Dell EMC SC series class all-flash Arrays

Dell EMC SC is a line of storage systems of average price range.

SC series products, SCv3000 arrays

2017

Dell EMC SCv3000

The Dell EMC company announced on November 20, 2017 expansion of a range of means of a corporate class in DWH of the SCv series of initial level. Arrays of Dell EMC SCv3000, available at the price, complete complex updating of all portfolio of storage systems of SCv, offering big extent of automation more integration tools with the senior products of the SC series.

Features

SCv3000 series includes many key functions of the SC operating system. The opportunities offered now in arrays of initial level include:

• Data Progression (promotion of data) — allows to use in hybrid solutions on a flash memory an avtotiring with flexible configuration of a configuration — "0-100% flash memory".
• Intellectual compression — reduces the capacity required for data storage to 93%.
• Replication and federation with other arrays of the SC series — protection of investments with the built-in road map for satisfaction of the changing requirements.
• Live Migrate (online migration) is seamless mobility of data and balancing of loading without additional costs.
• Live Volume (geographically distributed replication and metrocluster) is hands-off processing of failure / automatic recovery at the level of volume eliminates interruption of a working task during unforeseen failures or failures.
• Integration with PS-Series (EqualLogic) — cross-platform replication and the unified management allow users of PS (EqualLogic) to add easily arrays of SCv and SC to the existing storage infrastructures based on PS-Series.
• Enterprise Chargeback (expense accounting), thin clones, remote replication and many other things.

Increase in productivity

According to Dell EMC, the hardware platform of SCv3000 is also considerably upgraded in comparison with arrays of SCv2000 of the previous generation. 6-core Intel processors, the doubled capacity of RAM and the trebled capacity lead to performance improvement for 50% with the maximum result when testing — up to 270,000 IOPS.

Deployment options

Arrays of SCv3000 are established by customers that reduces costs for start in operation, but at the same time provide a full range of services of support ProSupport and ProDeploy, including versions of Plus and also an option of additional services Optimize.

Customers can select one of two basic models of an array (SCv3000 and SCv3020) and three additional shelves of expansion (SCv300, SCv320 and SCv360). Combination of these of "construction blocks" for deployment up to 1 PBytes of "crude" capacity on an array is allowed, using any combination of the drives SSD and traditional hard drives in formats of 3.5 and 2.5-inches. Several arrays can be grouped in clusters — federation of arrays with anticipatory management of balancing of loading and fast instruments of migration on the basis of utilities masters.

As well as other products of the SC series, arrays of SCv3000 offer an expanded range of hardware and program integration of Dell EMC, including support of plug-ins of VMware vSphere and also support of virtual volumes of VMware (VMware Virtual Volumes). Support of the products Dell EMC for data protection, managements of storage and ensuring high availability, including Data Domain, PowerPath, RecoverPoint, VPLEX, ViPR and many others, guarantees to customers that their arrays SCv3000 can and be applied further to the mixed workload in the different changing ecosystems, emphasized in the company.

Release terms

Arrays of Dell EMC SCv3000 are available to the order through official partners of the company.

Dell EMC SC5020F и SC7020F

The Dell EMC company announced on November 15, 2017 replenishment of a line of storage systems of average price range two arrays of SC of the class all-flash.

Dell EMC SC5020F и SC7020F

Arrays of Dell EMC SC of the class all-flash have bonus performance and are ready to implementation on large enterprises. According to the statement of Dell EMC, these arrays are developed to help customers to upgrade the data processing centers: increase data processing rate and increase expense efficiency when using existing applications. The problem of arrays also consists in providing an opportunity to use the scenarios of work meaning use a flash memory.

The Dell EMC SC5020F and Dell EMC SC7020F models are executed in form factor 3U and are equipped with double controllers in the active/active configuration, 8-core Intel Xeon processors, up to 256 GB of memory and support of data transmission under protocols 10GB iSCSI and 16/32GB FC.

According to Dell EMC, solutions differ:

• Highly productive flash memory: support up to 399 thousand transactions of input-output per second (IOPS) counting on an array and up to 3.9 million IOPS counting on a cluster from the integrated arrays;
• Joint data storage, scaling options and protection: solutions are ready to connection to clusters of the integrated arrays that allows to transfer working environments with ease and to distribute loadings. In turn, the technology of automatic connection of a reserve will protect business from idle times;
• Automatic optimization: intellectual deduplication and data compression, multilevel data storage based on RAID and complete dynamic selection of capacity will instantly lead to economy of costs;
• Complex equipment by the software: upon purchase of arrays of the SC series the customer receives the complex software necessary for work of all functions, without need to pay additional licenses.

Future-Proof Storage

Also submitted to Dell EMC the loyalty program of Future-Proof Storage within which the company provides a three-year quality assurance, along with access to all necessary software, protects investments into the equipment, guarantees efficiency of data storage, saves from difficulties at data transfer and provides a free cloud of Virtustream Storage Cloud

Future-Proof Storage provides customers with guarantees for all lifecycle of arrays, offering upon purchase of Dell EMC Unity and SC:

• Three-year quality assurance: Dell EMC guarantees to customers compliance of the products to all stated characteristics;
• Efficiency guarantee flash arrays 4:1: it is offered without expanded preliminary estimates and restrictions;
• Simple data migration: upgradeability to new arrays of Dell EMC at any time without stopping work and restrictions in data availability;
• All necessary software: storage systems of Dell EMC of average price range are delivered with all necessary software for storage functions, management and protection, there is no need to pay additional licenses;
• The built-in cloud of Virtustream Storage Cloud (only in Dell EMC Unity): an opportunity to automatically attach files and snapshots to a cloud without any payment within a year, within program conditions.

Upon purchase of arrays of Dell EMC Unity or SC, regardless of whether they are purchased directly at Dell EMC or her authorized suppliers, in the presence of the current contract on service customers get access to all program capabilities of loyalty without additional costs.

Availability

The beginning of sales of the Dell EMC SC5020F and SC7020F models of the class all-flash is planned for December, 2017.