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Dell EMC SC Series Federation
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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
management, as well as disaster
avoidance.
Dell Storage Manager provides single-pane-of-glass management