Dell PS5000X manual Exceptional Ease Of Use, Modular Design With Enterprise Reliability

DELL EQUALLOGIC™

PS5000X

Dell EqualLogic PS5000X is a virtualized iSCSI SAN that combines intelligence and automation with fault tolerance to provide simplified administration, rapid deployment, enterprise performance and reliability, and seamless scalability. With 10,000 RPM SAS disk drives, the PS5000X array provides outstanding performance with up to 6.4 TB of storage capacity.

EXCEPTIONAL EASE OF USE

The PS5000X is an intelligent storage array that is designed to provide rapid installation, simple management, and seamless expansion. All PS Series storage arrays include SAN configuration features and capabilities that sense network topology, automatically build RAID sets, and conduct system health checks to help ensure that all components are fully functional.

A PS5000X is designed to be installed, configured, and serving storage in less than one hour.

MODULAR DESIGN WITH ENTERPRISE RELIABILITY

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.

The EqualLogic PS5000X Series is designed to meet and exceed the rugged requirements of the data center. The PS5000X includes fault tolerance capabilities through fully redundant and hot-swappable components — dual-controllers, standard dual fan trays, dual power supplies, and disk drives with hot spares.

ENTERPRISE DATA SERVICES WITHOUT ADDITIONAL COST

The PS5000X has built-in storage features once relegated to top-tier data centers, enabling best practice storage for every size organization. EqualLogic PS Series arrays include the following enterprise data services and software features with no additional software licensing fees:

Management PS Group Manager • Rapid Provisioning • Remote Setup Wizard • Roles-Based Administration • Volume Management

Data Protection, Availability and Recovery Auto-Replication, Multi-Way • Instant Volume Restore • Multi-Path I/O1 • Multi-Volume,

Writeable Snapshots • Snapshot and Auto-Replication Scheduler • Volume Cloning • Volume Consistency Sets

Storage Virtualization Array Evacuation • Automatic Load Balancing • Automatic or Manual Storage Tiering • Complete SAN

Virtualization • Online Data and Volume Movement • RAID Load Balancing • Storage Pools • Thin Provisioning

Maintenance Auto-Stat Disk Monitoring System • E-mail Home • Enclosure Monitoring System • Performance Monitoring

Server Management and Protection Integration Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition2 • Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware

Edition3 • Automatic MPIO Connection Management • Microsoft VSS and VDS Providers • Smart Copy for Microsoft® Exchange®, SQL Server®,

Windows® File Systems and VMware® VMFS • VMware® Site Recovery Manager Adapter

FLEXIBILITY WITH LOW COST OF OWNERSHIP

The Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays represent a breakthrough in storage economics, from purchase and setup to operation and upgrades. Unlike traditional SANs, the EqualLogic PS Series comes complete with the available software and applications expected from an enterprise-level SAN. The PS Series scales on-demand — and online — allowing storage growth without disrupting applications. As a result, EqualLogic PS5000X arrays provide exceptional flexibility at a low total cost

of ownership.

Whether consolidating a direct-attached storage (DAS) infrastructure, migrating data from an existing SAN or NAS system, streamlining data protection processes, or simply adding storage capacity, the EqualLogic PS Series from Dell offers a family of proven, high-performance, self-managing storage arrays designed to meet the requirements of today’s critical datacenter environments.

1Qualified for Microsoft Windows Server 2000 and 2003, VMware®, Linux® and Sun™ Solaris™ Operating Systems 2Qualified for Microsoft Windows Server® 2003 and Windows Server® 2008

3Qualified for VMware® ESX 3.5, ESXi 3.5 and ESX 3