Software-defined Storage

and Lower Infrastructure TCO

Simplify IT Operations

The Evolution of the Data Center

Software-defined Storage: An Emerging Paradigm

Software-defined storage (SDS) is a flexible, scalable, and highly automated architecture suitable for dynamic workloads in a modern data center. In an SDS system, all intelligence is in the software layer. The hardware layer consists of building blocks of standard servers with flash and hard disk drives that are combined into a single pool of storage by the software layer. This pool of storage can be programmed in real time to provide enterprise-class data services for each workload with various levels of capacity, performance, availability, protection, and cost.

VMware VSAN ReadyNodes and EVO:RAILAppliances

Tested and validated reference architectures with Nexenta SW

Tested and validated reference architectures with MS Storage Spaces

Tested and validated reference architectures with RedHat SW

XC Series appliancespowered by Nutanix SW

Software-definedStandard Hardware

Servers

Virtualized Servers

Networking Networking

Storage

Storage

Optimized hardware configurations—from compute-heavy to storage-heavy nodes

Multiple hypervisor support—from industry-standard to Open Source hypervisors

Application solution bundles—from appliances to reference architectures

End-to-end monitoring and management with a single pane of glass

Global service and support for the entire stack

Enterprise-class infrastructure | Optimized hardware and monitoring | Appliances and bundled solutions

End-to-end solution architectures | Global services and support

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Traditional / Physical Storage

Traditional Data Center

VirtualizedData Center

Software-defined Data Center

Software-defined Storage

ControllersStorage Software Flash Storage Disk Storage

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Top 5 Reasons for Selecting an SDS Vendor

Dell SDS Offering Summary

Compute Storage

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Compute Storage Compute Storage

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