2U design future proofs your investment; scalable to 1500 drives and 16PB raw capacity
Dual-socket Intel™ CPUs, dual-active controllers to drive performance
Install & configure in minutes with intuitive easy-to-use web based (HTML5) management
Inline data reduction (deduplication, compression, zero-detect) for hybrid and all flash pools providing more effective usable capacity
Choose from multiple cloud deployment options to help simplify IT, lower costs and reduce complexity
nvestment protection: Cost effectively scale systems with online data-in-place controller upgrades
Consolidate mixed workloads (file, block, vVol data) onto a single array
Every Unity XT HFA comes to you with all-inclusive software making your investment easy to purchase and own
Expand Unity XT HFA operations with no-cost DevOps plug-in technologies
Deploy as a physical appliance, software-defined virtual appliance or included in a Dell converged infrastructure
True active-active synchronous replication over metro distances
Effectively upgrade array controllers to a higher-level Unity XT HFA when more performance, capacity and system limits are required while data remains in place and online.
If you have several demanding environments, such as databases and transactional processing, Unity XT HFAs are the easy way to consolidate them to save space and cost, while improving data management, data protection and response time.
Even if you’ve been using legacy Dell systems (Dell Unity, VNX) or 3rd party storage systems, migrating data to Unity XT HFAs couldn’t be simpler. Unity XT HFAs provide you with built-in and best practice data migration capabilities for file and block data directly managed from Unisphere making your transition seamless. File migration from NetApp and VNX is also available through the Cloud Tiering Appliance.
Unity XT HFA unified architecture supports a 64-bit file system that scales four times larger than older VNX platforms and adds features like file system shrink and reclaim that improves utilization and flexibility, use of Top Talkers or file correlated stats and full sync/async file replication capabilities with Metrosync file failover management.
Unity XT HFAs support snapshot mobility & thin clone interoperability with Dell AppSync application-aware and orchestration to provide customers with integrated copy data management (iCDM) saving capacity and costs.
Unity XT HFAs with block and file storage are validated for use with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) enabling you to build you own hybrid cloud that’s based on VCF and best of breed components to easily provision storage.
Enabled by Faction, Unity XT HFAs can participate in automated DRaaS solutions with VMware Cloud on AWS for seamless, enterprise-grade, pay-as-you-go DR in the cloud. Additionally, you can achieve agile, multi-cloud access letting you seamlessly switch between clouds for implementing use cases including workload migration, analytics, test/dev and more to maximize business outcomes.
Expand to the cloud with Dell Cloud Tiering Appliance, an automated policy-based virtual appliance for file tiering and block snapshot archiving to multiple S3-based clouds and PowerScale freeing up valuable capacity and considerably reducing backup windows
Unity XT Cloud Edition, a full featured Unity XT software-defined virtual storage appliance with HA, flexibly deploys with VMware Cloud Foundation on AWS bringing file services to the cloud and for running workloads such as VDI, Test/Dev, replication services to a third site – and more.
CloudIQ is Dell’s cloud based AIOPs that uses telemetry, machine learning and other algorithms to provide users with notifications and predictive analytics indicating the operational health of the array, remediation advice, anomalies, capacity projections, reclaimable storage, and more.
Unity XT HFAs simplify daily operations by providing a single interface for creating and managing snapshots and thin clones for block and file storage, reducing operational complexity. And with UFS64, you get up to 256 snaps per file system and the ability to create thin clones direct from snapshots. Snapshots can be replicated, refreshed, applied to vVols and compared to report back differences.
Unity XT HFAs include a full complement of array-based asynchronous and synchronous replication capabilities for block and file as well as support for RecoverPoint replication options with no additional investment. Replicate snapshots for greater data protection and recovery options. The async replication capabilities include throttling, interface pairing and full copy avoidance while sync replication supports fan-out and cascading topologies. Unity XT HFAs also support the use of Metrosync Manager for automated file level failover and sync replication over metro distances.
Once a minimum drive count for a given RAID protection has been selected in either an all flash or hybrid pool, users can eliminate accounting for hot spares when configuring the array and select almost any number of drives to place within the pool, essentially increasing capacity one drive or as many drives at a time reducing cost. Additionally, dynamic pools reserve space within the pool to replace drives which may fail or have failed within the pool. The reserved space is not part of the usable capacity of the pool. This function accelerates the rebuilding of failed drives as more drives are used in the rebuild process.
Unity XT file data is protected with File-level Retention (FLR) for safeguarding files from modification or deletion until a specified retention date. FLR allows you to create a permanent, unalterable set of files and directories and ensure the integrity of data. There are two different types of file-level retention available: Enterprise (FLR-E) and Compliance (FLR-C).
Containers are fast becoming the new software architecture paradigm and Kubernetes has emerged as a popular Container Orchestration platform choice. Dell is at the forefront of developing solutions that enable customers to efficiently run containerized workloads while leveraging powerful storage integrations for DevOps workflows. Unity XT HFAs support Dell’s Container Storage Interface (CSI) plugin to run Kubernetes workloads.
Automation is a major theme in IT Procurement discussions. The good thing is Automation no longer means programming-intensive and hard-to- maintain scripting. Tools like VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) provides a drag and drop environment to quickly automate infrastructure operations and service delivery tasks. Unity XT HFAs support Dell’s vRO plugin enabling customers to automate end to end workflows spanning the entire infrastructure stack.
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