Server Consolidation

Compellent Maximizes Return on Investment.

To achieve a greater return on server consolidation initiatives, organizations should consider a shared storage environment and centralized storage management. Compellent achieves real savings by slashing server and storage costs and streamlining administration.

The Problem:
Consolidating servers simplifies administration and reduces server based licensing fees, but:

• Servers with internal storage require shuffling data from one server to another and backing up each server individually
• Storage Area Networks (SANs) traditionally require specialized skills to implement and manage
• Proprietary platforms limit server connectivity options and expandability
• Point solutions are difficult to integrate and result in multiple management interfaces
• Recovery from server failures requires hours to restore and impacts greater number of users

Our Solution:
The ability to utilize diskless / blade servers and eliminate the requirement to pre-allocate unused storage cuts server and storage costs in half.

Integrated storage management features streamline storage management and allow administrators to accommodate growing storage capacities without adding staff.

• Support for diskless / blade servers
• Supports Fibre Channel and iSCSI server connectivity
• Virtualized capacity available to any server or application
• Centralized backup and recovery
• Integrated storage management
• Boot from SAN enables rapid server deployment and recovery

Compellent Benefits:
Compellent offers benefits to your IT department and to your bottom line.