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Dell/EqualLogic10GbE product line

Dell/Equallogic PS6000e

The PS6000E is an enterprise-class iSCSI SAN ideal for organizations looking to consolidate storage cost-effectively without sacrificing capabilities. The EqualLogic peer storage architecture delivers a capable and affordable SAN that is extremely simple to manage and has an all-inclusive software suite which helps reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Whether you are looking for a storage solution that solves tactical problems and can easily scale to meet your strategic goals, or you know you require more than one hundred terabytes from the start, the PS6000E’s modular scalability can assure you a SAN to fit your needs.

The PS6000E line spans from 2 to 16TB in capacity in a single array, utilizing SATA drives ranging from 250GB to 1TB. It is built from fully redundant, hot-swappable enterprise hardware. For applications that don’t demand mission-critical redundancy, there are dual controller configurations of the PS6000E that make it even more cost-effective. 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, thin provisioning and much more.

Seamlessly integrated with all other PS Series storage arrays, the PS6000E 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.

Product Configurations

• Storage Controllers
  Base Model
  Single controller with 2GB battery-backed cache memory, only available with 250GB1 disk drive options
  
  High-Availability Model
  Dual controllers with a total of 4GB 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 or 1TB1
  
• System Capacities
  
  • Base Model
    2TB1 using eight (8) 250GB1 SATA disk drives
    4TB1 using sixteen (16) 250GB1 SATA disk drives
    
  • High-Availability Model
    4TB1 using sixteen (8) 250GB1 SATA disk drives
    8TB using sixteen (16) 500GB1 SATA disk drives
    16TB using sixteen (16) 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® XenServer™
    
  • 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: 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: 35 kg / 77.6 lb (maximum configuration)