Feature-rich, Easy-to-use SAN

The Smartest Storage for Virtual Servers

Virtually Eliminate Storage Management for Your VMs

Compellent’s storage virtualization is the perfect complement to any leading virtual server platform, enabling you to amplify the benefits of server virtualization from the data center to the desktop. Compellent delivers an industry-leading network storage solution by removing the limits of physical drives and aggregating them into logical virtual volumes. This advanced virtualization is designed to help you significantly lower storage infrastructure costs, reduce energy expenditures and recover any size volume to any server in less than 10 seconds.


Virtual Volumes from centralized storage pool


Easily Deploy and Manage Virtual Servers

  • Automated Tiered Storage technology frees up high-performance spindles for the most demanding virtual applications
  • Thin Provisioning software eases capacity planning and maximizes disk utilization
  • Automatic LUN masking simplifies storage provisioning for any number of virtual servers
  • Six-click boot from SAN wizard easily deploys virtual servers in minutes.


Increase Availability, Not Cost or Complexity

  • Space-efficient Thin Replication and block-level architecture allow you to affordably increase availability by adopting replication for more virtual servers
  • Server Instant Replay makes it possible to boot remote virtual servers from the SAN
  • Replays enable you to recover any size volume to any server within seconds


Take Green to the Bank-Reduce Power and Cooling Costs Up to 93%

  • Modular architecture scales as you grow, maximizing disk utilization and minimizing energy consumption
  • Advanced virtualization delivers equal performance with less physical hardware
  • Thin Provisioning radically reduces disk counts
  • Automated Tiered Storage technology allows you to use fewer high-performance, high-power drives
  • Increased efficiency and condensed hardware reduce upgrades to your UPS, generators, cooling systems and facility

Customer Testimonial
“Our environment is 90 percent virtualized using VMware technology. We estimate that the cost savings that we've received by implementing the Compellent is about a 20 percent reduction in infrastructure costs for both equipment and staff.”

Todd Croy
Infrastructure Manager
Scott County
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