PS Series Array

From BOX to SAN in under 20 minutes

PS Series

Intelligent, Enterprise-Class Storage
Founded on the premise of simplifying networked storage, Dell/EqualLogic's PS Series is a family of intelligent, iSCSI-based storage arrays that fundamentally change storage economics from purchase and set up to operation and upgrades. The PS family consists of the PS5000E, PS5000X, & PS5000XV. A ll configurations are completely interoperable and upgradeable with performance and capacity scaling from 1 to 84 TB - without disruption of application or data availability.

Enterprise Reliability - Each PS array offers fully-redundant, hot-swappable components including controllers, fan trays, and power supplies. Support for RAID 10 and 50, hot drive sparing, automatic failover and rebuild, and patent-pending proactive media error detection means bottom line: 99.999% data availability or 5 minutes of planned downtime per year.

Enterprise Performance - Starting with 300 MB/sec and 60,000 IOPS, and scaling to more than a million IOPS, the PS Series delivers unmatched performance in its class. Automated load balancing seamlessly moves data across all active RAID sets, maximizing performance by intelligently optimizing network connections, cache, and controllers in real time.

Enterprise Data Services - The PS Series comes standard with a comprehensive set of software features including virtual volume management and space-efficient snapshots for instant backup and restore, volume cloning for rapid server provisioning, and Auto-Replication, multi-path I/O support, and cluster support for comprehensive disaster recovery.

Features:

Global OPEN Standards compliant iSCSI support: Additional Information

• Uses free drivers available from Microsoft, Novell, Sun, Linux, etc.
• IP (Gigabit Ethernet) storage connectivity allows for storage pooling without the high cost and complexity of fibre channel.

Enterprise Class software:

• Remote Mirror and Snapshot functionality to centralize your back up and archiving activities and reduce back-up window and allow for very quick restore. Dynamic Volume Management, Load Balancing, Disk HSM, SNMP, etc.

Simple Management:

• EqualLogic automates 95% of all storage maintenance functions via web browser with no client software.
• 10.5 TB system installs in 19 Minutes with multiple servers attached
• Virtually scales on-line from 1TB to over 100TB!

Data Availability:

• Fully redundant with no single point of failure: All components are hot swappable with RAID 10/50 and HOT standby spare disks.

Performance:

• Scales linearly from 60K to 1,280K IOPS and 300 to 9,000 MB/s.
• Volumes are automatically striped across all available spindles.
• Support for GigE Jumbo Frames with mirrored 2 GB Cache Memory per dual controller array.

EqualLogic has systems installed in Windows 2000/2003/XP, NT, Solaris, Linux, AIX,     HP-UX, and Novell environments with a number of Fortune 500 and 1000 companies and Universities.