Dell Moves Fluid Data Architecture Forward with Latest Advances in Storage Efficiency, Performance and Protection
15 11월 2012 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
At its second EMEA Dell Storage Forum customer and partner
event, Dell today unveiled a series of end-to-end storage portfolio
updates designed to advance the Fluid Data architecture and to help
customers further optimize data at every point in its
lifecycle.
“The nature of IT and what a data center should do for an
organization is changing rapidly as customers face multiple and
often competing models of how technology is delivered — from
client to cloud to converged,” said Darren Thomas, vice president
and general manager, Dell Storage. “Dell is best positioned with an
end-to-end storage architecture that can optimize data at every
point in its lifecycle through intelligence and automation. Dell’s
Fluid Data Architecture enables new capabilities that power the
data center, so customers can drive real business results.”
New Dell Compellent and PowerVault MD3 Software Increases
Performance and Automation
Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.3 array software unveiled today
offers enhanced scalability and performance for Dell Compellent
arrays. Compellent SC8000 controllers with Storage Center 6.3
software can increase performance up to 100 percent over previous
versions when running enterprise workloads.1 Additionally, with
this release, Dell is the first storage provider to announce
end-to-end 16Gb Fibre Channel capability — from server to switch to
storage — doubling bandwidth and speeding access to business
critical applications and data.
Designed for medium to large enterprises and cloud computing,
Dell Compellent arrays offer best in class automated tiering,
advanced data protection and superior ease of use. These features
combine with a highly scalable, modular design that enables users
to update storage software at no additional cost and easily expand
without requiring a “rip and replace” of their existing
infrastructure. According to a new IDC White Paper, commissioned by
Dell, Compellent installations had almost twice as long a
productive life span than non-Dell storage solutions with
organizations replacing Compellent every 6.9 years compared to 3.5
years for their other storage environments.2
Additional enterprise enhancements from Storage Center 6.3
announced today include:
- Synchronous replication enhancements
that can improve resiliency for data recovery and provide
multi-site replication flexibility designed to reduce recovery time
and recovery point objectives;
- Expanded Microsoft integration with new
Windows Server 2012 support;
- Enhanced security and reduced
administration time with Active Directory and LDAP support that
automates and integrates Compellent storage with a corporate
directory to enable a single authentication and authorization
process for granting access;
- Improved federal government security by
supporting USGv6/IPv6 requirements for a wide range of available IP
addresses; and,
- The ability to intelligently alert and
recommend placement of volumes across multiple arrays based on
proactive performance and capacity monitoring.
New Dell PowerVault MD3 software enhancements offer enhanced
data protection, performance, capacity and virtualization
capabilities while designed to maintain up to 99.999 percent
availability for these affordable, high performance arrays.
Data protection enhancements include dynamic disk pools that
simplify disk management and improve rebuild performance by
distributing data across all drives, decreasing significant
recovery time of drive failures. In addition to current Fibre
Channel replication capabilities, new IP-based remote asynchronous
replication protects against site failures, improves application
speeds, and increases distance support.
New PowerVault MD3 software application integration and
efficiency capabilities include VMware vStorage APIs for Array
Integration (VAAI) support, which allows customers to offload
certain storage related tasks from the server to PowerVault arrays.
New thin provisioning capabilities enable arrays to automatically
allocate storage as needed for simplified and cost-effective
expansion of capacity.
Dell Boosts Data Protection Portfolio to Simplify Data Backup
and Recovery
Dell’s growing data protection portfolio enables customers of
all sizes to attain unmatched data and application protection and
recovery capability times for virtual, physical and cloud
environments. Dell provides complete backup, replication and
recovery solutions designed to maximize data efficiency, improve IT
agility and help ensure business resiliency. Additions to the Dell
data protection portfolio include:
- Dell PowerVault DL4000 —
Optimized for small to medium enterprises and remote offices, the
first backup appliance based on Dell AppAssure software provides a
fast and complete backup and disaster recovery solution for
business-critical applications and data with seamless integration
of software and system management. With 5.5 terabytes of internal
storage capacity, this 1U turnkey appliance offers established
snapshot, replication, de-duplication and compression software for
efficient use of backup capacity. Users can benefit from hosting
two virtual standby machines that protect critical applications for
up to two servers, offering quick disaster recovery.
- Quest NetVault Backup 9.0
— New Quest data protection software integrates with
NetVault Extended Architecture (NetVault XA), featuring a new
graphical user interface and a set of shared services to unite
multiple Quest data protection technologies for simpler management.
The software enables mid- to large-sized organizations to simplify
data protection while protecting critical applications in physical
and virtual heterogeneous environments. NetVault’s cross-platform
capabilities are expanded to Windows Server 2012 and Novell Open
Enterprise Server 11, while Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and VMware
vSphere® enhancements offer improved functionality, performance and
scalability. The addition of native replication to the NetVault
SmartDisk deduplication solution helps streamline offsite data
storage and disaster recovery.
- Dell PowerVault DL2300 —
New enterprise-class data protection appliance combines Dell
PowerEdge 12th generation servers with CommVault Simpana 9 modern
data protection software to offer large enterprises with data
backup, recovery, replication, archiving and de-duplication for
both physical and virtual servers in one easy-to-set-up, pre-tested
solution. The new appliance incorporates latest generation
processor and memory capabilities to optimize de-duplication
database configurations for higher backup performance. Users can
save administrative time with built-in, policy-based automation for
managing backup and archiving.
Additional Quotes:
“Dell Compellent storage plays a critical role in our IT
infrastructure, and we continue to look forward to new enhancements
and features that help us meet enterprise level storage demands,”
said Dan Marbes, Lead Systems Engineer, Associated Bank. “The
opportunity to gain up to two times the performance when running
our applications means faster access to important information when
our users need it. We are also eagerly anticipating the integration
of Active Directory authentication to more efficiently manage
access to these resources.”
“We've relied on AppAssure for recovery and peace of mind for
years on a variety of storage platforms,” said Michael Rapp,
information security officer, Center for Information Technology in
Education, College of Education, University of Houston. “Dell’s
integration of this data protection software into a purpose-built
platform could make it even easier for customers to deploy an
AppAssure-optimized solution with a minimal amount of set up and
configuration work.”
Availability:
- Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.3 has
planned availability for beta in early 2013 and general
availability in Q2 2013.
- Dell PowerVault MD3 software
enhancements and Dell PowerVault DL2300 are now available.
- Dell Quest NetVault Backup 9.0 has
planned availability in December 2012.
- Dell PowerVault DL4000 has planned
availability in Q1 2013.
Additional Information:
- Dell Storage Forum Online Press Kit
holds solution details, images, videos and more.
- Dell Storage Forum on Twitter
- Dell Storage Forum on Facebook
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1Source: Dell testing performed on dual SC8000 controllers
running OLTP workloads using IOmeter with a 100% random 70/30
read/write mix and 4K sector transfer sizes. Testing using
pre-release Storage Center code version 6.3.1 versus 6.1.2
code.
2Source: “The Business Value of Dell EqualLogic and Compellent
Primary Storage Solutions,” an October 2012 IDC white paper
commissioned by Dell.
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