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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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The EqualLogic PS4100X appliance is a radical step forward when compared with it's predecessor the PS4100X. For a long time 10K SAS disk has provided a significant step up from entry-level SATA (now NL-SAS) disk, offering approximately double the IOPs performance for a relatively small uplift in cost. Capacity has traditionally been lower than it's fat SATA cousin due to restrictions on the size of 10K SAS disks. This meant that an organisation that required both performance and capacity may have to consider multiple, or alternative appliances if their data capacity exceeds 3-4TB (taking into account reserved space for snapshots, replication and growth).

Performance and Capacity

The new EqualLogic PS4100X is based upon space-efficient 2.5" 10K SAS disk, with up to 24 drives in a single 2U chassis. Larger drive sizes are now also available with a choice of 300GB 600GB and 900GB disks. This combined means that we now have an appliance that offers blistering performance (due to both fast 10K SAS disk and the higher 'spindle count') together with serious capacity (exceeding 21TB RAW if fully populated with 900GB drives) making this a force to be reckoned with in the iSCSI storage space. PS4100X pricing is also extremely competitive, especially when the value delivered by the fully inclusive licensing model is taken into account.

EqualLogic PS4100X 2.5 24-Drive ChassisVirtual Environments

Dell EqualLogic storage is predominantly deployed as part of a virtual environment. An EqualLogic appliance based upon twenty four 10K RPM SAS disks could comfortably accommodate a small to medium sized virtual environment, including some demanding workloads. Based upon my experience I would not be surprised to see 30 to 40 workloads (depending upon size and composition of course) comfortably accommodated by a single appliance, with the added benefit of seamless scale-out expansion as and when the need for further growth is required.

There are of course design considerations when deploying larger estates based upon EqualLogic PS4100 / PS4000 kit. That's where expert consultants fit in. If you'd like to speak with an experienced Dell Equallogic Reseller get in touch.

 

 

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