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Dell Connectrix Storage Area Network (SAN) Solutions

Connectrix Storage Area Networking

The Dell Connectrix family of Fibre Channel directors and switches moves your organization’s vital business information to where it’s needed quickly and securely, with the highest performance, the highest availability and unsurpassed reliability.
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Connectrix Directors and Switches

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Dell Connectrix Directors

Ideal for the largest mission-critical storage area network environments that require massive consolidation and nonstop operations. Connectrix products effectively allow physical and virtual servers to share storage resources securely.

  • Provides six 9s availability
  • Scales from 32 to 768 mission-critical ports
  • Supports up to 64Gb/s Fibre Channel
  • Supports Fibre Channel, FICON, FCiP and NVMe over Fabrics
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Connectrix DS-7720B

Dell Connectrix Switches

Ideal for departmental or edge storage area networks (SANs) where you need highly available access to expanding network storage. Provides foundation for growth in smaller environments to deployment in large data centers.

  • High availability through redundant connections
  • Scales from 8 to 128 ports, with 1U and 2U models
  • Supports up to 64Gb/s Fibre Channel
  • Supports Fibre Channel, FICON, FCiP and NVMe over Fabrics
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Connectivity matters for all flash storage

All flash storage environments require a storage network that is deterministic and easy to manage with low latencies. Connectrix has always delivered low latency, deterministic behavior, scalability and reliability. As you modernize your data center, make sure your storage network can keep pace. Today’s storage networks deliver up to 64 Gigabit per second (Gb/s) Fibre Channel speeds and allow for seamless transition to Fibre Channel Non-Volatile Memory Express (FC-NVMe) workloads without any hardware upgrade in the SAN. 
All-Flash Performance: Connectrix delivers low latency and deterministic behavior required for all-flash.
Automated SAN Management: Connectrix Management provides fabric and device management across the SAN.
NVMe over Fabrics: Connectrix platforms support NVMe over Fabrics (FC-NVMe).
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SAN ASSESSMENT Connectrix SAN Health Tools

Connectrix SAN Health is a free downloadable tool that creates comprehensive views and documentation including performance graphs, detailed spreadsheets and topology diagrams. Live Optics takes the comprehensive output from SAN Health and creates an easy to understand summary presentation to help you make important decisions. If you are lacking the time or expertise to perform a comprehensive SAN assessment across multiple data centers, SAN experts from Dell Technologies can provide strategic guidance pertaining to health, remediation and long-term goals of your complex storage network.
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Connectrix Storage Networking Resources

Modern Data Center Storage Networking

Learn about Connectrix directors and switches product data and management software.
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Top 10 Reasons to add Connectrix

Discover the top 10 reasons to enhance your IT infrastructure with Dell Connectrix, a secure and high-performance solution designed to support AI, big data, and IoT while maximizing efficiency and reliability.
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Dell Connectrix Mainframe Offering Overview

Read about storage networking and services for mainframe environments.
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Improve overall performance

Learn about the top reasons to upgrade your storage network to 64 Gigabits per second.
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Enhance your SAN with Dell Connectrix MDS

Boost your SAN performance with Dell Connectrix MDS, designed to handle demanding workloads like SAP, Oracle, and AI with ease. These powerful FC switches and 64G modules deliver lightning-fast application responsiveness while optimizing space, energy, and costs.
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