Cost Effective Network Attached Storage Device Dell SC7000 Series

Dell Storage SC7000 Series

Overcoming storage challenges with the SC7000 series, now and in the future

Control the flood of diversified data you manage and maintain in the future with unified data blocks and files Dell Storage SC7000 Series. The SC7000 Series combines SAN and NAS capabilities in one system, simplifying management and reducing costs. The SC7020 is the first model in the series to offer flexible features to help you achieve the following benefits:
Scalable IOPS supporting data blocks and files
Achieve over 10:1 capacity savings with intelligent deduplication and compression 3
Reduce power and cooling costs
Reduced rack space required by more than 300% 4
Get great performance at an affordable price

The SC7000 supports multiple protocols such as SMB, NFS and FTP for NAS, Fibre Channel and iSCSI for SAN. Easy to manage with Dell Storage Manager (DSM).
Powerful SAN with enterprise-class features
Powerful SAN with feature-rich software

The SC7000 Series offers a full range of advanced features to meet a variety of workload demands. Automated intelligence for data scheduling optimizes drive tiers and RAID levels, while Live Volume maintains seamless business continuity through automatic failover between arrays. Features include:
Implement federated data control with live migration
Performance assurance for each application with QoS
Data protection through instant data playback and remote instant playback
Capacity virtualization, which separates storage allocation from utilization, optimizing capacity
Unified management of data blocks and file storage and cross-platform replication between SC and PS series 5
VMware Virtual Volume (Vvol) support, 6iSCSI Data Center Bridging (DCB) 7
Achieve ultimate file flexibility

The SC7000 Series delivers native NAS with Dell's FluidFS technology, which scales as your needs grow. The SC7000 Series ensures high performance standards while data stratification is automatically balanced and:
Efficient capacity allocation with thin provisioning, snapshots, volume thin cloning, and data reduction
Restricted access and volume authorization provide granular access control for file sharing and virtualized environments to protect data
Up to 2 PB of NAS volume (file system) across all available drives, up to 20 PB in a single namespace across independent NAS systems
Achieve ultimate file flexibility
Take advantage of SAN and NAS

Consolidate multiple types of workloads in one array and deliver flexible performance and fast return on investment. The SC7000 reduces the cost per terabyte, including hybrid hard drives or all flash options, and uses your current architecture.

Data blocks only, files or blocks and files only. Whether your business decides when or how to scale, you can take advantage of SAN performance or upgrade to block and file data in the same array.

Data to meet future needs: Support for a variety of enterprise options: flash, hybrid hard drive, multi-protocol connectivity support, data protection, ProSupport powered by Copilot services and Dell Deployment Services.

Optimize resources: Manage file data and block data seamlessly from a single window. The hardware that needs to be monitored and managed is reduced, helping to eliminate additional costs.
Eliminate the cost of managing separate data blocks and file solutions
Eliminate the cost of managing separate data blocks and file solutions

Manage your SAN and NAS with Dell Storage Manager (DSM, formerly known as Enterprise Manager) to fully monitor and manage all local and remote SC Series arrays. The easy-to-use inter-platform data replication and migration capabilities allow PS customers the flexibility to add SC arrays to their environments as needed. 5

DSM simplifies SAN management and reduces operational costs through advanced features such as volume-level QoS, Vvol support 6, and departmental “cost-sharing” reporting. 8 Manage NAS volumes, file sharing protocols, capacity allocation, etc. through a single interface. With Powershell and REST management APIs, you can integrate the SC7000 Series into your business workflow.

Technical Parameters

management
Dell Storage Manager (included for server installation), Storage Center Manager (includes, based on onboard browser), Dell Storage Manager Chargeback, playback manager, command line interface
Power option 1
Power/Power: 2 1485 W hot-swap power supplies; maximum power consumption 1485 W
Heat dissipation rate: up to 5,067 BTU/hour
Voltage: 100-200 VAC
Frequency: 50/60 Hz
storage
Internal storage

30 2.5-inch hard drive bays

Total storage capacity

3 PB raw capacity, combined system capacity is higher
Processor option
Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2628 v3, 2.30 GHz, 8 cores
RAID
Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, RAID 10 and RAID 10 DM (dual mirroring). Supports any combination of RAID levels in a single Storage Center. Multiple RAID levels can coexist in the same storage tier of an array.
Operating system options
Product operating system

Storage Center 7.1 or higher
FluidFS v5 or higher

Server operating system

Microsoft® Windows Server®, Oracle® Solaris, HP®-UX, Oracle Linux, IBM® AIX®, Novell® NetWare, SLES, Apple, HPTru64, VMware®, Citrix® XenServer®, and RedHat®
Controller
Two controllers per SC7020 array (dual active controller)
Connectivity
Backend connection

SAS (6 Gb, 12 Gb)

NAS deployment (optional)

Enabled via the optional Fluid File System software license

NAS connection

Two onboard 10 Gb iSCSi ports per controller (SFP+ or BaseT)
NFS, SMB, FTP
Port contains items
Network/server (front end)

Two onboard 10 Gb iSCSi ports per controller (SFP+ or BaseT)
Optional front-end connectivity: 8/16 Gb FC, 1/10 Gb iSCSI (SFP+ and BaseT), synchronous interface support

Maximum number of front-end ports

Each array 24 (Fibre Channel), 12 (1 Gb iSCSI), 12 (10 Gb iSCSI)

Maximum number of backend ports

Each array 24 (SAS)
Chassis contains items
Height: 13.33 cm (5.25 inches)
Width: 44.5 cm (17.52 inches)
Depth: 78.5 cm (30.9 inches)
Weight: 24.22 kg (53.4 lbs) (maximum configuration), 15.15 kg (33.4 lbs) (empty)
working environment
Operating temperature: 10 °C - 35 °C (50 °F - 95 °F)
Non-operating temperature: -40 °C - 65 °C (-40 °F - 149 °F)
Operating humidity range (no condensation): 10% to 80%, maximum dew point temperature 29 °C (84.2 °F)
Non-operating humidity range (no condensation): 5% to 95%, maximum dew point temperature is 33 °C (91 °F)
Socket type: NEMA 5-15/CS22.2, n°42
Memory option 2
256 GB/SC7020 array (128 GB/controller)
Drive controller
Supported expansion enclosure

Dell SC400: 12 3.5-inch hard drive bays
Dell SC420: 24 2.5-inch hard drive bays
Dell SC280: 84 3.5-inch hard drive bays
Dell SC200: 12 3.5-inch hard drive bays
Dell SC220: 24 2.5-inch hard drive bays

Maximum number of hard disks

500 (30 internal hard drives plus 470 external hard drives)

Supported hard disk types

Hard drives: 15 K, 10 K, 7.2 K RPM; SSDs: Write-intensive and read-intensive hard drives in SLC, MLC and TLC formats. Different types of hard disks can be mixed in the same system.

Internal hard drive (back end)

4 12 Gb SAS ports per SC7020 array (2 per controller)
Fibre Channel port
Data replication

Multi-protocol replication support; support for Fibre Channel and iSCSI replication