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This page houses all FluidFS white papers and other technical content produced by the FluidFS Engineering, Technical Solutions and Marketing teams. Add this page to your watch list, as we frequently add new publications to this collection.

 FluidFS

 Compellent FS8600

EqualLogic FS7600/FS7610

Silver Peak Product Overview

Silver Peak is the leader in Data Center Class WAN (Wide Area Network) optimization with proven customer results for Compellent and EqualLogic replication as well as others.  Silver Peak is also a Dell Global Preferred Partner, certified Dell technology partner, and a strategic WAN optimization vendor to Dell Networking Product Group and Dell IT.

Silver Peak makes offsite replication easy, affordable, and responsive to stringent corporate demands.

By using our acceleration software with leading asynchronous replication solutions, you can achieve the following benefits:

• Meet Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)– Replicate more data in less time to remote offsite locations.
• Replicate over longer distances - Eliminate distance limitations between source/target devices.
• Improve business continuity– Maintain redundant data center(s) for hot failover.
• Lower disaster recovery costs - Eliminate costly dedicated networks for replication; avoid bandwidth upgrades

For more information visit silver-peak.com/dell, silver-peak.com/equallogic or silver-peak.com/compellent

Resources:

Free 30 Day Trial:

http://www.vx-xpress.com/downloads

White Paper and Deployment Guides:

• Technical Report - Dell PowerEdge VRTX WAN Optimization with Silver Peak
• Deploying Silver Peak with the PowerEdge VRTX
• Technical Report- Silver Peak WAN Optimization and Dell EqualLogic PS
• Technical Report: Dell Compellent + Silver Peak
• Deploying Silver Peak with Dell EqualLogic
• Deploying Silver Peak Velocity with Dell Compellent Remote Instant Replay
• Dell Wyse Datacenter Branch Office Desktop with Silver Peak
• Reference Architecture - Dell Wyse Datacenter for VMware Horizon DaaS
• Dell AppAssure Core to Core Replication Configuration Guide for Silver Peak Velocity

Solution Briefs and Customer Evidence:

• Redefining your WAN with Broadband
• Silver Peak and Nutanix
• Solution Brief: Dell EqualLogic replication and Silver Peak WAN Optimization
• Solution Brief: Dell Compellent replication and Silver Peak WAN Optimization
• Solution Brief: Optimizing offsite data backup and disaster recovery with Dell DR4100 and Silver Peak
• Solution Brief: Optimizing virtualization and VDI deployments with Dell PS Series storage and Silver Peak WAN acceleration
• Solution Brief: Optimize replication and enhance business continuity with Dell MD3 SAN array series and Silver Peak replication acceleration
• Customer Profile: Community Bank Invests in Silver Peak to Optimize EqualLogic Replication
• Customer Profile: Denali Credit Union Improves Disaster Recovery with Dell Compellent and Silver Peak

Data Sheets

• Silver Peak NX Appliances Data Sheet
• Silver Peak VX Appliances Data Sheet
• Silver Peak Global Management System Data Sheet

Silver Peak Videos

• Silver Peak with Dell PowerEdge VRTX
• How to Configure Compellent Array for Replication Acceleration
• Silver Peak - Data Center Replication at Dell Storage Forum Paris
• WAN Optimization - Virtual vs. Physical Appliances
• Inside Silver Peak VXOA WAN Optimization Technology
• Accelerate Dell EqualLogic Offsite Replication
• Accelerate Remote File Sharing
• Optimize Streaming Media

About Silver Peak

Silver Peak improves backup, replication and recovery between data centers and facilitates branch office server and storage centralization by improving application performance across the Wide Area Network (WAN).  The company’s award winning Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) delivers exceptional performance improvements with unprecedented security and scalability across all enterprise applications, including data replication, backup, file transfers, email, web and real-time applications such as Citrix and VoIP.

Silver Peak Systems, Inc. (www.silver-peak.com)

Contact Information:

US: Melanie Christiansen, Dell Alliance Manager, Silver Peak Systems , Inc. mchristiansen@silver-peak.com

EMEA: Pierre Langlois, EMEA Channels Director, Silver Peak Systems, Inc. planglois@silver-peak.com

APAC: Doug Farndale, VP APAC Sales, Silver Peak Systems, Inc. dgarndale@silver-peak.com

The Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i  Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) array provides an inexpensive, easy-to-configure storage array for both enterprises that are using SANs and enterprises that want to start.

TechTuesday MD3000i Web Chats

11-18-08 - Using MD3000i with Hyper-V and ESX
11-25-08 - Managing and Configuring PowerVault MD3000i
12-02-08 - Performance of MD3000i Discussion

MD3000i Quick Links

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Shared XC Series Documentation

Dell XC430

Dell XC630

Dell XC6320

Dell XC730-16G

Dell XC730xd and Dell XC730xd-12C

Switch Configuration Guides for PS Series (EqualLogic) or SC Series (Compellent) SANs provide step-by-step instructions for configuring Ethernet switches for use with Dell storage using Dell best practices.

SC Series 10Gb | SC Series 1Gb|PS Series 10Gb | PS Series 1Gb

The Rapid EqualLogic Configuration Portal is also available as a quick deployment resource for PS Series iSCSI SAN solutions.

For more information on PS Series SAN design recommendations, see the Dell PS Series Configuration Guide.

For the archived list of previous Switch Reference Architectures, see Switch Reference Architectures.

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DSMS 1400

DSMS 1420

DSMS 3060e

DSMS 630

DSMS 730

<p>Dell and Scality offer solutions for storage-intensive environments that consist of Scality™ RING™ software and Dell server and storage systems. These solutions are based on an object storage architecture that expands to multiple petabytes and billions of objects with near linear performance scaling. They are designed for 100 percent uptime and run on Dell x86 servers to increase flexibility and provide cloud economics to large storage environments.
The Dell SD7000-S storage server is used with Scality RING software for multi-petabyte file and object storage requirements found in active data archives, content distribution, web and cloud deployments, and distributed computing environments. The Dell SD7000-S storage server is equipped with 90 hot-serviceable 3.5” drives that deliver 688 TB raw capacity in a 4U form factor, making it one of the industry’s densest file and object storage platforms available.
</p>
<h2>What's New!</h2>
<p>Welcome to the brand new Tech Center area for Dell Storage Designed for Scality RING.</p>
<h2>Useful Links</h2>
<p>For more information about Dell Storage Designed for Scality RING, see <a href="http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/scality-storage/pd" target="_blank">Dell.com/Scality</a></p>
<h2>Dell Storage Designed for Scality RING – Documentation</h2>
<p>This page is a frequently updated collection of all Dell Storage Designed for Scality RING technical content produced by Marketing, Dell Storage Engineering, and Solution Partners. Add this page to your watch list for notification of new publications.</p>
<h2>Dell Storage Designed for Scality RING – Product Documentation</h2>
<p>Want all the installation and deployment details about this solution? Hop over to our product documentation page here.</p>

This page is a frequently updated collection of all Dell Storage Designed for Scality RING content produced by Marketing, Dell Storage Engineering, and Solution Partners for the Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces. Add this page to your watch list to be notified when new publications are added to the collection.

Videos

                Shared Documents           SD630-S                   SD7000-S                

Shared Documentation

SD630-S

SD7000-S

When it comes to selecting storage for modern IT infrastructures, choose solutions that meet your requirements. Whether you choose to expand your existing infrastructure or adopt a different approach based on software-defined storage technologies, you can leverage an entry-to-enterprise storage stack built on:

• Modern storage architecture
• Proven x86 server platform
• Broad partner ecosystem

To implement affordable and flexible storage solutions from Dell. Our comprehensive software-defined storage solutions portfolio includes:

• Open source technologies
• Advanced storage software
• Hyperconverged appliances

These flexible solutions help you implement the latest storage technologies from:

• Microsoft
• Nexenta
• Nutanix
• RedHat
• VMware and other partners

All these solutions run on industry-standard x86 hardware and backed by the global Dell Services and Support teams.

SDS Solutions

Dell XC Series

The Dell XC Series platform is a scale-out cluster of high-performance nodes each running a standard hypervisor and containing processors, memory and local storage (consisting of SSD Flash and high capacity SATA disk drives). The Dell XC Series platform is powered by Nutanix software and managed through the Nutanix Prism interface.

Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces (DSMS)

DSMS is a comprehensive offering of validated and tested Dell hardware with Microsoft Storage Spaces technology. The Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces solution includes both SOFS and converged architecture options, which let you run your virtual or physical workloads directly on the solution. This Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) and converged solution is the result of close collaboration between Dell and Microsoft. DSMS includes performance and capacity sizing, end-to-end fulfillment, deployment and solution-level support.

Nexenta

Founded in 2005, Nexenta is software defined storage vendor that provides NexentaStor, a storage operating system based on OpenSolaris and OpenStorage ZFS technologies. NexentaStor software runs on industry standard hardware and delivers block (iSCSI and Fibre Chanel) and file (SMB and NFS) storage services.

The Dell – Nexenta offering incorporates NexentaStor software with the Dell PowerEdge 13^th generation server platform to provide highly scalable solutions for enterprise workloads, including:

• VMware cloud backend storage
• OpenStack and CloudStack backend storage
• Generic NAS file and Home Directory storage
• Near-line archive and large scale backup repositories

These solutions are available in flexible hardware configurations that scale from a few terabytes to petabytes and come with comprehensive data management capabilities such as replication, automatic read and write caching, replication, unlimited snapshots and cloning, and inline data reduction. 

Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces (DSMS)- Validated, Flexible, Simple and Solution Supported.   

What's New

Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces (DSMS) has been extended from its original SOFS (Scale-Out File Server) offering

The DSMS solution requires unique solution SKUs called solution IDs. These DSMS solution IDs are required when ordering a DSMS configuration, which is the only way to get access to the benefits such as performance and sizing, optimized server and storage components, single-payload updates, and solution-level technical support. If you are in a geographical area outside of the US, the solution IDs are not available at this time; however, you may reference the configuration name instead. For more information,seeDell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Configurations and Solution IDs.

Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces SOFS for Wyse vWorkspace VDI
A reference architecture for implementing Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage spaces (DSMS) full Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) to store Hyper-V files and application data in a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment.

Useful Links

Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Documentation
This page is a frequently updated collection of all DSMS technical content produced by Marketing, Dell Storage Engineering, and Solution Partners. Add this page to your watch list for notification of new publications.

Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Product Documentation
Want all the installation and deployment details about this solution? Hop over to our product documentation page here.

Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces (DSMS) supports Mellanox
Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces (DSMS) supports Mellanox ConnectX-3 adapters with RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE v1.0). For optimal performance, you must understand the benefits and limitations of leveraging your DSMS solution in a Mellanox environment. For more information and guidance about configuring and deploying Mellanox ConnectX-3 adapters, from installing Windows drivers to configuring Priority Flow Control (PFC), see the supporting documentation available at https://community.mellanox.com/docs/DOC-2142

This page is a frequently updated collection of all SC Series (including Compellent) technical documents and videos produced by Dell storage engineering, marketing and solution partners.

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iSCSI DCB with Dell SC Series Arrays using SCOS 7.0 Video

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The Dell DR4000 deduplication appliance leverages Dell’s industry leading deduplication and compression technologies to help organizations reduce complexity in the backup environment, recover data faster, and achieve a higher level of data protection.

For more details: http://www.dellstorage.com/dr4000/

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Product Spotlight video for the PowerVault MD3200 Series SAN array, which includes the PowerVault MD3200 and the MD3220.

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Product Sportlight video for the PowerVault MD3200 Series SAN array, which includes the PowerVault MD3200 and the MD3220.

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Product Spotlight video profiling the DR4000 Disk Backup Appliance.

For more information: http://www.dellstorage.com/dr4000/

Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Support Matrix

What's New!

Updated 6/22: Corrected the firmware version for the Intel x710 Dual Port 10 Gbe SFP+. Corrected the interface for the 3.5" HUH728080AL5204.

Introduction  (Back to top)

This document provides information about supported software, firmware, and hardware versions for the Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces solution (DSMS). The DSMS is a software-defined storage (SDS) platform that uses Microsoft Storage Spaces and Dell servers, storage, and networking to create a scalable file-server solution.

You can use this solution as a Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) or as a Converged solution. The SOFS solution uses the SOFS role with clustered Storage Spaces, in a disaggregated solution, where the compute workloads run on client servers separate from the storage nodes. The client servers use Server Message Block (SMB) to access SOFS file shares on the storage nodes. The Converged solution uses the Hyper-V role with clustered Storage Spaces, where the compute workloads run directly on the server cluster nodes.

This document is intended to support DSMS configurations, which have unique solution SKUs called Solution IDs. These DSMS solution IDs are required when ordering a DSMS configuration, and to access the benefits such as performance and sizing, optimized server and storage components, single-payload updates, and solution-level technical support. If you are in a geographical area outside of the US, the solution IDs are not available at this time. However, you may reference the configuration name instead. For the complete list of configuration solution IDs, see Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Configurations and Solution IDs available at Dell Tech Center.

DSMS solution rules  (Back to top)

This section contains consideration rules when using DSMS.

Supported storage enclosures   (Back to top)

Each storage enclosure has two Enclosure Management Modules (EMMs). Both EMMs must have the same firmware version. You must upgrade each EMM individually. EMMs do not automatically synchronize firmware versions.

Supported configurations   (Back to top)

Each configuration is defined in an AxB notation, where A is the number of storage nodes or servers and B is the number of SAS-attached storage enclosures.

Supported SMB client servers   (Back to top)

The DSMS solution supports any Dell PowerEdge 12th or 13th generation server as an SMB client server for SOFS configurations.

Supported server firmware and drivers   (Back to top)

This section provides information about the supported firmware and drivers by the DSMS solution.

Supported server boot drives   (Back to top)

This section provides information about the supported boot drives by the DSMS solution.

Supported NDC and NIC   (Back to top)

This section provides information about supported Network Daughter Cards (NDC) and Network Interface Cards (NIC) adapters.

Supported RDMA adapters   (Back to top)

This section provides information about RDMA adapters supported by the DSMS solution.

Supported SAS host bus adapters   (Back to top)

This section provides information about SAS Host Bus Adapters (HBA) supported by the DSMS solution.

Supported server operating systems   (Back to top)

This section provides information about the supported DSMS server node operating systems (OS). DSMS supports the following Full Server and Server Core installations:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard (SOFS and Converged configurations)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter (Converged)

The associated hotfixes for the following Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) articles are required for all DSMS installations:

• KB3000483
• KB3000850
• KB3012199
• KB3013455
• KB3014069
• KB3020338
• KB3025091
• KB3045171
• KB3062000
• KB3072380
• KB3073062
• KB3079904

Supported switches   (Back to top)

This section provides information about the supported switches by DSMS solution.

• Supported switches for management traffic: Supports any switch with at least 1 GbE-capable port.

• Supported switches for Cluster and SMB client traffic: The following tables provides details about the supported switches.

NOTE: DSMS also supports third party switches with the same requirements.

Requirements for non-dell switches:

• Managed switch
• Layer-3 Ethernet routing capable
• VLAN segmenting
• 802.3x Asymmetric Flow Control (Rx Only) or Data Center Bridging (Mellanox)
• Quality-of-Service, Class-of-Service (Mellanox)
• MTU Frame Size >= 9 KB
• Non-oversubscribed switch backplane fabric

NOTE: Multiple lossless classes are not allowed on the same switch (for example, RoCE and iSCSI).

Supported HDD and SSD models for storage enclosures   (Back to top)

This section provides information about HDD and SSD supported by the DSMS solution.

NOTE: All physical disk I/O must be prior to performing firmware updates for physical disks in the storage enclosures.

Contacting Dell   (Back to top)

Dell provides several online and telephone-based support and service options. If you do not have an active internet connection, you can find contact information about your purchase invoice, packing slip, bill, or Dell product catalog. Availability varies by country and product, and some services may not be available in your area. To contact Dell for sales, technical assistance, or customer-service issues:

1. Go to Dell.com/support.
2. Select your country from the drop-down menu on the lower right corner of the page.
3. For customized support:
   • Enter your system Service Tag in the Enter your Service Tag field.
   • Click Submit.
   • The support page that lists the various support categories is displayed.
4. For general support:
   • Select your product category.
   • Select your product segment.
   • Select your product. The support page that lists the various support categories is displayed.
5. For contact details of Dell Global Technical Support:
   • Click Global Technical Support.
   • The Contact Technical Support page is displayed with details to call, chat, or e-mail the Dell Global Technical Support team.

Quick Resource Locator 

Use the Quick Resource Locator (QRL) to get immediate access to DSMS Solution information. This information provides access to reference documentation, a link to the Dell support page, and links to hardware-specific QRL pages, which include how-to videos. You can access this information by visiting www.dell.com/QRL or by using your smartphone or tablet and scanning the QR code below. You can also click the image below to go directly to the DSMS QRL location.

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