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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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Product Configurations

 

Storage Controllers

 

 

Base Model: Single controller with 2 GB battery-backed memory, only available with 250 GB disk drive options

High Availability Model: Dual controllers with a total of 4 GB battery-backed memory

Battery-backed memory provides up to 72 hours of data protection

 

 

Hard Disk Drives

 

 

Eight (8) or sixteen (16) SATA/SAS/SSD hot-pluggable hard disk drives

 

 

Drive Capacities

 

 

7,200 RPM SATA II drives available in 250 GB, 500 GB or 1 TB

10K SAS Drives in 400GB

15K SAS Drives in 300GB or 450GB

SSD Drives in 50GB

 

 

 

 

Technical Highlights

 

Volumes

 

 

Up to 1,024

 

 

Snapshots

 

 

512 per volume / up to 10,000 total

 

 

Hosts Accessing PS Series Group

 

 

Up to 512 per pool / 2,048 per group

 

 

Host Protocol

 

 

Any standards-compliant iSCSI initiator

 

 

Operating Systems Supported

 

 

Windows

 

 

 

® 2000 Server, Windows Server® 2003, Windows Server® 2008, including Hyper-V, Windows Vista®, Windows XP®, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, SUSE® Linux® Enterprise, Linux, SunSolaris, UNIX®, IBM® AIX®, HP-UX, Mac OS® X, VMware® ESX Server 3 / 3.5 / ESXi 3.5, Citrix® XenServer, Virtual Iron®, Novell® Netware®

RAID Support

 

 

Automatic RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, and RAID 50

 

 

GbE Network Interfaces

 

 

Four (4) copper per controller

 

 

TCP Network Support

 

 

IPv4, IPv6 core support including JITC

 

 

Expansion Option

 

 

Can be combined with other EqualLogic PS Series arrays in the same SAN group, online

 

 

Reliability

 

Redundant, hot-swappable controllers, power supplies / cooling fans, and disks

Individual disk drive slot power control

 

 

Enclosure Monitoring System

 

Automatic spare configuration and utilization

SMART

Automatic bad block replacement

Auto-Stat Disk Monitoring System (ADMS) to monitor health of data on disk drives

 

 

Management Interfaces

 

SAN HeadQuarters multi-group performance and event monitoring tool SNMP, telnet, SSH, HTTP, Web (SSL), host scripting

Serial console Multi-administrator support

Ability to configure a separate management network

 

 

Security

 

CHAP authentication

Access control for iSCSI

Access control for management interfaces including RADIUS support

 

 

Notification Methods

 

SNMP traps, e-mail, syslog

 

 

Power

 

AC voltage: 100-240 VAC ±10% single phase Frequency: 47-63 Hz

Power factor: 0.98 (minimum) Power consumption: 450 VA, 530 Peak VA (operating maximum)

Heat dissipation: 1,550 BTU per hour (maximum) Power supplies: Dual 440W dc

 

 

Environmental

 

Temperature range: 5 to 35°C / 41 to 95°F

Storage temperature: -20 to 60°C / -22 to 140°F

Altitude: -70 to 3,048 m operational / -305 to 12,192 m non-operational

Relative humidity: 20 to 80% non-condensing operational / 5 to 95% non-condensing non-operational

Shock: 5 g 10 ms ½ sine operational / 30 g 10 ms ½ sine non-operational

Vibration: Random .21 grms @ 5-500Hz operational / Random 1.04 grms 2-200Hz non-operational

Acoustics: Sound Power Operating: <5.8 db LpA @ 20°C

Air Quality: Airborne contaminant level of G2 or lower as defined by ISA-S71.04-1985

 

 

Physical

 

Height: 13 cm / 5.12 in / 3 EIA units

Width: 48.26 cm / 19.0 in / 1EC Rack Compliant

Depth: 55.1 cm / 21.7 in

Weight: 36 kg / 79.6 lb (maximum configuration)

 

 

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