When it comes to selecting storage for modern IT infrastructures, Dell believes there is no –one-size-fits-all approach and you should have a choice of solutions that meets your requirements. Whether you choose to expand with your existing infrastructure or adopt a different approach based on software-defined storage technologies, you can leverage 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 from Dell.
Our comprehensive portfolio of software-defined storage solutions includes open source technologies, advanced storage software, and hyper-converged appliances. These solutions give you 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 the global Dell Services and Support teams.
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. Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces offering has been extended from SOFS to include converged architecture options, which allows you to 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.
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.