Welcome to ECS
ECS provides a complete software-defined cloud storage platform that supports the storage, manipulation, and analysis of unstructured data on a massive scale on commodity hardware. ECS can be deployed as a turnkey storage appliance or as a software product that can be installed on qualified commodity servers and disks. ECS offers all the cost advantages of commodity infrastructure with the enterprise reliability, availability, and serviceability of traditional arrays.
The ECS online documentation consists of the following guides:
| Administration Guide | The Administration Guide supports the initial configuration of ECS and the provisioning of storage to meet requirements for availability and data replication. Also, it supports the ongoing management of tenants and users, and the creation and configuration of buckets. |
| Monitoring Guide | The Monitoring Guide supports the ECS administrator's use of the ECS Portal to monitor the health and performance of ECS and to view its capacity utilization. |
| API Guide | The API Guide use the ECS Management API to configure, manage, and monitor ECS. |
PDF versions of these online guides and links to other PDFs, are available at https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04.