Dell Compellent FS8600 NAS Appliance

Enhance your enterprise storage capabilities with the Dell™ Compellent™ FS8600
scale-out NAS and enable an intelligent and agile future for your business.

Scale out or scale up to meet your Keep your data protected with
workload needs built-in reliability and security features
The Dell Compellent FS8600 NAS appliance offers a The inherent resilience of the FS8600 gives you another
flexible solution for capacity- and performance-intensive layer of data protection without adding complexity.
file workloads. Based on the Dell Fluid File System (FluidFS) • Active-active controller pairs provide immediate
version 4, its scale-out architecture supports a single failover without introducing idle resources
namespace up to 4PB, plus linear performance expansion • Redirect-on-write file-level snapshots require
up to 494,000 SPECsfs file OPS and 12GB/sec throughput. only one I/O per write, avoiding the performance
The FS8600 can help you keep pace with constantly degradation of the traditional copy-on-write
growing file storage needs. As they grow and evolve, the approach
FS8600 scales both storage capacity and performance • Asynchronous NAS replication along with snapshot
non-disruptively and independent of one another within archival capability enables robust disaster recovery
a single namespace, preventing an expensive platform and long-term snapshot retention
rip-and-replace. Plus, as the FS8600 system scales, load- • Features such as SMB and NFS v4 Access Control
balancing continues to optimize performance. Lists, network-based share access, file exclusion
filters, and support for SMB AES encryption and SMB
Manage your data efficiently while SACL auditing help enable deploying a secure file
controlling costs sharing solution
• Award-winning Dell Compellent Copilot Support™
As the industry’s first primary storage solution with policy-
provides complete coverage for your end-to-end
driven, variable block data reduction, the FS8600 can
storage solution
decrease the capacity needed to store common enterprise
data sets by 48%.1 The linear performance of the FS8600
NAS appliance keeps CAPEX remarkably low, enabling
it to cost-effectively address performance-intensive file
workloads. The FS8600 with FluidFS has better file OPS
performance, and delivers the best price-performance
Delivers best-in-class
profile among major NAS vendors. To further enhance
performance, the FS8600 leverages the strengths of the
Compellent Storage Center platform such as:
performance with
• Automated tiering to keep frequently accessed data
on high-performance drives, and move passive data industry-low total cost
to lower cost, capacity-optimized drives
• Thin provisioning to provide on-demand allocation
of blocks of ownership
• Optimization for solid-state drives
• Unified block and file management through Enterprise
Manager 2015
 Feature Compellent FS8600 with FluidFS v4
Cluster scalability Up to 4 appliances (8 controllers) in a single NAS cluster
File system capacity Up to 4PB usable file capacity per NAS cluster (requires 2 Storage Centers to reach max capacity)
Front-end and interconnect traffic (2 options): 1GbE: 2 Intel 1GbE quad-port NICs per controller, copper only, RJ-45;
8Gb Fibre Channel 10GbE: 2 Intel 10GbE dual-port NICs per controller, copper/optical, SFP+ standards
configuration options
Back-end: 1 QLogic dual-port FC HBA per controller, SFP+ standards
Fibre Channel switch is required; direct connect to the SAN is not supported
Front-end: 1 Intel 10GbE dual-port NIC per controller, copper/optical, SFP+ standards
10Gb iSCSI configuration
options Back-end and interconnect: 1 Intel 10GbE dual-port NIC per controller, copper/optical, SFP+ standards
Ethernet switch is required; direct connect to the SAN is not supported; upgrades from FC to iSCSI or vice versa is not supported
Storage arrays supported SC4020 or SC8000 controllers; SCOS 6.5.3 or newer; Enterprise Manager 2015 or newer
Management Enterprise Manager 2015 and FluidFS v4 CLI
NFS v3 file protocol support NFS over UDP and TCP, Kerberos 5 security options, UTF8 and ASCII support, NLM
v4: core features Kerberos 5 security options, UTF8 and ASCII support, pseudo file system, locking, share modes and access
NFS v4, v4.1 file protocol
support control lists (ACLs)
v4.1: core features Kerberos 5 security options (pNFS not supported)
SMB 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0; persistent file handles, continuous availability, SMB signing and encryption (MD5, HMAC-SHA-256, SMB 3
SMB file protocol support
AES), large MTU, file leases and oplocks
IPv6 and IPv4 protocol
support for client networks Full support for client IPv6 and IPv4 connections, including load balancing mechanism

NAS volumes Max NAS volumes per NAS cluster: 1,024; max NAS volume size: as large as the file system/namespace
Shares/exports Max number of SMB shares per cluster: 1,024; max number of NFS mounts/exports per cluster: 1,024
Concurrent active SMB
connections Max for single appliance: 5,000; max for a 4-appliance cluster: 20,000 (“active” defined as clients engaging in I/O in the last 15 minutes)

User authentication For SMB clients: Kerberos 5 and NTLM v2 on Microsoft Active Directory Server; for NFS v4, 4.1 clients: Kerberos 5
Windows SMB and NFS clients: Microsoft® Active Directory® 2003, 2003R2, 2008, 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2; Linux/UNIX clients: NIS
Directory services
and LDAP
Quotas at User, Group and Directory level. Max user/group quota rules per volume or cluster: 1024. Max directories with a quota
Quotas
limit: 1024
Local users Max number of local users per cluster: 100; Max number of local groups per cluster: 100
Max file size: 16TB; Max number of files per appliance: unlimited; Max number of files per 4-appliance cluster: unlimited; max file
Files and directories name length: 512 bytes; Max number of files in a directory: 1 million; Max directory depth: 255;
Max number of directories per appliance: 32 billion; Max number of directories per 4-appliance cluster: 128 billion
Redirect-on-write snapshots and thin NAS volume read/write clones; Max number of snapshots per NAS volume: 10,000;
Snapshots and clones
Max number of snapshots per cluster: 100,000; Max number of snapshot policies per system: 1,024
Asynchronous to peer FS8600 clusters; Max number of replication partners (or destinations): 100; Max number of replication
Replication policies per FS8600 cluster: 1,024; Max number of simultaneous volume replications: 10 outgoing, 100 incoming; Max volumes
enabled for replication: 1,024
Remote or three-way NDMP over Ethernet ports (backup over backend Fibre Channel not supported)
NDMP backup Certified with Quest NetVault® Backup 9.x, CommVault® Simpana® 9.x, IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager 6.3, Symantec™
NetBackup™ 7.x and Backup Exec™ 2010R3 and 2012, EMC Networker 8.0
Certified with Symantec ScanEngine 5.2 and Protection Engine 7.0, McAfee® Virus Scan® Enterprise 8.8 and Enterprise for Storage
ICAP antivirus
1.0.2, Sophos Endpoint Security and Control 10.0, TrendMicro™ InterScan Web Security Suite 3.1
Thin provisioning Thin provisioning at file, file system or NAS volume level to oversubscribe the file system capacity visible to users
Data reduction Post-process policy-based variable block (128KB +/- 64KB) data deduplication and LZPS compression-preconfigured NAS volume
CPU per controller Dual Intel® Xeon® E5620 4-core, 12MB L3, 80W, 2.4GHz
Memory 48GB DDR3 1066MT/s per controller (96GB per appliance)
Power supply Primary: 2 power supplies per appliance; backup: 1 battery per controller, 2 batteries per appliance
Input voltage 90-264 VAC
Output wattage 717W
Heat dissipation 2446 BTU/hr
Line frequency 47-63 Hz
Current 10.5Amp at 90 VAC steady state, 5.2Amp at 180 VAC steady state
Form factor: 2U; W: 44.63 cm (17.6 in) (does not include rack flange); D: 81.30 cm (32.0 in) (includes bezel and controllers
Dimensions
installed); H: 8.64 cm (3.4 in); weight: 69.5 lb
1
Based on May 2013 internal Dell analysis of the FS8600 NAS appliance with Fluid Data Reduction, using real-world home share environment comprised of
Office files (21%), .GZ (19%) and .flate (19%) files, among others.

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