The Smartest Storage for Virtual Servers
Virtually Eliminate Storage Management for Your VMs
Compellent’s storage virtualization is the perfect complement to any leading virtual server platform, enabling you to amplify the benefits of server virtualization from the data center to the desktop. Compellent delivers an industry-leading network storage solution by removing the limits of physical drives and aggregating them into logical virtual volumes. This advanced virtualization is designed to help you significantly lower storage infrastructure costs, reduce energy expenditures and recover any size volume to any server in less than 10 seconds.
Easily Deploy and Manage Virtual Servers
- Automated Tiered Storage technology frees up high-performance spindles for the most demanding virtual applications
- Thin Provisioning software eases capacity planning and maximizes disk utilization
- Automatic LUN masking simplifies storage provisioning for any number of virtual servers
- Six-click boot from SAN wizard easily deploys virtual servers in minutes.
Increase Availability, Not Cost or Complexity
- Space-efficient Thin Replication and block-level architecture allow you to affordably increase availability by adopting replication for more virtual servers
- Server Instant Replay makes it possible to boot remote virtual servers from the SAN
- Replays enable you to recover any size volume to any server within seconds
Take Green to the Bank-Reduce Power and Cooling Costs Up to 93%
- Modular architecture scales as you grow, maximizing disk utilization and minimizing energy consumption
- Advanced virtualization delivers equal performance with less physical hardware
- Thin Provisioning radically reduces disk counts
- Automated Tiered Storage technology allows you to use fewer high-performance, high-power drives
- Increased efficiency and condensed hardware reduce upgrades to your UPS, generators, cooling systems and facility
Compellent Takes Green to the Bank
Compellent Offers the Most Energy-Efficient SAN on the Planet
The soaring energy costs and sprawling space requirements of a rapidly growing data center have increased the importance of efficiency in the IT department. Compellent’s easy-to-deploy storage makes it possible to be both economical and eco-friendly.
With advanced functionality including, automated tiered storage, space-efficient snapshots and thin provisioning, Compellent offers a significant advantage over traditional SANs - maximizing existing assets and reducing costs, footprint and energy needs in the data center.
Purchasing a Compellent SAN doesn’t just save on the sticker price. Thick Provisioned SANs cost more to maintain, forcing you to power, cool and house more disks than necessary. Compellent’s Automated Tiered Storage increases storage savings by making it easy to leverage more energy and cost-effective disks.
Economical Benefits
- Thin Provisioning provides as-you-grow scalability, eliminating the need to over-purchase and over-power unused disk space.
- Advanced storage virtualization amplifies server virtualization, cutting power and cooling costs up to 93 percent.
- Boot from SAN can save as much as $70,000 for every 25 blade servers connected to the Compellent SAN.
- Automated Tiered Storage automatically classifies and migrates inactive data to more energy-efficient and cost-effective drives.
Environmental Benefits
- Enterprise Manager’s power and carbon reports guide a green IT strategy - identifying the ideal mix of disks and saving on unnecessary cooling and power upgrades for the data center.
- Boot from SAN eliminates the power draw of internal server disk drives without server-based software or third-party applications.
- Virtualization significantly reduces the data center footprint, conserves energy and reduces CO2 emissions.
- Economizing the data center reduces more than disk count. It saves on upgrades to generators, power infrastructure, cooling equipment and facility expansions.