Dell Storage SC series of DWH

Storage SC xxx is a line of disk arrays of initial level on the Dell Storage Centre platform.

2017: Dell Storage SC5020

On May 16, 2017 Dell EMC was provided by SC5020 in family of economic and intellectual hybrid storage systems of a middle and elementary grade for tasks with block access.

The successor of an array of SC4020 - SC5020 has a bigger capacity and scalability: it has up to 45% above than performance in IOPS, the maximum capacity (2 PB) and three times higher than the bandwidth are twice higher.

A system is executed in chassis 3U, with 30 internal disk drive bays, two controllers, FC, ISCSI ports and direct connection of SAS.

Arrays of SC5020 will be available to the order in May, 2017, deliveries will begin in June, 2017.

2015

Dell Storage SC9000

On November 9, 2015 the Dell company presented at the Russian market the solution in SC9000 data storage area. The complex is focused on use in the companies with the large centers of storage and data processing at a smaller expense of means and time.

Representation of Dell Storage SC9000 - scaling (2015)

The Dell Storage SC9000 controller with module 12GB SAS and the software of new generation is the most productive in a line of the solutions Dell Storage of the SC series for November 9, 2015, the company stated.

The array of Dell Storage SC9000 is created on the server platform of the 13th generation Dell PowerEdge and is offered how entirely on a basis a flash memory, and on the basis of tough and a flash disks. The technological solution provides 40% performance gain - more than 385 thousand IOPS (input-output operations per second) ^[1] — and more than the doubled capacity in comparison with arrays of Dell Storage of the SC series of the previous generation.

Flexible, selfoptimizing SC9000 system helps to receive more than 3 PB of net capacity and to integrate arrays in groups, providing with necessary capacity large workloads.

The software of Dell Storage Center 6.7 is equipped with new features and provides the improved support of Dell Storage devices of the SC series in private cloud environments and other crucial applications.

Among innovations:

• function of automatic replacement of a faulty array Live Volume allowing to work without idle times
• the integrated server protection of environments of Oracle, Microsoft and VMware.

The improved function of an active compression allows to release up to 93% of capacity for ^[2] Additional economy is provided by the innovative technology of storage of TLC 3D NAND.

Availability

Storage systems of Dell Storage SC9000, Dell Storage Center 6.7, Dell Storage SC400 and SC420 are on sale through official partners of the company.

Updating of a configuration flash arrays of Dell Storage of a corporate class

At the beginning of 2015 Dell released update of configurations a flash arrays of Dell Storage of a corporate class. Configurations a flash arrays of Dell Storage SC4020 give the chance to receive inexpensive a flash system of initial level to use its advantages of performance to support of a broad spectrum of applications and workloads. Now Dell delivers two configurations:

• The single-level configuration a flash arrays of Dell Storage SC4020 of initial level includes 6 solid-state disks (SSD) of 480 GB for intensive read operations (the general unformatted capacity 2.8 TB).
• Multi-level a flash - the optimized configuration a flash arrays of Dell Storage SC4020 provides higher performance of record at the similar expense level and 6 solid-state disks (SSD) of 480 GB for intensive read operations and 6 more solid-state disks (SSD) of 200 GB for intensive write operations include (the general unformatted capacity more than 4 TB).

Both new configurations a flash arrays are based on an array of Dell Storage SC4020 which includes 24 disk compartments and failsafe controller SC4020 pair in compact body 2U and also all standard software, additional components, installation and three years' support of Dell Copilot.

Customers can expand further a flash arrays of Dell Storage SC4020, as well as any other a solution flash, by adding of disks for intensive read operations or for intensive write operations, and can select other option and receive additional economy due to automatic transfer of the "cold" (seldom used) data at one or a little additional levels consisting of traditional disks. Anyway all entering write operations and read operations of "hot" data are processed by the level of SSD disks with the highest high-speed performance that provides maximum capacity.

Dell Storage SCv2000

On May 27, 2015 the Dell company announced an output to the market of disk arrays of the Dell Storage SCv2000 Series series.

Dell Storage SCv2000 Series model, 2015

The storage systems of initial level having abilities to manage and a number of basic functions as arrays of Dell SC of the senior class are Dell Storage SCv2000. The integrated means of protecting for support of specialized projects, databases and test environments or simple consolidation of the environment of storage the new Dell Storage SCv2000 systems provide the high performance and level of data protection.

Models of arrays have expansion options:

• high performance at reasonable price. Arrays have the best in the class with an efficiency of one inexpensive body 2U.2 a Rich set of options includes reliable tools of data protection, multilevel storage in RAID for optimization of use of capacity, dynamic selection of resources (Thin Provisioning), support of flash drives, services of data migration and multiprotocol connections.

Customers can increase safety of data storage due to the granular data protection supporting up to 2000 instant pictures and up to 500 replications of data.

• The integrated data protection. New arrays provide such integrated means as Remote Instant Replay, Local Instant Replays and Replay Manager and also multilevel storage in RAID (tiering) optimizing the capacity of SAN. Close integration with widespread runtime environments of applications, including Microsoft and VMware, helps to simplify virtualization in DPC. It allows using means of local and remote data protection to create complete pictures of virtual machines without decline in production of DWH.

• Flexibility. Customers can increase return from the investments by means of data migration by arrays of Dell Storage of SC4000 and SC8000 series of higher level.

Main characteristics of models of a line

Array of Dell Storage SCv2000

• Form factor 2U, 12 (twelve) 3.5-inch hard drives
• Possibility of installation up to 168 hard drives
• iSCSI of 1 Gbps, iSCSI of 10 Gbps, SAS of 12 Gbps or FC of 16 Gbps
• Cache memory with a capacity of 16 Gbytes on each controller
• 4-core processors (Intel)
• Dynamic power
• Virtual ports
• Dynamic controller
• Enterprise Manager

Dell Storage SCv2020

Array of Dell Storage SCv2020

Array of Dell Storage SCv2020, 2015

• Form factor 2U, 24 (twenty four) 2.5-inch hard drives
• Possibility of installation up to 168 hard drives
• iSCSI of 1 Gbps, iSCSI of 10 Gbps, SAS of 12 Gbps or FC of 16 Gbps
• Cache memory with a capacity of 16 Gbytes on each controller
• 4-core processors (Intel)
• Dynamic power
• Virtual ports
• Dynamic controller
• Enterprise Manager

Array of Dell Storage SCv2080 of high density of installation

Array of Dell Storage SCv2080, 2015

• Form factor 5U, 84 (eighty four) 3.5-inch hard drives
• Possibility of installation up to 168 hard drives
• iSCSI of 1 Gbps, iSCSI of 10 Gbps, SAS of 12 Gbps or FC of 16 Gbps
• Cache memory with a capacity of 16 Gbytes on each controller
• 4-core processors (Intel)
• Dynamic power
• Virtual ports
• Dynamic controller
• Enterprise Manager

	SCv2000	SCv2020	SCv2080
Внутренние накопители	12 compartments for 3.5-inch drives	24 compartments for 2.5-inch drives	84 disk drive bays with a form factor 2.5 or 3.5 inches
Max. number of drives	168 (12 internal and 156 external)	168 (24 internal and 144 external)	168 (84 internal and 84 external)
Maximum capacity of storage	504 Tbyte when installing the maximum number of drives (168) with the maximum, supported today capacity	504 Tbyte when installing the maximum number of drives (168) with the maximum, supported today capacity	504 Tbyte when installing the maximum number of drives (168) with the maximum, supported today capacity
The supported types of drives	Hard drives: 7,200 RPM; solid state drives: Write Intensive, Read Intensive (in one system different types of drives with different rotational speeds and data transmissions can be used at the same time)	Hard drives: 15,000, 10,000, 7,200 RPM; solid state drives: Write Intensive, Read Intensive (in one system different types of drives with different rotational speeds and data transmissions can be used at the same time)	Hard drives: 10,000, 7,200 RPM; solid state drives: Write Intensive, Read Intensive (in one system different types of drives with different rotational speeds and data transmissions can be used at the same time)
Контроллеры	Single or the duplicated controllers	Single or the duplicated controllers	The duplicated controllers
Power supply/power:	580 W	580 W	2,800 W
Теплоотдача:	1,980 BTE	1,980 BTE	9,554 BTE
Tension:	100–240 V ~	100–240 V ~	200–240 V ~
Сила тока:	7.6-3 And (x2)	7.6-3 And (x2)	8.6-4.3 And (x2)
Rack size:	2U	2U	5U
Высота:	8.79 cm (3.46 inches)	8.79 cm (3.46 inches)	22.23 cm (8.8 inches)
Width:	48.2 cm (18.98 inches)	48.2 cm (18.98 inches)	48.26 cm (19 inches)
Длина:	57.6 cm (22.67 inches)	52.3 cm (20.59 inches)	91.44 cm (36 inches)
Weight in the maximum configuration:	28.9 kg (63.9 pounds)	24 kg (53 pounds)	130.1 kg (287 pounds)
Weight of an empty rack:	20.6 kg (45.4 kg) without disks	18.7 kg (41 pounds) without disks	62.1 kg (137 pounds) without disks

Arrays of a line of Dell Storage SCv2000 Series are available to the order.

2014

Dell Storage SC4020

Dell Storage SC4020 is a full-function array of data storage of SAN on a basis a flash memory. It is focused on mid-scale businesses.

Dell Storage SC4020

On October 9, 2014 the Dell company announced the beginning of sales in the Russian market of an array of data storage Dell Storage SC4020.

Dell Storage SC4020 — the SAN disk array of a corporate class in form factor 2U with 24 drives with a capacity more than 400 TB. The array is ready to implementation as a separate SAN system, or as the accompanying system in a distributed infrastructure.

Configuration

• Internal system of data storage
  • 24 compartments for 2.5-inch hard drives

• The supported expansion body
  • Dell SC200: 12 compartments for 3.5-inch hard drives
  • Dell SC220: 24 compartments for 2.5-inch hard drives

• Max. quantity of disks
  • 120 (24 internal, plus 96 external)

• General capacity of a storage system
  • 408 Tbyte when installing the maximum number of hard drives (120) with the maximum capacity supported for today

• The supported types of disk storage modules
  • Hard drives: 15,000 RPM, 10,000 RPM, 7,200 RPM; solid state drives: SLC with support of a large number of write operations, MLC with support of a large number of read operations (in one system it is possible to integrate different types of disks with different rotational speeds and data transmissions

• Controllers
  • 2 controllers on SC4020 array

• Processor
  • Intel Xeon processor E3-1265L v2, 2.50 GHz, 4 cores

• Memory
  • 32 Gbytes on each array of SC4020 (16 Gbytes on each controller)

• Network/server connections (interface ports)
  • Eight ports FC of 8 Gbps on each array of SC4020 (4 ports on each controller)

• Trib-in connections of hard drives (server)
  • Four ports SAS of 6 Gbps on each array of SC4020 (2 ports on each controller)

• Connections of deployments of NAS (in addition)
  • Support of the file system of data storage by means of the NAS FS8600 device

Dell Storage SC4000

Dell Storage SC4000 is a line of the high quality full-function arrays of data storage intended for medium business.

The Dell company expands an ecosystem of the program configured storages (Software-Defined Storage, SDS) and is going to increase a product portfolio new servers and storage systems.

The line of arrays of Dell Storage SC4000 helps the organizations of the average size to reach ultrahigh performance and is offered at the low price. The first array provided in this line — Dell Storage SC4020, the SAN disk array of a corporate class in form factor 2U and with 24 drives. In new arrays the technologies borrowed products of Dell of lines Compellent and EqualLogic are used. New products include the software of Dell Storage Center 6.5 and a program stack of EqualLogic iSCSI.

Arrays of Dell Storage SC4000 support the Fibre Channel and iSCSI interfaces, they are developed for small and medium environments and provide the same functionality, as SAN solutions for large environments.

The array of Dell Storage SC4020 with a capacity more than 400 TB supports a broad spectrum of workloads for the enterprises of any size and from different fields of activity which need a high-performance SAN array of initial level or storage for remote branch. For example, Dell Storage SC4020 can service up to 10 thousand user Microsoft Exchange 2013 mailboxes in form factor 2U with 24 hard drives or provide about 120 thousand transactions of input-output per second with a delay less than one millisecond in the OLTP systems or Wednesdays with the mixed workload.

New arrays will be released with the same technology of intellectual placement of data, as Dell Compellent SC8000. With the purpose of decrease in the total costs of storage it provides data movement between traditional hard drives, flash drives with optimization of record (SLC) and flash drives with optimization of reading (MLC). By means of technology of level distribution in real time customers can receive level performance a flash memory at the price of the traditional hard drive with rotating speed 15000 RPM. They have an opportunity to reduce storage expenses and to equip the OLTP databases and other applications with more powerful systems on a basis a flash memory that was represented earlier impossible because of their high cost.

The array of Dell Storage SC4020 also excellently supports replication with arrays of Dell Compellent SC8000, allowing customers it is easy to be connected and manage all arrays together with the help of the centralized control interface capable to simplify transactions and to reduce aggregate value ownerships. Distinctive characteristics of a new series of arrays of Dell Storage:

• Unprecedentedly low cost: the highly effective array of SAN in the compact body — is ideal for implementations in medium-sized companies, remote offices or branches of large enterprises.

• Performance of an industrial class: a possibility of use of two controllers, SAN optimized for storages on a basis a flash memory and hybrid storages (SSD/HDD).

• Computing power: the improved algorithms of automation and control, automatic adjustment of the environment of data storage.

• The improved program opportunities: automatic level storage in real time, replication, dynamic selection of capacity, snapshots and centralized operation by multiple local and remote SAN.

• Perpetual program license: the customer pays for the software only once, even on condition of repeated updating of the hardware.

• Joint storage: a possibility of simultaneous management from the single console storages on the basis of files and blocks using the Dell Fluid File System file system.

• High quality services Dell Copilot: a combination of the centralized support and active system monitoring of non-feet for performance improvement and reliability of a system.

Availability: arrays of Dell Storage SC4000 will be available for sale in August, 2014.