When it comes to selecting storage for modern IT infrastructures, Dell believes there is no –one-size-fits-all approach and customers should have a choice of solutions that meet their requirements. Whether they choose to expand with their existing infrastructure or adopt a different approach based on software-defined storage technologies, customers can leverage Dell’s entry-to-enterprise storage stack built on a modern storage architecture, proven x86 server platform and a broad partner ecosystem to implement affordable and flexible storage solutions.
Dell’s comprehensive portfolio of software-defined storage solutions includes open source technologies, advanced storage software, and hyper-converged appliances. These solutions give customers the flexibility to implement the latest storage technologies from Microsoft, Nexenta, Nutanix, RedHat, VMware and other partners, all running on industry-standard x86 hardware and backed by Dell’s global Services and Support team.
What's New
Announcing the Dell XC730xd-12C “Cold Tier Storage” node, availability of KVM hypervisor, new drives, memory, and CPUs.
The Dell XC Series of Web-scale Converged appliances integrates the world-class proven 13G PowerEdge server platform from Dell and Nutanix web-scale software to deliver a simple, cost effective hyper-converged solution for virtualized enterprise workloads. This highly differentiated infrastructure solution natively consolidates compute and storage in a single appliance and enables data center expansion one node at a time, with zero down time, delivering linear and predictable scale-out with pay-as-you-grow flexibility.
SDS Solutions
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 is a comprehensive offering of validated and tested Dell hardware with Microsoft Storage Spaces technology. This new Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) 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.
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 Dell PowerEdge 13th 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.