Dell PS6000X manual Exceptional Ease of USE, Modular Design with Enterprise Reliability

DELL EQUALLOGIC PS6000X

The Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS6000X 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 PS6000X array provides up to 9.6 TB† of storage for a great balance of cost-effective performance and capacity. The PS6000 line features a redesigned controller with 2x the memory of its predecessor and a fourth Gigabit Ethernet port that can deliver improved sequential read and write performance1.

EXCEPTIONAL EASE OF USE

The PS6000X 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 connections, automatically build RAID sets, and conduct system health checks to help ensure that all components are fully functional.

A PS6000X 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 — helping to prevent 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 SAN line is designed to meet and exceed the rugged requirements of the data center. The PS6000X includes fault tolerance capabilities through fully redundant and hot-swappable components — standard dual-controllers, dual fan trays, dual power supplies, and disk drives with hot spares.

ENTERPRISE DATA SERVICES WITHOUT ADDITIONAL COST

With built-in storage features once available only to top-tier data centers, the PS6000X enables 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 • SAN HeadQuarters Multi-Group Monitoring • Rapid Provisioning • Remote Setup Wizard • Roles-Based Administration • Volume Management

DATA PROTECTION, AVAILABILITY AND RECOVERY Auto-Replication, Multi-Site • Instant Volume Restore • Multi-Path I/O2 • 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 • Detailed Historical Performance Monitoring

SERVER MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION INTEGRATION Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft® Edition3 • Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware™ Edition4 • Automatic MPIO Connection Management • Microsoft® VSS and VDS Providers • Smart Copy for Microsoft® Hyper-V™, 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 includes software and applications expected from an enterprise- level SAN at no extra cost. The PS Series scales on-demand — and online — allowing storage growth without disrupting applications. As a result, EqualLogic PS6000X 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.

1Based on testing performed by Dell Labs in January 2009 comparing Dell EqualLogic PS6000 Series arrays to PS5000 Series arrays

2Qualified for Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003, Windows Server® 2008, including Hyper-V, Windows Server® 2008 R2, including Hyper-V, VMware®, Linux® and Sun™ Solaris™ Operating Systems

3Qualified for Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003, Windows Server® 2008, including Hyper-V™and Windows Server® 2008 R2 including Hyper-V™ 4Qualified for VMware® ESX 3.5, ESXi 3.5, ESX 3 and ESX 4