Dell PS Series iSCSI SAN Arrays

The growth of company files, e-mail, databases, and application data drives a constant need for more storage. But with storage directly attached to servers, growth means burdensome storage management and decreased asset utilization. Storage resources remain trapped behind individual servers, impeding data availability.

By consolidating your storage resources onto an
EqualLogic PS Series SAN you can:

• Centralize storage and reduce administrative overhead

• Simplify IT operations and reduce total IT expenditures

• Increase availability and protect critical data sets

• Consolidate storage assets across multiple OS environments

• Expand storage capacity, performance, and network bandwidth online without downtime

Key Benefits

Centralize storage and reduce administrative overhead

The EqualLogic iSCSI SAN’s unique peer storage architecture consolidates all storage resources into an easy-to-manage tiered pool of storage, securely accessed by servers across a standard Ethernet network. The PS Group Manager provides a single, intuitive administrative interface, accessible from anywhere on the network.

Simplify IT operations and reduce total IT expenditures

The all-inclusive feature set makes advanced virtualization and data protection features available to enterprises of all sizes, without breaking the bank. Automatic system expansion, data protection, and tiering functions minimize administrative tasks even as storage needs grow over time.

Increase availability and protect critical data sets

EqualLogic PS Series arrays are built for enterprise deployments, providing 99.999% availability through a fully-redundant, hot-pluggable system architecture that minimizes administrative tasks even as storage needs grow over time. Volumes are RAID-protected, and through advanced system and disk monitoring, faults can be quickly recognized and addressed without downtime. Low overhead snapshots and remote replication enable you to simply create a virtually unlimited number of space-efficient point-in-time copies at primary and remote sites for quick recovery from disk or backup to tape.

Consolidate storage assets across multiple OS environments

Dell’s EqualLogic PS Series supports initiators across all major operating systems. Gigabit Ethernet NICs and HBAs provide high performance, multi-path access to centralized storage assets. Boot-from-SAN and virtualized desktop capabilities allow system disks to be totally removed from distributed server and desktop assets.

Expand storage capacity, performance, and network bandwidth without downtime

Bringing additional storage online is truly seamless; additional disk and controller resources are automatically brought online without disrupting applications accessing the storage pool. Performance scales linearly as workloads are automatically load balanced, spreading data across all active disks, arrays, and interface ports. In addition, built-in thin-provisioning functionality improves flexibility and scalability, reducing administrative costs and making the “pay-as-you-grow” strategy seamless for applications.

Dell EqualLogic PS4000 Series

Deploy data center class IT storage out to remote office and small to medium business.

The Dell EqualLogic PS4000 is designed to address the needs of remote office / branch office and small medium business storage deployments. It is designed with the same innovative EqualLogic virtualized architecture and the full software feature set as previous generations. However, it offers an affordable entry point for smaller PS Series configurations so remote offices can get the benefits of data center class IT solutions such as storage consolidation and virtualization.

Dell EqualLogic PS6000 Series

More choices, improved performance and greater ease of management.

Dell’s EqualLogic PS6000 Series is a line of enterprise class midrange storage arrays designed to provide the storage foundation for the virtualized datacenter and its critical applications. Through its virtualized scale-out architecture and rich software features, the PS6000 Series delivers exceptional self-optimized performance, virtualized server integration, integrated data protection for key business applications, consolidated management, and deployment flexibility without compromising data availability.

Dell EqualLogic PS6010/6510 Series

EqualLogic's new 10GbE iSCSI SAN now with 10X more storage performance for virtualization & high throughput business applications

"EqualLogic's SAN allows us to consolidate massive amounts of documents and data without fear of storage limitations, inefficient backups, downtime and expensive operational costs."
– Dave Ewanchuk, Bull, Housser & Tupper, IS Manager