$10k for unit only?
I presume that $10k is for the unit only and not the Flash drives?
Dell EMC has refreshed its cheapest storage appliance by giving us the SCv3000, a successor to the SCv2000. The new machine is an entry-level unified SAN, but boasts some pretty impressive specs. There's a six-core Xeon E5-2603v4 at 1.7GHz, either 16 3.5” or 30 2.5” drive bays, two hot-swappable controllers and each machine …
absolutely.
I guess that price is just for the chassis the controllers and power supplies.
That figure probably doesn't include disks, support or the software licenses to enable features like auto-tiering or snapshots.
Such a shame they changed back to the old model of charging for software features.
Come on! Can't you read? This is marketing crap of the worst kind. Please try to have some kind of connection between the head line and the content.
"1PB raw capacity all in 3U for <$10k" != "and each machine can address a petabyte of raw capacity once you add “expansion enclosures”, Dell EMC talk for disk drawers".
Being able to address 1PB of raw storage and being able to effectively serve it to the hosts under load are 2 completely different things. I can't imagine a real world scenario where the amount of compute in the SCv3000 will be able to handle actual load associated with that much sotrage
Still looks like a good option for DR though, where performance won't matter that much
That entirely depends upon what your load is for that 1PB :) Yeah, I could saturate it, but for general purpose workloads, it's more than sufficient.
I have multiple customers using the SCv2000 and SC4020 and it's slick. Scales well, comprehensive interface and tools. Customers love it and love Dell's copilot support model.
I don't say this lightly, but frankly, I've not come across a product on the market today that has this much sophistication at this price point.
(AC because I scope, recommend and sell multiple storage platforms from different vendors.)
Dell support is bad, had a senior tech guy take out our San during upgrade, then following week another upgrade neary did the same!.. Big message on screen ," warning this will cause system outage, " hey just ignore that, boom all access to San went off,after several are your sure questions... Then same message on next upgrade different array , again " always says that it does not go off". Ok, I want that in an email to cofirm you are saying that the array will not go off. Please go away and check this... Email comes saying array will be fine. Arrange time, message appears on screen saying this upgrade will cause data outage... Are you sure we ask, yes he says, then in the background we hear. " wouldn't click that mate San will go off" we ended the call and cancelled update. We now have gone with different vendor. This was just Jan this year.
As I understand it, Unity was the follow-on product set to VNX. VNXe was the lowest-end product in that range and no longer exists. They have a virtual product.
Both Unity and SC occupy a similar midrange space. Both come in spinning, hybrid or all-flash configurations.
The SC range also has dedup, compression and federation features. I don't see that on Unity
SC is block only, with external NAS head options, whereas Unity has native block and file.
Unity has broader integration points with other EMC portfolio products (eg recoverpoint)
They both have tiering. SC tiering is highly automated.
So yeah, they occupy the same market space - kinda - but functionality varies. SC starts at a lower price point, delivers price/performance value, is more efficient with space (due to dedup/compression features, tiering). Unity has broader application quals, greater market share, integration into EMC management toolset, etc.
(AC because of blah blah blah....)