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Compellent and PowerShell Shift Automated Storage Management into High Gear

Compellent has expanded its industry-leading storage management to multiply the time and money saving benefits across the enterprise with a Windows PowerShell–based command set. The Storage Center Command Set for Windows PowerShell, streamlines system management, volume administration, Data Instant Replay™ management and advanced storage features using more than 60 new cmdlets.

With the Storage Center Command Set for Windows PowerShell, Compellent users can:

  • Manage Compellent and Windows environments with a single, unified shell or script
  • Increase staff productivity and accuracy, by automating common, repetitive tasks
  • Increase availability by mapping hundreds of volumes to a cluster in minutes
  • Create scripts quickly using easy-to-remember and intuitive, readable commands
  • Reduce business interruptions by properly assigning and configuring resources
  • Recover quickly from a data loss by booting Windows servers from the SAN and mapping volumes rapidly using a Command Set script
  • Create storage for complex Microsoft Exchange environments in minutes
  • Save significant disk space by building Hyper-V servers from space-efficient golden images stored on the SAN


In Their Own Words
“By integrating Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, PowerShell and the Compellent SAN, we’ve been able to upgrade our end-user offerings, and launch our latest virtualization solution, MaxV. As a result, we can offer all customers a complete service portfolio, while simultaneously reducing our hardware costs by 70 percent and dramatically increasing efficiency.”

Ryan Jones
Product Manager
Maximum ASP

  • Join the Compellent PowerShell User community and start sharing scripts and best practices with other users.


 

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PowerShell In The Media
Compellent Automates Data Storage Administration for Microsoft Enterprise Users with Command Set for Windows PowerShell 
Press Release: December 11, 2008 

Use PowerShell to Manage Compellent SANs
Windows IT Pro: December 11, 2008

Storage Center Command Set Makes Automation a Snap!
Around the Block Blog: December 12, 2008

MaximumASP and PowerShell
Around the Block Guest Blog: December 16, 2008