Dell SC (Compellent) Formally Announce End of Life

05 October 2021
by: Rick Gouin
in: Dell Technologies,Midrange Storage
Tags: Compellent, Dell, Storage
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Dell SC, perhaps better known as Compellent, has finally had its end of life formally announced. I feel like many people have been watching for this since the acquisition of EMC was announced in 2015. At that time, Dell suddenly found itself with numerous overlapping storage platforms and product teams. Jeff Clarke, COO at Dell, […]

New Dell PowerStore OS 2.0 Really is Future Ready

Dell just announced PowerStore OS version 2.0. It will be available for download on 6/10/2021. If you are new to PowerStore, check out this intro post here. As you can see, the platform launched a year ago was a little lean from a feature set perspective. Dell is rapidly filling out those capabilities and is [...]Read More »

Dell’s PowerStore reaches down market with new entry level PS500T

Dell is expanding the reach of the PowerStore mid-range storage platform further down-market with the introduction of the entry-level PowerStore 500T. This smaller system is aimed at competing with the lower-end storage requirements found in SMB or ROBO deployments. The system is supposed to come in around $30k for a base config with minimal storage. With [...]Read More »

Managing Your Network Traffic – How to use VLANs in Dell OS10

Dell OS10 Basics Part 3 Dell OS10 is Dell’s latest switch operating system. It is built on a Linux core and is Dell’s offering in the Open Networking space. It is NOT intended as an upgrade for switches running OS6 (N-Series) or OS9 (legacy S-Series), however, any Dell S- or Z-Series switch with a “-ON” […]

Dell OS10 Local Account Management Tips

Dell OS10 Basics Part 2 Dell OS10 is Dell’s latest switch operating system. It is built on a Linux core and is Dell’s offering in the Open Networking space. It is NOT intended as an upgrade for switches running OS6 (N-Series) or OS9 (legacy S-Series), however, any Dell S- or Z-Series switch with a “-ON” […]

Dell PowerStore Released!

Dell officially announced, released, and launched its new midrange storage product on May 5th, 2020. You may have heard rumors about this platform under its code name midrange.next. The product is released as PowerStore, so let’s take a minute and talk details! I was happy to participate in […]

Dell PowerStore Part 2!

06 May 2020
by: Rick Gouin
in: Dell Technologies,Midrange Storage,PowerStore
Tags: Dell, PowerStore, Storage
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In the last segment, we went over PowerStore hardware. This time, we are going to dig into some more of the features, functionality, and capabilities of this newest midrange all flash storage array from Dell. The Basics: RAID PowerStore supports RAID 5, and you can choose from one of two different stripe widths. 4+1 or 8+1. […]

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