Server Storage Solution
Dell Server Storage Solution
Dell server storage solutions are engineered to handle the most demanding business applications and are designed with specific features to run workloads, such as High Performance Computing (HPC), collaboration, database, business intelligence, data warehousing, and more efficiently.
The Dell server storage solutions offer:
PERC FD33xSandPERCFD33xDsupportonthePowerEdgeFX2enclosure
HWRAID and SW RAID support on all PowerEdge servers with DAS
NVMe PCIe SSDs support on all the 12thand, 13th,14th generation of Dell systems
SharedPERC8
BOSScard support on mostof the PowerEdgeVRTXenclosure14thgenerationofDellsystems.
HostBusAdapterssupportonthe11th,12th,13thgenerationofDellsystems
The highlights of each server storage components are listed here:
HardwareRAID
- PowerEdge RAID Controller
SharedPERC8
- Software RAID
- NVMe PCIe SSD
- BOSS-S1card
- HostBusAdapters(HBA)
The Dell PowerEdge RAID controllers (PERC) are enterprise class and entry level controllers alongwithSASHBAs(forpass-through), designed for enhanced performance, increased reliability and fault tolerance, and simplified management. The simplified management abilities of PERC provide a powerful and easy-to-manage option to create a robust infrastructure and also help maximize server uptime. | SharedPERC8 TheDellSharedPowerEdgeRAIDcontroller(PERC)8 | BOSSCard BOSS-S1 is a uniquestoragecontrollerdesignedspecificallyfortheDellPowerEdgeVRTXsystemssimpleRAIDsolutioncardthatprovidessimpleredundancyandavailabilitymechanismwithRAID1. The SharedPERC8 card supportsSingleRootInputOutputVirtualization(SR-IOV),whichallowsmultipleservermodulestoshareavailableenclosurestorageresources.Virtualdisksonthesharedalsoofferssupportforenterprise-level storage canthenbemappedtoaservermoduleandcontrollerproducts,non-RAIDdisksupportwithoneortwodevices,andscalablecapacity. |
The Dell PowerEdge Software RAID controllerscontroller (SW RAID) areisadriverthatcontrolstheSATAcontroller(s)chipsetandNVMePCIeSSDs.Thisis offered as an integrated solution foron the Dell PowerEdge serverssystems. The software RAID solution provides, small to medium business owners, the ability to utilize RAID technology at no additional costs, when using Microsoft and Linux operating systems.ThissolutiondeliverstrustedPowerEdgeRAIDreliabilitywithminimalmaintenance.DellsoftwareRAIDoffersastraight-forwardsolutionthatincludesessentialRAIDlevelsandeasyconfigurableoptions. | The Dell PowerEdge Express Flash Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) Solid State Device (SSD) adapter is a high performance storage device, designed for solutions requiring low latency, high I/O operations per second (IOPS), and enterprise-class storage reliability and serviceability. The Dell NVMe PCIe SSDs are offered as a Multi-Level Cell (MLC) or Triple-Level Cell (TLC) NAND flash technology, with a high-speed PCIe 3.0 compliant interface. | |
The high-speedPCIe3.0compliantDellHostBusAdapters(HBA)areenterpriseclasscontrollers,whichprovidephysicaldiskdrive interface helpsimproveperformanceforI/Oboundsolutionswithno-RAIDcapability. |
Highlights of Server Storage Product
HWRAIDandSW
- ThePowerEdge RAID controllers support 4KB and512bytes block size disk drives, which enablesenable efficient use of the storage space.
- The SW RAID is an economical RAID solution for the Dell PowerEdge systems. This solution offers a
- straight-forward solution that includes essential RAID levels and uncomplicated configuration options.
- The Shared PERC 8 controller enables all server modules to efficiently access the low-latency internal shared storage, in the VRTX enclosure that is essential for clustering and virtualization, including vMotion.
- The Shared PERC 8 controller also helps enable efficient processing through peak periods and improves server-use flexibility.
- The PERC FD33xS and PERC FD33xD controllers are exclusively designed to support the PowerEdge FD332 storage sled. These storage controller(s), inside a storage sled, map to compute sled(s) in the FX2s enclosure. This provides the PowerEdge FD332 with an excellent option to enable dense virtual SAN clusters, by combining compute and storage sleds. It helps in creating an easily scalable storage environment, which supports balanced data growth that is customizable. This enables you to tailor your storage needs to the workloads you are running and also avoid overprovisioning.
- TheS140controllersupportstheNVMePCIeSSDincludingNVMePCIeSSD2.5inchSmallFormFactor(SFF)orNVMePCIeSSDadapter.ThiscontrollerallowstheNVMePCIeSSD2.5inchSFFandtheNVMePCIeSSDadapterinaRAIDconfiguration.NVMePCIeSSDssupportVolume,RAID0,RAID1,andRAID10.
- TheBOSS-S1isasimpleRAIDsolutioncarddesignedspecificallyforbootingaserver'soperatingsystem.
- ThissolutionprovidesasimpleRAID1ornon-RAIDsolutions.
For more information about the Dell EMC OpenManage documentation, go to Dell.com/openmanagemanuals.
For more information about the RAID solutions, see the User’s Guide at Dell.com/storagecontrollermanuals.