Technical Reports

PS Series Groups
Boot from SAN with QLogic QLA405x HBAs This Technical Report describes how to configure QLogic QLA405x iSCSI Host Bus Adapters to support booting Microsoft Windows Server 2003 from PS Series storage.
Delivering High Performance iSCSI SANs Analyzes the performance and scalability of SAN storage devices and compares EqualLogic iSCSI products with Fibre Channel products.
Deploying Symantec Backup Exec™ 10d for Windows Servers with PS Series Arrays This Technical Report describes how to back up and restore NTFS volumes, Microsoft Exchange e-mail, and SQL databases using Symantec Backup Exec 10d for Windows Servers, the EqualLogic Host Integration Tools kit, and PS Series storage arrays.
Storage Array Network Performance Guidelines Describes the best method for connecting network cables to a PS Series storage array and provides information about control module and network connection failover. It also includes network configuration requirements and PS Series group performance recommendations.
Sizing Replication Space Describes replication technology from EqualLogic and how to size the space needed on the primary and secondary groups. It describes how replication space is utilized and PS Series group behavior when replication space is consumed.
Choosing a Member RAID Policy Describes the performance characteristics of each group RAID level (RAID 10/Performance or RAID 50/Capacity) under normal and failure conditions. Also describes how to change the group RAID level.
Using MRTG to Monitor I/O This Technical Report describes how to use Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) to monitor the I/O between servers and PS Series group members running PS Series Firmware Version 3.1.

Database
Deploying Microsoft SQL Server in an ISCSI SAN Describes how to deploy SQL Server in an iSCSI SAN with PS Series storage arrays. It provides configuration and management recommendations for SQL and the PS Series storage.
Oracle9i™: Using a PS Series Group for NFS Server Storage Describes how to use a PS Series group to provide NFS server storage space to servers running Oracle9i Database. It includes group and server requirements, describes configuration choices, and provides recommendations for high availability.
SQL Server Data Protection with Auto-Snapshot Manager This Technical Report describes using EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager V3.0, PS Series groups, and Microsoft SQL Server to perform online Smart Copies and recovery operations for SQL databases.

E-mail/Messaging
PS Series Best Practices Deploying Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in an iSCSI SAN This Technical Report describes how to deploy Exchange Server 2007 in an iSCSI SAN using PS Series storage arrays. It provides configuration and management recommendations and best practices for Exchange 2007 and the PS Series SAN.
Deploying Microsoft® Exchange Server in an iSCSI SAN Describes how to deploy Exchange Server in an iSCSI SAN using PS Series storage arrays.Provides configuration and management recommendations and best practices for Exchange and the PS Series SAN.

Microsoft® Windows®
Aligning Disk Sectors for Optimal Performance Describes how to configure Microsoft Windows disk partitions so that they match the default RAID stripe segment size used in a PS Series storage array.
Configuring and Deploying the Dell EqualLogic™ Multipath I/O Device Specific Module (DSM) in a PS Series SAN This Technical Report describes how to use the Dell EqualLogic™ Multipath Device Specific Module, (DSM) to enable and deploy multipath I/O, (MPIO) for highly available access to a PS Series SAN.
Deploying Microsoft Multipath I/O in an iSCSI SAN Describes how to use Microsoft multipath I/O (MPIO) on Windows Server 2003 servers for highly available access to disk storage. PS Series storage delivers a scalable and fault-tolerant iSCSI SAN solution that increases data and application availability and is easy to configure and manage.
Deploying Microsoft Windows Server 2003 in an iSCSI SAN This Technical Report describes how to use EqualLogic PS Series storage in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 environment. With PS Series storage arrays, you can set up a scalable, fault-tolerant iSCSI SAN that increases data and application availability and is easy to set up and manage.
Deploying Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 with a PS Series iSCSI SAN This Technical Report describes how to use PS Series storage in a Microsoft Windows Storage Server environment. With PS Series storage arrays, you can deploy file serving with a scalable, fault-tolerant iSCSI SAN increasing data availability and flexibility.
Expanding Basic Disk Volumes Describes how to expand Microsoft Windows basic disk volumes after increasing the size of the corresponding PS Series group volume.
Microsoft® Windows® IAS Performing CHAP Authentication in a PS Series Group This Tech Report describes how to configure Microsoft Windows Internet Authentication Service as an external RADIUS server to perform centralized authentication of initiators attempting to connect to PS Series volumes.
Using Active Directory for Account Authentication to a PS Series Group This Technical Report describes how to configure Internet Authentication Service to leverage accounts in Active Directory to control login authentication to a PS Series Group.
Network Switching
Cisco® Catalyst 3750 and 2970 Switches: Using Switches with a PS Series Group Describes how to use Cisco Catalyst 3750 and 2970 switches with a PS Series group to create a high performance and highly available iSCSI SAN.

VMware
Disaster Recovery using Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series Storage and VMware® Site Recovery Manager This tech report shows how VMware Site Recovery Manager along with Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage replication can help make disaster recovery manageable, affordable and automated.
Data Protection Examples Using PS Series Snapshots in a VMware Virtual Infrastructure This tech report demonstrates how using Dell EqualLogic SAN Snapshots can improve data protection in a VMware Virtual Infrastructure environment.
VMware ESX Server 3.0.1 Configuration and Operation Using a PS Series Group Describes how to use VMware ESX Server 3.x with PS Series storage arrays to create a dynamic and scalable virtualized environment.

Making Snapshots Easy

Snapshots in a VMware Virtual Infrastructure

VMware ESX Server 3x Considerations

VMware Equallogic Disaster Recovery

VMware Site Recovery Manager

Business Continuity

Backup and Recovery

Backup and Recovery Overview

Making Snapshots Easy