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Compellent, a part of the Dell EMC SC Series, is widely used as a tier one storage solution for various systems such as SQL databases and …
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What is Dell SC Series / Compellent (discontinued)?
Since it's acquisition in 2011 Compellent became a Dell product line of storage solutions (e.g. Dell Compellent Storage Center). Compellent products became part of the Dell EMC SC Series of enterprise flash and SAN storage devices and are now EOL.
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What is Dell SC Series / Compellent (discontinued)?
Since it's acquisition in 2011 Compellent became a Dell product line of storage solutions (e.g. Dell Compellent Storage Center). Compellent products became part of the Dell EMC SC Series of enterprise flash and SAN storage devices and are now EOL and replaced by the PowerStore array.
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Since it's acquisition in 2011 Compellent became a Dell product line of storage solutions (e.g. Dell Compellent Storage Center). Compellent products became part of the Dell EMC SC Series of enterprise flash and SAN storage devices and are now EOL.
Reviewers rate Simplicity and Power Savings highest, with a score of 9.
The most common users of Dell SC Series / Compellent (discontinued) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Compellent, a part of the Dell EMC SC Series, is widely used as a tier one storage solution for various systems such as SQL databases and other business applications that require fast and reliable storage. Users have reported significant improvements in input/output operations per second for critical data by leveraging the flexibility to set RAID levels based on data access frequency. This has resulted in enhanced performance and responsiveness for these important systems.
One of the key use cases of Compellent is its ability to simplify and streamline data storage management. The storage center allows users to effortlessly move data between different storage tiers, optimizing resource utilization while ensuring high availability. This not only cuts down on time and cost associated with managing storage but also provides robust data protection against potential downtime and disasters.
Another valuable use case of Compellent is its capability to consolidate various data storage solutions onto a single platform, making it easier for administrators to manage their storage infrastructure. This consolidation brings efficiency and convenience by centralizing control and simplifying data management tasks. Moreover, this product caters to the demand for mixed media usage by efficiently supporting both virtualized environments and physical servers, offering fast and responsive servers with high I/O responsiveness.
Overall, Compellent has been lauded by users for providing a cost-effective solution that maximizes the utility of purchased storage resources. It offers a range of functionalities that address the diverse needs of organizations, resulting in improved performance, simplified management, and enhanced data protection.
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December 13, 2019
Flash storage with an outdated management console
We primarily use Dell ENC SC Series (Compellent) for our mixed media usage for virtual servers and physical servers, as well. This is being used across the organization, and it primarily addresses issues applications that need flash storage as a backend storage supply. It addresses the needs for fast, responsive servers that need to be able to boot quickly and has high I/O responsiveness.
- Dell EMC SC Series (Compellent) does work well most of the time, but when there are massive i/o issues such as snapshot consolidation, it seems to function poorly.
- Dell EMC SC Series (Compellent) is an easy to use array. Simple to configure volumes, add servers, and adjust policies.
- The updates seem to be easily resolvable, with very little to no issues coming from any problematic update paths.
- The GUI could be a little more updated with a lot more information regarding usage.
- There could be some assistance with high I/O times where snapshots go to consolidate. There seems to be issues when that attempts to occur, and there will times where the virtual machine stuns due to the I/O intensity.
- Modification of multiple volumes or the creation of multiple volumes is a pain in the DSM management console.
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7.7
- This storage array is a middle-range array that brings speed with peace of mind due to the stability.
- The uptime has helped us with making sure the hosts and servers that connect to this array have as much uptime as possible.
- The negative still has to be that these arrays can't seem to handle quick/high I/O usage.
I have to say that the Pure Storage FlashArray is way simpler to configure, monitor, and update. There are various features that the Pure Storage FlashArray offers, such as viewing your virtual infrastructure to see if the issues lie with your storage or VM's that Dell EMC SC Series (Compellent) does not have. The update path is even more straightforward with Pure Storage FlashArray as well and is entirely handled by their support team. I would recommend the Pure Storage FlashArray over the Dell ENC SC Series (Compellent) array.
We use our flash based SC9000 in our main datacenter to serve all of the museum's data storage needs.
- The speed of the all flash based SC9000 allows us to host all of our servers on one central storage array.
- Reliability of the SC9000 has been key with 100% uptime over the 2 years we have been using it.
- The SC9000 has been very easy to maintain and support.
- Expensive to support after the initial warranty expires.
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8.7
- The SC9000 has been able to serve our current and futures needs well enough to not need to upgrade anytime soon.
August 15, 2016
Great Price, performance an reliability are questionable
We used Compellent for vmware storage for clusters used by our development group. It was used by 100+ developers.
- Very competitively priced
- No need to manage individual RAID groups
- Honestly I can only come up with 2 good things.
- Reliability. We had several times where VMFS luns would become corrupted and we'd have to move all VM's off to other storage
- Performance. 1g iSCSI performance was abysmal (although the unit we used was an older device)
- Management and Monitoring. Both management and monitoring are pretty primitive. We were never able to integrate monitoring into Nagios.
- Because cost was minimal it was able to achieve ROI.
We selected Compellent solely based on price. Honestly I would rate it only slightly better than a QNAP we used (which was even cheaper). If performance and reliability are factors in your decision (and they should be) I would recommend looking at something like a VNXe.