Dell EMC SC Series Federation User's Guide

SOLUTION BRIEF

Dell EMC SC Series Federation Manage, monitor, migrate, and protect application data across multiple Dell EMC™ SC Series arrays from a single pane of glass. How do we define federation? Scale-out infrastructure is one popular method for adding capacity to a data center. This is especially true for shared storage. Providing a seamless scale-out process not only benefits storage administrators, it is typically required in modern 24x7 business operations. Managing SC Series arrays as a federated storage cluster makes ease of management and seamless data mobility a reality.

Dell Storage Manager SC Series Federation starts with Dell Storage Manager which is a common management, monitoring, and API platform for all SC Series arrays. When managed by Dell Storage Manager, each SC Series array may share in the additional federation features provided by Dell Storage Manager.

Live Migrate Live Migrate provides customers the ability to seamlessly move data between any SC Series arrays within the federation. Application data, as well as any array-based snapshots, are migrated non- disruptively on a per-volume basis. Tiered applications or data which spans multiple volumes can be migrated simultaneously. In addition, Live Migrate can seamlessly move all volumes from an aging or retiring SC Series array to its replacement. Live Migrate is natively included with every SC Series array and it caters to many use cases such as adherence to service-level agreements, business growth, data-center resource load balancing, infrastructure lifecycle

Dell Storage Manager provides single-pane-of-glass management

management, as well as disaster avoidance.

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