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PS6500e (4U, up to 48TB, SATA)

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Dell/Equallogic PS6500e

Dell’s EqualLogic PS6500E virtualized architecture combines with dense SATA package for affordable, enterprise-capable tiered storage. Like the rest of the EqualLogic product family, it combines combines intelligence and automation with fault tolerance to provide simplified administration, rapid deployment, enterprise performance and reliability, and seamless scalability.

The PS6500E delivers the lowest cost-per-gigabyte in the EqualLogic family with up to 48 TB of SATA storage in a high-density 4U chassis. A PS Series SAN built with PS6500E arrays can scale up to 576 TB under a single, intuitive management interface. The PS6000 line features a re-designed controller with a fourth Gigabit Ethernet port that can deliver improved sequential read and write performance compared to previous generations.

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 — preventing 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.

Dell’s portfolio of EqualLogic arrays are designed to meet and exceed the rugged requirements of today’s data center. The PS6500E includes fault tolerance capabilities through fully redundant and hot-swappable components — dual-controllers, triple fan trays and power supplies, and disk drives with hot spares.

With built-in storage features once available only to top-tier data centers, the PS6500E enables best practice storage for every size organization. The EqualLogic PS Series arrays include automatic load balancing, snapshots and replication, Microsoft application integration, hypervisor-aware snapshots for VMware, multi-path I/O, consistency sets, and much more.

Product Configurations

• Storage Controllers
  Dual controller with 4GB battery-backed cache memory
  Battery-backed cache provides up to 72 hours of data protection
  
• Hard Disk Drives
  Forty-eight (48) SATA hot-pluggable hard disk drives
  
• Drive Capacities
  7,200 RPM SATA II drives available in 500GB,1 or 1TB1
  
• System Capacities
  24TB1 using forty-eight (48) 500GB1 SATA disk drives
  48TB1 using forty-eight (48) 1TB1 SATA 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: 0.95 (minimum)
  
• Power consumption: 1400 VA, 1,400 PeakVA (operating maximum)
  
• Heat dissipation: 3,400 BTU per hour (maximum)
  
• Power supplies: Three 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 3,000 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: LwA 6.6 Bels
  
• Air Quality: Airborne contaminant level of G2 or lower as defined by ISA-S71.04-1985

Physical

• Height: 17.5 cm / 6.89 in / 4 EIA units
  
• Width: 48.3 cm / 19.01 in / 1EC Rack Compliant
  
• Depth: 81 cm / 31.9 in
  
• Weight: 74.8 kg / 165 lb (maximum configuration)