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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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With spending cuts throughout the Public and Private sector many organisations are investigating ways to reduce storage costs when the time comes to replace, upgrade or renew support on legacy fibre channel solutions.

A spending review often acts as a catalyst to prompt enterprise storage users to investigate more 'cost effective' technologies such as iSCSI which may have been disregarded the last time a review was carried out - perhaps due to internal policy or simply through limited visibility of what was available in the marketplace.

The reality is that an iSCSI storage platform such as EqualLogic not only offers an extremely valid alternative to Fibre Channel, it will often bring with it powerful tools and features which were outside even those six and seven figure budgets the last time around. EqualLogic's fully inclusive licensing model means that all features are included in the purchase price of the array. Even features on the roadmap are included as long as a support agreement is maintained. Support usually costs less than £1500 per year. Surprised?

 

I've lost count of the times I've visited a legacy fibre channel user to promote the benefiits of the EqualLogic platform and been met with a blank expression when I've begun to discuss storage virtualisation, intelligent snapshotting tools, replication and thin provisioning. Surely they've been using those features for years given their very substantial investment in their storage estate over time?  Not very often - usually they've purchased a very expensive box of disks and gone without the enhanced features because of the purchase and ongoing support costs. The fund holders have been happy because they've seen the EMC / HP EVA / IBM / insert name here badges on the stack and the long-standing IT manager has settled back into his role comfortable in the knowledge that 'No-one ever got fired for buying...."

What about bandwidth into the array? 'Can iSCSI over Gigabit Ethernet really compete with my four or eight gigs of fibre channel?' The truth is that we have never come across a situation where the bandwidth into an EqualLogic storage pool has even been remotely taxed, let alone had a negative effect on performance.

One of the things I like most about selling EqualLogic is that there are not many environments I've come across where the platform will not present significant savings, alongside improved performance and features, when replacement storage or support renewal for a legacy platform is on the agenda.

If you'd like to reduce the cost of your enterprise storage I'd love to have a chat - contact me and we'll take it from there EqualLogic Reseller

 

 
 
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