Around The Block Blog
by Bob Oas, Marketing Communications Specialist — June 15, 2010
Over the past several weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to work with our Technical Solutions team to develop a series of papers. The idea was to create Technical Solution Briefs that not only discuss the integration between Compellent storage and leading third-party technologies, but provide examples of the solutions at work in real-world environments. Three of the five docs have been released, with two more scheduled to hit the street by June 25. You can download them from Compellent’s Resource Library.
Topics of the papers include:
- How to Test Upgrades in a VMware Environment without Downtime or Disruption Using Compellent Replays
- How to Quickly Deploy Storage for a Complex Exchange Environment Using the Storage Center Command Set for Windows PowerShell
- How to Safeguard SQL Server Data in a Clustered, Multi-Site Configuration Using Compellent Thin Replication
- How to Rapidly Provision Storage in a Hyper-V Environment Using the Storage Center Command Set for Windows PowerShell
- How to Rapidly Deploy Storage in an Oracle Environment Using the Compellent Command Line Utility (CompCU)
For those of you who attended C-Drive, these topics may remind you of the Solution Sessions introduced this year. Also delivered by the Technical Solutions team, those breakouts demonstrated how integrated solutions cut time, cost and risk. The new Technical Solution Briefs are an extension of that effort, and we hope you find them useful when considering ways to manage your data smarter. Please recommend other topics to cover. Just tweet me at @bob_oas or email me directly at bob.oas@compellent.com. I’ll bring your ideas to the team in July as we map out phase two.
by Liem Nguyen, Director of Corporate Communications — May 11, 2010
Our partners at Citrix and Microsoft are making it easier for Compellent Fluid Data storage users and channel partners to plan cloud computing projects. A few weeks ago, Compellent announced our work with Microsoft on the dynamic infrastructure toolkit for cloud computing. This week the Compellent team will be demonstrating more of our next-gen cloud technology support for both Citrix and Microsoft virtualization platforms at Citrix Synergy in San Francisco.
In Compellent booth no. 300 in the Moscone Center tomorrow May 12 through May 14, we’re going to showcase support for the next evolution of the Citrix Ready program: StorageLink version 2.2. The upcoming StorageLink 2.2 code from Citrix will include the Compellent Storage Adapter, which integrates provisioning, management and recovery of Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines through the StorageLink interface.
The wow factor will be our demo for Site Recovery integration. It’s future technology from both Compellent and Citrix, which will automate setup and execution of disaster recovery of Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V workloads. I can’t go into more detail right now but we’re working on enabling customers to integrate Compellent continuous snapshots and thin replication with Site Recovery.
Stay tuned for more official words from Citrix and Compellent. In the meantime, don’t miss our demonstrations of Compellent, Citrix and Microsoft cloud tech at Synergy.
If you can't make it to Synergy, here's a video demo that walks through some of the technical features of the StorageLink 2.2 GUI with Compellent integration. We'll have the second demo with Site Recovery next week.
Let us know if you're going to Synergy. If you're already using StorageLink or plan to use it with Site Recovery we'd love to hear from you.
by Justin Braun, Microsoft Product Specialist — April 21, 2010
Recently, Microsoft introduced a new program, the “Dynamic Data Center Alliance” or DDA. This program was developed as a way for Microsoft partners from different facets to come together to create dynamic solutions and offer added value to customers using the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit.
“Ease of Use” is critical, and Compellent was at the forefront when we introduced the Compellent Storage Center Command Set for Windows PowerShell by offering a true storage management integration point between the Compellent Storage Center and the Windows platform.
Automation and integration between the storage system and the platform has always been a challenge. With the announcement of the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises, Compellent will extend that integration into the Dynamic Data Center by helping our customers streamline the provisioning process between storage and servers leading to effective and efficient management of their virtualized environments all from a single web interface. Effective and efficient management means not wasting space, levering replays for build images and efficient placement of data achieved through Data Progression.
We are also very excited to announce that we are co-presenting with the Microsoft Solution Accelerator Team at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas to show off this solution. If you are attending the show, be sure to stop by our booth or sit in on the session to catch a demo of our Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit integration.
For more information on the availability of the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit, check out the Dynamic Data Center Alliance Blog at http://blogs.technet.com/ddcalliance/.