Compellent’s Bullet-Proof Remote Replication
If you’re a midrange SAN vendor in today’s market you need to offer some form of remote replication….and they all do. Given that, what makes one vendor’s implementation stand out over everyone else’s?
The goals are simple enough: offer fast, bandwidth-friendly replications that can be easily validated, don’t require a team from NASA to administer and can be quickly rolled over to in the event of a disaster.
However, most implementations are kludgy, full of gotcha’s and require massive amounts of professional services to erect and maintain. Compellent’s Remote Data Instant Replay on the other hand, is different.
Hows this for a dream-team of features:
- Data De-Deplication
- Synchronous and Asynchronous Implementations
- Pre-Circuit Bandwidth Simulator
- Comprehensive Bandwidth Shaping - down to the volume level
- Ability to store replicas on different disk tiers and RAID sets to reduce cost
- Replicate using Fibre or iSCSI
- Replication / Failover Validation - Test your DR plan w/out bringing your environment down!
There are more but you get the picture. Ask your current SAN vendor (unless its Compellent) if they can do 1/2 of these things. Having done our research I can say their answer will most likely be no.
If you’re considering remote replication and would like to hear more about Compellent’s solution, please drop us a line to discuss further.
