The Dell™ Compellent™ Storage Center is an advanced storage array that allows organizations to actively manage data at a highly granular level using built-in intelligence and automation. As a key enabler of Dell’s Fluid Data Architecture, Storage Center puts data in the right place at the right time for the right cost.
This ultra-efficient, easy-to-manage storage solution optimizes drive utilization, dynamically moves data between storage tiers and RAID levels, continuously protects data against downtime and disaster, scales on demand, and quickly adapts to ever-changing business needs.
Empowered by real-time system information about each block of data, Storage Center optimizes data placement management and protection throughout its lifecycle. Storage is provisioned without wasting capacity. Data is moved where and when it’s needed based on actual use and performance needs. And data is continuously protected using pointer-based snapshots. This level of awareness also enables Storage Center to virtualize the storage infrastructure by creating a pool of high-performance storage shared by all servers and applications.
Key Benefits
- Dynamically scales to meet business requirements. Start with any size Storage Center array and expand over time—from 2TB to nearly 2PB, without downtime or disruption
- Supports an intermix of SSD, FC, SAS and SATA drive technologies as well as iSCSI, FCoE, and FC front-end interconnects—all in the same system at the same time
- Supports a unified storage solution for both structured and unstructured data
- Provides Thin Provisioning and Automated Tiered Storage to deliver optimum disk utilization and intelligent data movement
- Delivers Space-Efficient Snapshots and Thin Replication for continuous data protection without wasted capacity
- Provides built-in automation and unified storage management to streamline storage provisioning, management, migration, monitoring and reporting
