The extensive Dell EqualLogic PS Series portfolio delivers solutions to meet nearly every need, and the PS5000E line covers a wide range of them due to its cost-effective capacity, huge scalability and optimal performance for common business applications.

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 PS5000E line’s modular scalability can assure you a SAN to fit your needs.

The PS5000E line spans from 2 to 16 TB 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 single controller configurations of the PS5000E that make it even more cost-effective.

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Databases and online transaction processing applications require large capacity and demand high performance storage. The Dell EqualLogic PS5000X offers 10,000 RPM Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drives to meet this need.

With a 16 drive chassis full of 400 GB SAS drives, the array delivers a 6.4 TB iSCSI storage array built on fully redundant, hot-swappable enterprise hardware. Scale out capacity and performance by adding additional arrays for a virtualized iSCSI SAN. Built-in software functionality includes automatic load balancing, Microsoft application integration, snapshots and replication, multi-path I/O, consistency sets, and much more.

Seamlessly integrated with all other EqualLogic PS Series storage arrays, the PS5000X 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.

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The Dell EqualLogic PS5000XV uses 15,000 RPM Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drives to deliver high performance for databases and online transaction processing applications.

With a 16 drive chassis full of either 146 GB or 300 GB SAS drives, the array provides a high-performance iSCSI SAN built on fully redundant, hot-swappable enterprise hardware. Scale out performance and capacity by adding additional PS5000XV storage arrays to your virtualized EqualLogic iSCSI SAN. Built-in software functionality includes automatic load balancing, Microsoft application integration, snapshots and replication, multi-path I/O, consistency sets, and much more.

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The Dell EqualLogic PS5500E is a high-density virtualized storage array that can deliver a hugely scalable iSCSI SAN. Like the rest of the EqualLogic family, it combines intelligence and automation with fault tolerance to provide simplified administration, rapid deployment, enterprise performance and reliability, and seamless scalability.

With up to 48 TB of SATA storage in a 4U chassis, the PS5500E delivers the lowest cost-per-gigabyte in the EqualLogic family. Users can scale out capacity and performance together by adding additional PS5500E arrays for a virtualized iSCSI SAN that can grow up to 576 TB under a single management interface.

Interoperable with all other EqualLogic storage arrays, the PS5500E 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. The compelling economics of the PS5500E can make it a good fit for tiered storage implementations without sacrificing enterprise reliability or features.

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Dell's commitment to simplifying IT extends to configuration of total storage systems. The PS Storage Stack makes it easy to purchase multi-array configurations for customized performance and capacity.

A PS Storage Stack can combine multiple PS Series storage arrays into a single SAN. By segmenting the storage in your SAN, you can optimize your environment to meet your service level and budget requirements. Physically and logically combining arrays, a PS Storage Stack enables you to configure storage pools or tiers to optimize performance and capacity according to application-specific demands.

No matter which arrays you combine, you gain the high availability, reliability, scalability, and automation that come with built-in data services, redundant components, and modular design.

PS Storage Stack Highlights:

• 2 - 24 controllers, each with 64-bit dual core RISC processor
• 2 - 24 GB battery-backed and mirrored RAID cache
• 16 – 192 disk drives (146 GB, 250 GB, 300 GB, 400 GB, 500 GB, 750 GB or 1 TB)
• 7,200 RPM SATA drives, 10,000 RPM SAS drives, or 15,000 RPM SAS drives
• 3 – 36 gigabit network interfaces
• Auto-configured RAID 5, RAID 10, and RAID 50 with hot sparing
• Highly flexible, space-efficient volume snapshots
• Volume replication
• Automatic load balancing
• EqualLogic Multi-path I/O
• 4 - 192 TB of raw capacity
• Support for up to 65,000 transactional application users
• Complete storage solution
• Heterogeneous OS support
• Fully interoperable with the entire PS Series product line

PS Storage Stack Datasheet

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