Dell Storage SC4020 all-in-one array

High performance that fits your budget, including all-flash

To compete with big business, you need efficient, real-time data access to quickly turn customer interactions into transactions and information into insights. The Dell Storage SC4020 puts the high IOPs and low latency your applications demand within reach.

The Dell Compellent SC4020 hardware design supports 24 hot-plug, 2.5-inch drives and dual controllers providing automatic failover, combined in a single chassis. This consolidated platform can seamlessly connect to any open-systems server through Fibre Channel or iSCSI connections without the need for server side agents.

The Dell Compellent SC4020 also includes support for multiple NAS options including local user shares or other file workloads. On the back-end, the Dell Compellent SC4020 can be expanded using existing SC200 and SC220 disk enclosures with a full range of drive configurations, including tiered and all-flash options for ultimate workload flexibility, and the ability to customise drive mix and expand the drive footprint over time. For example, a site could start with value 7K drives and later add both capacity and performance to meet the changing application needs, including adding SSD flash tiers and file options.

Dell Compellent SC4020 Top Features:

• Auto-tuned for maximum performance and cost-savings based on real-time usage information
• FLASH-optimized for affordable all-flash or hybrid SSD/HDD deployments
• Fibre Channel or iSCSI SAN support included, with high-performance scale-out NAS option Perpetual software licensing for low lifecycle costs
• Award-winning Copilot Support

SC4020 offers a unique combination of winning attributes:

• Enterprise performance - No other mid-size array offers a wider range of performance-enhancing features, including true multi-tier Flash optimization. SC4020 keeps your applications running smoothly (and your users happy) by ensuring all data writes go to your fastest drives at the highest-performing RAID levels.
• Best-in-class intelligence - Only Storage Center OS v6.5, featuring exclusive Data Progression storage automation technology, puts all the right data in the right place, at the right time. SC4020 is a self- optimizing, efficient, fully-virtualized solution from the company that invented auto-tiering storage.
• Unprecedented value - Compact all-in-one format saves heating and cooling costs. Hassle-free deployment, simplified management. Value-priced software with perpetual/transferable licensing. World-class, proactive Copilot Enterprise Support prevents errors, eliminates downtime.

The virtualization solution in based on the VMware ESXi 5.5 Hypervisor (included in the VMware vSphere 5 suite) which will be installed on four cluster connected hosts, each host will have two processors with 10 cores each.

Projects Objectives

The project implies the construction of a new infrastructure needed for the virtualization of the production allocated servers based on a unified Dell Hardware platform (servers, storage, networking, etc. )

Solution’s benefits

Key benefits of Dell Solution for Virtualization include the following:

• The simplified ordering process results in a verified bill of materials that includes solution components, factory integration, on-site installation services (including a tailored software configuration), and a minimum of three years of solution-level support.
• The inherent flexibility of this solution allows you to deploy and scale your virtualization environment to meet the needs of your particular application workloads.
• Performance bottlenecks are minimized via a balanced architecture that has been optimized for virtualized applications.
• Management, deployment, and security have been simplified across physical and virtual environments.