Microsoft

Compellent and Microsoft

As a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, Compellent collaborates extensively with Microsoft to ensure that our powerful software applications integrate seamlessly with – and add value to – key Windows applications such as Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server. Compellent partners so well with Microsoft that it was honored as a 2009 Partner of the Year Finalist. Microsoft also selected Compellent as a core storage component of the Microsoft Partner Solution Center’s (MPSC) virtual data center and disaster recovery strategy.

How Compellent Empowers Windows Environments

• Storage Virtualization amplifies the benefits of server virtualization, creating a shared pool of storage available to all Hyper-V virtual machines all the time
• A PowerShell-based command set automates common tasks to streamline storage management
• Replay Manager works in unison with Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) for consistent Windows data even if applications are running during snapshots
• Automated Tiered Storage dynamically migrates inactive blocks of Exchange and other Microsoft application data to less expensive storage
• Free Space Recovery reclaims blocks of data deleted at the file level for optimal disk utilization
• Multi-Path I/O (MPIO) keeps critical applications online with fault-tolerant server connectivity
• A unified SAN/NAS platform combines file-level access with block-level efficiencies