Compellent's Storage Center Software places enterprise storage capabilities at customers' fingertips through a powerful suite of software applications optimizing utilization, automating replication and speeding data recovery—and an integrated foundation of core storage capabilities providing functionality previously available only in high-end systems.
Automated Tiered Storage Storage Center's Data Progression is a complete hardware and software solution that fully automates tiered storage. Data Progression automatically classifies and migrates data to the optimum tier of storage based on usage, allowing business to retain frequently accessed data on high performance storage and store infrequently accessed data on lower cost storage. By maintaining all data online and optimizing placement across multiple storage tiers, companies can purchase less storage overall and increase service levels.
Thin ProvisioningBy only consuming physical disk when data is written, as opposed to allocating capacity upfront, Storage Center's Dynamic Capacity cuts your overall storage expenditures in half. You can easily allocate volumes of any size that only consume the physical disk needed - dramatically reducing spending, increasing availability and boosting performance. You no longer need to over commit idle disk resources to avoid painful volume expansion operations. Managing actual instead of allocated space also improves the performance of operations such as copy, replication and rebuilds.
Continuous SnapshotsStorage Center's Data Instant Replay creates space-efficient copies, called Replays, to provide extremely fast recovery from any type of data hazard. Intuitive templates enable you to easily create automated Replay schedules that meet your requirements, without restraints from your storage system. Storage Center's efficient architecture allows the creation of unlimited Replays that consume minimal storage space. Use Replays to test new applications or new versions of operating systems on actual data without risk.
Remote ReplicationStorage Center’s Remote Instant Replay in combination with Data Instant Replay enables businesses to quickly and affordably establish disaster recovery practices. Create an unlimited number of snapshots, called "Replays" and replicate between primary and remote sites allowing multiple locations to serve as recovery points. Remote Instant Replay’s Thin Replication increases replication efficiency, consuming less space and reducing hardware, bandwidth and management costs. With Remote Instant Replay enable you to ensure business continuity at a fraction of the cost of other replication solutions.
Enterprise ManagerCompellent’s Enterprise Manager simplifies administration and planning by providing a complete view of your Compellent SAN environment. Using Enterprise Manager, a single administrator can monitor multiple Compellent SANs and setup replication in as few as 6 clicks. Comprehensive reports simplify capacity planning, optimize performance and quickly identify any issues that occur. All of this helps to reduce the operational costs of your growing storage environment.
Advanced VirtualizationCompellent's Advanced Virtualization features provide shared storage without restrictions. Because Compellent virtualizes at the disk-level within Storage Center, you can manage all your disk drives as a single resource, increasing storage performance, availability and utilization. This disk-level virtualization accelerates data access by spreading read/write operations across all disk drives in the SAN so multiple requests are processed in parallel.
Server Instant Replay
Compellent's Server Instant Replay software is a complete Boot from SAN solution that reduces capital costs, cuts administrative time and increases server performance and availability.
Replay ManagerReplay Manager integrates with Data Instant Replay to ensure data remains consistent even if Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft SQL Server is running as a snapshot or Replay is captured.