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Cloud Control Volumes (CCVs) provide durable, persistent, cloud-attached, and cloud-adjacent storage that is directly connected to the AWS cloud.
Use cases for CCVs could be transient in nature and could include performing data analytics on a large or complex data footprint. Various tiers of CCV storage are available for customers as subscriptions.
The following table shows the PowerScale subscriptions including starting capacity, cloud network bandwidth, and use cases for each tier.
Archive (small) | Archive | Standard | Premier | Elite (small) | Elite |
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10 Gb/s | 10 Gb/s | 20 Gb/s | 40 Gb/s | 20 Gb/s | 80 Gb/s |
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A200 | A2000 | H5600 | H500 | F600 | F800 |
Storage scaling | |||||
Base includes 162 TB | Base includes 648 TB | Base includes 540 TB | Base includes 162 TB | Base includes 28 TB | Base includes 130 TB |
Scale in 90 TB increments | Scale in 360 TB increments | Scale in 300 TB increments | Scale in 90 TB increments | Scale in 12 TB increments | Scale in 77 TB increments |
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Write-once-read-never/retention data | Write-once-read-never/retention data | Write-once-read-never/retention data | Video Streaming | Real-time inference (machine learning) | Real-time inference (machine learning) |
Long-term healthcare records retention | Long-term healthcare records retention | Long-term healthcare records retention | Media processing | Critical streaming analytics | Critical streaming analytics |
Long-term legal records retention | Long-term legal records retention | Long-term legal records retention | Rendering | Rendering | Rendering |
Web content management | Web content management | Web content management | Replace on-premises file servers | Time-sensitive data warehouse workloads | Time-sensitive data warehouse workloads |
Video retention | Video retention | Video retention | Test/dev | Small footprint flash workloads |
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Tiering from standard/ | Tiering from standard/ | Tiering from standard/ | Big data uses (for example, genomics, machine learning, and so on) |
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For big data analytics, organizations often move data from an on-premises data center to a Faction data center. Customers can use Dell SyncIQ to configure native replication between on-premises PowerScale storage and the PowerScale storage array that Faction owns and manages in the Faction data center.
It is the customer’s responsibility to manage the network between their on-premises data center and the Faction data center. For optimal performance, use a dedicated circuit as a dedicated connection for replication traffic between the customer facility and Faction. Customers may also use a VPN as redundancy to a dedicated link.
CCVs are close in proximity to the AWS public cloud and use redundant connectivity with multiple 10 Gbps Ethernet connections and redundant switches to provide highly available connections. The solution uses Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs) to scale to higher levels of bandwidth into the AWS cloud.