Dell Storage Portfolio Updates for SC Series Solutions

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Dell StorageSC Series Updates

• Storage Portfolio Business Managers, John Bassett

• Hugo Llorens


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• Dell Storage Portfolio – Short Review • Where is the SC Series positioned within our full Storage portfolio?

• SC Series – Platform and Software Overview• SC8000, SC4020 and SCOS/EM Updates

• SC Series – Flash Configurations, new offers• SC8000 All Flash Array

• SC4020 $25k all flash array

• Hybrid models: SSD + Spinning Disk

• FS8600 – Adding File Capabilities to your SC solution• New FluidFS v4 release

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The Dell Storage Portfolio

Workload-optimized solutions for any

size enterprise

High

performance

storage

Multi-

protocol,

enterprise

SC& FS

series

Powered by Fluid Data technologies

PowerEdge

Servers

Dell

Networking

Dell

Software

Dell

Services

Easy-to-use

virtualized

storage

Unified,

virtualized IP

PS & FS

Series

Affordable,

entry level

storage

Modular disk

storage

MD & NX

Series

Simple

protection

and recovery

D2D and D2T

backup

appliances

DL, DR, ML & TL

series

Dell XC

Nutanix

Nexenta

VSAN,

EVO:RAIL

Storage

Spaces

RedHat Ceph

SoftwareDefined

Storage

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Mainstream

(Core IT)• Virtualized

• Tier 2 Databases

• Collaboration

• VDI, Private Cloud

• VMware, Citrix, Hyper-V

Specialized• Vertical, LOB Specific

• Big Data

• HPTC, CCTV, PACS: need inexpensive data stores

Dell Storage offers aligned by Workload & Use Cases

Mission Critical• High Performance

• OLTP

• Datacenter scale business

Microsoft Storage Spaces

Evolutionary / Traditional IT

Customer comfortable with current technologies

Architectures evolving over time with advanced capabilities

Revolutionary / New IT

Willing to consider new architectural paths

Latest generation of cross LOB & partnering for granular use cases

FluidCache

Backup, Recovery, Archiving & BC/DR: DL, DR, Tape

SC Series/FS Series

PS Series/FS Series*

MD3000 Series*

-XC

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SC Series Platform and SW Overview

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Storage Center and Enterprise Manager Storage Integrations

Storage Center

• Common Architecture

• Unified features across

platforms

• Perpetual Licensing within

platforms

• Upgrade paths

• High Reliability and Availability

Enterprise Manager

• One Management tool

• Manage Block and File

• Manage multiple APIs

• PowerShell – RESTful –

Python

• LINUX, in addition to Windows

Storage Integrations

Unified tool across SC platforms: SC4000 – SC8000

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What’s new in SC6.5.20?

Available today on SC4020 • Available on SC8000 in Q1FY16

RI (Read Intensive) drives may now be used in Tier 1• Previously, Tier 1 was restricted to WI drives or spinning disk

SC4020 drive minimum changes from 12 to 6 drives• No change to SC8000 drive minimums

Support for additional Read-Intensive SSD drives• 480GB (available Jan, 2014)

• 960GB (available Q1, 2014)

• 1.9TB (available Q1, 2014)

SC4020 and SC8000 customers with up-to-date Copilot contracts may upgrade non-disruptively to SC6.5.20 firmware at no charge.

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SC6.5.20 Update: Expanding Flash OptionsSC Series now supports four array solution categories:

Entry-Level Flash

Single-tier, economical

RI SSDs

Flash-Optimized

Multi-tier flash, leverages WI and RI SSDs

Hybrid(#1 customer choice)

“Best of all worlds,” tiered SSD and HDD

Traditional HDD arrays

Cost-optimized solutions for bulk storage

• (6) 480GB RI SSDs, 2.8TB raw capacity

• Dramatic IOPs speed boost over HDD

• Flexible expansion options – grow into Flash-Optimized or Hybrid solution

Industry’s lowest-priced all-flash array!*

$25K street*

* $25,000 advertised US street price. Comparison based on October 2014 Dell internal analysis of US list and typical US discount prices for mid-range arrays over 1TB, including support. AD#: A14000615

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New $25K AFA keeps your options open

Entry-Level Flash Flash-Optimized

All-flash

All-flash

Hybrid

= RI SSD= WI SSD = HDD

Start small

Add more SSDs

Add HDD tier for additional cost savings

*

* Hybrid or single-tier arrays with WI drives only are also available, although most customers will benefit from multiple tiers of flash.



SPC-1 Price/Performance Results < $250K

($ / IOPS)

New entry read-intensive flash drives enabling new configurations and great price-performance

CY15 Q1 CY15 Q2

960GB Read Intensive

1.9TB Read Intensive

1.6TB Write Intensive

480GB Read Intensive (shipping) – Used in the new $0.47 SPC-1 result

$1.10/GB

$1.10/GB

$0.91/GB

$1.54/GB

400GB Write Intensive (shipping) – a WI SSD for comparison $2.58/GB

$/GB are based on vendor cost per drive

$0.47to be published

$0.57 $0.58 $0.77 $1.50

All these results from All Flash Arrays configsEMC and NetApp don’t publish in SPC-1

$25K SC4020 All Flash Array

Lowest priced all flash array from a mid-range vendor

Leading price / performance

Best $/GB on SPC-1 from a major vendor

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Server A Server B Server C

PCIe SSDsPCIe SSDsPCIe SSDs

SAN

Application A Application B Application C

CBA

A B C

Fluid Cache

A B C

CML Enterprise Manager

Fluid Cache for SAN: Flash for Tier 01 Million+ IOPS for performance-hungry applications and VDI deployments

CompellentSAN

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FS8600New FluidFS release

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FS8600 controllers for FluidFSv4

• Redundant, active-active, hot-swappable controllers for HA

• Integrated backup battery

• Internal hard drive for local boot with flash for configuration backup

• Dedicated, redundant interconnect network

• 48GB controller (New at FluidFSv4 RTS)

- More concurrent large MTU SMB sessions, standard SMB sessions and open files

- Improved performance through enlarged cache

- Expand older 24GB systems with new 48GB appliances

- 48GB controller can replace a failed 24GB controller

- Pricing stays flat

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FluidFSv4 on FS8600 for CML SC Series

The only scale-out NAS that unifies file and block with the efficiency, agility and resilience of Compellent Storage Center.

Models FS8600

Protocols SMB, NFS

Scale-out

NAS

Single namespace

across up to 4

appliances and up

to 4PB* capacity

Shared back-

end system

Compellent

SC8000, SC4020,

Series 40

Max # of

controllers

8 (in 4 appliances)

Client-side

connectivity

1Gb or 10Gb

Ethernet

Back-end

connectivity

8Gb Fibre Channel

10GbE iSCSI

Management Enterprise Manager

* 3.2PB at RTS

– NFSv4.1 support/ NFSv4 ACLs

– SMB3

– IPv6 support for client connections

– VMWare integration with File Cloning and server side copy offload optimizations

– Directory based Quotas

– Volume Share/Export visibility through specific subnets

– Security ACL support

– Enlarged cache and improved performance in new 48GB models

– Increased limits (support for more sessions/ snapshots)

– Replication between different topology systems with different snapshot retention policy

– Automatic home-share creation option

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FluidFS v4 - New Features

• IPv6 only inter-connect network no longer requires a dedicated subnet

SpecificationsDeployment

• Replication between different topology systems

• Improved Inode handling and UNMAP

• Automatic home-share creation

• 4PB in a single File-System

• Cache & performance improvement in new 48GB models

• Support for more concurrent sessions

• Support for more snapshots

Lifecycle Management Performance

Scale Ease-of-use

Management

Increased Customer Satisfaction

Easier Customer Migration to CML

Better Enterprise Competitiveness

NEW NEW NEW

Better Vertical Competitiveness

Customer Workloads/ Requirements

Benefits


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