Dell Storage SCv2000 Series

Feature-rich, entry-level storage

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Market dynamics

Data, now collected and analyzed at an unprecedented scale, has become the essential asset for nearly all businesses.

WW data

growth:

IT spend

increase:

20

13

20

14

20

15

20

16

20

17 30-50%

3%

Innovation opportunity

IT budgets are NOT growing at the same rate as data

Storage efficiency and leverage are top-of-mind, as IT managers plan for the new universal business requirement:

Extract maximum advantage from data, @ maximum ROI

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Tenets of Dell Storage SC Series

• Simplify management

• Ideal for virtual

servers

• Independence from

drive type, interface

type and RAID

• “No waste” when

storing data

• Buy fewer disk drives

• Save on energy and

floor space

• Sophisticated data

movement engine

• Set policies and let

the system run

• Optimized data

placement via RAID

tiering

• Block-level intelligence

• Manages data inside

the volume

• Tracks frequency

of access

• Enables unique

feature/benefits

Virtualization Intelligence

Automation Utilization

METADATA

Data about the data.

RAID Tier 5/6

RAID Tier 10Disks not

purchased

Unused allocation

Data

FCSAS

iSCSI

SSD

RAID 10

RAID 5 RAID 6

15K 10K 7.2K

Data

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Expanding the SC series of SAN arrays to entry-level customers

Introducing the

Dell Storage

SCv2000

Remote and local data protection

Dell’s ProSupport

services

Common Storage Center

management

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SC Series: Intelligent storage for any environment

+ Highest

Performance

Capacity

Flexibility

SC8000

Flagship Dell solution

for the largest storage

environments

+ Enhanced

Performance

Efficiency

Investment

protection

SC4000

Enterprise advantage for

mid-size deployments

Better value than

competing entry-

level arrays

SCv2000

Intelligent entry-

level solutions

Single-tier optimization

Multi-tier optimization

• Self-optimizing efficiency

• Virtualized architecture

• Broad integrations

• End-to-end management

Shared attributes

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Dell Storage SCv2000 series

High performance• Superior performance for entry-level storage

Data protection

• Exceptional number of snapshots and

replication

Future flexibility

• Migrate data within SCv2000 series

Storage Center for feature-rich,

entry-level storage

Up to 2000

snapshots*

*Based on February 2015 Dell testing of the SC6.6.1 SCv2000 array. Actual performance may vary based on the workload and drive type..

Up to 500

replications*

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Dell Storage SCv2000 features

Easily scales-up to enterprise level storage with a one-time volume migration to SC4020 or SC8000

Newest member of award-winning Dell SC seriesNew models:

• SCv2000 – 2U, 12 drive bays

• SCv2020 – 2U, 24 drive bays

• SCv2080 – 5U, 84 drive bays

• Expansion enclosures – SC100, SC120, SC180

Common Storage Center features:

• Thin Provisioning

• Virtual Ports

• Dynamic Controllers

• Enterprise Manager

Flexible options:

• Various mix of HDDs and SSDs

• Connectivity options (FC, iSCSI, SAS and multi-protocol)

• Data protection with Remote DP, Local DP and Replay Manager

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SCv2000 entry level product line up

SCOperating System

SCv2080- 5U/84 SCv2020-2U/24 SCv2000-2U/12

12G SAS 12Gb SAS 12Gb SAS

NA 1Gb iSCSI 1Gb iSCSI

10Gb iSCSI 10Gb iSCSI 10Gb iSCSI

8Gb FC 8Gb FC 8Gb FC

16Gb FC 16Gb FC 16Gb FC

Expansion- 6G SAS

SC180- 5U/84 SC120-2U/24 SC100-2U/12

RBOD

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Flexible Expansion Options

*SCv2080 and the SC180 can support a mix and match a variety of the referenced drives.¹

Start with a single SCv2000 all-in-one 2U or 5U array

SCv2020

12 x 3.5” drives + dual or single controllers

24 x 2.5” drives + dual or single controllers

84 x 3.5” or 2.5” dual controllersAdd expansion enclosures up to 168 drives

bays per system

SCv2020

(single SAS chain)

Choose any combination of expansion enclosures types

SC12024 x 2.5” drives

SC10012 x 3.5” drives

Mix and match SAS drive types

2.5”

SCv2020 and SC120*

SSD

WI, MU, RI

HDD

15K, 10K

3.5”

SCv2000 and SC100*

SSD

WI, MU, RI

HDD

NLSAS

SC180

84 x 3.5” or 2.5” drives

¹Drive compatibility matrix has exact details

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Dell SCv2000 series

Storage Center 6.6.4: SCv2000 specific enhancements

Optional data protection features

RAID 5 or 6

RAID 10

Optimized RAID

TieringMix and

match hard drives and

SSDs

Dell ProSupportWizard-based

installation

Fluid Cache

Enterprise Manager

VLAN 1

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Features and benefits

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SC Series feature comparisonSC8000 SC4020 SCv2000

Data Management & Protection

Dynamic Capacity (Thin Provisioning)

Provisioning)X X X

Virtual Ports (HA) X X X

Dynamic Controller (HA failover) X X X

Multi-VLAN Tagging for iSCSI X X X

Data Instant Replay (Snapshots) X X Optional (Local Data Protection)

Remote Instant Replay (Asynchronous)

(Asynchronous)X X

Optional (Remote Data Protection)

Remote Instant Replay (Synchronous)

(Synchronous)X X NA

Data Progression X X NA

Live Volume X X NA

Compression X X NA

Performance/HA

Fast Track X X NA

Fluid Cache for SAN X X NA

Management

Enterprise Manager Foundation/Reporter

Foundation/ReporterX X X

Replay Manager X X Optional

Enterprise Manager Chargeback X X NA

Services

CoPilot X X NA

Dell SupportAssist (PhoneHome) NA NA X

Unused Allocation

Data

Unused Allocation

Data

Disks not purchased

Unused Allocation

Data

Data

Vol B

Vol AVol B

Vol A

LegacyTraditional SANS

SC SeriesDynamic Capacity Advantage

Thin provisioning benefits

DID YOU KNOW?

100% of SC customers use thin provisioning.

• No pre-allocation required

• Snapshots are thin provisioned

• “Thin” data migrations

• Free space is automatically

recovered

• No limits on application usage

Radically improve utilization

Radically improve utilizationUse fewer physical disks

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RAID Tiering – additional optimization within a tier

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Portable

Volume

Unlimited, Mountable ReplaysIntegration• VMware

• Microsoft

• Oracle

Spawn Virtual

Machines

Online Disaster

Recovery Testing

VDI Support

Thin

Replication

SCv2000 SCv2000

No Snapshot

Preallocation

Continuous

Snapshots11:45

12:00

12:15

11:45

12:00

12:15

Local and Remote Instant ReplaySnapshots recover instantly, replicate in minutes

Thin Clones

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• Reduce storage

costs

• Simplify

administration

• Streamline

disaster recovery

• Assign volumes to

departments

• Automatically

calculate costs

• Based on actual

consumption

• Simplify capacity

planning

• View storage and

server

consumption

• Optimize

performance

• Immediate insight and

control

• Increase efficiency

• Boardroom-ready

“Hero” reports

Single-interface, multi-system management Robust reporting

Optimized capacity planning & performance Storage chargeback

Easy-to-use centralized monitoring and management

Enterprise Manager

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• Consistent, online backup and recovery of

Exchange, SQL Server, any Microsoft VSS-

enabled application or VMware VMs

• Automated scheduling, discovery, verification

and migration

• Transportable snapshots

Replay Manager

1. Request Replay2. Pause transactions3. Create consistent Replay4. Resume normal operations

8:00

8:15

8:30

8:45

MS PowerShell Automation Systems Center

• Automate Microsoft application

storage management

• Simplify virtual machine creation and

configuration

• Standardize complex test and dev

environments

• SCVMM 2012

• Provision storage for VMs through

a single interface

• Assign storage profiles, ensuring

needed performance and

efficiency

• Create VMs based on Replays (gold

images)

Windows Server 2012

• ODX (Offload Data Transfer)

improves performance

• UNMAP maintains thin provisioning

• Automated management through

PowerShell v3 scripting

Platform integrationTools for the dynamic data center

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VMware integration

Full certification and joint support

• VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP)

• VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)

The ideal storage platform for VMware environments

• Quickly provision virtual machines (VMs)

• Shares single storage pool available with all VMs

• Automatically fine-tunes data placement for virtual applications

• Minimizes disk capacity required for VM clones

• Automates disaster recovery with SRM adapter

Virtual servers meet virtual storage

Multiple of points of integration

• vSphere client plug-in

• Provision and manage storage within vSphere

• SRM plug-in*

• Automate storage/VM failover and failback

• vCenter

• Create and manage VMs within Enterprise Manager

• vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)

• Offload process from host to Storage Center to rapidly and efficiently provision VMs

*Availability date TBD

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