Compellent Storage Overview
Fluid Data Architecture
A patented Fluid Data architecture enables Compellent to actively manage data at a more granular level. Detailed information about each block provides unprecedented system intelligence to dynamically store, recover and manage your data. With a Fluid Data architecture, the impact to your business is immediate. Business applications are implemented faster, information to make decisions is always available, new technologies are instantly deployed and data is continuously protected.
- Buy fewer drives and use more Tier 3 storage, saving on power and space
- Simplify your IT infrastructure with zero touch management
- Scale without limits on a persistent, technology-independent platform
- Recover instantly and set up multi-site replication in minutes
- Rely on storage that delivers as promised from day one
Optimize data movement and management
with block-level intelligence.
Compellent Storage Overview
Advanced Storage Virtualisation
Compellent virtualizes storage at the disk level, accelerating data access by spreading read/ write operations across all drives so multiple requests are processed in parallel. You can create high performance, highly efficient virtual volumes in seconds without allocating drives to specific servers, without complicated capacity planning and without performance tuning. Remove the limitations of physical drives and dynamically change and scale your virtualized pool without disruption or downtime.
- Create a centralized pool of storage shared by all servers
- Write any size virtual volumes to the entire pool or any subset of it
- Present disk capacity regardless of tier, RAID level or server connectivity
- Speed data access by utilizing all available disk resources all the time
- Use virtual ports to increase port capacity, disk bandwidth, I/O connectivity and port failover Manage disks as a centralized storage pool independent of drive type, RAID and speed.
- Eliminate disk “hot spots”
Manage disks as a centralized
storage pool independent of
drive type, RAID and speed.
Compellent Storage Overview
Automated Tiered Storage
With unique patented technology, Compellent automatically classifies and migrates data to the optimum tier of storage based on actual usage. The most active blocks of data reside on high-performance SSD or Fibre Channel drives, while less active blocks of data automatically move to lower-cost, high-capacity SAS or SATA drives. The result is storage that is always in tune with application needs – and overall storage costs slashed by up to 80%.
- Eliminate manual data classification and migration
- Automatically migrate inactive blocks of data to lower cost disk and RAID levels
- Move most active data to the fastest, outer edges of each drive
- Maximize write performance and data availability for every application
- Add disk drives to any tier of storage on the fly
Automate data placement
with a sophisticated
data movement engine.
Compellent Storage Overview
Advanced Thin Provisioning
Built into every Compellent system, Thin Provisioning delivers the highest possible storage utilization. Our advanced Thin Provisioning completely separates storage allocation from utilization, enabling users to allocate any size volume upfront yet only consume physical capacity when data is written. You can even reclaim capacity that is no longer in use by applications, automatically reduce the space needed for virtual OS volumes and convert traditional volumes on existing storage to thin-provisioned capacity.
- Add the right capacity at the right time with capacity threshold alerts and consumption trend analysis
- Expand capacity on demand without downtime
- Automatically allocate space on write according to incoming payload
- Convert legacy provisioned volumes to thin virtual volumes
- Reclaim disk space after files are deleted in Windows® environments
Improve disk utilization with
Thin Provisioning that stands apart.
Compellent Storage Overview
Continuous Data Protection
With Data Instant Replay, you can take an unlimited number of space-efficient “snapshots” to speed the local recovery of lost or deleted files. Once an initial snapshot of a volume is taken, only incremental changes in data need to be captured. These readable and writable Replays are automatically stored on lower cost drives and can be used to recover any size volume to any server in less than 10 seconds.
- Create frequent Replays at any time interval
- Use negligible disk capacity and system overhead
- Take simultaneous snapshots of application data spanning multiple volumes
- Roll back to any previously known state using a simple point-and-click interface
- Quickly boot servers from a Replay on the SAN
- Implement a cost-effective and robust test and development environment
Recover files instantly with unlimited
space-efficient Replays.
Compellent Storage Overview
Thin Replication
Remote Instant Replay leverages space-efficient Replays between local and remote sites to deliver Thin Replication at a fraction of the cost of traditional disaster recovery solutions. After initial site synchronization, only incremental changes in data are replicated on an ongoing basis, cutting hardware, bandwidth and administration costs. You can replicate over Fibre Channel or native IP, which brings DR within reach of every budget.
- Set up multi-site replication with 7 clicks
- Replicate data with less bandwidth and disk capacity
- Use Portable Volume to sync sites in days instead of months
- Optimize bandwidth with simulation and shaping
- Utilize different configurations at local and remote sites
- Easily test and verify replication success with 1-button recovery
Deliver affordable, verifiable
replication to multiple sites.
