required for VM clones

Automates disaster recovery with SRM adapter

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Services

Dell Compellent Copilot

Support

Proactive Copilot Support tools, processes, expertise and worldwide reach

have delivered a 96.77% customer satisfaction rating

Copilot Support: Enterprise class, personal touch

Best-in-class proactive and
comprehensive enterprise storage
support:
Phone support
Troubleshoot hardware/software
On-site technician and parts
replacement
Spare parts delivery

Efficient and effective resolution of all

Dell Compellent storage and partnerrelated issues with single point of contact
Exceptional value in 24x7 technical
support

Knowing that I can pick up

the phone and have
someone on the other end
within a couple minutes is
nice. Having someone
proactively call me before I
even know about an issue is
even better.
Janssen Jones, Associate Director of AIT
Infrastructure, Indiana University
Bloomington

Did you know?

90% of Copilot cases are resolved in
the first call.

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Copilot Optimize: A dedicated advocate

Copilot Systems Analyst works side by side
with your data center administrators to
optimize your environment for lower
operating costs, reduced capital
expenditures, and less downtime:
System state analysis
Performance tuning
Best practices recommendations
Monthly reports
Capacity review
Log review and trend analysis
Custom reporting
Strategic planning to align business and
storage requirements
In-depth system analysis to ensure efficient,
effective utilization of Storage Center
features

Ongoing performance tuning, capacity

planning and alert and log reviews

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Our CSA makes the correct

recommendations at the
correct time to keep us out
of trouble. The reports and
the continuous monitoring
combined with the CSAs
expert advice have also
saved us 20 to 40 hours per
month while keeping us on
the proactive edge.
Monty Slayton, IT Manager
University of North Texas

Did you know?

100% of survey respondents are
satisfied with the overall value of
Copilot Optimize.

Copilot hardware and software warranty

5-year hardware
warranty period

90-day software
warranty period

Ground advance hardware exchange

End user or BP contacts call center to confirm
failed part
Request processed 8 x 5 Next Business Day,
replacement parts shipped via ground
Parts covered NOT labor for troubleshooting,
removal, and installation of replacement parts

24x7 call center

support

Thank You