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Exceptional ease of use

The PS6500E/6510E is an intelligent storage array that is designed

to provide rapid installation, simple management, and seamless

expansion. All PS Series storage arrays include SAN conﬁguration

features and capabilities that sense network connections,

automatically build RAID sets, and conduct system health checks

to help ensure that all components are fully functional.

A PS6500E/6510E is designed to be installed, 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 — to help prevent 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 EqualLogic SAN line is designed to meet and exceed the

rugged requirements of the data center. The PS6500E/6510E

includes fault tolerance capabilities through fully redundant and

hot-swappable components — dual-controllers, standard dual fan

trays, dual power supplies, and disk drives with hot spares.

Feature-rich software portfolio without

additional cost

With built-in features that help deliver high-performing, ecient

storage infrastructures, the PS6500E/6510E enables best practice

storage for every size organization. The EqualLogic PS Series

arrays include the following software with no additional software

licensing fees:

Dell EqualLogic Firmware version 5.0

EqualLogic Firmware is a full-function SAN operating system that

provides the following features:

Management | Roles-Based Administration • Volume Management

• Dell EqualLogic Group Manager CLI and GUI

Data Protection, availability and recovery | Auto-Replication,

Multi-Site • Instant Volume Restore • Multi-Path I/O

• Multi-Volume, Writeable Snapshots • Snapshot and Auto-

Replication Scheduler • Volume Cloning • Thin Clones

• Volume Consistency Sets

Storage Virtualization | Non-disruptive array addition and removal

• Automatic Load Balancing • Automatic or Manual Storage

Tiering • Complete SAN Virtualization • Online Data and Volume

Movement • Automatic load balancing of volumes across RAID

types • Storage Pools • Thin Provisioning • SAN Data Copy Ooad

• SAN Zero Ooad and Scalable Lock Management for VMware

Maintenance | Auto-Stat Disk Monitoring System • E-mail Home

• Enclosure Monitoring System • Detailed Historical Performance

Monitoring

Dell EqualLogic Host Software

EqualLogic Host Software extends the functionality of the array

based software enabling cooperation with the host. The following

titles are made available with your EqualLogic array purchase.

Dell EqualLogic Remote Setup Wizard | Step-by-step user interface

that simpliﬁes traditionally tedious setup and maintenance tasks

Dell EqualLogic Host Software for Windows | Auto-Snapshot

Manager/Microsoft

Edition

• EqualLogic Multipath I/O Device

Specic Module

• EqualLogic Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

and Virtual Disk Service (VDS) Provider Services

Dell EqualLogic Host Software for VMware | EqualLogic Auto-

Snapshot Manager/VMware

Edition

• EqualLogic Multipath

Extension Module for VMware

ESX

• EqualLogic Storage Adapter

for VMware

Site Recovery Manager

Dell EqualLogic SAN Headquarters

(SAN HQ) | Monitoring

and analysis tool that provides centralized access to detailed

performance and event data

Flexibility with low cost of ownership

The Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays represent a breakthrough

in storage economics, from purchase and setup to operation

and upgrades. Unlike traditional SANs, the EqualLogic PS Series

includes software and applications expected from an

enterprise-level SAN at no extra cost. The PS Series scales

on-demand — and online — allowing storage growth without

disrupting applications. As a result, EqualLogic PS6500E/6510E

arrays provide exceptional ﬂexibility at a low total cost

of ownership.

Comprehensive data management

services options

Dell believes that a well planned and maintained storage

infrastructure can support growing data requirements without

the corresponding increase in cost and complexity. Intelligent

data management allows organizations to optimize the value of

their storage investment with a better use of resources. Dell Data

Management Services can help customers design, implement,

manage and maintain storage infrastructures that satisfy data

availability, retention and recovery requirements.

Whether consolidating a direct-attached storage (DAS)

infrastructure, migrating data from an existing SAN or NAS

system, streamlining data protection processes, or simply adding

storage capacity, the EqualLogic PS Series from Dell oers a

family of proven, high-performance, self-managing storage arrays

designed to meet the requirements of today’s critical datacenter

environments.

Dell EqualLogic PS6500E/6510E

The Dell

™

EqualLogic

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PS6500E/6510E is a virtualized iSCSI SAN that combines intelligence and automation with fault

tolerance to provide simpliﬁed administration, rapid deployment, enterprise performance and reliability, and seamless

scalability. The PS6500E/6510E delivers the lowest cost-per-gigabyte in the PS6000 Series with up to 96 TB

†

of SATA storage in

a high-density 4U chassis. A PS Series SAN built with PS6500E/6510E arrays can scale up to 1.5 PB

†

under a single, intuitive

management interface. The PS6000 line features a redesigned controller with a fourth Gigabit Ethernet port that can deliver

improved sequential read and write performance compared to previous generations

. While the PS6510 line features a

redesigned 2 (two) 10GbE port controller delivering up to 10x the bandwidth per port and 2.5x the bandwidth per array

compared to previous generations

Based on testing performed by Dell Labs in January 2009 comparing Dell EqualLogic PS6000 Series arrays to PS5000 Series array

Based on testing performed by Dell Labs in 2009 comparing Dell EqualLogic PS6010 Series arrays to PS6000 Series arrays

For a complete list of supported operating systems, please visit www.dell.com/equallogic/swsupport

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