Dell EqualLogic PS6000

DYNAMIC VIRTUAL STORAGE

EQUALLOGIC PS SERIES...SIMPLIFYING IT

The Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series is fundamentally changing the way enterprises think about purchasing and managing storage. Built on breakthrough virtualized peer storage
architecture, the EqualLogic PS Series simplifies the deployment and administration of consolidated
storage environments. 

Its all-inclusive feature set streamlines purchasing. Its intelligent software delivers rapid SAN deployment, easy storage management and comprehensive data
protection. The system’s dynamic virtualization enables enterprise-class performance and reliability
and seamless pay-as-you-grow expansion.

This simplicity yields important benefits: success and satisfaction for our users, which is
supported by the fact that 98% of our customers would recommend the PS Series.

THE DELL DIFFERENCE

EASE OF USE
• Intelligent, automated management helps minimize tedious administrative tasks
• From box to operating SAN in minutes

ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE
• Exceptional performance for both sequential and transactional applications with linear scalability as arrays are added
• Automated, real-time load balancing across drives, RAID sets, connections, cache and controllers for optimized performance and resource utilization
• Pooling capability enables appropriate service levels for individual applications.

RELIABILITY
• Fault tolerant, fully redundant dual controller design for no single point of failure
• Designed for 99.999% availability
• Enterprise-class RAID protection
• Hot swappable components

SCALABILITY
• Modular design allows growth when needed
• Online expansion without affecting data availability
• Linear scalability — scale capacity and performance together
• Manage a growing pool of storage from one single user interface

AFFORDABILITY
• All-inclusive enterprise features and functionality with no additional software licenses to purchase
• Easy connection via iSCSI
• Automated features help to eliminate highly specialized administrative costs
• Adopt 10GbE and run both 1GbE and 10GbE in the same environment without de-valuing legacy equipment
• EqualLogic SANs have the lowest TCO of common storage array architectures—fully 1/3 to 1/2 the total cost of competitors over a five year period

ENTERPRISE EFFICIENCY
• Addition of 10GbE supports high-performance, high-bandwidth applications such as data warehouses and streaming media
• Maximize your IT investments with an end-to-end unified fabric data center
 ncompassing servers, EqualLogic storage and Networking
• Enterprise level virtualized storage that matches virtualized server environments


THE EQUALLOGIC PS SERIES ISCSI SANS
The Dell EqualLogic PS Series is a family of virtualized iSCSI storage arrays that combine intelligence and automation with fault tolerance to provide simplified administration, rapid deployment, enterprise performance and reliability, and seamless scalability. The PS Series high performance storage arrays deliver a range of capacity points from 400 GB to 48 TB in either a 3U or 4U chassis. PS Series arrays can be combined to create a virtualized SAN that scales up to 768 TB under a single management interface.

EXCEPTIONAL EASE OF USE
The PS Series intelligent storage arrays are designed to provide rapid deployment, simple management and seamless expansion. All PS Series storage arrays include SAN configuration features and capabilities that sense network topology, automatically build RAID sets, and conduct system health checks to help ensure that all components are fully functional. PS Series arrays are designed to be deployed, configured, and serving storage in less than one hour.

MODULAR DESIGN WITH ENTERPRISE RELIABILITY
EqualLogic PS Series arrays are based on a virtualized, modular storage architecture that enables IT managers to purchase only the storage they need, when they need it — preventing both underutilization and over-provisioning.

Using innovative data movement technology, all EqualLogic PS Series arrays in a SAN work together to automatically manage data, load balance across all resources, and expand to meet growing storage needs.

The Dell EqualLogic PS Series is designed to meet and exceed the rugged requirements of the data center. Each array comes standard with fault tolerance capabilities through fully redundant and hot-swappable components — dual controllers, multiple fan trays and power supplies, and disk drives with hot spares.

ENTERPRISE DATA SERVICES WITHOUT ADDITIONAL COST
The PS Series has built-in storage features once relegated to top-tier data centers, enabling best practice storage for every size organization. Unlike traditional storage arrays, the EqualLogic PS Series arrays include a comprehensive set
of enterprise data services and software features with no additional software licensing fees.

FLEXIBILITY WITH LOW COST OF OWNERSHIP
EqualLogic PS Series arrays represent a breakthrough in storage economics, from purchase and setup to operation and upgrades. In addition to the extensive included software, the PS Series scales easily, on-demand — and online — allowing storage growth without costly application disruptions or lengthy service engagements. As a result, EqualLogic arrays provide exceptional flexibility at a low total cost of ownership.

Whether consolidating direct-attached storage (DAS), migrating from an existing SAN or NAS system, improving data protection, or simply adding capacity, the EqualLogic PS Series deploys flexibly to address enterprise storage needs. 

As business needs change, an EqualLogic SAN can easily adapt. Its virtualized architecture allows simple redeployment of arrays, tiered storage, thin provisioning, online volume movement and much more, all without extra cost and cumbersome processes.
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