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Dell/Equallogic PS6000x

Databases, email and virtual servers require large capacity and demand high performance storage. Dell’s EqualLogic PS6000X offers 10,000 RPM Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drives to meet this need.

With a 16 drive chassis full of 400GB SAS drives, the PS6000X array delivers a 6.4TB iSCSI storage array built on fully-redundant, hot-swappable enterprise hardware. Scale out capacity and performance by adding additional arrays for a virtualized iSCSI SAN. Built-in software functionality includes SAN HQ Multi-SAN historical performance monitoring, automatic load balancing, Microsoft and VMware application integration, snapshots and replication, multi-path I/O, consistency sets, and much more.

Seamlessly integrated with all other EqualLogic PS Series storage arrays, the PS6000X expands your ability to optimize performance and capacity using storage pools and tiers matched to application demands. And with online data movement between tiers, you gain flexibility to adjust without disruption as your business evolves.

The PS6000X offers Reduce TCO with the PS Series’ all-inclusive, SAN management software & ease of management. The Dell EqualLogic family of proven, high-performance, self-managing storage arrays is designed to meet the requirements of any SAN environment.

Product Configurations

• Storage Controllers
  Single controller with 4GB battery-backed cache memory
  Battery-backed cache provides up to 72 hours of data protection
  
• Hard Disk Drives
  Sixteen (16) SAS hot-pluggable hard disk drives
  
• Drive Capacities
  10,000 RPM SAS drives available in 400GB1
  
• System Capacities
  6.4TB1 using sixteen (16) 400GB1 SAS disk drives
  

Technical Highlights

• Volumes
  Up to 1,024
  
• Snapshots
  512 per volume / up to 10,000 total
  
• Hosts Accessing PS Series Group
  Up to 512 per pool / 2,048 per group
  
• Host Protocol
  Any standards compliant iSCSI initiator
  
• Operating Systems Supported
  
  • Windows® 2000 Server
    
  • Windows Server® 2003
    
  • Windows Server® 2008, including Hyper-V™
    
  • VMware® ESX Server 3 / 3.5 / ESXi 3.5
    
  • Citrix® XenSource™
    
  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
    
  • SUSE® Linux Enterprise
    
  • Linux
    
  • SunTM Solaris™
    
  • UNIX®
    
  • IBM® AIX
    
  • HP-UX®
    
  • Mac OS® X
    
  • Novell® Netware®
    
• RAID Support
  Automatic RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, and RAID 50
  
• GbE Network Interfaces
  Four (4) copper
  
• TCP Network Support
  IPv4, IPv6 core support including JITC
  
• Expansion Option
  Can be combined with other EqualLogic PS Series arrays in the same SAN group online
  

Reliability

• Redundant, hot-swappable controllers, 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: 490 VA, 530 PeakVA (operating maximum)
  
• Heat dissipation: 1,700 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: 35 kg / 77.6 lb (maximum configuration)