Feature-rich, Easy-to-use SAN

Storage Center With NAS

Industry-leading SAN now available with the benefits of NAS

Storage Center with NAS is a fully integrated networked storage solution that extends the benefit of storage consolidation across the enterprise. Now customers with file-level storage requirements can easily utilize all of the enterprise features of the Compellent SAN, including successive Replays (snapshots), automated tiered storage, thin provisioning and remote replication. This unified SAN and NAS solution delivers the high availability, scalability and end to end support that customers expect from a Compellent SAN.

NAS - Network Attached Storage



Storage Center with NAS combines block and file-level storage into a single shared system, providing:

Enterprise Storage Features at the File Level. Unified storage solution offers advanced management of file-level storage including snapshots, automated tiered storage and replication.

Lower Server TCO. Consolidate file servers onto a Storage Center with NAS to cut server costs, improve performance and increase manageability.

Implement in Minutes, Scale Rapidly. Easily deploy feature-rich file-level storage without network or system downtime. Manage from an intuitive interface and easily expand with Storage Center’s modular hardware architecture.
Key Benefits
  • Simplifies management and cuts overall storage costs
  • Easy integration delivers file-level storage in minutes
  • Enterprise-class features at the file level provide data protection, increase utilization and cut overall storage costs
  • Scale by adding file-level capacity without downtime
  • Versatile connectivity options allow price/performance improvement
  • Built-in multi-platform file sharing cuts administrative time
  • Scalable and reliable solution delivers high availability

The Compellent Advantage
CompellentOthers Typically
Single NAS and SAN vendor supportDon’t provide an end-to-end support offering for entire storage platform
Automated data migration for NASRequire manual data migration or don’t support file-level migration
A high number of Replays for NAS without performance impactLimit the number of snapshots and recovery points based on performance degradation
Thin Provisioning for NASRequire upfront volume allocation
Diskless OperationsRequire internal storage disks on network attached storage servers
File level de-duplicationDon’t de-duplicate to optimize storage utilization
Multipath Manager (MPIO)Don’t support MPIO integration for better reliability, availability and performance
Versatile connectivity optionsDon’t offer both Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity
Virtual Disk Service Manager (VDS) Don’t streamline volume management from the NAS interface
Customer Testimonial
“We’ve upgraded our Compellent SAN more than 20 times without a forklift upgrade.”

Seth Mitchell
Infrastructure Team Manager
Slumberland
Related Collateral
NAS Datasheet: The benefits of unified SAN and NAS storage.

Storage Center with NAS One-Pager: Industry leading SAN with the benefits of NAS.
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