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EqualLogic PS Series - The Best iSCSI SAN?

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The Dell EqualLogic PS Series is the industry’s leading iSCSI based enterprise SAN solution that offers an affordable alternative to traditional fibre channel storage systems. The PS Series virtual storage architecture enables exceptional performance, simple set up, automated management, multiple tiers of storage, on-demand scalability, and seamless interoperability with virtual infrastructure solutions.

EqualLogic PS6100 Series - The Best iSCSI SAN Just Got Better!

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Dell EqualLogic PS6100 series arrays deliver exceptional flexibility across multiple configurations. Fluid Data technology seemlessly tiers data between SSD, SAS and NL SAS disk to reduce latency and maximise performance. The 24-drive chassis delivers up to 72TB from a single 4U appliance.

EqualLogic PS6500E - Best Value iSCSI SAN

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The Dell EqualLogic PS6500 is a high-density virtualized storage array that can deliver a hugely scalable iSCSI SAN. The PS6500E or 'SUMO' appliance accomodates 48 SAS / SATA drives into just 4U of rack space, up to 16 appliances can be combined into a storage pool delivering a massive 1.5PB of high performance space.

PS4100 Series Entry Level Arrays, Enterprise Class Features

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Dell EqualLogic PS4100 series arrays provide datacenter class storage to small to medium sized businesses. Based upon the best selling PS6100 series arrays, the all inclusive licensing model ensures that there are no hidden costs - everything is included 'out of the box' to create a high performance, robust storage environment with a simple route to disaster recovery.

Virtualisation with VMware and EqualLogic

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By combining VMware Infrastructure and Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays customers are provided a solution that delivers improved infrastructure scalability and management, high availability, significant cost savings and comprehensive disaster recovery. The excellent relationship between EqualLogic and VMware means that PS Series arrays are always amongst the first to support new features and standards.

Are You Ready for the Bake Off?

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We'd be lying if we told you that Dell EqualLogic was the only iSCSI SAN platform out there, but we're entirely comfortable telling you that it's the one you should choose. When you're ready for the 'bake-off' we'd love to show you why WE sell more EqualLogic arrays than all the other vendors arrays put together...

EqualLogic 10GbE - Here, Now and Faster than Fibre

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For a long time Fibre Channel storage vendors boasted about higher bandwidth connectivity into their arrays. Old school fibre channel buyers thought that Gigabit Ethernet iSCSI might compromise storage performance. We knew that wasn't the case, but if you're looking for high bandwidth it doesn't get fatter than this! Four 10GbE connections per array = blazing fast iSCSI!

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Dell has announced the next stage in the evolution of the EqualLogic storage platform - the Dell EqualLogic FS7500.

The FS7500 is effectively a 'NAS Header' which can be combined with a new or existing EqualLogic storage stack to deliver both block and file capabilities in a single, flexible storage pool.

Protocol support includes CIFs, NFS, NDMP SNMP, iSCSI, Active Directory, LDAP and more. Each dual-controller FS7500 system can support up to eight EqualLogic PS Series arrays with a max system size of 510TB.

The system is managed through the familiar EqualLogic Group Manager and is one of the first to be powered by the Dell Scalable File System (DSFS)- which we will see extending further into their portfolio as part of their new 'Fluid Data' strategy.

 

 Dell EqualLogic FS7500 NAS NFS CIFS

But the other vendors told me EqualLogic wasn't a unified storage platform...?

This is more than just a box-ticking exercise. For too long it's been all about block based storage when the reality is that unstructured file data has been growing exponentially and will continue to do so. Documents, photographs, video and other rich content are predicted to consume as much s 80% of our storage capacity moving forwards, so the introduction of EqualLogic unified storage functionality could be seen as a critical 'next step' in the development of the platform.

The FS7500 observes the traditional EqualLogic storage 'scale out' principles with the option to add more capacity (through the introduction of more EqualLogic arrays), more performance (through the introduction of more FS7500 systems) or a combination of the two.

We're expecting more from the labs at Dell following the strategic acquistion of Compellent and their fluid data technology, together with Ocarina who lead the field in specialist file based deduplication. Watch this space.

The Dell EqualLogic FS7500 should hit the streets a little later this year, at around the same time as firmware revision 5.1

 

 

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