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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 continue development of the successful EqualLogic iSCSI SAN platform with the release of the PS6100 series - delivering increased performance, higher capacity and greater flexibility through the application of Dells innovative 'fluid data' technology.

The PS6100 series arrays, as were the PS6000 series appliances before them, are designed to meet the performance and availability demands of virtual environments in medium to large organisations. Flexible configurations, combined with the well documented EqualLogic scale-out architecture and fully inclusive licensing model has enabled Dell to become, and remain the established market leader in iSCSI storage.

Key changes to the range with the introduction of the PS6100 series include:

  • Choice of either 2.5" or 3.5" drives in a 2U or 4U form factor
  • PS6100E - 24 X 3.5" 500GB / 1TB / 2TB / 3TB 7.2K NL SAS Drives, delivering up to 72TB in a single appliance
  • PS6100X - 24 X 2.5" 300GB / 600GB / 900GB 10K SAS Drives, delivering up to 21.6TB of performance storage
  • PS6100XV - 24 X 2.5" 146GB / 300GB 15K SAS Drives, delivering up to 7.2TB of high-performance storage
  • PS6100XV 3.5 - 24 X 3.5" 600GB 15K SAS Drives, delivering up to 14.4TB of high-performance storage
  • PS6100S - 24 X 2.5" 200GB / 400GB SSD Drives, delivering up to 9.6TB of low-latency, high-performance storage
  • PS6100XS - hybrid array featuring a mix of SSD and 10K SAS for optimal responsiveness across tiered workloads

 

It is clear that increased controller cache and higher spindle count will lead to new EqualLogic performance highs. The introduction of larger 3TB 7.2k NL SAS, 600GB 10K/15K SAS and 900GB 10K SAS drives means that single-appliance capacities have now grown in line with the sprawling data estates of users.

The introduction of EqualLogic firmware version 5.1 ensures these new arrays will benefit from more efficient automated storage management and enhanced load balancing both within the arrays (in the case of the hybrid PS6100XS appliance) and between different tiers in the storage pool. This means that 'hot' data will automatically migrate to lower-latency, high performance disk and 'cooler' or archive data to higher capacity, low cost storage. This has always been a feature of the EqualLogic range, ongoing development (and no doubt Dells acquistion of Compellent) has significantly enhanced both performance and granularity. 

The PS6100 series looks set to strengthen Dells position as the market leader in low cost SAN storage. The extensive enterprise feature set and predictable ongoing costs associated with both support and product development make this a simple choice for any organisation looking for the best value iSCSI SAN.

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