Dell Compellent SC8000 Storage Center Controller
Dell Compellent SC8000 Storage Center Controller
Dell Compellent SC8000 Storage Center Controller
Center Controller
Enterprise storage for virtualized data centers and the cloud
Enhance your storage efficiency, performance and scalability with the Dell Compellent SC8000
Storage Center Controller that can help lower the total cost of ownership. A Storage Center SAN built
with an SC8000 controller is an all-in-one storage array that allows organizations to actively manage
data at a highly granular level using built-in intelligence and automation with Storage Center array
software. This ultra-efficient, easy-to-manage storage solution optimizes drive utilization, dynamically.
Help control data center operating expenses with Dell-driven
efficiency, quality and durability. The SC8000 is a Storage Center
controller built on the Dell PowerEdge 12th generation server
platform with a custom configuration to support the needs of an
enterprise datacenter. The SC8000 offers high density, exceptional
processing power, excellent memory, and fast PCIe Gen3 IO bus.
Dynamically scale to meet business requirements with the flexible,
persistent SC8000 hardware platform.
Drive interfaces
SAS and NL-SAS drives.3 Backwards compatible with existing Compellent Fibre Channel and SATA drives. Different drive types, transfer rates
and rotational speeds can be mixed in same system.
RAID
Supports RAID 0, 5, 6, RAID 10 and RAID 10 DM (dual mirror). Any combination of RAID levels can exist on a single Storage Center. Multiple
RAID levels can exist on the same storage tier within an array.
Connectivity
Front-end connectivity
Fibre Channel (4Gb, 8Gb, 16Gb), iSCSI (1Gb, 10Gb), FCoE (10Gb)
Simultaneous interface support
16 (Fibre Channel), 10 (1Gb iSCSI), 10 (10Gb iSCSI), 10 (FCoE) per controller. NOTE: SC8000 controller can support up to 16 FC front-end ports
with 4-port low-profile SAS back-end IO option.
SAS (6Gb, 3Gb), Fibre Channel (2Gb, 4Gb, 8Gb)
16 (FC), 20 (SAS) per controller
NOTE: No SATA ports, FC and SATA enclosures are connected to FC8 IO card.
Chassis
Rack size: 2U
Height: 87.3 mm (3.44 inch)
Storage controller
Rack Support
ReadyRails II static rails for tool-less mounting in 4-post racks with square or unthreaded round holes or tooled mounting in 4-post
threaded-hole racks
Results based on March 2013 internal Dell testing with actual MTBF calculated from a run time total of 26 million+ hours (accumulated by 6724 systems). Run time and availability impacting failures for a 6
month period from 8/2012 thru 1/2013. Estimated weighted average MTTR of 6.6 hours for 12 hour part SLA. Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability.
2
GB means 1 billion bytes and TB equals 1 trillion bytes; actual capacity varies with preloaded material and operating environment and will be less.
3
SATA drives and enclosures are supported on existing Storage Center SANs, but are not available for new customers.
4
See Dell Energy Smart Solutions Advisor at http://essa.us.dell.com/DellStarOnline/DCCP.aspx
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