Controllers

Dell Compellent Storage Controllers

Dell Compellent users can now select single- or dual-controller configurations with 4 or 8 Gb Fibre Channel, 1 or 10 Gb iSCSI, or 10 Gb Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) frontend interconnects to meet cost, performance and availability requirements. The Series 30 and Series 40 storage controllers connect to any open-system servers without server-side agents and automatically fail over to another controller when clustered. The new Series 40 features more memory, six PCI-e slots and a battery-less cache, and provides 25% higher I/O performance than the Series 30. Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and cooling fans help ensure non-stop operation and high availability. Virtual ports increase port capacity, disk bandwidth, I/O connectivity and port failover.