Storage Virtualization

Compellent Storage Virtualization

Compellent virtualizes enterprise storage at the disk level, creating a dynamic pool of storage resources shared by all servers. Because read/write operations are spread across all available drives, multiple requests are processed in parallel, boosting system performance. With Compellent Storage Virtualization, users can create hundreds of virtual volumes in seconds to support any virtual server platform and optimize the placement of virtual applications.

How to Increase Performance with Storage Virtualization

• Create any size virtual volumes without allocating drives to specific servers or dealing with complicated capacity planning or performance tuning
• Present storage to servers simply as disk capacity, regardless of tier, RAID level or server connectivity
• Automatically restripe data across all drives in the storage pool when adding more capacity
• Dynamically scale the storage pool and implement system upgrades without disruption
• Use virtual ports to increase port capacity, disk bandwidth, I/O connectivity and port failover