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    EqualLogic(tm) PS Series is fundamentally changing the way IT organizations think about purchasing and managing storage. Built on a breakthrough storage virtualization architecture, the EqualLogic PS Series combines an intelligent, automated framework with a fault-tolerant hardware architecture.

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    EqualLogic(tm) PS Series is fundamentally changing the way IT organizations think about purchasing and managing storage. Built on a breakthrough storage virtualization architecture, the EqualLogic PS Series combines an intelligent, automated framework with a fault-tolerant hardware architecture.

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    The PS Series ...

    Supports a broad range of operating systems:


    • Microsoft® Windows®, including • UNIX®
    Hyper-V™ • HP-UX
    • VMware® ESX / ESXi • IBM AIX®
    • Citrix® XenServer™ • Novell® NetWare®
    • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® • Mac OS® X
    • SUSE™ Linux Enterprise
    • Sun Solaris™

    Enterprise Data Services


    Data Protection, Availability Storage Virtualization
    & Recovery
    • Non-disruptive Array Addition

    Intelligent iSCSI
    • Auto-Replication, Multi-Site and Removal
    • Instant Volume Restore • Automatic Load Balancing
    • Multi-Path I/O1 • Automatic or Manual

    Storage Arrays
    Multi-Volume, Storage Tiering
    Writeable Snapshots • Complete SAN Virtualization
    • Snapshot and Auto-Replication • Online Data and
    Scheduler Volume Movement

    Simplifying IT • Volume Cloning


    • Thin Clones
    • RAID Load Balancing
    • Storage Pools
    • Volume Consistency Sets • Thin Provisioning
    Management • Full Copy
    The Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series • PS Group Manager
    • Block Zeroing and Scalable
    Hardware Assisted Locking
    • Rapid Provisioning
    is fundamentally changing the • Remote Setup Wizard
    for VMware®
    Server Management &
    • Roles-Based Administration
    way IT organizations think about • Volume Management
    Protection Integration
    • Auto-Snapshot Manager/
    purchasing and managing Maintenance Microsoft® Edition2
    • Auto-Stat Disk • Auto-Snapshot Manager/
    storage. Built on a breakthrough Monitoring System VMware® Edition3
    • E-mail Home • Automatic MPIO Connection
    storage virtualization architecture, • Enclosure Monitoring System
    Management
    • Microsoft® VSS and
    • Detailed Historical
    the EqualLogic PS Series Performance Monitoring
    VDS Providers
    • Smart Copy for Microsoft®
    combines an intelligent, Hyper-V™, Exchange®, SQL
    Server®, Windows® File Systems
    automated framework with and VMware® VMFS
    • VMware® Site Recovery
    Manager Adapter
    a fault-tolerant hardware
    1Q
     ualified for Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003, Windows Server® 2008, including
    architecture to offer rapid Hyper-V, Windows Server® 2008 R2, including Hyper-V, VMware®, Linux® and Sun™ Solaris™
    Operating Systems.
    2Q ualified for Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003, Windows Server® 2008, including
    deployment, enterprise quality Hyper-V™ and Windows Server® 2008 R2 including Hyper-V™.
    3 Qualified for VMware® ESX 3, 3.5, 4 and 4.1 and ESXi 3.5, 4 and 4.1

    performance and reliability,


    simplified storage management, Simplify storage at
    dell.com/PSseries
    and transparent SAN expansion.

    RG612_USA_052710_011811 PS Series
    The Dell difference PS Series iSCSI storage arrays PS6000 Series: Virtualized arrays designed for the enterprise data center
    PS4000 Series: Virtualized arrays designed for branch office and SMB needs

    PS6000E PS6010E
    Ease of use
    • Enterprise performance offering great cost-per-Gigabyte • Entry-level, highest capacity front-loading 3U array with 10GbE bandwidth
    • Intelligent, automated management • High capacity configurations for data intensive applications Array Capacity Storage Controllers Disk Drives & Capacities
    • From box to operating SAN in minutes Array Capacity Storage Controllers Disk Drives & Capacities
    4 TB Dual 10GbE 8-500 GB/7,200 RPM SATA drives
    • Monitor petabytes of storage across dozens of SANs from 4 TB Dual 8-500 GB/7,200 RPM SATA drives
    8 TB Dual 10GbE 16-500 GB or 8-1TB/7,200 RPM
    a single console 4 TB Dual 16-250 GB/7,200 RPM SATA drives SATA drives
    Enterprise performance 8 TB Dual 16-500 GB/7,200 RPM SATA drives 16 TB Dual 10GbE 16-1 TB GB/7,200 RPM SATA drives
    16 TB Dual 16-1 TB/7,200 RPM SATA drives 32 TB Dual 10GbE 16-2 TB/7,200 RPM SATA drives
    • Exceptional performance for both sequential and transactional
    applications with linear scalability 32 TB Dual 16-2 TB/7,200 RPM SATA drives
    PS6010S
    • Automated, real-time load balancing across drives, RAID sets, PS6000X • High performance and capacity at a low cost per Gibabyte
    connections, cache and controllers • Balance of great performance and capacity for the enterprise Array Capacity Storage Controllers Disk Drives & Capacities
    • Pooling capability enables appropriate service levels for Array Capacity Storage Controllers Disk Drives & Capacities 800 GB Dual 10GbE 8-100 GB SSD drives
    individual applications 7.2 TB Dual 16-450 GB/10,000 RPM SAS drives 1.6 TB Dual 10GbE 16-100 GB SSD drives
    Reliability 9.6 TB Dual 16-600 GB/10,000 RPM SAS drives
    PS6010X
    • Fault-tolerant, fully-redundant dual controller design for PS6000XV • Balanced value for performance, cost and capacity
    no single point of failure • High performance for demanding enterprise applications Array Capacity Storage Controllers Disk Drives & Capacities
    • Designed for 99.999% availability Array Capacity Storage Controllers Disk Drives & Capacities 4.8 TB Dual 10GbE 8-600 GB/10,000 RPM SAS drives
    • Enterprise-class RAID protection (RAID 5/6/10/50) 4.8 TB Dual 16-300 GB/15,000 RPM SAS drives 9.6 TB Dual 10GbE 16-600 GB/10,000 RPM SAS drives
    • Hot-swappable components, flexible online redeployment 7.2 TB Dual 16-450 GB/15,000 RPM SAS drives
    of arrays PS6010XV
    9.6 TB Dual 16-600 GB/15,000 RPM SAS drives
    • The premium high-performance, high-capacity array in 10GbE series
    Scalability PS6000S Array Capacity Storage Controllers Disk Drives & Capacities
    • Modular design allows growth when needed • SSD system for exceptional low-latency, high-IOPS performance at affordable value 4.8 TB Dual 10GbE 8-600 GB/15,000 RPM SAS drives
    • Online expansion between hardware generations Array Capacity Storage Controllers Disk Drives & Capacities 9.6 TB Dual 10GbE 16-600 GB/15,000 RPM SAS drives
    • Linear scalability — scale capacity and performance together 800 GB Dual 16-50 GB or 8-100 GB SSD Drives PS6010XVS
    • Manage a growing pool of storage from one single user 1.6 TB Dual 16-100 GB SSD Drives • Combines high performance hybrid array with increased
    interface throughput from 10GbE controllers
    PS6000XVS
    • Thin provisioning to increase space efficiency for optimal Array Capacity Storage Controllers Disk Drives & Capacities
    • High performance hybrid storage array
    capacity utilization Array Capacity Storage Controllers Disk Drives & Capacities
    4.4 TB Dual 10GbE 8-450 GB/15,000 RPM SAS drives
    • Expand overall group capacity by mixing pools of 6000 and & 8-100 GB/SSD drives
    4.4 TB Dual 8-450 GB/15,000 RPM SAS drives &
    6500 arrays 8-100 GB/SSD drives PS4000E
    Affordability PS6500E • Entry configuration for affordable capacity
    Array Capacity Storage Controllers Disk Drives & Capacities
    • All-inclusive enterprise features and functionality with no • High-density system for huge capacity and scalability at best
    additional software licenses to purchase cost-per-Gigabyte in PS Series 4 TB Dual 16-250 GB/7,200 RPM SATA drives
    • Easy connection via iSCSI Array Capacity Storage Controllers Disk Drives & Capacities 8 TB Dual 16-500 GB/7,200 RPM SATA drives
    • Automated features help to eliminate highly specialized 24 TB Dual 48-500 GB/7,200 RPM SATA drives 16 TB Dual 16-1 TB/7,200 RPM SATA drives
    administrative costs 48 TB Dual 48-1 TB/7,200 RPM SATA drives 32 TB Dual 16-2 TB/7,200 RPM SATA drives
    • Adopt 10GbE and run both 1GbE and 10GbE in the same 96TB Dual 48-2 TB/7,200 RPM SATA Drives
    PS4000X
    environment without de-valuing legacy equipment
    PS6500X • Great balance of cost effective performance and capacity
    • EqualLogic SANs have the lowest TCO of common storage
    • High-density, high-performance for capacity-intensive, primary Array Capacity Storage Controllers Disk Drives & Capacities
    array architectures—fully 1/3 to 1/2 the total cost of applications 7.2 TB Dual 16-450 GB/10,000 RPM SAS drives
    competitors over a five year period1 Array Capacity Storage Controllers Disk Drives & Capacities
    9.6 TB Dual 16-600 GB/10,000 RPM SAS drives
    Enterprise Efficiency 28.8 TB Dual 48-600 GB/10,000 RPM SAS Drives
    PS4000XV
    • Addition of 10GbE supports high-performance, high- PS6510E
    bandwidth applications such as data warehouses and • High performance for demanding remote office applications
    • Great for tiered storage applications with strong random IOPS performance Array Capacity Storage Controllers Disk Drives & Capacities
    streaming media Array Capacity Storage Controllers Disk Drives & Capacities
    4.8 TB Dual 16-300 GB/15,000 RPM SAS drives
    • Maximize your IT investments with an end-to-end unified 48 TB Dual 10GbE 48-1 TB/7,200 RPM SATA drives
    fabric encompassing servers, EqualLogic storage and 7.2 TB Dual 16-450 GB/15,000 RPM SAS drives
    Networking 96 TB Dual 48-2 TB/7,200 RPM SATA Drives
    9.6 TB Dual 16-600 GB/15,000 RPM SAS drives
    • Enterprise level virtualized storage that matches virtualized PS6510X
    server environments • Performance and capacity for bandwidth hungry applications
    • Support for multi-tiered application designs with automated such as video streaming
    tiering of hybrid models (6000XVS & 6010XVS) Array Capacity Storage Controllers Disk Drives & Capacities
    28.8 TB Dual 10GbE 48-600 GB/10,000 RPM SAS drives
    Source: ESG Lab Report “Dell EqualLogic TCO Analysis”, July 2009.
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