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The PS4000 Series Drives Down the Total Cost of Ownership

PS4000e

The Dell EqualLogic™ PS4000 Series of virtualized iSCSI SAN arrays are designed to bring enterprise-class features, intelligence, automation and reliability to remote or branch office, departmental and small-to-medium business (SMB) storage deployments.

The PS4000 Series addresses branch office and SMB storage needs with simplified administration, rapid deployment and an affordable price, while providing a full set of enterprise-class data protection and management features, solid performance, scalability and fault-tolerance. With up to 16 SATA disk drives per modular array, the PS4000E delivers outstanding capacity value for an entry into midrange enterprise storage. To grow storage capacity and performance for remote office needs, two PS4000 arrays can be combined in a SAN group. To further scale out the SAN, EqualLogic PS6000 arrays can be added seamlessly without sacrificing the initial investment in PS4000 arrays.

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. The PS4000E is designed to be installed, configured, and serving storage in less than one hour. To improve enterprise-wide storage management, the EqualLogic SAN HeadQuarters software tool provides centralized performance and event monitoring of EqualLogic SANs across multiple sites, for instance PS4000 deployments at branch offices and PS6000 deployments in corporate data centers.

Offering built-in storage features previously available only to top-tier data centers, the PS4000E enables best-practice storage for remote, branch-office and departmental deployments. The EqualLogic PS Series arrays include the following enterprise data services and software features with no additional software licensing fees: SAN HeadQuarters Multi-SAN Historical Performance Monitoring, Auto-Replication, RAID Load Balancing, Complete SAN Virtualization, RAID Load Balancing, Storage Pools, Thin Provisioning and much more.

Product Configurations

• Storage Controllers
  
  • Base Model:
    Single controller with 2GB1 battery-backed cache memory, only available with 250GB1 disk drive options
  • High-Availability Model:
    Dual controllers with a total of 4GB1 battery-backed cache memory
    Battery-backed cache provides up to 72 hours of data protection
• Hard Disk Drives
  Eight (8) or sixteen (16) SATA hot-pluggable hard disk drives
  
• Drive Capacities
  7,200 RPM SATA II drives available in 250GB, 500GB, 750GB, or 1TB1
  
• System Capacities
  
  • 2TB1 using eight (8) 250GB1 SATA disk drives
    4TB1 using sixteen (16) 250GB1 SATA disk drives
    8TB1 using sixteen (16) 500GB1 SATA disk drives
    16TB1 using sixteen (16) 1TB1 SATA disk drives
    

Technical Highlights

• Volumes
  Up to 256
  
• Snapshots
  128 per volume / up to 2,048 total
  
• Hosts Accessing PS Series Group
  Up to 128 per pool / 256 per group
  
• Host Protocol
  Any standards compliant iSCSI initiator
  
• Operating Systems Supported
  
  • Windows® 2000 Server
    
  • Windows Server® 2003
    
  • Windows Server® 2008, including Hyper-V
    
  • Windows Vista®
    
  • Windows XP®
    
  • VMware® ESX Server 3 / 3.5 / ESXi 3.5
    
  • Citrix® XenServerTM
    
  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
    
  • SUSE® Linux Enterprise
    
  • Linux
    
  • SunTM Solaris
    
  • UNIX®
    
  • IBM® AIX
    
  • HP-UX
    
  • AIX®
    
  • Mac OS® X
    
  • Novell® Netware®
    
  • Virtual Iron®
    
• RAID Support
  Automatic RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, and RAID 50
  
• Network Interfaces
  Two (2) GbE copper for I/O, One (1) 10/100 copper (optional management network only) per controller
  
• TCP Network Support
  IPv4, IPv6 core support
  
• Expansion Option
  Can be combined with other EqualLogic PS Series online. Only two (2) PS4000 arrays can be in a group. For more details, please see the release notes.
  

Reliability

• Optional redundant and hot-swappable controllers
  
• Redundant power supplies / cooling fans, and disks
  
• Individual disk drive slot power control

Enclosure Monitoring System

• Automatic spare configuration and utilization
  
• SMART
  
• Automatic bad block replacement
  
• Auto-Stat Disk Monitoring System (ADMS) to monitor health of data on disk drives

Management Interfaces

• SAN HeadQuarters multi-group performance and event monitoring tool
  
• SNMP, telnet, SSH, HTTP, Web (SSL), host scripting
  
• Serial console
  
• Multi-administrator support
  
• Ability to configure a separate management network

Security

• CHAP authentication
  
• Access control for iSCSI
  
• Access control for management interfaces including RADIUS support

Notification Methods

• SNMP traps, e-mail, syslog
  

Power

• AC voltage: 100-240 VAC ±10% single phase
  
• Frequency: 47-63 Hz
  
• Power factor: 0.98 (minimum)
  
• Power consumption: 450 VA, 530 PeakVA (operating maximum)
  
• Heat dissipation: 1,550 BTU per hour (maximum)
  
• Power supplies: Dual 440W DC

Environmental

• Temperature range: 5 to 35 °C / 41 to 95 °F
  
• Storage temperature: -20 to 60 °C / -22 to 140°F
  
• Altitude: -70 to 3,048 m operational / -305 to 12,192 m non-operational
  
• Relative humidity: 20 to 80% non-condensing operational / 5 to 95% non-condensing non-operational
  
• Shock: 5 g 10 ms ½ sine operational / 30 g 10 ms ½ sine non-operational
  
• Vibration: Random .21 grms @ 5-500Hz operational / Random 1.04 grms 2-200Hz non-operational
  
• Acoustics: Sound Power Operating: > 5.8 db LpA @ 20°C
  
• Air Quality: Airborne contaminant level of G2 or lower as defined by ISA-S71.04-1985

Physical

• Height: 13 cm / 5.12 in / 3 EIA units
  
• Width: 48.26 cm / 19.0 in / 1EC Rack Compliant
  
• Depth: 55.1 cm / 21.7 in
  
• Weight: 36 kg / 79.6 lb (maximum configuration)