Compellent partners so well with Microsoft, it was recently honored with a 2008 Partner of the Year award and
selected as a core storage component of the
Microsoft Partner Solution Center’s (MPSC) virtual data center and disaster recovery strategy.
Compellent's industry-leading
ease of use is accelerated with the
Storage Center Command Set for Windows PowerShell™, which streamlines system management and takes automated enterprise administration to the next level. Since Compellent is a Microsoft Certified Gold-Level Partner and Simple SAN compatible, you can be confident your SAN will seamlessly integrate with your Microsoft Servers.
Compellent and Microsoft VirtualizationStorage Center’s advanced storage virtualization is the perfect complement to Hyper-V servers, enabling you to amplify the benefits of server virtualization from the data center to the desktop. Start your data center virtualization strategy with a Compellent SAN to significantly lower storage infrastructure costs, reduce power and cooling costs by up to 93% and recover any size volume to any server in less than 10 seconds.
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Why Compellent Shines in the Microsoft Environment
- Replay Manager and Data Instant Replay team with Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) to ensure consistent Windows data even if the server application is running
- Automated Tiered Storage tracks blocks “inside the volume” and migrates inactive data to less expensive storage. In Exchange, that means more mailboxes for less money
- Dynamic Block Architecture enables program-based storage provisioning and management with Virtual Disk Service (VDS)
- Free Space Recovery recycles data blocks of information deleted at the file level, helping reclaim unused storage space in the data center
- Replays ease testing and patch management by allowing quick recovery in SQL Server and Exchange environments using VSS
- Fault-tolerant serve connectivity via Multi-Path I/O (MPIO) keeps critical application online
- Application Optimizer maximizes Windows application operation by matches storage performance to individual program I/O needs
- Fast Track increases critical SQL Server application performance by reserving the fastest portion of each drive for the most frequently used data, such as log files
- A unified SAN and NAS platform that combines block and file-level data into a centralized storage solution that reduces storage cost and complexity
- Multi-platform file sharing eases administration in SMB/CIFS and NFS protocol environments
Compellent CEO Accepting Microsoft Partner of the Year Award