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Dell EqualLogic Quick

Reference Guide

PS4000 PS6000/PS6500 PS6010/PS6510

Elevator

Pitch

The Dell

™

EqualLogic

™

family of iSCSI SANs from Dell is fundamentally changing the way enterprises think about

purchasing and managing storage. Built on a virtualized peer storage architecture, the EqualLogic PS Series simplies the

deployment and administration of consolidated storage environments. Its all-inclusive, intelligent feature set streamlines

purchasing, delivers rapid SAN deployment, easy storage management, comprehensive data protection, enterprise-class

performance and reliability, and seamless pay-as-you grow expansion. All EqualLogic PS Series arrays are completely

interoperable, and can be mixed and matched to build tiered storage within a single SAN or across SAN groups.

Description

The Dell EqualLogic PS4000 brings data-center-class

IT solutions such as consolidation and virtualization

to remote oce and small medium business storage

deployments. Get the same innovative EqualLogic

virtualized architecture and full software feature set as

previous generations at an aordable entry point.

The EqualLogic PS6000 Series is a line of enterprise-

class midrange storage arrays that delivers exceptional

self-optimizing performance, virtualized server

integration, integrated data protection for key

business applications, consolidated management, and

deployment exibility without compromising data

availability.

The newest iSCSI arrays in the PS Series, the

EqualLogic PS6010 and PS6510 models, add the

power of 10GbE technology to the exceptional

EqualLogic storage performance of previous

generations. They deliver increased bandwidth

performance for critical business applications,

virtualization, storage consolidation and high-

performance data backup and data protection.

Software

Unlike traditional SANs, the EqualLogic PS Series of arrays come with the software and applications expected from an

enterprise-level SAN, at no additional charge — there is no additional software to install or service costs to incur to

initiate the data management and protection features for this enterprise-class SAN.

Basic Features

Data Management

• Roles-based Administration

• Rapid Provisioning

• Remote Setup Wizard

• PS Group Manager

• Volume Management

• SAN HeadQuarters Multi-Group Monitoring

Data Protection & Availability

• Multipath I/O

• RAID 5, 6, 10, 50

• Automatic RAID Placement

• Volume Consistency Sets

Data Maintenance

• E-mail Home

• Enclosure Monitoring System

• Performance Monitoring

• Auto-stat Disk Monitoring System

Advanced Features

Storage Virtualization

• Array Evacuation

• Automatic Load Balancing

• Automatic or Manual Storage Tiering

• Complete SAN Virtualization

• Online Data and Volume Management

• RAID Load Balancing

• Storage Pools

• Thin Provisioning

Server Management & Protection Integration

• Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition

• Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition

• Automatic MPIO Connection Management

• Microsoft VSS and VDS Providers

• Smart Copy for Microsoft Exchange, SQL

Server, Windows NTFS File Systems, Hyper-V

virtual machines, and VMware VMFS

• VMware Site Recovery Manager Adapter

Data Protection & Recovery

• Multi-volume, Writable Snapshots

• Instant Volume Restore

• Volume Cloning

• Auto-replication, Multi-way

• Snapshot and Auto-replication Scheduler

SAN HQ

From a single user interface, SAN HQ lets you:

• Monitor multiple EqualLogic SAN Groups

•

Launch the EqualLogic Group Manager

management

console for any monitored

storage group

• Get a consolidated view of alerts

• Perform trend analysis, with SAN HQ’s

customizable views according to storage

manager-dened timelines

• Manage multiple versions of rmware

SAN HQ helps administrators to:

• Better understand storage performance and

capacity usage over time

• More eectively allocate storage resources by

identifying underutilized resources

• Quickly be informed of events and potential

issues such as latency

SAN HQ gathers and reports data on:

• Capacity

• I/O Performance

• Network Data

• Member Hardware and Conguration

• Volumes Data

Competitors

HP EVA, Net App, HP LeftHand, Compellent, IBM

Customer

Prole

• Virtual Server Deployments in branch oces

and Small Medium Businesses

• Departmental storage consolidation

• Simplifying data protection and disaster

recovery at remote sites

• Data center consolidation and virtualization

• Microsoft Exchange, SQL, Oracle and other

critical business applications

• Disaster recovery

• Large-scale SAN deployments

• Data center consolidation and stronger

performing virtualization environments

•

High sequential performance and capacity

for

streaming media and critical business

applications

• Stronger performing data backup and

Disaster recovery

• Scale-out capacity and performance

Qualifying

Questions

If you hear these words, there’s probably a SAN opportunity:

Disaster Protection Backup/Restore issues Remote Replication Redundancy

Exchange, SQL, Oracle “Database”, “Email” Performance Blade servers

1 TB or more of data Server Consolidation Storage Consolidation Medical/HIPPA

College/University Storage Management Virtualization

• What is the project that is driving the need for storage? (What application

or initiative is driving it? i.e., VMWare, Citrix, Exchange, DR, server/storage

virtualization and consolidation, etc.)

• Does your prospect have a current SAN?

o If yes, what is their current storage platform? How many TB of

raw storage do they currently have? Do they anticipate signicant

growth in the next year or two?

o If no, is their data all contained within the servers and/or a direct

attached storage device?

• Is the storage purchase budgeted? Purchase timeframe?

• Is there a compelling event or customer pain point that is driving the storage

purchase? (Lease expiration, warranty expiration, out of disk space, suered a

major outage, improve back-ups, DR project deadline, new application being

launched, etc.)

• What is the solution selection and decision process? Who is involved?

• What other storage solutions are you considering?

• Who is the nal decision maker that will approve the purchase?

• Has the prospect seen a demo? (Event demo, onsite demo, web demo, etc.)

If yes, when/where?

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