Compellent SAN / NAS Storage

 
DomainGurus is proud to offer Compellent Storage. Dell recently acquired Compellent for nearly a billion dollars, and they did so for good reasons. You can get Compellent for less at DomainGurus. Compellent is simply the most advanced storage system on Earth, yet the Unified Storage Management Interface is just too simple to believe. Compellent network storage features a unified, point-and-click interface that cuts administration time and eliminates the need for specialized skills. From storage provisioning to replication setup to report generation, the intuitive interface automates time-consuming enterprise data management tasks so your staff can focus on other important IT projects.

Enterprise Storage That Redefines The Data Center

 
Compellent enables enterprises of all sizes to move beyond simply storing data to actively, intelligently managing data. Powerful network storage software with built-in intelligence and automation optimizes the provisioning, placement and protection of data throughout its lifecycle. Compellent Fluid Data is enterprise storage technology that always puts data in the right place, at the right time for the right cost. With Fluid Data storage, your enterprise or cloud will be efficient, agile and resilient—always, automatically and continually. Best of all, with Fluid Data, your system adapts dynamically at the speed of change, directly in line with your business needs. Fluid Data Video

Highly Available Architecture

 
Compellent is architected for high availability with fully redundant hardware and advanced failover features. Deliver uninterrupted data access with dual paths from servers to disk drives and fully redundant power supplies and fans. Clustered controllers provide a superior level of availability by operating in unison yet connecting independently. Further improve availability by virtualizing server connections across ports and enabling automated failover.

• Fully redundant system with no single point of failure
• Automatic controller failover provides high resilience
• Controller clustering delivers higher availability than traditional implementations
• Multi-path I/O failover requires no special software
• Mirrored, battery backed cache increases data protection
• Controller failover with only a single server connection for maximum resilience

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

Unified Storage Management Interface

 
Compellent network storage features a unified, point-and-click interface that cuts administration time and eliminates the need for specialized skills. From storage provisioning to replication setup to report generation, the intuitive interface automates time-consuming enterprise data management tasks so your staff can focus on other important IT projects.

Interface Video

Streamline Storage Management With Compellent

• Use intuitive wizards to guide you through complex allocation, configuration and administration functions
• Manage individual or multiple enterprise storage systems through the same point-and-click interface
• Monitor network storage consumption and usage automatically, eliminating manual capacity planning
• Create and map new storage volumes of any size in less than a minute
• Recover any size storage volume to any server in less than 10 seconds
• Automatically restripe an existing volume across all available drives when adding more capacity

Advanced Storage Virtualization

 
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.

Advanced Storage Virtualization Video

• 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
• Eliminate disk “hot spots”
• Use virtual ports to increase port capacity, disk bandwidth, I/O connectivity and port failover

Automated Tiered Storage

Data Progression™

 
Fluid Data storage dynamically moves enterprise data to the optimal tier based on actual use. The most active blocks reside on high-performance SAS 15k drives, while infrequently accessed data migrates to more affordable, high-capacity SAS 10k and 7.2k drives. The result is network storage that’s always in tune with application needs, plus overall storage cost reduction.

How to Optimize Enterprise Storage with Data Progression

• Eliminate manual data classification and migration while lowering drive counts and power/cooling costs
• Write active blocks of data to Tier 1 storage with performance-optimized RAID levels such as RAID 10
• Automatically migrate inactive blocks of data to lower-tier storage with higher-overhead, high-protection RAID 5 or 6
• Mix SSD, FC, SAS and SATA drives in the same system, and SAS drives with multiple rotational speeds in the same enclosure
• Maximize write performance and data availability for mission-critical applications with SSDs
• Add capacity to any tier and automatically restripe data on demand without downtime or disruption

Data Placement Optimization

Fast Track

 
Compellent Fast Track technology enhances Automated Tiered Storage by dynamically placing the most frequently accessed data on the fastest, or outer, tracks of each disk drive. Meanwhile, the least active blocks of data remain on the inner tracks of all the drives in each storage tier. The result is ready access to frequently used data with fewer drives than conventional enterprise network storage systems.

How to Optimize Data Placement with Fast Track

• Leverage Thin Provisioning to write only actual data to the fastest tracks of each drive
• Eliminate manual data classification and migration while lowering drive counts and power/cooling costs
• Purchase fewer drives overall and efficiently utilize lower-cost drives – all without sacrificing performance
• Reduce seek times for the most active blocks of data within each tier

Continuous Snapshots

Data Instant Replay™

 
Compellent network storage delivers continuous data protection using space-efficient snapshots called Replays. With Data Instant Replay, once an initial snapshot of a volume is taken, only incremental changes in data need to be captured. This not only saves disk space, but speeds local recovery of lost or deleted files. An unlimited number of Replays can be scheduled for near-instant recovery to any point in time.

Continuous Snapshots Video

How to Protect Data Efficiently with Data Instant Replay

• Create frequent Replays (continuous snapshots) at any time interval using negligible disk capacity and system overhead
• Recover any size volume to any server in less than 10 seconds for high availability
• Ensure enterprise data integrity with Consistency Groups for simultaneous snapshots of application data spanning volumes
• Roll back to any previously known state using a simple point-and-click interface

Snapshot Consistency

Replay Manager™

 
Compellent Replay Manager is powerful snapshot consistency software that integrates with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to ensure the integrity of Exchange Server, SQL Server and Hyper-V data. By initiating snapshots when the I/O is fenced, Replay Manager provides time-consistent snapshots even if the application or virtual machine (VM) is running during the process. The enterprise network storage technology leverages our patented Instant Replay architecture, which delivers space-efficient continuous data protection with near-instant recovery.

How to Protect Applications and VMs with Replay Manager

• Take time-consistent snapshots of application data in physical or virtualized server environments without disruption
• Protect Windows application data and VMs without full-volume clones or taking applications offline
• Prevent business-critical data from being corrupted or skipped during the backup and recovery process
• Recover application data in seconds from virtually any point in time by scheduling unlimited snapshots

Remote Replication

Remote Instant Replay™

 
Remote Instant Replay leverages space-efficient snapshots between local and remote sites for cost-effective disaster recovery and business continuity. After initial site synchronization, only incremental changes in enterprise data need to be replicated, minimizing capacity requirements and speeding data recovery. Known as Thin Replication, this unique approach to continuous data protection enables network storage administrators to utilize existing IP links and buy fewer drives.

Remote Replication Video

How to Replicate Cost-Effectively with Instant Replays

• Replicate data using less bandwidth and disk capacity by leveraging space-efficient Replays (continuous snapshots)
• Optional Portable Volume, a preconfigured set of external hard drives, to sync sites in days instead of months (contact sales for more information)
• Optimize network utilization and increase replication performance with bandwidth simulation and shaping
• Eliminate the need for identical system configurations at local and remote sites with Thin Replication
• Implement a robust disaster recovery solution in six clicks using a step-by-step setup wizard

Dynamic Storage Migration

Live Volume

 
Live Volume acts as a storage hypervisor, actively mapping one storage volume to two Compellent arrays at the same time. This allows organizations to shift volumes between systems to provide high availability and continuous access to data. With Live Volume, data is not physically bound to any particular array or data center. Instead, all volumes can be accessed and shared from multiple locations, making Live Volume a key enabler for virtualization and IT clouds.

Dynamic Storage Migration Video

The Live Volume Advantage

• Fully integrated feature of Storage Center, so every shared volume is automatically thin provisioned and automatically tiered
• Fraction of the cost of other solutions, as no additional hardware, server agents or costly appliances are required
• Works with multiple hypervisors, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer
• Imposes no limit on the number of volumes that can be created, shared, deleted or updated
• Allows organizations to scale out cost-effectively, laying the foundation for a grid of Compellent arrays operating as one

Boot From SAN

Server Instant Replay™

 
Compellent Server Instant Replay is a complete Boot from SAN solution that leverages space-efficient snapshots to simplify physical and virtual server management. Using boot images stored on the Compellent SAN, network storage administrators can deploy, provision or recover servers in minutes. There is no need for full-volume clones or server-based agents that may interfere with the process. The enterprise storage software is also ideal for testing application upgrades and patches without risk.

How to Simplify Server Management with Instant Replays

• Reduce the time to deploy, provision and recover servers from 8 hours to less than 15 minutes
• Eliminate wasted capacity and reduce power/cooling costs using space-efficient boot images stored on the SAN
• Cut the costs of server hardware and on-site service agreements with diskless servers
• Provision multiple VMs simultaneously using shared gold images and automatic LUN masking
• Easily implement a robust test environment for upgrades and patches using real datasets
• Replace or add new servers with minimal downtime

Storage Resource Management

 
Enterprise Manager simplifies storage resource management by providing comprehensive monitoring and management of all local and remote Compellent systems. You can gain instant visibility and control of a multi-terabyte, multi-location solution to streamline administration and reduce operational costs. Configure and verify remote replication processes, monitor storage capacity and disk utilization in real time, and generate comprehensive storage usage and performance reports – all from a single pane of glass.

Storage Resource Management Video

• Use accurate capacity and performance data to maximize utilization
• Streamline disaster recovery planning and replication configuration
• Speed event resolution with centralized alert notification and management
• Optimize performance by identifying and managing trends
• Automatically calculate energy savings and generate boardroom-ready reports

Pricing

 
Capacity is limitless, so contact us for a free consultation and pricing.