Compellent last week announced that Storage Center 5 is available. The array now offers portable volume replication, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage, RAID 6 data protection, virtual IO ports, server mapping provisioning and consistency groups.
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Portable volume replication allows customers to replicate data to portable external hard drives and protect them with 128-bit encryption for shipping to remote sites. As many as 384 SAS drives of different speeds and capacities can be mixed in the same enclosure and support Fibre Channel or iSCSI connectivity. Compellent has added RAID 6 capability to its storage array – data is first stored on fast storage configured with RAID 10 and when not actively used migrated automatically to RAID-6 enabled disk.
Virtual ports reduce the number of physical ports required in switches and Compellent enclosures and virtualize Fibre Channel and iSCSI connections. Server mapping automates deployment of virtual servers and clusters and finally, consistency groups allow recovery of databases and other applications.
An entry-level Compellent Storage Center starts at $21,000 for dual clustered controllers, 10TB of SAS storage and Storage Center 5 Core with Virtual Ports, Server Mapping, Consistency Groups, Dynamic Capacity thin provisioning, Fast Track data placement, Data Instant Replay snapshots, and Enterprise Manager storage resource management software.
A configuration with Data Progression Tiering and Remote Instant Replay replication starts at $38,100 and includes an array with dual clustered controllers, 8.7TB SAS drives (six 1TB 7,200 RPM and six 460GB 15,000 RPM) drives. The same bundled software plus Data Progression tiering and Remote Instant Replay replication licenses. The Portable Volume Kit with two 2TB drives starts at $1,250.
